Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication

ANFF Design House: Synopsis TCAD Training Workshop
2016-11-14 - 2016-11-15 | Monash University, Clayton, 14 Rainforest Walk, Rm 147, Clayton, Victoria, 3168, Australia
Attention ANFF Design House Users!!
While in town for the ANFF Annual Research Showcase, the folks at Synopsis TCAD will be holding a FREE two day training event, Nov 14-15th at Monash University (download official program flyer here). This is a rare opportunity to receive hands on training directly from the experts.
The intensive two day workshop will showcase the comprehensive suite of products offered in Synopsys’ TCAD. This includes industry leading process and device simulation tools, as well as a powerful GUI-driven simulation environment for managing simulation tasks and analysing simulation results. In this training, a basic introduction of TCAD concepts and tool usage will be covered as well as:

Sentaurus framework
Structure editor
Process simulation
Device simulation
Sentaurus visualization
Case Study – 180nm CMOS design

For more information on workshop content, visit ANFF’s Design House.
To register, or find out more information, please email Design House Coordinator, Shan Don at shan.don@monash.edu

An Introduction to Blender: Creating Publication Quality Images
2016-10-21 09:00 - 17:00 UTC | MCN Board Room, 151 Wellington Rd, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia
On Friday, October 21st, MCN will be hosting a free 3D graphics workshop to introduce attendees to Blender, an open source 3D creation suite. It is aimed at people who have not used Blender before or haven’t done any non-CAD 3D modelling. This hands-on workshop will begin with the basics of interface navigation and simple modelling. Tutorials will cover rendering, materials & lighting and some particle effects. Please bring along your own laptop and power adaptor as well as a 3-button mouse (left-click, right-click, scroll wheel). Lunch is BYO but morning and afternoon tea will be provided.
Space will be limited to 20 attendees. Please RSVP to Soon Hock Ng (soonhock.ng@monash.edu). See workshop schedule below.

Time

Event

09:00 – 09:15

Welcome and Introduction

09:15 – 09:30

Introduction to Blender

09:30 – 10:30

Blender Tutorial 1 – Interface & modelling

10:30 – 11:00

Morning Tea

11:00 – 11:20

Materials & Lighting

11:20 – 12:30

Blender Tutorial 2 – Materials & lighting

12:30 – 13:30

Lunch Break

13:30 – 14:30

Blender Tutorial 3 – Modifiers & particles

14:30 – 15:30

Blender Tutorial 4 – Make a model by yourself

15:30 – 16:00

Afternoon Tea

16:00 – 17:00

Advanced Techniques

EBL and Data Preparation workshop on September 28th-29th
2016-09-28 - 2016-09-29 | MCN Board Room, 151 Wellington Rd, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia
MCN is organising a free two-day EBL and Data Preparation workshop on September 28-29 (9am-4pm). Dr. Nit Taksatorn from GenIsys (Layout Beamer Software) will hold a workshop with a focus on new features in EBPG and Layout Beamer followed by a couple of selected applications from EBL user-base worldwide.
As a part of this workshop, we will also have a separate, special session of the EBL users meeting. It is an opportunity for our users to present some of their fabrication work at MCN. The idea behind the presentations is to encourage users to discuss the fabrication challenges they had or may still have and initiate some discussions around the table to get ideas and input from other users, especially from the Layout Beamer team, if it is design related. The main purpose of this series is to bring the EBL user community together, share projects and insights.
Participants in the workshop will prepare short presentations the fabrication aspects of their device with a focus on the Beamer software as well as lithography. Talks should be 10-15 min long.
All EBL users are encouraged to attend. To register for the event, please email Dr Fatima Eftekhari @ fatima.eftekhari@nanomelbourne.com

BBQ Launch: 2016 ANFF-VIC Technology Fellow Ambassador Program
2016-09-15 11:00 - 15:30 | MCN Board Room, 151 Wellington Rd, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia
Attention ANFF-VIC Users/Staff/Stakeholders-
On Thursday, September 15th, MCN will be hosting a BBQ — open to all users and facility stakeholders — in order to officially launch the 2016 ANFF-VIC Technology Fellow Ambassador (TFA) Program. This event is a great opportunity to meet and discuss your research as well as listen to a series of short research talks from the newly appointed Fellows. The rough schedule for the event will be as follows:
11:00-11:30pm TFA Booking Basics (ONLY for TFA students, postdocs and Fellows)
11:30-12:30pm Program Open & 10-min short talks from new Fellows
12:30-3:30pm BBQ lunch, drink and socialising
Please RSVP above for catering purposes by COB 9th Sept. Contact Sean Langelier (sean.langelier@nanomelbourne.com) with any questions you might have.
For more details on the newly appointed Technology Fellows see here.

