Author: Andrew See

ANFF-NSW users recognised as 2021 Australian Museum Eureka Prizes finalists

Congratulations to the ANFF-NSW users recognised as finalists in this year’s Eureka Prize awards:  2021 Australian Museum Eureka Prizes finalists – The Australian Museum

ANSTO Eureka Prize for Innovative Use of Technology
Professor Justin Gooding, Professor Maria Kavallaris AM, Dr Julio Ribeiro, Dr Aidan O’Mahony, Dr Robert Utama and Dr Lakmali Atapattu (UNSW; Australian Centre for NanoMedicine; Children’s Cancer Institute; and Inventia Life Science Pty Ltd)

UNSW Eureka Prize for Scientific Research
Professor Anita Ho-Baillie, Dr Martin Bucknall and Dr Lei Shi (University of Sydney and UNSW)

AstraZeneca Eureka Prize for Emerging Leader in Science
Associate Professor Brett Hallam (UNSW)

New thinking needed for tech commercialisation

In an article titled “New thinking needed for tech commercialisation” published by InnovationAus today, ANFF chief executive Dr Ian Griffiths talks about how ANFF can be used to bridge the gap between early-stage technology, capital markets and research infrastructure.

New thinking needed for tech commercialisation

 

‘Missing jigsaw piece’: engineers make critical advance in quantum computer design

Quantum engineers from UNSW Sydney have removed a major obstacle that has stood in the way of quantum computers becoming a reality: they discovered a new technique they say will be capable of controlling millions of spin qubits – the basic units of information in a silicon quantum processor.

Published today in Science Advances, the team led by Dr Jarryd Pla, and Scientia Professor Andrew Dzurak have found what they consider ‘the missing jigsaw piece’ in the quantum computer architecture that should enable the control of
the millions of qubits needed for extraordinarily complex calculations.

Their work is featured on the ABC website  and UNSW Newsroom

New paper in Nature Communications opens the pathway to a ‘Quantum Data Bus’

Professor Andrew Dzurak’s team has had new results opening the path to a quantum data bus for silicon CMOS quantum processor chips published in Nature Communications yesterday. These show that electron spin qubits can be transported between quantum dots while maintaining their spin polarisation (to 99.97%) and spin coherence (to 99.4%) information. The experiments were performed by former postdoc Jun Yoneda and former PhD student Wister Huang, crucial theory was supported by Andre Saraiva and his PhD student Mengke Feng, and all devices were all fabricated at ANFF-NSW.

UNSW researcher Dr Udo Römer has been granted an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

UNSW researcher Dr Udo Römer has been granted an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award for the project “Nervous tissue stimulation using multi-junction silicon photodiodes”. He will use the ANFF-NSF facilities for thin film depositions and microfabrication of devices.