Nanoscale Electronics

Current projects

• Our team leads a 1.5 million dollar project funded by the Department of Defence to develop the Australian sovereign capability in radiation-hardened electronics to mitigate High Power Radio Frequency (HPRF) attacks against defence electronics systems.
  
• Particle detectors Electronics for High Energy Physics experiments in collaboration with the Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics.
  
• The large hadron Collider laboratory at CERN foresees the upgrade of particle detectors for higher luminosities.  Our team collaborates with the INFN in Italy to design and test a new generation of particle detectors in 28 nm CMOS technology to achieve a higher speed, higher radiation tolerance and higher density.
  
• Integrating silicon photonics with semiconductor electronics into a single high-density chip is the frontier of research for detectors and processor systems. In collaboration with the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics we work to develop and implement of Silicon Photonics Integrated Circuits for Quantum Computation with linear quantum optics circuits and single photons.
• Radiation testing of Integrated Circuits chip under heavy ions and high energy protons in collaboration with the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization (ANSTO), CERN and the University of Tokyo.
• Advanced semiconductor electronics are extremely sensitive to radiation. For application in high radiation environments such as in space, these technologies must go under sophisticated theoretical and experimental studies in terms of radiation effects. Novel radiation hardened solutions in design are required to adapt the technology to tolerate the extreme radiation environment. Our group lead a collaboration project with international research centres in Australia, Japan and Switzerland to employ the particle accelerator facilities to radiation test of electronics under low energy and high energy protons and heavy ions to qualify the components for satellite applications.