Australian National Fabrication Facility A company established under NCRIS to provide nano and micro-fabrication facilities for Australia’s researchers

The National Collaborative Research Infrastructure strategy (NCRIS) was announced in the budget as part of the Backing Australia’s Ability – Building Our Future through Science and Innovation package. NCRIS is providing $542 million from to to develop and fund national research infrastructure projects. NCRIS

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Who are we? ANFF MCN Queensland South Australia ACTMaterialsOptoFabNSW 7 nodes 17 institutions Funding from four state governments and the Commonwealth

Rosie Hicks, CEO (and advisory board) Abid Khan Melbourne Key Players Jagadish ANU Gordon Wallace Wollongong Andrew Dzurak UNSW Justin Cooper-White Queensland Mick Withford Macquarie

The Goal: Linking Expertise and infrastructure and providing it to researchers and industry

Complementary Techniques Fabrication of advanced materials Materials MCN Queensland Bio and chemo pre- commercialisation synthesis, fabrication and rapid prototyping MCN South Australia Materials Micro/nano fabrication enabling microelectronics, photonics, optoelectronics and integrated optics ACT NSW MCN Macquarie

Photonics

Sensors & Medical Devices Packaging Processes Materials Biomedical systems & devices Environmental systems & devices

Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication Monash University | CSIRO | Deakin University University of Melbourne |La Trobe University | RMIT University Swinburne University of Technology Chemo & bio manipulation of nanostructures (including lithography); packing of components into functional devices; and rapid prototyping

Queensland Node  Soft Materials Processing Laboratory  BioNano Device Fabrication Laboratory Advanced photoresist synthesis; functional organic/polymer and bio-inspired nanomaterials synthesis; bionanodevice fabrication; biopolymer processing and nanocomposites

ACT Node Micro/nano fabrication of photonic and related devices; fabrication of waveguides and photonic crystals; MEMS

OptoFab Macquarie University | Bandwidth Foundry International University of Sydney Laser machining; photolithography; photomasks lithium niobate device fabrication; optical fibre fabrication

NSW Node Semiconductor Nanofabrication Facility Electron-beam lithography for large area structures, especially in nanoelectronics; ultra-high resolution EBL for small scale prototype devices; and semiconductor device prototyping.

Nanoelectronics Silicon-on-insulator microdosimeter array, SNF UNSW GaAs device, SNF UNSW Nano-resonators, CSIRO

South Australian Node University of South Australia  Microfluidics fabrication facility  Surface treatment facility  Patterning and texturing facility

Materials Node University of Wollongong | University of Newcastle Fabrication of novel polymer and ceramic nanomaterials; organic electronic device fabrication MALDI TOF HPLC

Advanced Materials

Accessing ANFF Hourly rates or speciality products Direct contact to node or ANFF Rapid turn around for applications

Australian User Community Universities, including CoEs Publicly funded researchers e.g., CSIRO, ANSTO Industry - SMEs, start-up companies

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