STAFF PROFILE
Professor Madhu Bhaskaran
Position:
Professor
College / Portfolio:
School of Engineering Cluster
School / Department:
Electronic and Telecommunications Eng
Phone:
99250441
Email:
madhu.bhaskaran@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
Melbourne City Campus
Contact me about:
Research supervision,
Media comments
Fellowships, scholarships and awards
A representative list of fellowships, scholarships, and awards from a total of 24 is shown below:
- 2018 - APEC Science Prize for Innovation, Research and Education ("ASPIRE")
- 2018 - Batterham Medal by Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering
- 2018 - Johnson & Johnson Quickfire Challenge Winner
- 2017 – Australian Museum Macquarie University Eureka Prize for Outstanding Early Career Researcher
- 2017 – Australia's Most Innovative Engineers 2017 by Engineers Australia
- 2016 – RMIT Research Excellence – Team Award
- 2016-2018 – Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) from the Australian Research Council (ARC)
- 2016 – MIT Technology Review TR35 and EmTech Asia Innovators Under 35 – One of 10 Honourees
- 2015 – Victoria Fellowship
- 2014 – Phillip Law Post-Doctoral Award for Physical Sciences from the Royal Society of Victoria
- 2011 – RMIT Research Media Star Award
- 2010-2014 – Australian Post-Doctoral Fellowship from the Australian Research Council (ARC)
Intellectual property
- T. Ahmed, S. Walia, S. Sriram, and M. Bhaskaran, "Sensor and method for discriminating between wavelength regions using the sensor" Australian Patent Application 2018902291 (Filed: June 26, 2018).
- M. Taha, S. Walia, S. Sriram, and M. Bhaskaran, "Vanadium oxide films and methods of fabricating the same," Australian Patent Application 2017210601; US Patent Application 15/668,823 (Filed: August 04, 2017).
- T. Ahmed, S. Walia, M. Bhaskaran, and S. Sriram, "Multifunctional and multi-bit resistive storage memories," Australian Provisional Patent 2016902654 (Filed: July 06, 2016).
- P. Gutruf, S. Sriram, and M. Bhaskaran, "A flexible or stretchable sensor for use in detecting a substance and/or electromagnetic radiation and a method for detection thereof," Australian Patent Application 2016203718 (Filed: June 03, 2016); US Patent Application 15/173,272 (Granted)
- H. Nili, S. Walia, M. Bhaskaran, and S. Sriram, "A memristor device and a method of fabrication thereof," Australian Provisional Patent 2015904857 (Filed: November 25, 2015; PCT Filed: November 25, 2016).
Professional involvement
Professional organisation roles
- Australian Academy of Science National Committee for Materials Science and Engineering (2019-current)
- Expert Working Group for Women in STEM Decadal Plan (2018-2019)
Editorial roles:
- Associate Editor for Sensors and Actuators: A Physical
- Editorial Advisory Board for Small
- International Advisory Board for Advanced Intelligent Systems
Reviewer for international scientific journals
Reviewer for over 40 international journals. Examples include:
- Nature Nanotechnology
- Advanced Functional Materials
- ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
- Crystal Growth and Design
- CrystEngComm
- Nanoscale Research Letters
Conference organisation
- Program Committee, 35th International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors (ICPS) 2020
- Symposium Co-Chair, International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICONN) 2020
- Co-chair, Thinking BIG with Nano 2018
- Scientific Advisory Committee, Conference on Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials and Devices (COMMAD) 2018
- Scientific Committee, Emerging Sensing Technologies Summit (ESTS) 2018
- Scientific Committee, Emerging Polymer Technologies Summit (EPTS) 2017
- Co-Convenor, Women in STEMM National Symposium, 2016
- Local Committee, International Symposium on Graphene Devices 2016
- Technical Committee, The Seventh International Conference on Advances in Circuits, Electronics and Micro-electronics 2014
- Co-Chair and Organiser, Australian Nanotechnology Network Early-Career Symposium 2012
