Research achievements

* Licensing of designs and deposition processes for high performance solar selective surfaces.
* Development of vacuum glazing technology with subsequent manufacture in Japan.
* Novel mirror field designs for efficient collection of solar energy for large-scale solar thermal electricity generation.
* Development of theory describing the optical properties of composite media.
*

Discovery of new materials and the development of processes to fabricate them. In particular, research into a new form of carbon, tetrahedral amorphous carbon, was pioneered by Applied and Plasma Physics.

*

Development of new plasma deposition technology in collaboration with the Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering at the Australian National University.

*

Development of a world-first comprehensive Ecological Footprint methodology using input-output analysis.

Last updated Monday, 29.04.2002 19:21.