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Electronics & Communications

Communication and computing devices, such as mobile phones and notebooks are now being used by billions of people in their daily life.  These devices are generally built with a complex combination of electronic materials.

Exciting innovations and developments in the area of electronic materials are waiting to happen in the coming years to advance future ground breaking technologies.

In this area, we conduct interdisciplinary research in areas such as condensed matter physics, materials science and device engineering. This includes world-class research on the fabrication, structure and properties characterization and applications of electronic materials.

Our vision is to develop next generation electronic materials and underpin its broad collaborative base and its ability to attract students and researchers from a range of disciplines.

Groups

Heterostructured Materials and Integrated Systems Researcher

Heterostructured Materials and Integrated Systems Group

The Materials and Manufacturing Futures Institute at UNSW Sydney is studying, building and transforming the future of materials innovation and advanced manufacturing — we are an interdisciplinary research hub delivering real-world social benefits and tangible solutions to emerging global problems.

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Advanced Scanning Probe Microscopy of Functional Materials Group lab photo

Advanced Scanning Probe Microscopy of Functional Materials Group

We are primarily interested in the synthesis and characterization of functional materials, with a focus on complex oxides, halide perovskites and novel van der Waals materials.

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Hybrid Materials and Advanced Interfaces Group image

Hybrid Materials and Advanced Interfaces Group

Our group explores novel nanomaterials, thin films and hybrid heterostructures, with a focus on their electronic, magnetic and optical functionalities, aiming to solve problems in the domains of energy and electronics research.

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Advanced Thin Film group research photo

Advanced Thin Film Group

Our group research focuses multiferroic functional materials.  Our group spends hours trying make these ferroics at very tiny dimensions and to see what happens when ferroics are scaled down to the size of a few nanometers.

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copper wound engines

Multi-Length-Scale Characterisation in Electronic Materials

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Theme Leader

Dewei Chu

Professor
E10, Room 244, School of Materials Science & Engineering
+61 2 9385 5090
d.chu@unsw.edu.au
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Group Leaders

Tom Wu

Professor
Building E10, Rm345, , School of Materials Science and Engineering, , University of New South Wales (UNSW), , Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
02 9385 6559
tom.wu@unsw.edu.au
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Nagarajan Valanoor

Director
School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW 2052, Materials Science and Engineering Building (E8), Room
+61 (0)2 9385 4263
nagarajan@unsw.edu.au
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Sean Li

Professor
Room 106, School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW 2052, Materials Science and Engineering Building (E8),
+61 (0)2 9385 5986
sean.li@unsw.edu.au
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Jan Seidel

Professor
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Hilmer Building (E10), Room 340, University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW 2052
+61 2 9385 4442
jan.seidel@unsw.edu.au
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John Daniels

Associate Professor
School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW 2052, Materials Science and Engineerign Building (E10), Room 338
+61 2 9385 5607
j.daniels@unsw.edu.au
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