QED Events




23-Sept-2008: A really interesting opinion piece by Adam Micolich has just appeared on the Faculty of Science website: How I learned to stop worrying and love YouTube. The full article can also be downloaded from the preprint server: http://arxiv.org/abs/0808.3441

21-Sept-2008: Adam completed the Blackmore's Bridge run on the weekend, despite a sprained ankle and advice from his Physio. And managed to complete the 9km run in a shade over 50 min!

6-Sept-2008: New PhD projects (800kB PDF file) are available for making and studying semiconductor nanostructures to study spin-orbit coupling and spintronics applications in both electron and hole nanostructures.

11-July-2008: Welcome to new PhD student, Sebastian Fricke, who has joined the group from Germany.
4-July-2008: Ted Martin wins a prize for his poster presentation at the International Conference on Electronic Materials.
20-June-2008: Congratulations to Ted and Alex S. on getting their paper on spin-splitting in narrow bandgap quantum wires accepted for publication in Applied Physics Letters:Enhanced Zeeman splitting in Ga0.25 In0.75 As quantum point contacts, T. P. Martin, A. Szorkovszky, A. P. Micolich, A. R. Hamilton, C. A. Marlow, H. Linke, and R. P. Taylor, and L. Samuelson. Preprint available here.

16-June-2008: Farewell to Dr. Oleh Klochan, who is leaving the group to take up a position at the famous Delft Technical University - Good luck Oleh.

1-April-2008: The competition is really heating up: Now it's Lap-hang's turn, with a new paper accepted for physical Review B Rapid Communications:
Effect of screening long-range Coulomb interactions on the metallic behavior in two-dimensional hole systems by L.H. Ho, W.R. Clarke, A.P. Micolich, et al. Well done all!

3-March-2008: Welcome to six new and old students for Session 1 in 2008. Karl Chan and Alex Szorkovsky are back for more physics Honours fun, and are joined by Jeremy Badcock. Dan Ong and Sam Yick join the group for their Nano Honours projects, and Stephan Strahl is doing an exchange program from Regensburg.

28-Feb-2008: Not to be outdone, Ted Martin has just had his paper "Confinement properties of a Ga0.25In0.75As/InP quantum point contact," accepted for publicaton in Physical Review B. Nice work!


27-Feb-2008: Congrats to Sarah for her paper on "Single particle and momentum relaxation times in two-dimensional electron systems", which has appeared in Proc. of SPIE Vol. 6800, 68001L, (2008). This is the culmination of her Honours thesis, and quite an achievement (and a small step to Dr. X's sweet, sweet office).

25-Feb-2008: Adam, Lasse, Ted and Oleh are in Melbourne this week to attend the 2008 International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. Ted is giving a talk on"Coupling of electron quantum interference effects in arrays of hard-walled semiconductor cavities" and Oleh is talking about "Hole transport in undoped one dimensional quantum wires". Lasse is presenting a poster on phonon coupling in metallic wires, and Adam is organising & chairing the Australian Research Council Nanotechnology Network ECR/Postgraduate Student Symposium (as well as chairing one of the Nanoelectronics symposia).

11-Jan-2008: Another Paper in Physical Review Letters! "0.7 Structure and Zero Bias Anomaly in Ballistic Hole Quantum Wires" by Romain Danneau, Oleh Klochan, Warrick Clarke, Lap-Hang Ho, Adam Micolich, Michelle Simmons, Alex Hamilton et al has just been published (Phys. Rev. Lett., 100, 016403 (2008)). Congratulations to everyone!
31-Sept-2007: "An improved process for fabricating high-mobility organic molecular crystal field-effect transistors" by Adam Micolich, Laurence Bell (Hons. student), and Alex Hamilton has just been published in the Journal of Applied Physics, 102, 084511 (2007).

27-Sept-2007: New PhD projects (800kB PDF file) are available for making and studying semiconductor nanostructures to study spin-orbit coupling and spintronics applications in both electron and hole nanostructures.

26-Sept-2007: The QED group has done really well in this year's ARC funding, winning a 3-year $380k Discovery grant on nanospintronics, a 3-year $80K Linkage International grant and a $440k Linkage Infrastructure grant to commence in 2008.

15-Sept-2007: The QED group gets another paper in a high impact journal! Warrick Clarke's paper Impact of long- and short-range disorder on the metallic behaviour of two-dimensional systems has been accepted for publication in Nature Physics. NP has an impact factor of 12, so that's pretty good. But then it's a pretty good paper - well done all.

