Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication

Nanofabulous Seminar: Integrating MEMS in Silicon Photonics
2023-05-23 11:00 - 12:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | MCN Board Room, 151 Wellington Rd, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia
Nanofabulous Seminar Series
Title: Integrating MEMS in Silicon Photonics
Presenter: A/Prof Niels Quack
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Meeting ID: 832 1340 1399 and passcode: [REDACTED]

Nanofabulous Seminar: Functional micropatterned nanocellulose materials: exploring size, composition, resolution and applications.
2023-05-18 11:00 - 12:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | MCN Board Room, 151 Wellington Rd, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia
Nanofabulous Seminar Series
Title: Functional micropatterned nanocellulose materials: exploring size, composition, resolution and applications.
Presenter: Dr Christine Browne

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Meeting ID: 853 0791 2456
passcode: [REDACTED]

MCN capability Seminar
2023-05-05 11:00 - 12:00 UTC | VIC
Dr ZhengMing Wu
Sales and Application Engineer,
Heidelberg Instruments, Zurich, Switzerland
11:00am, 5th May 2023
At the Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication Boardroom
151 Wellington Road, Clayton, 3168
Microsoft Teams meeting: click here
Meeting ID: 467 205 612 423 and passcode: [REDACTED]

Nanofabulous Seminar: New Adventures in Lithography with X-ray and Extreme Ultraviolet Radiation
2023-05-04 11:00 - 12:00 UTC | MCN Board Room, 151 Wellington Rd, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia
Nanofabulous Seminar Series

Title: New Adventures in Lithography with X-ray and Extreme Ultraviolet Radiation

Presenter: Dr Grant van Riessen
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Meeting ID: 849 0023 6916
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Nanofabulous Seminar: Hot tip nanoengineering: 30 years and counting
2023-04-27 15:00 - 16:00 UTC | MCN Board Room, 151 Wellington Rd, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia
Nanofabulous Seminar Series

Title: Hot tip nanoengineering: 30 years and counting

Presenter: Prof Jürgen Brugger
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Meeting ID: 825 8329 3989
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Nanofabulous Seminar: From bioinspired structure formation to particle based metamaterials
2023-04-13 16:00 - 17:00 UTC | MCN Board Room, 151 Wellington Rd, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia
Nanofabulous Seminar Series

Title: From bioinspired structure formation to particle based metamaterials
Seminar Flyer: Nanofabulous Seminar: From bioinspired structure formation to particle-based metamaterials

Presenter: Prof Andreas Fery
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Meeting ID: 811 6519 1931
Passcode: [REDACTED]

BEAMeeting Brisbane 2023 – Technical Workshop & Discussion
2023-04-11 - 2023-04-12 | University of Queensland, Australia

ANFF-C Seminar Series: Manufacturing for Startups
2023-03-29 17:00 - 18:00 UTC | MCN Board Room, 151 Wellington Rd, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia
5:00pm, 29/03/2023
At the Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication Boardroom
151 Wellington Road, Clayton, 3168
In person and Online
Professor Alan Duffy
Pro Vice Chancellor, Flagship Initiatives
Swinburne University of Technology

Nanofabulous Seminar— Prof Arnan Mitchell "Photonic Chip Frequency Combs: Australian Made Technologies for Measuring Almost Anything"
2023-03-28 11:00 - 12:00 UTC | MCN Board Room, 151 Wellington Rd, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia
Nanofabulous Seminar Series
Title: Photonic Chip Frequency Combs: Australian Made Technologies for Measuring Almost Anything.
Presenter: Prof Arnan Mitchell
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Meeting ID: 826 2623 2020
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Nanofabulous Seminar Series - Presenter: A/Prof Jess Frith
2023-03-16 11:00 - 12:00 UTC | MCN Board Room, 151 Wellington Rd, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia
Nanofabulous Seminar Series
Title: T.B.C.
Presenter: A/Prof Jess Frith
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Meeting ID: 843 6652 4045
Passcode: [REDACTED]

SEMMA Tour | Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication
2023-03-07 10:00 - 11:30 (Australia/Melbourne) | MCN Board Room, 151 Wellington Rd, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia
SEMMA is pleased to partner with the Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF) to provide members with an exclusive tour of the Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication (MCN) in Clayton. This flagship facility located in Melbourne’s manufacturing heartland offers businesses the opportunity to access state of the art equipment, training and onsite expertise to help realise your R&D and innovation goals.
If you’re engaging in R&D, looking to innovate and access cutting edge equipment for free or low costs, this event is not to be missed.
Learn about how ANFF supports industry and attend the facility tour.

