About the Group
Diamond Laser Group
PhD Scholarships (domestic and international)
PhD candidates - please inquire directly by email (link below) to find out upcoming opportunities. If you're a motivated experimentalist with a passion for discovery, we will work together with you to create a great project.
Examples of PhD topics available
Contact Rich Mildren.
Latest News
Dec 2024: We've reported manipulation of a surface to the precision of one-hundredth of an atomic layer using a laser two-photon effect - on diamond of course! See articles on this work by Elsevier and ElectroOptics.com. We also show that this highly-practical technique enhances surface conductivity, which may be important for diamond semiconductors.
The full publication is here.
Jun 2024: Our "Stimulated Scattering Festival" with special guests Prof Zhenxu Bai (Hebei University of Technology) and Dr Arun Surendan (IIT Bombay). 
A fascinating day of sharing research and ideas.
Jan 2024: We show it's possible to etch and engineer the surface chemistry of a material with sub-monolayer accuracy using a laser beam only - no plasma or vacuum equipment required! Published in Applied Physics Letters, this work of PhD student Mojtaba Moshkani reveals yet another curious effect in diamond.
Dec 2023: Congratulations Richard Pahlavani! - winner, PhD poster prize at the ANZCOP AIP Summer Congress in Canberra. The paper was entitled "Frequency Stablized 589 nm Diamond Raman Laser".
May 2023: Are you seeking up-to-date data for all your nonlinear optical materials? We are pleased to support the work of Nathalie Vermuelen and Eric Van Stryland in their collection of post-year-2000 data for nonlinear optical materials. Just published - find it here.