26th Australian Institute of Physics Congress and the Australian and New Zealand Conference on Optics and Photonics

Session

COMMAD: Coupled Phenomena in Functional Systems

COMMAD

8 Dec 2026, 14:30

Belinda Hutchinson Building (The University of Sydney )

Conveners

COMMAD: Coupled Phenomena in Functional Systems

• Michael Nielsen (UNSW Sydney)

391. Organic Electrochemical Transistor Arrays with Integrated Lipid-Sealed Femtolitre Chambers for Simultaneous Electrical and Optical Detection of Membrane Protein Activity

Prof. Adam Micolich

08/12/2026, 14:30

COMMAD - Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials and Devices

Contributed Oral

We present a method for producing an array of fifty two ion-sensitive PEDOT:PSS organic electrochemical transistors on a glass coverslip, each featuring an integrated fluoropolymer microwell sealed with lipid bilayer into which membrane proteins can be inserted for simultaneous electrical and fluorescence microscopy studies. To demonstrate capability, we fill the microwells with an inner...

180. Computationally Tractable Prediction of Impact Ionization for Semiconductor Materials Discovery

Ryan Hall (School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering (SPREE), University of New South Wales (UNSW))

08/12/2026, 14:45

COMMAD - Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials and Devices

Contributed Oral

Impact ionization plays a central role in avalanche multiplication, electrical breakdown and high-field carrier transport in semiconductor devices. However, accurate prediction of impact-ionization behaviour typically requires computationally intensive first-principles calculations involving wavefunction overlap integrals, dielectric screening and high-dimensional Brillouin-zone integrations....

791. LIGHT CONTROL OF MAGNETIZATION IN FERROMAGNETIC/PMN-PT MULTIFERROIC HETEROSTRUCTURES

Anju Ahlawat (Sage University, Indore)

08/12/2026, 15:00

COMMAD - Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials and Devices

Contributed Oral

The discovery of optically driven magnetization control has revolutionized spintronics, introducing a ground breaking scientific paradigm that harnesses light-induced strain to manipulate magnetic order. This contactless and energy-efficient approach utilizes photostriction light induced strain generated in ferroelectric materials through the combined effects of the bulk photovoltaic response...