Nanofabulous Seminar: Nanofabrication of silicon-on-insulator diodes and transistors with single electron tunnelling functionalities and dopant-atom based quantum dots
2023-03-02 11:00 - 12:00 UTC | MCN Board Room, 151 Wellington Rd, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia
Presenter: A/Prof Daniel Moraru

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Meeting ID: 812 9011 2054
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Nanofabulous Seminar: Micro- and nanotopographies for biological applications
2023-02-07 11:00 - 12:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | MCN Board Room, 151 Wellington Rd, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia
Presenter: Dr Victor Cadarso
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Meeting ID: 826 1534 5345
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Nanofabulous Seminar: Micro-nanofabrication and Microscopy with light noble ion beams
2023-01-17 11:00 - 12:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | MCN Board Room, 151 Wellington Rd, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia

Nanofabulous Seminar: Reversible interfaces for stretchable and recyclable electronics
2022-11-18 11:00 - 12:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | MCN Board Room, 151 Wellington Rd, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia

Net Zero in the Monash Precinct
2022-11-10 16:00 - 18:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | MCN Board Room, 151 Wellington Rd, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia

Meeting for Advanced E-Beam Lithography (MAEBL) 2022
2022-07-29 14:00 - 16:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | MCN Board Room, 151 Wellington Rd, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia
Attention EBL Practitioners!! Registration is now open for MAEBL 2022 — the 6th international meeting for advanced electron beam lithography. This year’s program features a bonus virtual MAEBLx session for the Asia Pacific (July 29th) and with exciting talks from ANFF-VIC’s own Michael Stuiber and ANFF-Q’s Elliot Cheng and Ron Rash. See program for further details.
Register here.

Register today for the 2021 ANFF Showcase
2021-11-09 12:00 - 2021-11-10 17:00 UTC | Monash BioMedical Imaging
Registrations are now open for ANFF’s Annual Research Showcase.
The event is a platform for engineers, researchers, and anyone working in R&D to hear about cutting-edge research enabled by nanofabrication.
You’ll engage with the hundreds of companies and research groups that form Australia’s nanofab community.
The Showcase will be held 9-10 November 2021 in a hybrid format, with talks being presented online and during in-person screenings in several states.
In-person screenings provide attendees with catering, networking opportunities, and activities or tours.
We hope to see you there, click here to view the flyer and program, or here to register.

Research Commercialisation Seminar: David Collard, SaniteX Global
2021-08-30 10:00 - 11:00 UTC | VIC
MCN Users—
As a vibrant and collaborative research centre, we know that the MCN is always playing host to the development of a range of new technologies from proof of concept demonstrations to more mature products/devices. We also know that the significant challenge of research translation leaves many promising technological solutions sitting on the shelf. In order to help shed some light on this nebulous and daunting process, MCN will be hosting a talk by SaniteX Global, a US based hybrid commercialisation fund aimed at assisting researchers with scaling technologies and bringing them to market.

If you’re interested in hearing more, Sanitex founder David Collard will be delivering a talk via zoom on 30th August, 10-11am, concerning their unique Scale Facilitation model. Event registration required (see link above).

