Equipment
Below is a list of major equipment that form part of the Optofab Adelaide facilities, enabling capabilities in Advanced Manufacturing, Glass and Fibre, and more.
A complete list of Optofab equipment across Australia can be found on the ANFF Optofab Website
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Glass and fibre
- 6m Fibre Draw Tower (Heathway/Controls Interface)
- 4m Fibre Draw Tower (Heathway/Controls Interface)
- Glass Extruder 250kN (Custom)
- Glass Extruder 100kN (Custom)
- Fluoride glass controlled atmosphere melting facilities (Custom)
- Oxide glass controlled atmosphere melting facilities (Custom)
- Carbolite Gero vacuum furnace (TF3-1600)
- Carbolite Gero sintering furnace (AAF 1100)
- Carbolite Gero bottom loading furnace (BLF 1800)
- Open air melting and annealing furnaces (Various)
- Glass working lathe (Heathway)
- Struers High precision glass saw (Accutom-100)
- Struers High precision polisher (Tegramin-30)
- Metkon Polisher/grinder (Forcipol 1V)
- Imahashi glass saw (TS-200NSW)
- Retsch ball mill (PM 100CM)
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Advanced manufacturing
- DMG DMU-20 linear Ultrasonic, simultaneous 5-axis ultrasonic and HS machining
- 3D Systems ProX200, selective laser melting metal 3D printer
- Stratasys Fortus 450FMD polymer printer
- Maple Glass Printing 3D glass printer
- Formlabs Form3 printer
- Prusa i3-MK3S FDM printers (x4)
- Creality CR10SPRO V2 FDM printer
- Anycubic Photon M3 Max printer
- Artec Space Spider 3D Scanner
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Testing and validation
- Micro-VU Vertex 312UC CMM (camera and touch probes)
- Netzsch STA449 F3 Jupiter + QMS403 Aeolos® Quadro simultaneous thermal analyser (STA)
- Netzsch Dilatometer (DIL 402)
- Bruker Contour GT-K 3D surface metrology optical profiler
- Agilent Technologies Cary 5000 UV-Vis-NIR spectrophotometer 175-3300 nm
- J.A. Woollam IR-VASE Ellipsometer
- Perkin Elmer Spectrum 400 Fourier transform infrared spectrophotometer (FTIR)
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Etching
- HF etching facilities (Custom HF etching)
Let's work together
OptoFab Adelaide work as a multidisciplinary team ready to help with any projects.