FLEET’s mission has been to enable continuing growth of computing by developing a new transistor that can switch at lower energy. Along the way, 90 world-leading Centre researchers created new Intellectual property on material fabrication, processes and theory/modelling methods.

Intellectual property generated during FLEET’s seven-year funding period had resulted in ten patents being applied for by mid-2024:

1. Highly efficient liquid-metal method and catalyst for producing ammonia (2022, provisional patent ID 2022903994)
2. Electrolytes and electrolyte additives for long-life aqueous rechargeable zinc batteries (2022, provisional patent ID 2022903850, PCT/AU2023/051302)
3. Improved method of synthesising nanodroplets for catalysts (2022, provisional patent ID 2022903995)
4. Low-energy negative capacitance topological quantum field-effect transistor (2021, patent ID PCT/AU2022/051338)
5. Optimised, high conductivity crystal heterostructure semiconductor device and associated process (2021, provisional patent ID 2021902137)
6. Low-switching-voltage topological quantum field effect transistor (2020, provisional patent ID 2020904052, PCT/AU2021/051306)
7. Improved thermoelectric materials (2020, provisional patent ID 2020902822, PCT/AU2021/050872)
8. Transparent conductive oxides deposition technique (2019, PCT/AU2022/051337)
9. Liquid-metal catalysts for carbon capture and other applications (2019, provisional patent ID 2019903954, PCT/AU2020/051135)
10. Dirac semimetal structure (2017, US Patent US11239073B2, Australian Patent AU2017259105A1)

FLEET has galvanised the Australian research community to take the lead in electronic materials research, opening new windows of opportunities for further scientific advancement of FLEET’s discoveries, and commercial development of FLEET’s patents and intellectual property.

Intellectual property created within FLEET for suites of important quantum materials will serve as the basis for establishing spin-off companies.