Welcome to the South Australian Node of the Australian National Fabrication Facility
About Us
The Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF) is a research infrastructure facility established under the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy.
ANFF has eight nodes distributed across Australia with more than 500 tools available across the network, offering specialised manufacturing facilities supported by exceptional staff.
The South Australian node of ANFF-SA offers access to approximately $30 million of equipment and technical excellence in design, fabrication, and testing of micro-scale devices. The facility’s strengths include lab-on-a-chip technology, micro/nanofluidics, advanced sensing, functional coatings, and separation science.
ANFF-SA houses state-of-the-art photolithography, micromachining, hot embossing and bonding, micro-injection moulding, plasma etching, thin film coating, fluidic simulation, and advanced characterisation in ISO Class 5 & 6 clean room environments.
Co-located at the Adelaide University and Flinders University, ANFF-SA offers extensive materials and surface spectroscopy capabilities and, where research or process development is required, ANFF-SA can facilitate scientific expertise locally or arrange access to ANFF sites at 22 institutional hubs around Australia.
ANFF-SA's facilities are open to industry and academic users and surface structures and patterns, channel designs, and chemical functionality can be tailored to your needs, through access or partnership with ANFF-SA's technical staff.
Our professional technical staff are experienced working with confidential information and sensitive project material and able to deliver high-quality devices and samples on time and within budget.
The South Australian node offers capabilities, expertise, and opportunities to collaborate with affiliated staff in the fields of:
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Micro/nanofluidics
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Surface chemistry
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Surface structuring (etching, molding, embossing)
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Thin film deposition
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Surface spectroscopy
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X-ray micro/nanotomography (volumetric analysis)
ANFF-SA offers professional training on cutting-edge equipment housed in world-class facilities to enable you to develop your ideas, create prototypes and characterise the outcomes or you can engage our expertise to perform research on your behalf.
Either way, ANFF-SA can elevate your research and development to the next level, with better designs, shorter development iteration cycles, and expert training and advice.
Contact Facility Manager ANFF-SA@adelaide.edu.au or +61 8 8302 5226 today to find out how ANFF-SA can support your next project or to arrange a tour of our facilities.
