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2019 Casual Teaching Positions - Applications Open

06 December 2018
We are accepting applications for 2019 casual laboratory demonstrators in the first year and higher year teaching laboratories, teaching assistants for online courses, problem solving workshops and the first year study area.

Dirac Medal and Lecture Nominations

12 September 2018
Nominations for the Dirac medal and lecture are open and will close on 8th October 2018.

In search of the best telescope location, UNSW astronomer and alumnus head to high places

21 August 2018

The School of Physics's Prof Michael Ashley and UNSW alumnus Dr Colin Bonner have travelled to Tibet to search for a suitable location for a new telescope, for the full story please see the below

Building artificial atoms using holes

16 August 2018

Hole-based artificial atoms could be key to spin-based qubit

First isolation of one individual hole in a silicon MOSFET quantum dot

Putting a New Spin to the Hole Story

16 August 2018

Controlling hole spin for future quantum spin-based devices, topological materials

The ‘spins’ of electrons (and holes) in semiconductors have potential applications in spintronics, spin-based quantum computing, and topological systems.

Why 2D? What is it about two-dimensional materials that makes them so interesting for future, low-energy electronics?

01 August 2018

Constraining the movement of charge carriers (electrons or holes) to two dimensions unlocks unusual quantum properties, resulting in useful electronic properties. Much can be learned by observing precisely at what thickness such effects emerge, transitioning from a 3D system to a 2D system.

Cheng Tan (RMIT, left) and Feixiang Xiang (UNSW, right) use a micromanipulator to fabricate hBN-encapsulated WTe2 structures within the oxygen-free, nitrogen atmosphere of a glove-box at RMIT.

Centre Collaboration Combines Material Expertise

03 July 2018

FLEET RMIT—UNSW collaboration measuring transport properties of van der Waals heterostructures

Hiring for Education Focused Roles at School of Physics

26 June 2018

The School of Physics is currently hiring for two education-focused roles.

Teaching Fellow 

FLEET

Launch: Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies

25 June 2018

FLEET - the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies - has been officially launched.

Finding our Sun’s lost siblings

24 April 2018

In a huge galactic archaeology project, astronomers led by UNSW's Dr Sarah Martell have revealed the “DNA” of more than 340,000 stars in the Milky Way, which should help them find the siblings of the Sun, now scattered across the sky. 

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