- Technical Committee, CMOS Emerging Technologies Conference 2012-2014
- Organising Committee, SPIE International Symposium 2008
- Co-Leader, Functional Materials and Microsystems
- Node Director and Chief Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems (TMOS)
- Board of Directors, Women in STEMM Australia
- 2009 – Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D., Electronic Materials Engineering), RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
- 2005 – Master of Engineering (M.Eng., Microelectronics Engineering), RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
- 2004 – Bachelor of Engineering (B.E., Electronic and Communication Engineering), P.S.G. College of Technology, Coimbatore, India
- Ebrahimi, A.,Ako, R.,Lee, W.,Bhaskaran, M.,Sriram, S.,Withayachumnankul, W. (2020). (In Press) High-Q Terahertz Absorber with Stable Angular Response In: IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology, , 1 - 9
- Rahman, M.,Abbas, S.,Ahmed, T.,Spencer, M.,Walia, S.,Sriram, S.,Bhaskaran, M. (2020). Differential Work-Function Enabled Bifunctional Switching in Strontium Titanate Flexible Resistive Memories In: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 12, 7326 - 7333
- Ako, R.,Lee, W.,Bhaskaran, M.,Sriram, S.,Withayachumnakul, W. (2019). Broadband and wide-angle reflective linear polarization converter for terahertz waves In: APL Photonics, 4, 096104 - 096106
- Ako, R.,Upadhyay, A.,Withayachumnakul, W.,Bhaskaran, M.,Sriram, S. (2019). Dielectrics for Terahertz Metasurfaces: Material Selection and Fabrication Techniques In: Advanced Optical Materials, 2019, 1 - 16
- Ahmed, T.,Kuriakose, S.,Rahman, M.,Bhaskaran, M.,Sriram, S.,Walia, S.,Abbas, S.,Spencer, M.,Bansal, V et al, . (2019). Multifunctional Optoelectronics via Harnessing Defects in Layered Black Phosphorus In: Advanced Functional Materials, , 1 - 12
- Nirantar, S.,Mayes, E.,Rahman, M.,Ahmed, T.,Taha, M.,Bhaskaran, M.,Walia, S.,Sriram, S. (2019). In Situ Nanostructural Analysis of Volatile Threshold Switching and Non-Volatile Bipolar Resistive Switching in Mixed-Phased a-VOx Asymmetric Crossbars In: Advanced Electronic Materials, 5, 1 - 9
- Srivastava, Y.,Ako, R.,Gupta, M.,Bhaskaran, M.,Sriram, S.,Singh, R. (2019). Terahertz sensing of 7?nm dielectric film with bound states in the continuum metasurfaces In: Applied Physics Letters, 115, 1 - 5
- Kuriakose, S.,Vasudevan, R.,Ahmed, T.,Xu, C.,Sriram, S.,Bhaskaran, M.,Balendhran, S.,Walia, S. (2019). Charge injection in vertically stacked multi-layer black phosphorus In: Applied Materials Today, 18, 1 - 5
- Ahmed, T.,Walia, S.,Mayes, E.,Ramanathan, R.,Bansal, V.,Bhaskaran, M.,Sriram, S.,Kavehei, O. (2019). Time and rate dependent synaptic learning in neuro-mimicking resistive memories In: Scientific Reports, 9, 1 - 11
- Rahman, F.,Zavabeti, A.,Rahman, M.,Arash, A.,Mazumder, A.,Walia, S.,Sriram, S.,Bhaskaran, M.,Balendhran, S. (2019). Dual Selective Gas Sensing Characteristics of 2D a-MoO3�x via a Facile Transfer Process In: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 11, 40189 - 40195
- R2R printing for cost effective manufacturing of a Smart Patch for health monitoring. Funded by: Innovative Manufacturing CRC from (2020 to 2022)
- Preventing Heart Attacks with Nanotechnology-enabled Biomarker Sensors. Funded by: Innovative Manufacturing CRC from (2019 to 2021)
- Advanced Multifunctional Photoelectron Spectroscopy Platform. Funded by: ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) Grant 2018 from (2018 to 2019)
- UV Sensing Electronic Skin. Funded by: Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions - Competitive from (2018 to 2019)
- Digital Health CRC Core Participants Agreement - Umbrella Agreement. Funded by: Digital Health CRC from (2018 to 2025)
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
10 PhD Completions12 PhD Current Supervisions
Thin films: synthesis and characterisation; Microfabrication: electronic devices, flexible devices, stretchable electronics; Two-dimensional materials: elemental semiconductors (excluding graphene), oxides