Industry & Commercialisation
Academics at the School of Physics consult with industry in providing expert advice for companies such as Agilent, Dectris, Austin Hospital, Brisbane Airport (detector physics); HREM Research Inc (software development) etc to name a few examples.
Academics have been responsible for generating Intellectual Property subsequently exploited in spin-off companies, specialty services or have formed the basis of patented inventions, as listed below.
MOG Labs Pty Ltd
provides diode laser electronics equipment for research in quantum atom optics and is the brainchild of A/Prof Rob Scholten.
IATIA Ltd
is a developer of digital wavefront imaging solutions for visualisation and measurement, enabling unprecedented depth and clarity of hard-to-see objects from transparent biological cells, optics of the human eye to hidden and camouflaged objects in military and security operations. The technology is based on a patented algorithm that was developed by Prof Keith Nugent and his team, for which they also received the rarely held R&D 100 awards in 1988 and 2002.
Nuclear Microprobe Analysis
Associate staff member, Dr Chris Ryan, of CSIRO Division of Exploration and Mining, together with Prof David Jamieson, uses 5MeV Pelletron accelerator nuclear microprobe facilities housed at the School of Physics, to provide non-destructive quantitative analysis and trace mineral imaging suitable for a range of applications but in particular, for geological assay. For more information on technologies used, please refer to the website www.nmp.csiro.au.
Rubbery Ruler
Research Fellow, Dr Alberto Cimmino with colleagues Profs Geoff Opat and Tony Klein, have invented the 'Rubbery Ruler', a flexible elastic sensor that accurately measures extension, contraction or other movements particularly in hostile environments, tight spaces or over long periods of time. It was the subject of the R&D 100 award in 1995.