Microspectrometer sensing technology research receives Eureka award

A team of UWA scientists has been awarded the inaugural Defence Science and Technology Organisation Eureka Prize for Outstanding Science in Support of Defence or National Security.

The scientists' work in infrared imaging systems will provide improved threat and target recognition, at longer distances and with higher reliability than with current systems, making it suitable for military and combat applications.

UWA Vice-Chancellor Prof Alan Robson said the Eureka Prize was recognition of the research of the team in microspectrometer sensing technology.

UWA's Microelectronics Research Group, led by Prof Lorenzo Faraone, developed a filter that enables the creation of the equivalence of colour images in the infrared.

The filter enables scanning of smaller areas, requiring less data to generate images and improving real-time use of infrared. The technology will be lightweight, robust, compact, fast, accurate and inexpensive.

The group includes Prof Faraone, Prof John Dell, Prof Charles Musca, Dr Jarek Antoszewski and Dr Adrian Keating and Dr Kevin Winchester of MRX Technologies.