Wednesday 25 May 2016 A breakthrough by an Australian collaboration of researchers could make infra-red technology easy-to-use and cheap, potentially saving millions of dollars in defence and other areas using sensing devices, and boosting applications of technology to a host of new areas, such as...

Raijin is helping researchers to track variations in the Sun's activity over recent millennia. Dr Andrew Smith at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) has been making trips to Antarctica for almost two decades, bringing back ice cores for analysis. He is searching for...

Nanopillars such as these can produce light using electrons bouncing around inside them. See this paper for more information. Discoveries in nanotechnology are leading to new classes of optical devices, so-called optoelectronic devices, being developed. Translating electric signals into optical ones...

In a time where global positioning devices are cheap and plentiful, it's actually becoming harder than ever to define where exactly 'here' is. For example, global processes such as plate tectonics ensure that 'here' is never quite in the same place. As demand for centimetre precision increases, this...

ARC Future Fellow Professor Michelle Coote and her team from The Australian National University have used Raijin to double the efficiency of solar cells. In a dye-sensitised solar cell, the dye absorbs sunlight, causing the dye to change form and release an electron which generates electricity. A...