FLEET is building links with partners interested in novel electronic devices and systems working towards the overarching goal of creating pathways to translations of research outcomes.

Progress towards this important goal in 2020 includes:

• Adding topological transistors to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Roadmap for Devices and Systems
• Lodging two provisional patents: topological switching (Fuhrer Monash and Culcer UNSW), and superior thermoelectric materials (X Wang, University of Wollongong)
• Liquid-metals spin-off company initiated with FLEET investigators Prof Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh and Dr Torben Daeneke
• Seventeen interviews held as part of the Ascend program with semiconductor/low-energy electronics stakeholders, including industrial physicists and specialists in business development, commercialisation, energy usage in consumer electronics, sensor and piezoelectrics, opto-electronics, semiconductor industry, data centres (energy use, carbon considerations and heat management), nano-electronics, wireless semiconductor chipsets for systems and products, batteries and capacitors, and low-energy IOT
• Talk on future computing for the IEEE chapter in NSW
• Centre seminar by Prof Andrew Dzurak (UNSW) on commercialisation of university research
• Research translation talk at FLEET’s annual workshop.

FLEET-wide industry-engagement seminars in 2021 will start in March, kicking off with a talk by technology entrepreneur Dr Erol Harvey (Bionics Institute Australia, miniFAB).