Nanostructure Engineering Science and Technology (NEST)

Research Group Summary

The forefront of much modern engineering and science research is at the scale of the smallest devices currently possible - in the range of nanometres. For engineers, the advantages of such small devices include increased speed and packing density, and novel functionality. For the scientist, working on such small scales reveals a range of exciting and unexpected fundamental phenomena.

Ideally engineering and scientific developments feed off each other: the NEST group performs advanced research in niche areas across the spectrum of applied engineering and basic science of nano-metre scale structures. The group focuses on fabrication and characterisation of nano-scale electronic, opto-electronic and micro/nanofluidic devices. To download a summary brochure of the group's research projects and facilities please follow this link (PDF file). NEST facilities are also used for outreach activities and undergraduate teaching in ENEL491 - Nano Engineered Electronic Devices.

Key Contact

• Maan Alkaisi: Member; Electrical and Computer Engineering

Members - UC Staff

• Maan Alkaisi: Member; Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Martin Ward Allen: Member; Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Volker Michael Nock: Member; Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Self-propelling droplets for microfluidic applications
• Flexible microdevices for characterization of the role of bionanomechanics in cancer

• Engineering and Technology: Nanotechnology & Solid State Devices

• NEST website
  
• Marsden Fund
  
• Callaghan Innovation
  
• e MacDiarmid Institute
  
• BioNanoNetwork
  

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