2016 Australian Symposium on Nano-Scale Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy
2016-09-12 - 2016-09-13 | Deakin University, Waterfront, 1 Gheringhap St, Geelong, VIC, 3220, Australia
Background
Infrared nano-spectroscopy is becoming a standard platform for opto-chemical analysis of molecular, plasmonic and photonic materials beyond the diffraction limit of light. This enhanced spatial resolution is achieved by combining scanning probe and infrared microscopies in a single experiment, in which optical resolution only depends on the form factor of the probe. Recently, with the use of broadband sources with high spectral irradiance through the mid-infrared range, such as synchrotron sources, many open questions related to the vibrational response of nanomaterials in the fingerprint region are closer to be elucidated. Single cell chemistry, two-dimensional metamaterials, nano-biomedicine, soft nanomaterials design and nanoparticles-based drug delivery are some of the potential areas to be benefited the technique.
Objectives of the Symposium
This symposium will offer over 2 days an interactive platform to learn about nano-scale resolved infrared spectroscopy through general lectures, case studies, modelling and data analysis session.
Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) data analysis as well as advanced IR micro-spectroscopy will also be highlighted and presented to provide a comprehensive overview for new users to the potential and limitations of the techniques.
Symposium Program Here

Molecular Imaging and Sensing Seminar & Lunch
2016-09-07 10:00 - 13:30 | The Odeon, La Trobe University Student Union, Bundoora, VIC, 3086, Australia
Location:
The Odeon (next to Union Hall and the Eagle Bar), Union Drive
Purpose:
The aim of this seminar is to showcase research within the molecular sensing and imaging themes with a focus on how nanofabrication supports this work. Several of the talks will highlight some of the molecular sensing, imaging and design capabilities available to researchers locally and at the Melbourne Centre of Nanofabrication (MCN).
Speakers:
Five speakers will be joining us from molecular sensing and imaging including guest speakers from MCN and the Swinburne biointerface engineering hub.

Start Time (mins)

People

Title

1000

Brian A. and David H.
Grant van Riessen (LTU)

Welcome

1020

John Zhu (MCN)

MCN Overview.

1045

Courtney Ennis (LTU)

Molecular thin films.

1110

Karyn Jarvis (Swin.)

The Biointerface engineering hub.

1135

All

Lunch

1235

Daniel Langley (LTU)

Microfluidics for Cell Trapping and Sample Delivery

1255

Shan Kou’s Lab (LTU)

Near-field sensing and imaging of molecules.

1320

Summary wrap up

Please RSVP for catering purposes using the Register button above

Serving Australian Innovation - National Research Infrastructure for the MedTech & Pharma Industry
2016-09-01 09:00 - 13:00 | Monash Conference Centre, Seminar Rm 2, Lv 7, 30 Collins Street, Melbourne, VICTORIA, 3000, Australia
Access to world-class research infrastructure is critical to support high quality R&D activities and to improve Australia’s overall innovation output. The National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) was established to provide cutting-edge instruments, facilities and expertise to enable public and private research activities. The NCRIS facilities and their experts can be accessed by Australian SMEs to solve business problems and facilitate the development of new products and services. This workshop will provide you with a rare opportunity to engage simultaneously with five NCRIS facilities highly relevant for the MedTech and Pharma sector, to introduce their unique capabilities and how they can be accessed and to solve business R&D problems. The workshop will include five (5) twenty-five (25) minute presentations, followed by a Q&A session.
Please RSVP using the link above within 48hrs of the event commencement. Space will be limited.
See program flyer here -> National facilities for Medtech and Pharma R&D.

Wearable and Point of Care Biodiagnostics Workshop
2016-08-15 | New Horizons Bldg (Rm 407/408), 20 Research Way, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia
Download official flyer: Wearables and point of care biodiagnostics seminar

MCN Live Instrument Demonstration: AFM Quantitative Nanoscale Mechanical Mapping
2016-07-27 09:30 - 2016-07-29 13:30 | MCN Board Room, 151 Wellington Rd, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia
Attention Users-
From Wed 27th – Fri 29th July 2016, MCN, in conjunction with Bruker and Coherent Scientific, will host a number of advanced demonstrations focused on peak force quantitative nanomechanical mapping (QNM) which provides, “… direct and unambiguous observation of nanoscale mechanical properties such as stiffness, adhesion, sample deformation and energy dissipation, in real time during [AFM] imaging, across the broadest range of sample surfaces from soft cells (kPa) to hard crystalline materials (TPa).”
Event Details:

Sessions to be held daily at 9:30am and 1:30pm from 27th-29th July
Limited to 4-5 users per session!
Email Dr Hemayet Uddin (hemayet.uddin@nanomelbourne.com) to reserve your spot
Download program flyer here.

