Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication

ANFF Design House IntelliSuite training: Workshop
2015-12-08 - 2015-12-09 | UQ, Room 241, Sir James Foots Building, Building 47A, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, 4072, Australia
Attend informative IntelliSuite training workshops with the Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF). These hands- on sessions will introduce cutting-edge methodology and tools for MEMS/NEMS design, analysis, fabrication simulation, and more. Attendees will learn more about the IntelliSuite family of tools, view live demonstrations, get a first look at the newest software version, and have the opportunity to try some hands-on tutorials.

ANFF Design House will cover the cost of flights to and from the workshops for interstate ANFF staff. Each node should provide a single invoice for their participants’ flight expenses. To register, simply email shan.don@monash.edu.

View the event flyer here.

ANFF Design House IntelliSuite training: information session
2015-12-07 10:00 - 13:00 UTC | AIBN, Building 75, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, 4072, Australia

SPIE - Micro + Nano Materials, devices & applications
2015-12-06 09:00 - 2015-12-09 17:00 | University of Sydney
Participate in the international symposium on Micro+Nano Materials, Devices, and Applications 2015. This biennial conference will focus on research that has enabled promising new materials and applications across many fields, including photonics, energy, security, information, and medicine. The symposium is an interdisciplinary forum for collaboration and learning among top researchers in all fields related to nano- and microscale materials and technologies.
For more information, visit the conference website.

2015 ANFF Annual Research Showcase
2015-11-25 - 2015-11-26 | Brisbane Convention Centre, Brisbane, Queensland, 4000, Australia
The 2015 ANFF Research Showcase, ANFF – the home of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs, will be held on 25 and 26 November 2015 at the Brisbane Convention Centre.
The event is the annual gathering for ANFF staff and users from across the organisation to get together, exchange information and explore collaborative opportunities. This year the focus is on the innovative research carried out in the facilities and ANFF’s role in supporting entrepreneurs.
Entrepreneurs play a key role in a country’s economy and must be equipped with the skills to take new ideas to market. ANFF fosters entrepreneurship by training researchers in the micro and nano-fabrication skills necessary to prototype devices and advanced materials.
ANFF enables users to investigate and develop new ideas that have longer term implications, and also provides the facility to take publicly funded research along the pathway to creating commercial outcomes that will ensure the competitiveness of the Australian economy into the future.
The 2015 ANFF Research Showcase seeks to contribute to building researcher-to-business linkages and encourage greater mobility between the two sectors.

Talks on Innovation - an MCN showcase event
2015-11-19 10:00 - 12:00 | MCN Board Room, 151 Wellington Rd, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia
MCN will welcome researchers hosted by T&R Consulting for a capabilities discussion, Q&A session and facility tour. We will cover the technologies currently under development with T&R Consulting, and there will be opportunities to discuss partnering. All MCN users are welcome to attend this free event.
Timing
10am – 11am Discussion of MCN capabilities followed by time for questions
11am – 12pm Facility tour
See the event flyer here.

Monash Science Public Lecture - Nobel Laureate Sir Konstantin Novoselov
2015-10-26 17:00 - 19:00
MATERIALS IN FLATLAND
A Monash Science Public Lecture by Nobel Laureate Sir Konstantin Novoselov
Event Description
When one writes with a pencil, thin flakes of graphite are left on a surface. Some of them are only one angstrom thick and can be viewed as individual atomic planes cleaved away from the bulk. This strictly two dimensional (2D) material called graphene, was presumed not to exist in the free state and remained undiscovered until a few years ago.
The very unusual electronic properties of this material, as well as the possibility for its chemical modification, make graphene a promising candidate for future electronic applications. Probably the most important ‘property’ of graphene is that it has opened a floodgate of experiments on many other 2D atomic crystals. They cover a massive range of properties: from the most insultating to the most conductive, from the strongest to the softest.
Schedule
5:00pm – 6:00pm: Pre-lecture networking time. Refreshments will be served.
6:00pm – 7:00pm: Public lecture
About the Speaker
Sir Konstantin Novoselov is Langworthy Professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester. His work with Andrew Geim to isolate graphene for the first time earned them the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010.

FREE Nanotechnology Seminar
2015-09-16 09:00 - 12:00 | Australian Synchrotron, Australian Synchrotron, 800 Blackburn Road , Clayton , Victoria , 3168 , Australia
The Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication invites you to attend a free seminar morning at the Australian Synchrotron. Presentations by international speakers Dr Walter Riess (IBM) and Mr Brandon Van Leer (FEI) will explore the current and future nanotechnology landscape and discuss nanofabrication techniques and tools. Morning tea and refreshments will be provided.

Registration
This is a free seminar event. For catering purposes, please register your attendance.

