Electronic Materials and Devices (EMaD) Laboratory

Novel Optoelectronic Devices Through Materials Innovation




EMaD Lab

The Electronic Materials and Devices Lab is a research group, led by A/Prof. James Bullock, within the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology (FEIT) at the University of Melbourne.

Our work focuses on materials-based innovations which enable the demonstration of novel optoelectronic devices. We draw from disciplines such as Electrical Engineering, Materials Science and Chemistry.

Example projects include:

  • Crystaline silicon photovoltaics, passivated contacts including TOPCon and metal oxide architectures.
  • Infrared photodetectors based on quantum dots and van der Waals materials.
  • Unconventional photovoltaic materials such as transition metal dichalcogenides.



  • News: Check out our latest activity!

    July 2024: Jimmy Sun receives the Ingenium PhD Scholarship, congrats Jimmy!

    April 2024: Alex Corletto wins the MCFP Sustainability Grant, congrats Alex!

    Jan 2024: James wins an ARC Discovery Project with Ken Crozier and Paul Mulvaney to explore infrared quantum dot emitters and detectors.

    Dec 2023: Jimmy Sun wins the MEI Energy Materials best student poster which comes with a $1000 award. Congrats Jimmy!

    Nov 2023: Alex Corletto wins the Australian Center for Advanced Photovoltaics Fellowship. Congrats Alex!

    Oct 2023: Jimmy, Yumin and Ryan win the EEE prize for their capstone project fabricating a linear camera, the prize comes with a $2000 award! see it here

    Jan 2023: We are part of two ARENA projects focusing on next-gen solar technologies, worth $2.7M and $4.31M, see here and here

    Jan 2023: James contributes to an article in Nature Reviews Materials, see it here

    Dec 2022: Our new low damage PVD facility is finally ready for use! here

    June 2022: James receives MCN technology fellowship.

    Jan 2022: PhD student Luke gets the Elizabeth and Vernon Puzey scholarship, congrats to him!

    Dec 2021: James gives an invited talk at the MRS Fall Meeting on titanium oxide selective contacts.

    Dec 2021: James starts his DECRA fellowship.

    April 2021: Our new perspective on polysilicon contacts is published in Joule, see it here

    Jan 2020: Watch a video featuring our lab, here

    Sept 2019: Our article on passivated contacts is published in Nature Energy, see it here

    March 2019: James gives a plenary talk at GPVC 2019, see program here

    Nov 2018: James wins the MRS postdoctoral prize, see interview here

    Oct 2018: Our article on 2D IR detectors is published in Nature Photonics, see it here

    July 2018: We developed a new website, have a look around!