About
TeraGlo was formed through the collaborative efforts between the Loughan Technology Group and the University of Adelaide, Institute for Photonics & Advanced Sensing (IPAS). The research outputs are the life long pursuits of Professor Nigel Spooner and his exceptional team at the Prescott Environmental Luminescence Laboratory (PELL).
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Professor Nigel Spooner was awarded a DPhil (Physics, Oxon) in 1993, following which he relocated to establish and head the “Luminescence Dating Laboratory” (LDL) at RSES, Australian National University, Australia. Since 2015, Nigel has attracted more than $40M in research funding. This included roles as two Chief Investigator on 2 x ARC Research Training Centres, 1x ARC Research Hub, 2 x Cooperative Research Centre and 1 x CRC-P projects and $9M from Defence programs. He has successfully secured research facility funding and fostered collaboration with various industries, including mining and mineral processing, Defence and National Security (CBRN), and health and medical, resulting in successful research programs leading to publications, HDR student graduations and commercialisation endeavors.
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Nigel was the first to pioneer the use of new photonics technology for material detection, identification and quantification using “Upconversion fluorescence” (UF). The Prescott Environmental Luminescence Laboratory” (PELL) has integrated multiple synchronised UV to MIR-tuneable OPO laser excitation systems, with cryogenic-to-elevated temperature sample stages and UV to MWIR detection, now enabling both UF and “conventional” single-photon fluorescence to be analysed in little-studied regimes of wavelength and temperature. Since 2015 this has grown to be the world’s leading facility for these novel approach to fluorescence materials sensing.
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​TeraGlo Team and the IPAS Team at the signing of the Defence Trailblazer research funding grant.
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Video of Nigel explaining the principal of Novel Fluorescence and his work at IPAS
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Link to Nigel's web page at the University of Adelaide:
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