Schedule
9:30am – 10:30am Presentation – Brandon Van Leer (FEI) – “Advances in characterisation techniques using the Helios NanoLab DualBeam FIB-SEM”
10:30am – 10:45am Morning tea
10:45am – 11:45am Presentation – Dr Walter Riess (IBM) – “Science & Technology in IBM Research – current work, selected highlights, future trends”
1:00pm – 4:00pm Workshop – FEI Nanobuilder & Advanced Sample Preparation (invitation only, contact Fatima Eftekhari for more information)

About the speakers

Dr Walter Riess is the department head of IBM Zurich Research Laboratory and Coordinator of the Binnig and Rohrer Nanotechnology Center. Dr Reiss has extensive experience in LED displays, nanoscale structures and devices, advanced thermal packaging optics, silicon photonics, self assembly and patterning, experimental biology and molecular electronics. Dr Riess will give a broad overview of global nanofabrication trends and discuss the future of nanotechnology and emerging technologies.

Brandon Van Leer is the Business Development and Product Marketing Engineer for FEI. Brandon’s presentation will cover 3D serial acquisition using a DualBeam, reconstruction and visualisation with Avizo for FEI, and the current application space for 3D characterisation in materials science.

Inquiries
For more information, contact Meegan Waugh, Communications Officer at meegan.waugh@nanomelbourne.com.

L-Edit workshop - presented by Tanner EDA/Mentor
2015-09-14 09:45 - 2015-09-15 16:00 | Monash computer lab, Engineering PC Lab G11, 23 College Walk, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 3800
The Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication together with ANFF Design House is happy to announce that Tanner EDA/Mentor will be visiting MCN to present an L-Edit workshop. The two-day L-Edit hands-on workshop shows you how to use UPI and T-Cells, advanced capabilities that allow you to automate simple layout tasks, create parameterized layout generators (usefulfor creating spatial variation in mask design or for etch characterization/compensation) and perform special analyses. Thew two-day UPI and T-Cells course is divided between presentation and hands- on training exercises.
Course content includes:

Advanced C Review – Arrays, Pointers, Memory Allocations, and C Preprocessor
Creating Precompiled Macros
Creating Compiled Macros
Debugging UPI Macros
UPI Specific Topics:

UPI Data types
Binding Macros to Hot Keys and Menus
Creating multiple macros in one file
Getting User Input (using the UPI Dialogs)
Traversing object/cell/layer lists
Working with Technology Information

L-Comp – Layout composition functions
UPI & T-Cells Advanced Topics

Attendees require only a rudimentary understanding of L-Edit to participate in this workshop. There is no cost to attend this workshop, however numbers are limited so registration is essential.

A practical approach to Reactive Ion Etching presented by Dr Fouad Karouta
2015-07-31 11:00 - 11:45 | MCN Board Room, 151 Wellington Rd, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia
Abstract
After a short introduction of the Australian National Fabrication Facility ACT Node and its capabilities, this talk will focus on general aspects of reactive ion etching (RIE) technique will be described such as anisotropy, loading effect, lag effect, RIE chemistries and micro-masking followed by a brief overview of etching dielectrics (SiOx, SiNx) and crystalline Si. The second part of the paper is dedicated to etching III-V compound semiconductors where, based on RIE results of GaN material, a simple and practical thermodynamic approach is exposed explaining the criteria as to how to select the best chemistry for etching a specific material and to explain the GaN etching results. Finally, a comprehensive study of etching InP-based materials using various chemistries will be discussed as well their various photonic applications.
Reference: http://iopscience.iop.org/0022-3727/47/23/233501/
About the speaker
Fouad Karouta has a chemistry degree from Lebanese University in Beirut, accomplished in 1986 his PhD in Montpellier University (France) on epitaxy and LEDs of InGaAsSb structures. He joined Eindhoven University of Technology in The Netherlands at the Opto-electronic Devices Section of the Department of Electrical Engineering, as assistant professor (1987) and associate professor (2000) till early 2009 before joining ANU as the ANFF ACT Node Manager. Fouad has vast experience in managing research facilities and has been involved with research in III-V compound semiconductors (GaAs, InP, GaN) for optoelectronic and microelectronic applications for more than 30 years and has published and co-authored a large number of papers on the subject.

Diamond on demand grand opening
2015-04-24 09:00 - 17:00 | MCN Board Room, 151 Wellington Rd, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia
You are invited to the grand opening of the Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication’s Diamond Deposition Suite. The most advanced of its kind in Australia, the suite provides the unique ability to grow ultra high purity diamond, as well as semi-conducting diamond. Use of thin diamond films is a burgeoning research field, with Australian investigators leading the way in the use of diamond for bionic eye implantable devices.
The MCN suite will also extend R&D capabilities for our industry partners in biosensor research, as well as in electronics, quantum information processing and manufacturing applications. Our panel of diamond experts includes Bionic Vision Australia’s Professor Steven Prawer, ARC Laureate Fellow and quantum information specialist, Professor Lloyd Hollenberg, and diamond savant, Dr Alastair Stacey. Dr. Alastair Stacey will showcase the industrial applications of diamond as well as highlight Australia’s place on the world research stage and some of the future applications of diamond. Prof. Steven Prawer will highlight the work undertaken on the Bionic eye project and the unique ways in which diamond has the development of implantable bionics.
Prof. Lloyd Hollenberg will discuss how researchers are exploiting the quantum properties of diamond for new sensing technologies in nanoscale biology. Included in these technologies are nano-scopic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and high resolution neuronal imaging. The seminar will conclude with an official opening of the Diamond Deposition Suite. Morning tea and optional tours of the facility will follow.
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