New Capability Seminar: The NanoFrazor-Explore System (SwissLitho AG)
2016-07-07 10:00 - 12:00 | MCN Board Room, 151 Wellington Rd, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia
Next week MCN will take delivery of our new NanoFrazor Explore System from SwissLitho AG. This fantastic nanolithography tool (see below for tech details) comes to us as a result of a successful LEIF bid led by Melbourne University’s — and ANFF-VIC Collaboration Committee member — Prof Ray Dagastine.
Following commissioning of the tool, engineers from SwissLitho have agreed to hold a seminar and afternoon demo session on 7th July 2016 from 10AM in the MCN Boardroom for interested users. This is perhaps your one opportunity to ask any and all applications related questions you might have directly to the experts in this pioneering technology out of IBM Zurich. RSVP required.
For those interested, AXT (local support for SwissLitho) has arranged a number of these sessions around Australia, see flyer TSPL Workshop 2016.
NanoFrazor Explore System
The NanoFrazor Explore has been developed for researchers who want to have easy and flexible access to high-resolution nanometer-sized geometries of almost any kind. It is based on Thermal Scanning Probe Lithography, a technology developed at IBM Research Zurich, which uses an ultra-sharp tip to evaporate a thermally sensitive resist. The tool has a wide range of applications in the fields of nanophotonics, nanooptics, nanomagnetism, nanoelectronics, plasmonics, etc.
Key features

Thermal Scanning Probe cantilevers with ultra-sharp tips
3D nanolithography
In-situ metrology with sub-nm resolution for overlay, stitching & closed-loop lithography
Real-time, automatic tuning of patterning parameters
Short overall fabrication time, no resist development needed
Stand-alone unit with low requirements on infrastructure (no vacuum or high voltages required)
High degree of customization and automatization
Ideal for small workpieces up to a size of 4-inch
Compatibility with various transfer processes and materials
Exchange and calibration of cantilevers within one minute

Advanced features

Marker-less correlation stitching of neighboring fields
Local heating of various surfaces for chemical patterning
No substrate damage by charged particles, can be used as an extension or replacement of an e-beam lithography tool
Further increase in throughput with optional laser writing extension and Mix-and-Match

Download the NanoFrazor FactSheet.
Above information and images courtesy of SwissLitho AG

MCATM: 2D Materials Characterisation Workshop
2016-05-30 | Monash University, Science Lecture S4, 16 Rainforest Walk, Clayton, Victoria, 3168, Australia
The Monash Centre for Atomically Thin Materials (MCATM) presents a one-day workshop on two-dimensional (2D) materials characterisation. Participants will learn about the different experimental techniques available within MCATM and at other institutions in Melbourne, and how they can be applied to measure the fundamental properties of 2D materials.
Techniques covered will include scanning probe microscopy, electron and optical microscopy and synchrotron-based photoelectron spectroscopy. Presentations and discussions will focus on the technique, the theory behind it and its implementation in two-dimensional materials research. See our program for the day.
Speakers will include researchers from MCATM and Monash University along with colleagues from The University of Melbourne, CSIRO, the Australian Synchrotron and the Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication. Read more on our speakers.
Registration is free and essential. RSVP your attendance by 23 May 2016. Please feel free to download the workshop flyer and invite your colleagues and network to come along.
We look forward to welcoming you at Science Lecture S4, 16 Rainforest Walk, Monash Clayton.

Two-day OHS training at MCN 30-31st March 2016
2016-03-30 - 2016-03-31 | MCN Board Room, 151 Wellington Rd, Clayton, VIC, 3168, Australia
Training available to all users! No Registration Required.

Wednesday 30th March 2016

9:30am – 12:30pm Essential OHS
1:00pm – 2:30pm Manual handling, Equipment and Processes
3:45pm – 4:45pm Workplace Safety Inspections

Thursday 31st March 2016

9:30am – 12:30pm Ergonomics and Manual Handling
1:30pm – 3:30pm Substances and Dangerous Goods Awareness
3:45pm – 4:45pm Hazard and Incident Investigation

ANFF Design House IntelliSuite training: Workshop
2015-12-10 - 2015-12-11 | UniSA, Future Industries Institute, Building MM, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, South Australia, 5001, 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: 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

ANFF Design House IntelliSuite training: information session
2015-12-07 10:00 - 13:00 | 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 | VIC
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.
To share this event with your colleagues and friends, download our promotional flyer.
