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UNSW houses one of the strongest Condensed Matter Physics departments
in Australia, with eight members of academic staff (including
three ARC Federation, Professorial and Future Fellows), and more
than twenty research fellows, technical staff and research students.
Research in CMP is focussed on
the electrical, optical, magnetic and thermal properties of advanced
nanoscale materials, with potential applications in nanoelectronics,
computing, memory elements and biotechnology. A unique array of
research facilities at UNSW includes cryogenic systems for measuring
the motion of single electrons inside quantum devices operating
at close to the absolute zero of temperature, full clean-room
facilities, scanning tunnelling microscopes that can be used to
make electronic devices at the atomic scale, advanced laser and
raman spectroscopy laboratories, and high performance electron
microscopes.
News and Events
The 2009
Gordon Godfrey Workshop on Spins and Strong Correlations
will be held at UNSW from the 26-29 October. The workshop will
have presentations by leading experimental and theoretical researchers
in condensed matter physics. There is no registration fee, and
interested students and early career researchers are strongly
encouraged to attend.
11/9/2009
Nanotechnology gets a new light touch
Building the super-fast computers of the future has just become
much easier thanks to an advance by Peter Reece and colleagues
that lets them grab hold of tiny electronics components and probe
their inner structure using only a beam of light.
9/9/2009:
Major award for CMP academic:
Congratulations to Adam Micolich for being awarded an ARC Future
Fellowship. These new, prestigious fellowships are awarded to
outstanding young researchers for the promotion of research in
areas of critical national importance. Adam will spend the next
four years investigating the next-generation of nanoscale electronic
devices which may one day power your PC.
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