MCN Seminar Series featuring Prof Kevin Plaxco (UCSB)
2021-04-01 11:00 - 12:00 UTC | MCN Board Room, 151 Wellington Rd, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia
Prof Kevin Plaxco from the University of California Santa Barbara, will be presenting a seminar and webinar on the fabrication of biosensors titled, “Counting molecules, dodging blood cells: continuous, real-time molecular measurements directly in the living body”
Abstract:
The availability of technologies capable of tracking the levels of drugs, metabolites, and biomarkers in real time in the living body would revolutionize our understanding of health and our ability to detect and treat disease. Imagine, for example, a dosing regime that, rather than relying on your watch (“take two pills twice a day”), is instead guided by second-to-second measurements of plasma drug levels wirelessly communicated to your smartphone. Such a technology would likewise provide researchers and clinicians an unprecedented window into neurology and physiology, and could even support ultra-high-precision personalized medicine in which drug dosing is optimized minute-by-minute using closed-loop feedback control. Towards this goal, we have developed a biomimetic, electrochemical sensing platform that supports the high frequency, real-time measurement of specific molecules (irrespective of their chemical reactivity) in situ in the blood and tissues of awake, freely moving subjects.
Short Bio:
Kevin Plaxco is a Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Associate Director, Center for Bioengineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Prior to joining the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1998 Dr. Plaxco received his Ph. D. from Caltech and performed postdoctoral studies at Oxford and the University of Washington. Dr. Plaxco has co-authored more than 180 papers on protein folding, protein dynamics, folding-based biosensors and folding-based smart materials. He has also co-authored a popular science book on Astrobiology and more than a dozen patents. He is actively involved in the commercialization of the novel technologies emerging from his laboratory and serves on the scientific advisory boards of a half dozen companies.
Program Flyer
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Zoom Details:
Meeting ID: 520 478 1186
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Latest advances in SEM and FIB - Webinar by Thermofisher (formerly FEI)
2020-05-06 09:00 - 11:00 UTC | Webex (online seminar)
ThermoFisher’s SEM and Dual Beam technology continues to advance the capability of imaging and microanalysis, both in 2D and 3D.
Join us to discuss some of the latest developments in the SEM and FIB/SEM area, and see how these features put unrivalled performance at the hands of every user.
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ANFF Seminars: CFD simulation and modelling
2020-03-19 14:30 - 15:30 (Australia/Melbourne) | MCN Board Room, 151 Wellington Rd, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia
ANFF SA’s simulation expert, Dr Moein Kashani will be presenting a seminar and webinar on simulation techniques for modelling fluid dynamics on 19 March 2020.
The talk will focus on Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulation (CFD), a concept that can be applied to all transfer phenomena, including: fluid flow in microfluidics, microfluidic mixing, heat and mass transfer, molecular diffusion, cell separation, purification, multi-phase flow and electrical behaviour in semiconductors.
Follow online, or attend the seminar at the Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication to learn about the benefits that simulation can bring to your process flows.
Tickets for physical attendance are limited, but the event will also be broadcast online for those that can’t be here in person.
Click here for more information.

Atomic Force Microscopy Workshop - Anton Paar Tosca 400
2020-03-05 10:00 - 12:00 UTC | MCN Board Room, 151 Wellington Rd, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia
Are you looking to add a new skill to your toolbox? Or just want to learn more about AFM? If so, please join us for this educational workshop to gain first-hand knowledge on the Tosca 400 Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM). On Thursday, March 5th 2020 at 10AM, the MCN will be hosting Keyvan Ghanaviztchi, Product Manager at Anton Paar
Program Highlights

Theoretical basis for Atomic Force Microscopy
Important considerations for AFM instruments
Applications for AFM measurements
Hands-on measurements with model samples
Presented by Keyvan Ghanaviztchi, Product Manager
for Nano Surface Properties at Anton Paar GmbH By the end of the workshop, you will be running measurements on the Tosca 400 AFM!

See flyer for further details.

The Latest Advances in Biological Atomic Force Microscopy
2020-02-19 10:00 - 23:00 UTC | MCN Board Room, 151 Wellington Rd, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia
Join us at the MCN, Wed Feb 19th at 10AM for a seminar from Florian Kumpfe (Senior Application Scientist – JPK, Berlin) highlighting the latest in biological AFM capability from the JPK Nanowizard platform.
No registration required. More details in the flyer here.

ANFF-VIC Nanofabulous Winter Workshop 2019
2019-08-19 08:30 - 2019-08-20 17:30 (Australia/Melbourne) | MCN Board Room, 151 Wellington Rd, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia
ANFF-VIC is hosting a Winter Workshop, featuring two days of technical talks and practicals aimed at researchers that are new to nanofab or the ANFF network.
Hear from experts and ANFF-VIC users as they discuss the open-access nanofabrication capabilities made available by ANFF-VIC.

Each day, the mornings will be filled with ANFF-VIC hub-focused talks, presenting 7 locations’ flagship capabilities, example case studies and technical process talks.
The afternoons comprise in-lab practicals, demonstrations, and tours of local facilities.

