Professor Arnan Mitchell
Director, Micro Nano Research Facility
Details
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College: STEM Research & Innovation
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Department: Research & Innovation
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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arnan.mitchell@rmit.edu.au
Open to
- Media enquiries
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Distinguished Professor Arnan Mitchell is an expert in integrated photonics who works with academics and industry to create technology solutions with real world impact.
Professor Arnan Mitchell is Director of RMIT's Micro Nano Research Facility (MNRF) and the Integrated Photonics and Applications Centre (InPAC). Prof Mitchell has built RMIT's capability in photonics (the science of using and manipulating light) over his 20-year career through national and international collaboration.
He is Director of the $60M Micro Nano Research Facility (MNRF) including comprehensive infrastructure for photonic chip research and development and has spent much of his career building this capability. He founded and leads the Integrated Photonics and Applications Centre (InPAC) - a team of more than 40 researchers exploring how breakthrough innovations can be translated to real world impact through engagement with industry in Australia and around the world. InPAC includes integrated photonic design, photonic chip fabrication, packaging and interfacing and applications in high-speed internet, photonic sensing systems for defence and photonic biosensors for more rapid disease diagnosis.
Prof Mitchell is often the platform technology expert in a highly multi-disciplinary team and has used this approach to achieve major impacts spanning nonlinear physics, precision measurement for navigation and defence applications, record breaking data communications technology and even lab-on-a-chip devices for biomedical research. His publications appear in the highest quality outlets including Nature, Nature Medicine, Nature Communications, PNAS, Optica, Light Science and Applications and Advanced Materials, among many others.
Professor Mitchell is a thought leader and photonics pioneer with a mission to building a deep technology manufacturing base in Australia sustaining both academia and industry.
Awards:
RMIT Vice Chancellors Research Excellence Award (2012)
RMIT Research Excellence Team Award (2012) (Microplatforms Group)
RMIT Early Career Teaching Award (2005)
Professor Arnan Mitchell is Director of RMIT's Micro Nano Research Facility (MNRF) and the Integrated Photonics and Applications Centre (InPAC). Prof Mitchell has built RMIT's capability in photonics (the science of using and manipulating light) over his 20-year career through national and international collaboration.
He is Director of the $60M Micro Nano Research Facility (MNRF) including comprehensive infrastructure for photonic chip research and development and has spent much of his career building this capability. He founded and leads the Integrated Photonics and Applications Centre (InPAC) - a team of more than 40 researchers exploring how breakthrough innovations can be translated to real world impact through engagement with industry in Australia and around the world. InPAC includes integrated photonic design, photonic chip fabrication, packaging and interfacing and applications in high-speed internet, photonic sensing systems for defence and photonic biosensors for more rapid disease diagnosis.
Prof Mitchell is often the platform technology expert in a highly multi-disciplinary team and has used this approach to achieve major impacts spanning nonlinear physics, precision measurement for navigation and defence applications, record breaking data communications technology and even lab-on-a-chip devices for biomedical research. His publications appear in the highest quality outlets including Nature, Nature Medicine, Nature Communications, PNAS, Optica, Light Science and Applications and Advanced Materials, among many others.
Professor Mitchell is a thought leader and photonics pioneer with a mission to building a deep technology manufacturing base in Australia sustaining both academia and industry.
