2026
Our new method of thermoradiative signatureless communications gets publihsed in Light Science and Applications and publicised by UNSW Press
Martin successfully defends his MPhil thesis defence on thermoradiative diodes for space applications!
Michael joins the UNSW Radiation Safety Committee and takes on the role of Postgraduate Coordinator (PGC) for SPREE in charge of Admissions. Lets just hope all the admin doesn’t get in the way of science!
2025
Dr Rong Deng (lead CI), Dr Zibo Zhou and Michael were awarded an ARC Linkage Project with Hello Again Solar to work on laser based solar panel recycling
Michael was awarded The Spitfire Memorial Defense Fellowship for 2026 by the Spitfire Association and administered by UNSW Canberra
Michael was awarded the UNSW Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Higher Degree Research Supervision (Emerging Supervisor) and a UNSW Faculty of Engineering Excellence Award
The thermoradiative diode team are finalists for the Eureka Prize for Innovative Use of Technology for their work on the thermoradiative diode, which was also taken up by the media
Sazzad and Damon graduated their PhDs and both moved on to successful postdoc positions
Valerii published his first ever paper on the thermoradiative diode in Applied Physics Letters
Michael presented work at HOPV and PVSC 53 conferences on singlet fission and thermoradiative diode efforts, and at EDISON 23 about electron-phonon interactions in new materials
2024
The team published a definitive review article on the state of the thermoradiative diode in Nature Photonics
The thermoradiative diode team are finalists for the Eureka Prize for Innovative Use of Technology for their work on the thermoradiative diode
A long term collaborative project with the group of Professor Timothy Schmidt from the School of Chemistry was published in Nature Chemistry
Michael presented at the Fourth International Symposium on Singlet Fission and Photon Fusion in New York on 2D material sensitized triplet-triplet fusion up-conversion
Michael gave an invited talk at the 2024 NZ-Australia Ultrafast Spectroscopy meeting at the University of Sydney on ultrafast phonon spectroscopy
Michael presented the Photophysics of Phonon Cavities at the SPIE Photonics West
Michael has joined the SPIE Scholarship Committee to help support the education of high school, undergraduate and graduate students working in optics and photonics
2023
This year we congradulate a whole raft of students associated with the AOS Group graduating! Parisa Hosseinabadi, Muhammad Hanif, Alexander Baldacchino and Abhinav Sharma have all successfully obtained their PhD!
Michael presented both the prospects for the Thermoradiative diode and the Vibrational Physics of Tips-Pentacene at SPIE Optics + Photonics
Michael presented both the prospects for the Thermoradiative diode and the Photophysics of Phonon Cavities at the PVSC 2023 conference
Michael welcomes his second child, Erik, into the world!
9 projects in SPREE win more than $29.3 million AUD in research funding from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) Research and Development (R&D) Program to support research and development (R&D) and commercialisation activities that aim to significantly reduce the cost of solar. The AOS Group is heavily involved in several of these projects, particularly in the effort to utilise Organic Multi Exciton Generation in Silicon to create a pathway to >30% efficient silicon solar cells
2022
Michael joins the ARC Center of Excellence in Exciton Science as an Associate Investigator
Michael wins an ARC DECRA Fellowship to study “Charge and Energy Transfer Processes at Inorganic-Organic Interfaces“!
Michael’s appointment to the UNSW Scientia Program was renewed for another 4 years (2023-2026), he was converted to a continuing (Australian tenure) appointment, and was promoted to Senior Lecturer (Level C)
Jointly with Professors Annamaria Petrozza and Ian Sellers, Michael organised the symposium QT01 “Applications and Characterization of Nonequilibrium Electron, Phonon and Polaron Dynamics“ at the 2022 Spring MRS in Honolulu
In collaboration with the QPV Group of Professor Nicholas Ekins-Daukes, we published the definitive evidence of thermoradiative diode operation in HgCdTe photodiodes. This lead to extensive media coverage includes interviews with Michael on ABC Radio Sydney and 2ser, and publication in ABC News
The first associated PhD student of the AOS group graduates from UNSW! Dr Milos Dubajic has since gone on to do a postdoc at Cambridge with Professor Sam Stranks and win a Marie Curie Fellowship
In collaboration with Professor Nicholas Ekins-Daukes and Professor Gavin Conibeer, the AOS Group won an ARC Discovery Project to study “Energy resolving photodetection through extracting hot carrier photocurrent“
Pre-2022
2021: The AOS Group is awarded its first independent grant! In collaboration with Dr Murad Tayebjee and Professor Bram Hoex and industry partner Femtometrix, this ARC Linkage Project “Nonlinear Optical Metrology of Electronic Interfaces for Silicon Devices“ will look at next generation metrology of semiconductor interfaces
2020: Michael welcomes his first child, Ameliana, into the world!
2019: Michael is awarded a UNSW Scientia Fellowship at the School of Photovoltiac and Renewable Energy Engineering at UNSW Sydney
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