10-Sept-2007: Ulrich Zuelicke, our collaborator in New Zealand, wins Massey University's largest Marsden grant, NZ$800k, to study zitterbewegung - way to go Uli.

23-July-2007: Three new Honours students join the group: Alex, Karl, and Rifat (back again).

15-July-2007: Lap-hang, Ted and Alex are off to Genoa, Italy, to attend the 17th international conference on the Electronic Properties of 2-Dimensional Systems.

3-July-2007: Congratulations to Adam Micolich on his promotion to Senior Lecturer.

2-July-2007: Welcome to Dr. Lasse Taskinen, who has joined the group from the University of Jyväskylä in Finland.

29-June-2007: Rifat and Sarah have submitted their Honours theses - well done, and now get some sleep!

17-May-2007: Sarah has been given a scholarship to attend a summer school in the Netherlands - have fun!

27-Mar-2007: Prof Alexander Korotkov is visiting the group, and will talk on quantum measurements.

21-Feb-2007: Three new Honours students join the group: Sarah (back again!), Dan, and Rifat. Congratulations also to Jason on his degree results and for obtaining an Australian Postgraduate Award.

5-Dec-2006: Adam Micolich gives a Keynote speech on "New Routes to Organic Devices" at the 2006 Australian Institute of Physics Congress in Brisbane. Laurence Bell also presents a rather nice poster on his Honours project at the conference.

21-Nov-2006: Welcome to Dr. Ted Martin, who has joined the group from the University of Oregon.

20-Nov-2006: Dr Ulrich Zuelicke of Massey University's Institute for fundamental sciences is visiting the group as a Gordon Godfrey research Fellow for two weeks.

10-Nov-2006: UNSW research developing quantum semiconductor devices that use holes instead of electrons has earned Associate Professor Alex Hamilton and the QED group the Australasian Science Prize for 2006. More details are on the faculty website, with a story on the group’s research published in the current issue of Australasian Science.
27-Oct-2006: Congratulations to Dr. Adam Micolich on scooping a prestigious Young Tall Poppy Science Award at NSW Parliament House for his work on fractal conductance fluctuations in quantum billiards and hybrid organic-inorganic superconductor materials. The Young Tall Poppy Program was established by the Australian Institute of Policy & Science to identify and acknowledge outstanding young Australian researchers. Rumour has it that Adam celebrated by buying a new bass guitar.
15-Oct-2006: New PhD projects (800kB PDF file) available in nanoscale quantum device fabrication and operation, and novel semiconducting and superconducting plastics.
11-Oct-2006: Dr. Adam Micolich and A/Prof Alex Hamilton win the University’s largest Discovery Project Grant – $1.3 million – for research on the quantum properties of GaAs nanostructures. The award includes a five year ARC Professorial Fellowship for A/Professor Hamilton.
11-Oct-2006: Superconductivity in metal-mixed ion-implanted polymer films: Dr. Adam Micolich and colleagues at the University of Queensland report their discovery in Applied Physics Letters 89, 152503 (2006).

30 -Aug-2006: Another publication on our hole quantum wires appears in Applied Physics Letters 89, 092105 (2006), as part of a collaboration with NTT Basic Research laboratories in Japan. This time Oleh Klochan and Warrick Clarke report a new way of making ultra-stable hole quantum wires.

14-Aug-2006: The 2005 UNSW School of Physics annual report has been released. It includes summaries of our research on organic devices, and electrical transport in hole quantum wires.

6-Aug-2006: A/Prof. Hamilton is in Hanoi presenting a summary of the group's work on p-type quantum wires.
26-July-2006: PLENTY OF NOTHING: a hole new quantum spin is a media release for the popular press about our recent work.
"Electronic devices are always shrinking in size but it’s hard to imagine anything beating what researchers at the University of New South Wales have created (read more)". Photos are available of some of the group members and the devices, as well as a conceptual web animation of how the devices work.
24-July-2006: PhD student Oleh Klochan and Dr. Romain Danneau are in Vienna, each giving a talk on their work on hole quantum wires at the 28th International Conference on the Properties of Semiconductors (ICPS-28).
14-July-2006: Romain Danneau and co-workers report the discovery of extreme anisotropy in the response of a one-dimensional hole quantum wire to an external magnetic field in this week's edition of Physical Review Letters (Physical Review Letters 97, 026403 (2006)). Our work is the first to show that one-dimensional hole systems are quite different to one-dimensional electron systems due to the strong coupling between spin and momentum. In addition to the fundamental significance, potential applications may include all-electrical manipulation of spin, and new spintronic devices.
2-July-2006: Adam Micolich is in Dublin, to give a talk on "Superconductivity In Ion-Beam Metal Mixed Polymers".
14-Mar-2006: Congratulations to Dr. Warrick Clarke on his "admission to the degree of Doctor of Philosophy", with an excellent thesis.
14-Mar-2006: Applications for the Senior Research Fellow position have now closed.

