CUDOS@USYD Success with Discovery Grant

22-Nov-04

Prof Eggleton receives funding from the Australia Research Council to explore fundamentals and applications of micofluidic photonics.

DP0556781 Prof BJ Eggleton; Dr C Grillet; Dr N Savvides

Title: Microfluidic photonic systems

2005: $182,000
2006: $92,000
2007: $91,000

Category: 2917 - COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES

Administering Institution: The University of Sydney

Summary: Australia is set to reap commercial benefits nationally and internationally from new developments in the highly competitive domain of microtechnology. In this project, a group of Australia's leading researchers propose an innovative combination of two exciting fields of scientific research. Microfluidics is the manipulation of minute quantities of liquids in microscopic channels, while photonics is the generation, transmission, detection and analysis of light as a means to convey, collect and process information. The marriage of these two fields promises the development of novel, high performance tunable devices for sensing, biotechnology and telecommunications.