AVAILABLE RESEARCH RESOURCES INCLUDE:

(A) Optical Characterisation

UV-VIS-NIR spectrophotometer (CAREY)

Phase modulated Ellipsometer (Jbon Yvon)

Fluorescent spectrophotometer (Perkin Elmer)

Photogoniometer (scattering and BRTF studies)

Rotating integrating sphere UV-VIS-NIR spectrophotometer

for accurate arbitrary incidence angle T & R (translucent & transparent)

Windbourn Emissometer (total hemispherical emittance)

Hagner Photometer (secondary standard)

Two large integrating spheres for mirror light pipes, lamps

 and luminescent solar collector characterisation

“Outdoor” test room for prototype daylighting system testing

Software – advanced surface and thin film modelling and data fitting for ellipsometric and spectrophotometric data, effective medium modelling, scattering and em finite element models, surface plasmon and metal based nanophotonics software

(B)  Thin film coating, nanoparticle production, polymer fibres and sheets

RF & DC sputtering

Multiple e-beam and thermal evaporation chambers

Magnetically filtered Cathodic arc ( continuous and pulsed units)

Spin coating from solution

Nanoparticle in vacuum production and coating units

Optical Polymer production (resources with industry partners) for casting, moulding, all polymer composites, sheet, rigid and flexible fibre optic for lighting, preforms for polymer microstructured fibre, large luminescent solar concentrator sheets, nanoparticle and dye doped polymer foils and sheets.

(C) Structural and Compositional Characterisation

( in collaboration with MAU and Nano-Institute)

XPS

Schottky FEGSEM

NSOM

AFM/STM

Cathodoluminescence

e-beam lithography

Direct e-beam milling and etching (coming)

TEM/EELS (with Sydney University)

X-Ray Diffraction and Scattering (powder, thin films)

   with some Synchrotron studies

Computational Resources

The Faculty maintains a number of teaching laboratories equipped with PCs and iMacs.  A small network of SGI O2 workstations is used by senior physics subjects.   Applied Physics has a number of Unix workstations devoted to research in addition to the desktop computers (Sun and SGI).  Staff and research students in Applied Physics have access to a number of other specialist computers within the Faculty of Science and the University is a partner in the Australian Centre for Advanced Computing and Communications (AC3: www.ac3.com.au).   AC3 has the following hardware appropriate to tasks that require high performance computers.

•  IBM SP-2, with 68 processors
•  NEC SX-5, vector computer
•  SGI Origin 2400, with 64 processors

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