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FLEET News in March 2024 Hot off the press this month we present FLEET’s 2023 annual report, and a case study sharing FLEET alums’ and members’ experiences of their development within the Centre, along with another FLEET alumni interview. Also, liquid-metal transfer and 2D printing, industry-science hackathon success, Our COO Tich-Lam Nguyen in the news describing Centre equity efforts, and the FLEET Landing event in May.

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2022

December 2022 Shielding 2D materials, 2023’s Women in Physics lecturer, metallic snowflakes, alumni Charlotte Hurry, FLEET translation project protecting LEDs, and a quantum primary-school pilot.
November 2022 Gold-class chemical reaction, STEM superstar, zinc-batteries, magnetism study and a new quantum alliance. Plus recognition for influential researchers, nano article and podcast, and FLEET’s submission on Australia’s future quantum strategy.
October 2022 An engineered quantum box, a polaron sea, ferroelectrics and electron fluids. Also a new CI, four new Fellows, and FLEET’s submission on critical technologies.
September 2022 FLEET Translation Program funding to take the ‘boring’ out of STM operation, and members recognised with Eureka Prize, Young Tall Poppy, ARC Future Fellowship and promotion
August 2022 Manipulating magnetics, the heart of glass, first translation funding, and congratulations to Nikhil Medhekar
July 2022 Brilliant, alternative uses for diamonds, hetero-interface physics, Eureka Prize nomination, reports from inSTEM and FLEET’s annual workshop
June 2022Room-temperature liquid platinum, nanophotonics seminar, searching for the angel particle and another FLEET visit to rural school students
May 2022 Alumni profile, nanophotonics seminar, Melbourne Knowledge Week, Pint of Science and FLEET’s visit to schools in Victoria’s rural west
April 2022 Video hack competition, lossless electronics from a magnetic sandwich, alumni profile
March 2022 FLEET Annual report, quantifying biexciton binding energy, zigzag Xenes could be switching key, alumni profile, ECR-assembled expert careers panel, outstanding referee recognition and profiling five FLEET scientists
February 2022 Ukraine, fluid circuits, superfluid vortices, liquid-metal surface patterns, another FLEET alumni spotlight, and posters awards
January 2022 Superfluid vortices, ferroelectric bubbles, an AAAS Fellowship, another FLEET alum spotlight, and carbon capture

2021

December 2021 End-of-year meeting, topology from loss, benefits from negative capacitance, ultracold review and FLEET’s new Translation Program, aiming to help translate FLEET members’ research outcomes into wider societal impact
November 2021 World’s thinnest X-ray detector, double-dosed semiconductors, liquid-metal pumps, spintronics advances, a new FLEET PI, and an examination of the impact of the FLEET-JMSS future-computing unit
October 2021 honouring Shaun Johnstone, sandwich-style semiconductor fabrication, illuminated topological electronics, applying stress for better piezoelectrics and new diversity Fellowships
September 2021 Magnetism from a 2D material’s ‘star-like’ structure, surface competition, and ‘switched on’ superfluids
August 2021 A cocktail of magnetism and topology, home-grown semiconductors, a FLEET alum profile and electrons that ‘flow like honey’
July 2021 Topological fingerprints, iron-based superconductors, transformed ferromagnets and video resources from FLEET PhDs and the team at UNSW
June 2021 Controlling spin electrons on the edge, chipaggedon, new promotions, weddings and cute kiddos
May 2021 Research commercialisation via spinoff, linkage funding and patents, acknowledging traditional owners.
April 2021 Transparent electronics, ‘sweet spot’ hole-qubits, ‘tricks of the trade’, and beating Boltzmann’s theoretical lowest computer operating voltage
March 2021 Annual Report, new video, Terminator-like machine identification, thermoelectric funding and summer students
February 2021 Sloshing superfluids, socially-distant molecular interactions, and a quantum suit of armour
January 2021 The semiconductor roadmap, exotic patterns in surface physics, and 1D quantum wires

2020

2019

November 2019 includes pyrite advances in spintronics at Monash, development of future science leaders, and Centre members’ engagement with politicians and school students
October 2019 includes quantum-dot research at Monash, new Partner Investigator Mingliang Tian (Chinese Academy of Sciences), liquid-metal applications at UNSW and Oliver Paull’s research using the Japanese X-ray Free-Electron Laser
September 2019 introduces new FLEET partners NZ’s MacDiarmid Institute, plus ‘impossibly cool’ temperatures, science-outreach and ‘gutsy’ research with 2D-material-based sensors
August 2019 FLEET’s Lindau travellers, a new secondary-school unit on future computing, discoveries in excitonic insulators and semiconductor-TMDs
July 2019 Special equity edition (Elena Ostrovskaya) with mentoring opportunities, new members and research in turbulence, ferroelectrics, spintronic materials and new catalysts for hydrogen generation
June 2019 Special outreach edition (Chris Vale), plus topological materials, engaging with policy-makers, and new AI Julie Karel (Monash)
May 2019 FLEET AI Jo Etheridge an AAS Fellow, new FLEET AI Laurent Bellaiche, and ultra-cold atomic discoveries at Swinburne
April 2019 Famelab success, new FLEET investigators, Australian science policy, and topological magnetism reviewed
March 2019 Annual report released, artificial graphene, referee award and Lindau team confirmed
February 2019 Invited Nature review of topological structures, exciting new carbon-capture technology, students’ achievements
January 2019 A 2D material improving cancer detection, expanded partnership with Tsinghua University, and two new PIs

2018

December 2018 Switching topological insulators off and on, capturing an exciton snapshot, and the IRDS Roadmap to a beyond-CMOS future
November 2018 New partnership with the University of Camerino, negative mass investigated at UQ, and meet FLEET’s David Cortie (UOW)
October 2018 Notes on Nobel-winning physics, a quantum breakthrough with squeezed light at Monash and material science in NZ
September 2018 An official FLEET baby, quantum anomalies at Swinburne, ferroelectric switching at Monash, electron interactions at NUS, large-scale piezoelectric materials at RMIT, and member profile of Eli Estrecho (ANU)
August 2018 Recognition for Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh and Cathy Foley, atomic-scale engineering at Monash, exciton-polaritons at ANU, holes at UNSW, member profile of Harley Scammell
July 2018 Unlocking an exciton puzzle at UNSW, ‘scifi’ liquid-metal research at Wollongong, member profile Elizabeth Marcellina
June 2018 Centre launch, ‘flux capacitors’ and exciton traps, fresh new ways of communicating FLEET science in the classroom
May 2018 VdW research, Minister Simon Birmingham’s visits FLEET Wollongong, 2D material deposition, FLEET in the media
April 2018 Quantum batteries, recognition for a nanotech champion, local MP visiting FLEET at RMIT
March 2018 The annual report, International 2D conference, topological transistors, and ‘micro branding’
January 2018 Science outreach, Topological school, and FLEET’s Women in FLEET Honours Scholarship

2017

December 2017 Lab visits, spin/electron-correlation discussions at UNSW, and Nobel laureate Wolfgang Ketterle
November 2017 FLEET Geeks: turning schoolkids on to science, and a new tool at the synchrotron
October 2017 Interviews, open days and research results

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