Insight into the specialist micro and nanofabrication capabilities available within ANFF-VIC
Hands-on practicals of capabilities
Tours of local research infrastructure

Please indicate when purchasing your tickets which afternoon sessions you would like to attend. Tickets for the afternoon practical sessions are limited. Tour times may conflict with practical sessions and each other, and we may contact you to arrange alternative times for tours as required.

Registration fee is $100, however, the full registration fee can be redeemed as usage credits at any ANFF-VIC location (upon completion of the workshop).

View the program flyer here.

J.A. Woollam Complete Ease Data Analysis Short Course
2019-05-07 08:30 - 2019-05-09 17:00 UTC | VIC
A 3 day J.A. Woollam Complete Ease Data Analysis Short Course will be given in Melbourne at the Swinburne University of Technology on May 7-9 2019.
The short course will introduce the fundamentals of data analysis at a beginner-to-intermediate level. All details will be described using the latest CompleteEASE software. This version of software will be provided to all attendees before the start of the course. This course is not intended for users that work with other Woollam software packages, such as WVASE. Participants will need to bring their own laptops.
Please register your interest with Peter Barras from Scientific Solutions Australia (peter@alpe.net.au).
Please contact Karyn Jarvis (kljarvis@swin.edu.au) for any venue related queries.

Nanobiosensors for Food, Health and Environmental Monitoring: Affordable Diagnostics
2019-03-05 10:00 - 11:00 UTC | VIC
MCN is delighted to welcome Professor M.S. Thakur to speak on the applications of biosensors in a range of sectors including food and health.
Professor M.S. Thakur has made a significant contribution to the field of biotechnology through his biosensor research conducted in India over the past 35 years. He has published more than 200 research papers along with 15 patents and transferred several technologies to industry. He is now visiting professor at Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology, Bangalore.
View Prof. M.S. Thakur’s abstract here
Register on Eventbrite here

3D Vibration Measurement for MEMS & Microsystems
2019-01-21 11:00 - 12:00 UTC | MCN Board Room, 151 Wellington Rd, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia
MCN will be hosting Dr Jochen Schell of Polytec GmbH for a short seminar on the latest in 3D vibrometry measurements for MEMS and microsystems.
The seminar will take place in the MCN boardroom Jan 21st at 11am. Dr Schell is the Dept. Head of Polytec’s applications division. He obtained his PhD in Nonlinear Optics from Université Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg, France in 2000 and has since spent the last 15+ years working with Doppler vibrometry across a broad range of scientific disciplines.
Don’t miss this valuable opportunity to bring your research questions to a world expert!

Thinking BIG with Nano
2018-11-21 08:30 - 2018-11-22 17:00 UTC | RMIT’s University Campus, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, Australia
Working on nanotechnology and seeking to make a big impact with your ideas? This event is for you!
The Australian Nanotechnology Network and the Australian National Fabrication Facility in partnership with RMIT University present ‘Thinking BIG with Nano’. This workshop tailored for early-career researchers and late-stage PhD candidates will showcase research translation in nanotechnology and provide facilitated training in taking ideas from concepts to a viable business.
Register on Eventbrite
Click here to view the flyer

Introduction to ANFF-WA
2018-11-14 13:00 - 14:00 UTC | MCN Board Room, 151 Wellington Rd, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia
This talk will briefly introduce capabilities of the Australian National Fabrication Facility- Western Australia node (ANFF-WA), which incorporates the Microelectronics Research Group (MRG) at the University of Western Australia. The talk will cover areas of expertise, facilities and recent research outcomes in the Microelectronics Research Group, to help researchers understand the fabrication capabilities and research activities at the ANFF-WA node.
Key topics:

Research facilities at ANFF-WA, including fabrication, characterisation and simulation tools
Recent research outcomes at ANFF-WA
Work on porous silicon at ANFF-WA

Bio: Dr. Xiao Sun received his Ph.D. degree at The University of Western Australia (UWA) in 2016. He is currently working as a research associate at the Microelectronics Research Group, UWA, his project is thermal sensing based on porous silicon. He is also working as a staff at the ANFF-WA node, his responsibilities include: new user training, ACLS booking system and facilities maintenance.
Thanks to the Australian Nanotechnology Network (ANN), there is a travel grant available that would assist some researchers in visiting the ANFF-WA node. Click here for more details.
