Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication (MCN) is located in Clayton,

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, next to the Australian Synchrotron. MCN is the Victorian node of the Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF) and is a collaborative initiative between federal and state governments, CSIRO,

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, Swinburne University of Technology,

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and RMIT University. It is also the headquarters to the ANFF. MCN001

Purpose

MCN's ultimate purpose is to fill the gap in Australia for open access, multi-scale, multi-disciplinary nanofabrication infrastructure. The mission of MCN is to facilitate the integration of nanotechnology techniques into the Research and Development activities that support Australia's innovation and manufacturing economies.

Facility

MCN is based at a purpose-built facility, adjacent to the Australian Synchrotron.Location
/ref> Approximately half of the central facility's research space consists of

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(class 100 and 10,000) and the other half is occupied by biochemical laboratories.

Capabilities

Biochemical Laboratory

Characterization (materials science) Characterization, when used in materials science, refers to the broad and general process by which a material's structure and properties are probed and measured. It is a fundamental process in the field of materials science, without which no scie ...

Etching (microfabrication) Etching is used in microfabrication to chemically remove layers from the surface of a wafer during manufacturing. Etching is a critically important process module, and every wafer undergoes many etching steps before it is complete. For many etch ...

nanolithography Nanolithography (NL) is a growing field of techniques within nanotechnology dealing with the engineering (patterning e.g. etching, depositing, writing, printing etc) of nanometer-scale structures on various materials. The modern term reflects on ...

Microscopy Laboratory

Packaging

PC2 Lab

PDMS Laboratory

Polymer Electronics Laboratory

Screening and Integration

Thin Films

Notes

References

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External links

Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication

Australian National Fabrication Facility Ltd
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