MCN Toolkits Now Available at Reception!
Attention Users-
Thanks to a new initiative lead by Operations & EHS Manager, Dr Paul Spizzirri, hunting for that perfect pair of wafer tweezers or MCN-approved USB stick will no longer be necessary. As of now, you can checkout a toolkit for your personal use by signing one out at reception.
There are several kit types available for checkout, depending on your needs:
- Standard & special wafer handling toolkit
- Chemistry toolkit
- Wafer cleaving toolkit
- Pieces toolkit
- SEM toolkit
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2016 ANFF-VIC Technology Fellow Ambassadorships Announced
MCN is rolling back the clock…
Dear MCN Users,
Following the success of our recent end of year sale (2015), The Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication is pleased to announce the reinstatement of a discounted pricing schedule for an extended six month trial period beginning on the 1st July 2016.
Details:
- 25% off all instrument bookings and caps*
- 20% off staff rates*
* (i) discount may be applied on top of existing block discounts, (ii) discount can not be used for block/prepaid usage outside of sale period, (iii) discount does not apply to the cost of consumables.
Period:
Begins: July 1st, 2016
Ends: December 31st, 2016
Information on MCN’s Pricing Policy can be found here. If you have any questions regarding the discounted pricing schedule, please contact us.
La Trobe and MCN team up for course in microfabrication
“By working together, our students have the opportunity to develop practical skills in microfabrication that are key to innovations in fields as diverse as health, energy, manufacturing and biosecurity. Through hands-on experience, students gain a deeper insight into the challenges and opportunities presented by fabricating devices on the micrometer scale and smaller. It is great to see students confidently working in a cutting-edge research facility — this will give them an edge in their future careers as research scientists, innovators or entrepreneurs.” Dr Grant van Riessen, La Trobe University
- SUSS spin coater
- EVG 6200 mask aligner
- Pico spin developer
- FILMetrics thin film mapping system
- Ambios stylus profilometer.
North Link Visits MCN for Industry Day Workshop
Dr Lachlan Hyde recieves coveted ANFF Frater Award
ANZNMF 2016: call for abstracts
The ANFF-Vic Technology Fellow Ambassador Program
We are excited to announce that a revised ANFF-Vic Technology Fellow Ambassador Program will kick off in January 2016.
ANFF-Vic’s increasingly diverse user base requires comprehensive and flexible training options that cater for different levels of scientific expertise. The technology fellow program will help to proactively build strong user communities around tool sets, and develop new recipes and procedures that can be swiftly disseminated to the broader user community. Fellows will also take an active role in guiding the broad scientific direction of ANFF-Vic.
In return for their efforts, technology fellows will receive access to MCN facilities and equipment, an onsite workspace and other benefits.
The ANFF-Vic technology fellows will be selected by their home institutions within the ANFF-Vic network, and their 12-month fellowship will commence in January 2016.
For more information please contact your home institution, or contact us.
Noteworthy publications
Congratulations to Udo Bach et al from Monash University and CSIRO Manufacturing Flagship, who recently published Copper(I) Iodide as Hole-Conductor in Planar Perovskite Solar Cells: Probing the Origin of J-V Hysteresis in Advanced Functional Materials. The team combined thin continuous perovskite films with copper(I) iodide (Cul) to create organic-inorganic lead halide perovskite solar cells with planar device architecture, and achieved the highest reported efficiency to date for Cul-based planar devices.
Congratulations to Wenlong Cheng et al from Monash University, who had their article Dual-Coded Plasmene Nanosheets as Next-Generation Anticounterfeit Security Labels published by Advanced Optical Materials. Their research focuses on the formation of plasmene nanosheets that can be dual-coded with plasmonic signatures and surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) fingerprints to work as anticounterfeit security labels.
Congratulations to Wenlong Cheng et al from Beihang University, Beijing and Monash University, who recently published Free-Standing Bilayered Nanoparticle Superlattice Nanosheets with Asymmetric Ionic Transport Behaviors in ACS Nano. The article documents fabrication of an artificial membrane (based on an asymmetric nanoparticle superlattice bilayered nanosheet) with similar ion transport regulation capabilities as a natural cell membrane.
Congratulations to Adrian Neild et al from Monash University, whose article Two-dimensional single-cell patterning with one cell per well driven by surface acoustic waves was published by Nature Communications. The team have developed a new method for patterning particles and cells using high-frequency acoustic fields, with single cell precision.
Congratulations to Enrico Della Gaspera et al from CSIRO Manufacturing Flagship, who recently published Flash-Assisted Processing of Highly Conductive Zinc Oxide Electrodes from Water in Advanced Functional Materials. The team prepared highly transparent, conductive ZnO films which, when exposed to high-intensity broadband light, resulted in in intrinsically doped films with low sheet resistance. These films can potentially be used as transparent electrodes in light emitting devices.
Congratulations to Yuanhui Zheng et al, who recently published Reversible gating of smart plasmonic molecular traps using thermoresponsive polymers for single-molecule detection in Nature Communications. This work is focused on a plasmonic sensor that can trap single molecules at hotspots for rapid single-molecule detection using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS).