Congratulations to the COPE member, Dr Mile Gao who has been awarded a DECRA (Discovery Early Career Researcher Award) from the Australian Research Council:
| Investigator | Summary |
| Dr Mile Gao | Light can strongly couple with organic semiconductor molecules and materials to form polaritons at room temperature that can immensely modify excited energy states and exhibit nonlinear optical properties. This project aims to leverage the strong interparticle interactions between polaritons, which are significantly higher than weakly interacting photons used in conventional photonics, to deliver a new capability for multidimensional optical computing. This project has a distinctive approach to harnessing photon degrees of freedom via strong light-matter coupling enabling novel avenues for enhancing the capacity of optical computing, benefiting various applications that require pattern recognition, such as artificial intelligence. |