24-Jan-2006: Our new technique for fabricating very low-disorder p-type heterostructure devices is published (W.R. Clarke et al Journal of Applied Physics 99, 023707 (2006)).

5-Jan-2006: The first report of clean conductance quantisation in one dimensional hole systems, and the anomalous feature at 0.7 of the conductance quantum is published (R. Danneau et al, Applied Physics Letters 88, 012107 (2006)).

21-Dec-2005: Carlin Yasin's work on interaction corrections to the Hall effect in two dimensional electron and hole systems has been accepted for publication as a Rapid Communication in Physical Review B (Phys. Rev. B 72, 241310(R)). Well done all!
9-Nov-2005: Congratulations to Dr. Romain Danneau, who has won a $340,000 ARC Postdoctoral Fellowship and Discovery Project to study "electronics with spin".
31-Oct-2005: Dr Ulrich Zuelicke of Massey Universities Institute for fundamental sciences is visiting the group as a Gordon Godfrey research Fellow for three weeks.
30-Sept-2005: Congratulations to Warrick Clarke, who has submitted his PhD thesis and is off for a well-earned break.
31-July-2005: The 2004 UNSW School of Physics annual report has been released. It includes summaries of our research on superconducting and organic devices, and low dimensional GaAs devices.
10-July-2005: The first observation of clean conductance quantisation and the "0.7-anommaly"in a one-dimensional p-type quantum wire is reported by Dr. Romain Danneau at the 16th International Conference EP2DS-16 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Click here for a preprint of this work.
16-April-2005: Our new technique for fabricating low-disorder p-type heterostructure devices is published in the Microelectronics journal.
10-Feb-2005: Warrick Clarke's study of the effect of the symmetry of the confining potential on excitonic bilayer quantum Hall states is published as a Rapid Communication in Physical Review B
14-Dec-2004: Sean McPhail's detailed study of weak localisation in high quality two-dimensional systems is published in Physical Review B
12-Dec-2004: Warrick Clarke presents his work on novel p-type GaAs heterostructure devices at the fifth international conference on low dimensional structures and devices (LDSD 2004) in Cancun, Mexico.
17-Nov-2004: QED group attracts significant new funding from the Australian Research Council: Alex Hamilton is awarded a $440k ARC Discovery Grant to study organic and inorganic nanostructures with NTT Basic Research Laboratories, the University of Cambridge, the Niels Bohr institute in Denmark, and Boise State University. Adam Micolich is awarded $345k to study ion-implanted polymers with colleagues at the University of Queensland.
31-July-2004: The 2003 UNSW School of Physics annual report has been released, and includes summaries of our research on organic and inorganic devices.
14-Jan-2004: Dr Romain Danneau, formerly at the Centre de Recherches sur les Très Basses Températures in Grenoble, joins the Group.
1-Jan-2004: Congratulations to Michelle Simmons on her promotion to full professor.
31-July-2003: The UNSW School of Physics annual report has been released, and includes a summary of our research.
7-July-2003: Applications for the postdoctoral positions have closed and we are currently interviewing candidates.
24-March-2003: Adam has been awarded a significant University capital grant. This will enable us to pursue new research on organic devices.
20-March-2003: Michelle Simmons awarded an ARC Federation fellowship to continue her work on condensed matter physics.
14-Feb-2003: We are advertising for two postdoctoral positions , in Conducting Polymers and Organic Electronics, and Correlated Effects in Quantum Electronic Devices. See our opportunities page for more information. THESE POSITIONS HAVE NOW CLOSED.
20-Sept-2002: We have exciting projects available for PhD and Honours students - see our research page for project areas, as well as the two posters below.
8-Aug-2002: Warrick won the UNSW School of Physics poster competition with his poster "Holey sheets!"(jpg 277kb).
7-Aug-2002: Alex was promoted to Associate Professor.
11-July-2002: Carlin won first prize for her poster "First experimental confirmation of the universal global phase diagram"(jpg 232kb) at the Australian Institute of Physics Biennial congress, in Darling Harbour, Sydney.

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