Dr Warren McKenzie - Australian National Fabrication Facility - STEM and Innovation from Australian Nanotechnology

STEM and Innovation from Australian Nanotechnology

Dr Warren McKenzie

Business Development Manager

Australian National Fabrication Facility Ltd.

Providing nano and micro-fabrication facilities for Australia’s researchers

Introduction

• Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF)

• Australian Nanotechnology STEM jobs in the future

• The importance of STEM:A lesson from Silicon Valley.

Providing micro and nano fabrication facilities for Australian R&D

ANFF is a network that:

Supports Australian

Nanotechnology Research

Australian National Fabrication Facility


ANFF is a network of:

8 Nodes across

21 institutions

supporting a

500 facility portfolio




8 Nodes

across

21 institutionssupporting a





8 Nodes

across

21 institutions

supporting a



Providing nano and micro-fabrication facilities for Australia’s researchers


The ANFF Network

employs

94 staff

supports

2190 researchers

training

over 3000 students / post docs

Australian Nanotechnology: STEM jobs in the future

“global market for nano-systems forecast to reach $US 3,000B by 2020”

Australia’s per-capita share (0.33%) = $US 10B industry

Match Australia’s contribution to science (2.5%) = $US 75B industry


• Printed Electronics and PV

• Quantum Computing

• Microfluidics

• Optics and photonics

• 3D printing / advanced materials

• Sensors



Printed (organic) electronics, and solar cells

Organic electronics have a rapid path to market through the

established printing industry - and they are very cheap to manufacture.



Printed media Integrated PV, and OLED lighting

Printed (organic) electronics, and solar cells


Digital 3D displays – Paula Dawson


Digital 3D displays – Paula Dawson


3D Printing


Mending broken nerves Surgery and body parts

3D Printing



There is an explosion in science of new types of sensors that will drive “the internet of things”

• Strain

• Electric field

• Temperature

• Cancer

• Stress (biomarker)

• Carbon monoxide

• Chemical warfare agents

• Electrolytes in sweat (whether

you need a Gatorade)

• Sulphates in wine

• Blood glucose, from saliva

• Etc.

Flu Virus SensorSensors



Sensors + microfluidics = Point-of-care (POC) diagnostics devices

The microfluidics field has provided a platform to effectively

translate sensors into easily manufacturable POC devices.

Cancer cell

detection

device



Considered to be potentially as significant as the discover of the silicon transistor in the 1950’s.

Quantum Computing



The NanoPatch drug delivery system

Vaccine delivery without an injection

Drug Delivery



Lasers

Large range of applications, which will provide both disruptive and incremental innovations.



Silicon carbide – Bright LEDs, non-volatile memory devices, high power electronics

Australia’s best opportunity for a semiconductor industry in Australia

- many opportunities for niche technologies.



Infra-red imaging

A platform sensor technology very well suited to Australia


The importance of STEM:A lesson from Silicon Valley.

Radio Jammers, developed by the secret Harvard Radio Research Lab

German Freya radar station.Over 1000 built.


• Harvard Radio Research Lab

• 1941 – 44 (WWII), 800 people

• Stanford Systems Engineering Lab

• from 1955 (Cold War), 800 people

A critical mass of electrical engineering skills in San Francisco Bay Area

• Encouraged students William Hewlett and David Packard

to start a company!


University of California, Berkeley (UCB), Integrated Circuit Lab

• Silicon transistor discovered 1954

• All students at UCB Electrical Engineering trained in Integrated Circuit Lab from 1962



Prof. Bob Meyer,

University of California,

Berkeley

1960’s - present

“One of the biggest contributions of the

[integrated circuit] lab to the continues

to be training students without which

the whole semiconductor industry

would stall.”

Conclusion

• ANFF supports Australian Nanotechnology research, development and education

• Emerging Nanotechnology will create Australian STEM jobs of the future

• The lesson from Silicon Valley• STEM skills and education will be the cornerstone of any

future nanotechnology industry in Australia

Questions?

Education

Dr Warren McKenzie - Australian National Fabrication Facility - STEM and Innovation from Australian Nanotechnology