Author: Andrew See

We’re ready to help the response to COVID-19

ANFF is reassigning components of its equipment portfolio of 500+ fabrication tools to prioritise work essential to critical COVID-19 operations.

If you are working to fight the COVID-19 crisis, please contact ANFF to see if there’s anything we can do – assistance can be provided.

ANFF is a Government-funded IP neutral environment spread across 20 sites in Australia.

In addition to R&D assistance, we can be used to fill temporary supply gaps for replacement parts using novel 3D printing, laser scanning, laser cutting, CNC micromilling and far more.

If there might be something we can do to help, please contact our dedicated address: FightingCOVID@anff.org.au.

If you know someone working in this space, download this flyer and send it on.

Click here to see how our teams are already helping by 3D printing face masks to provide protection against the virus.

Engineers crack 58-year-old puzzle on way to quantum breakthrough

Quantum engineers from UNSW Sydney have created artificial atoms in silicon chips that offer improved stability for quantum computing.

Andrea Morello’s group has received significant media attention for their Nature paper published today (12/03/20), which reports how the nucleus of a single atom can be controlled using only electric fields, first suggested in 1961 but never previously demonstrated experimentally.

This device was fabricated largely at ANFF-NSW at UNSW, using our advanced EBL tools and SiMOS process line.

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Click here to read the UNSW release

Artificial atoms create stable qubits for quantum computing

Quantum engineers from UNSW Sydney have created artificial atoms in silicon chips that offer improved stability for quantum computing.

In a paper published today in Nature Communications, UNSW quantum computing researchers describe how they created artificial atoms in a silicon ‘quantum dot’, a tiny space in a quantum circuit where electrons are used as qubits (or quantum bits), the basic units of quantum information.

Click here to read the UNSW release

$2.15 million investment in NSW’s fabrication future

The Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF) has been awarded $2.15 million by the New South Wales State Government’s Office of the NSW Chief Scientist & Engineer to invest in six sites across the state.

The funding will enable research into a number of national priorities including clean energy production, quantum computing, medical technologies, cybersecurity, and advanced manufacturing by providing access to essential micro and nanofabrication equipment and expertise.

Click here to read the ANFF release or here to read the full statement from the Office of the NSW Chief Scientist & Engineer

ANFF and NASA formalise collaborative umbrella agreement

ANFF has formalised a collaboration with NASA that aims to deliver new electronic technologies and to find uses for advanced materials – this umbrella agreement provides a mechanism for ANFF to facilitate collaboration between Australian researchers and NASA.

The first project has already been outlined, and we expect many more to come. This link will take you to the press release.

We’re very proud of this agreement and are excited to see where it takes us. We would like to thank the parties that have helped us get to this point.

If you have any questions, please feel free to get in touch with any of the ANFF team.

UniSA media release on one of the projects can be found here