Innovate

FLEET is pursuing the following research themes to develop systems in which electrical current can flow with near-zero resistance:

The above approaches are enabled by the following technologies:

News

Alumni interview: Bernard Field

Bernard Field was one of the earliest of FLEET PhD students, joining the Centre in 2018 originally as an Honours student, then a PhD student in 2019 under Agustin Schiffrin and Nikhil Medhekar. His PhD research focused on  correlated electrons in a frustrated 2D lattice, within FLEET’s theme 1. We interviewed Bernard about his career path after leaving FLEET (he …

FLEET News

The February 2024 edition of FLEET News includes the first FLEET intern Sangeet Kumar (Monash), members’ proposals for legacy outreach resources, industry-science hackathon, congratulations to Sue Coppersmith (UNSW) and Kirrily Rule (ANSTO), and an alumni profile on Dhaneesh Kumar (ex Monash). You can sign up for FLEET news here. Catch up on previous versions of the FLEET newsletter below. January …

Alumni interview: Dhaneesh Kumar

Dhaneesh Kumar was one of the original cohort of FLEET PhD students when the Centre was launched in 2017. We interviewed Dhaneesh about his career path after leaving FLEET (he completed his PhD in May 2021), and how he has used his technical and collaboration training at FLEET in his new position as a postdoc at the Max-Planck Institute for …

The Challenge

FLEET addresses a grand challenge: reducing the energy used in information technology, which now accounts for 8% of the electricity use on Earth, and is doubling every 10 years.

The current, silicon-based technology will stop becoming more efficient in the next decade as Moore’s law comes to an end.

FLEET is the ARC Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies

The Fleet Approach

FLEET will meet this challenge by realising new types of electronic conduction without resistance in solid-state systems at room temperature. These concepts will form the basis of new types of switching devices (transistors) with vastly lower energy consumption per computation than silicon CMOS. Electronic conduction without resistance will be realised in topological insulators that conduct only along their edges, and in semiconductors that support superflow of electrons strongly coupled to photons. These pathways are enabled by the new science of atomically thin materials.

FLEET places Australia at the forefront of the new scientific fields of topological electronics, atomically thin materials, exciton condensates, and non-equilibrium phenomena. The Centre will build capacity in Australia for advanced electronics research, and train the workforce for the electronics industry of the future.

The Fleet Network

FLEET connects 20 chief investigators from seven participating organisations around Australia and 25 partner investigators from 18 organisations internationally. The current FLEET team is highly interdisciplinary with high-profile researchers from atomic physics, condensed matter physics, materials science, electronics, nanofabrication and atomically thin materials. With over $40M investment from the Australian Research Council and contributing organisations including the NSW Department of Industry, Skills & Regional Development, FLEET is poised to make significant global impact in the electronics and energy sectors.

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Participating Organisations

Partner Organisations

Supporting Organisation

FLEET operates on the lands of the Wurundjeri and Bunurong people of the Kulin nations (of the Melbourne region), the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation (Sydney), the Dharawal people (Wollongong), the Ngunnawal and Ngambri people (Canberra), and the Turrbal and Yugara people (Brisbane).

FLEET encourages members to investigate and acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land where they work.