Elena Ostrovskaya
This is a custom heading element. Prof Elena Ostrovskaya (ANU) is an internationally recognised researcher in theoretical physics of atomic Bose-Einstein condensates with a strong track record of collaboration with experimental groups.
At FLEET, Elena led Research Theme 2, directing a program of both theory and state-of-the art experiments on exciton and exciton-polariton…
Alex Hamilton
This is a custom heading element. Prof Alex Hamilton (UNSW) has contributed significantly to the understanding of electronic conduction in two-dimensional and nanoscale transistors, and is a leading expert on the study of holes in semiconductor nanostructures. His work has been recognised through two Australian scientific prizes, an Australian Professorial Fellowship, an ARC…
Mateusz Krol
This is a custom heading element. Mateusz was a FLEET Research Fellow in CI Elena Ostrovskaya‘s group at ANU. He received his PhD at the University of Warsaw in Poland where he worked on microcavities filled with liquid crystals. His work at FLEET fitted within Research theme 2: Exciton superfluids
Enabling Technology B – Nanodevice fabrication
A/PROF LAN WANG
Leader, Enabling technology B, RMIT A/PROF OLEH KLOCHAN
Leader, Enabling technology B, UNSW Website FLEET’s research sits at the very boundary of what is possible in condensed-matter physics. Thus, nanoscale fabrication of functioning devices have been key to the Centre’s ultimate success. Specialised techniques are needed to integrate novel…
Enabling Technology A – Atomically-thin materials
PROF XIAOLIN WANG
Leader, Enabling technology A, UOW Website Each of FLEET’s three research themes is significantly enabled by the science of novel, atomically-thin, two-dimensional (2D) materials. These are materials that can be as thin as just one single layer of atoms, with resulting unusual and useful electronic properties.
To provide these materials, from bulk crystals to…
Research theme 3 – Light-transformed materials
PROF KRIS HELMERSON
Leader, Research theme 3, Monash Website FLEET’s third research theme represents a paradigm shift in material engineering, in which materials are temporarily forced out of equilibrium. The zero resistance paths for electrical current sought at FLEET can be created using two non-equilibrium mechanisms:
Short (femtosecond), intense bursts of light…
A fundamental physics discovery
FLEET researchers achieved the first-ever ‘snapshot’ of Bose-Einstein condensation, the quantum state known as the fifth state of matter. Previously, observations of the hybrid particles known as ‘exciton-polaritons’ in a Bose-Einstein condensate had been limited to statistical averaging over millions of condensation events. 'Snapshot’ imaging of polaritons forming a…
Better Futures Industry Challenge hackathon
Faster ways to respond to emergencies and ultra-sensitive quantum seismometers for earlier detection of earthquakes, were two ideas that emerged from teams of intrepid researchers from five Centres of Excellence who competed in the inaugural Better Futures Innovation Challenge to solve critical industry problems.
Industry partners for the deep-tech hackathon had access to researcher skills…
Novel engineering of a quantum supersolid
Can a solid be a superfluid? Bilayer excitons form a quantum supersolid
A collaboration of Australian and European physicists predict that layered electronic 2D semiconductors can host a curious quantum phase of matter called the supersolid.
The supersolid is a very counterintuitive phase indeed. It is made up of particles that simultaneously form a rigid crystal and yet at the same time…
ICSCE international conference hosted
In January 2020 FLEET brought the 10th International Conference on Spontaneous Coherence in Excitonic Systems (ICSCE10) to Australia for the first time.
Continuing this 15-year tradition from the global scientific community interested in various quantum phenomena, ICSCE10 was hosted at the Arts Centre Melbourne amidst smoke storms resulting from one of the worst bushfire seasons in Australia’s…