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Examples of new Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities Projects in 2012 - Western Australia
LIEF Projects totalling $3 495 000 covering 9 projects
The University of Western Australia
A Raman Spectroscopy facility for advanced research supporting Australia’s natural gas, oil, coal and minerals industries (LE120100112)
Summary: This modern Raman Spectroscopy facility will support the science and engineering that underpins the production and processing of Australia’s natural resources. Using high-pressure fibre optics, novel lasers and advanced imaging, the facility will enable the monitoring and improvement of processes and materials under extreme conditions.
Chief Investigator: Professor Eric F May
ARC funding: $275 000
Curtin University of Technology
A surface characterisation facility (LE120100026)
Summary: This surface characterisation facility will provide scientists with an understanding of material's surfaces and interfaces. This will lead to a range of new technologies and innovative solutions required to address the many resource and environmental challenges facing our planet now and in the future.
Chief Investigator: Professor Craig E Buckley
ARC funding: $480 000
The University of Western Australia
A robotic telescope imaging system for rapid response spectroscopy of gamma ray bursts (LE120100051)
Summary: This project will build and employ a rapid response optical spectrograph on the robotic Zadko Telescope, triggered by satellite and ground-based observatories. The instruments will be used to probe the most energetic explosions in the universe and to test non-standard quantum and relativity theories using coincident multi-wavelength observations.
Chief Investigator: Associate Professor David M Coward
ARC funding: $150 000
