Microphotonics for biomedicine – life saving technology on a chip the size of your fingernail
We already use photonic technologies every day, our smart phones, the LED lights in our houses and particularly the internet are all powered by photonics. However, photonics is also crucial for precision sensing ranging from helping satellites to tell us where we are to detecting traces of chemical contamination in sea water and biomarkers in our blood.
My team is working on all of these applications and particularly exploring how really complex and high precision optical systems can be integrated onto a micro-chip size of your fingernail with the potential cost of only a few dollars.
This presentation will particularly focus on our work in biomedical applications. I will particularly talk about work with the start-up company Nirtek to create optical fibre sensors to detect heart-attacks before they happen, our microfluidics work with the Australian Centre for Blood Diseases to detect how new drugs may impact blood clot formation and our work on ultra-sensitive photonic chip biosensors that can help diagnose heart attacks in minutes.
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- Date: 29 Mar 2021
- Time: 06:30 PM to 07:30 PM
- All times are (UTC+11:00) Canberra
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- Melbourne, Victoria
- Australia
- Starts 20 March 2021 04:30 PM
- Ends 29 March 2021 06:30 PM
- All times are (UTC+11:00) Canberra
- No Admission Charge
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Distinguished Professor Arnan Mitchell of RMIT Node Director, ARC Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), Integrated Photonics and Applications Centre (InPAC)
Microphotonics for biomedicine – life saving technology on a chip the size of your fingernail
Abstract:
We already use photonic technologies every day, our smart phones, the LED lights in our houses and particularly the internet are all powered by photonics. However, photonics is also crucial for precision sensing ranging from helping satellites to tell us where we are to detecting traces of chemical contamination in sea water and biomarkers in our blood.
My team is working on all of these applications and particularly exploring how really complex and high precision optical systems can be integrated onto a micro-chip size of your fingernail with the potential cost of only a few dollars.
This presentation will particularly focus on our work in biomedical applications. I will particularly talk about work with the start-up company Nirtek to create optical fibre sensors to detect heart-attacks before they happen, our microfluidics work with the Australian Centre for Blood Diseases to detect how new drugs may impact blood clot formation and our work on ultra-sensitive photonic chip biosensors that can help diagnose heart attacks in minutes.
Biography:
Arnan Mitchell is a Distinguished Professor in the School of Engineering at RMIT University, Director of the RMIT Micro Nano Research Facility (MNRF) and leads the Integrated Photonics and Applications Centre (InPAC). He is a highly multidisciplinary researcher working in micro-chip technologies combining light, sound, fluids and electronics with applications spanning radar systems for defence, high speed fibre optic communications and point of care diagnostic systems for biomedicine. He is enthusiastic about translating technology into the hands of end-users and has dedicated much of his career to building and training diverse teams and comprehensive micro and nanotechnology infrastructure to enable breakthrough discoveries to achieve real world impact.
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Address:Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3000