Awards:
RMIT Vice Chancellors Research Excellence Award (2012)
RMIT Research Excellence Team Award (2012) (Microplatforms Group)
RMIT Early Career Teaching Award (2005)
Supervisor projects
- Self-sufficient microfluidic systems for cell-based assays
- 15 Apr 2024
- A Rapid One-Step Microfluidic Fabrication Approach for Multiple Through-Hole Generation Enabling Spatial Transcriptomic Analyses
- 21 Dec 2023
- Investigating heterogeneous catalysis on bimetallic alloy nanostructures by SERS measurement
- 21 Jul 2023
- Integrated Photonics and Microfluidics for improved point of care diagnostics
- 18 Jul 2023
- Photonic CNN for large- scale image processing
- 20 Apr 2023
- Microfluidics Integrated Colorimetric Point of Care Detection System for Glycated hemoglobin
- 22 Dec 2022
- Integrated Photonics and Microfluidics for improved point of care diagnostics
- 16 Dec 2022
- Organ-on-a-chip model with integrated biosensors
- 5 Dec 2022
- Lab-on-a-Chip devices for early ovarian cancer diagnosis
- 28 Jun 2022
- Rainbows on demand
- 8 Apr 2022
- Integrated photonic devices and circuits harnessing novel phenomenon
- 11 Mar 2022
- Hexagonal Silicon Germanium nanowires for light emission
- 25 Feb 2022
- Neuromorphic Computing in Lithium Niobate on Insulator Platforms
- 14 Feb 2022
- Towards a Bionic brain - Light driven cognitive learning in nanomaterials for Artificial Neural Networks
- 10 Dec 2021
- Efficient nonlinear broadband light sources in photonic integrated circuits
- 18 Nov 2021
- Micro/nano fabrication for hybrid integration
- 14 Oct 2021
- Nanoplasmonic biosensors for lab-on-a-chip disease diagnosis
- 12 Aug 2021
- Mid-IR High-Q Cavities
- 14 May 2021
- Rainbows on demand
- 4 Jan 2021
- Investigation of Ultra-thin Gallium Compound Layers Fabricated by Liquid Metal Chemistry for Hybrid Integrated Photonics
- 12 Jun 2020
- Real-time Study of CTC-cluster Growth and Secretions on Dedicated Microfluidic Platform Coupled with Multiplexed Biosensor
- 6 May 2020
- High-Q integrated micro-resonators for Mid-IR photonics
- 19 Mar 2020
- A Low Loss Silicon Nitride Nanophotonic Waveguide Platform by Reactive Sputtering
- 18 Dec 2019
- Programmable Silicon Photonics
- 11 Nov 2019
- Advanced Integrated Photonics Circuits for Future Navigation Systems in Autonomous Driving Cars
- 23 Sep 2019
- Integrated Photonic Circuits Including Modulators on the Thin Film Lithium Niobate Platform
- 19 Jul 2019
- Narrow Linewidth External Cavity Diode Lasers: Combining Integrated Photonics and Frequency Locking Techniques
- 4 Feb 2019
- Advancing Troponin Point-of-Care Testing through Silicon Photonic Biosensors: Enhancing the Accuracy of Heart Attack Diagnosis
- 1 Mar 2018
- Investigation of Blood Fluke Infection in Bluefin Tuna With Glycoinformatics
- 1 Feb 2018
- Adiabatic Polarization Beam Splitters for Integrated Photonics
- 1 Aug 2016
- Advanced Interrogation Methods For Integrated Photonic Biosensors
- 29 Feb 2016
- Nonlinear Photonics in Silicon Germanium Waveguides for Mid-infrared Supercontinuum Generation
- 5 Mar 2015
- Simplified fabrication of complex multilayer microfluidics: enabling sophisticated Lab-on-a-chip and point-of-care platforms
- 2 Mar 2015
- Photonic building blocks for a fully integrated quantum computer
- 2 Mar 2015
- Self-sufficient microfluidic systems using highly porous elastomeric sponges
- 4 Mar 2013
Teaching interests
Supervisor interest areas
Integrated Optics, Nonlinear Optics and Microwave Photonics - with emphasis on Simulation, Design, Microfabrication and Systems; Lab-on-a-chip platforms supporting biomedical research: integrated microfluidics, micro-mechanics and photonics.
Supervisor projects
For current project available at the Integrated Photonics and Applications Centre (InPAC), visit: https://www.rmit.edu.au/research/centres-collaborations/integrated-photonics-and-applications-centre/open-positions
Integrated Optics, Nonlinear Optics and Microwave Photonics - with emphasis on Simulation, Design, Microfabrication and Systems; Lab-on-a-chip platforms supporting biomedical research: integrated microfluidics, micro-mechanics and photonics.
Supervisor projects
For current project available at the Integrated Photonics and Applications Centre (InPAC), visit: https://www.rmit.edu.au/research/centres-collaborations/integrated-photonics-and-applications-centre/open-positions
Research interests
Prof Mitchell’s research focuses on multi-disciplinary microtechnology – the technology that enables an entire computer with billions of functional electronic components that come together on a chip the size of your fingernail. However, rather than only creating circuits that can control electronic signals, Prof Mitchell uses microtechnology to create circuits which can also control fluids, vibrations and even light.
These multi-disciplinary microchips can be used for a vast array of applications including detecting diseases in blood, measuring contaminants in the ocean, monitoring the structural integrity of bridges, guiding the trajectory of spacecraft and submarines and transmitting and processing vast quantities of digital information.
Research keywords
Photonics, Integrated Photonics, Optics, Micro Platforms, Integrated Optics, Lab-on-a-chip, Photonic Signal Processing
These multi-disciplinary microchips can be used for a vast array of applications including detecting diseases in blood, measuring contaminants in the ocean, monitoring the structural integrity of bridges, guiding the trajectory of spacecraft and submarines and transmitting and processing vast quantities of digital information.
Research keywords
Photonics, Integrated Photonics, Optics, Micro Platforms, Integrated Optics, Lab-on-a-chip, Photonic Signal Processing
