Facilities
We support our Electrical Engineering community to deliver impactful research by providing accessible, world-class learning and teaching spaces.
We support our聽Electrical Engineering聽community to deliver impactful research by providing accessible, world-class learning and teaching spaces.听
Our dedicated computer laboratories at the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications provide researchers with extended hour access, and our building is furnished to provide general group and individual study spaces. Our modern, course-specific teaching laboratories and聽specialised聽research laboratories house some of the most unique facilities in the country.听聽
Energy systems聽
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Our high voltage laboratory supports research in high voltage power engineering through聽specialised聽facilities including:聽
- High voltage testing (AC, DC and Impulse voltages)聽
- Partial discharge detection equipment聽
- Transformer ratio arm bridges聽聽
- Recover voltage testing equipment聽聽
- Thermal testing equipment聽
- Variable frequency testing of insulation equipment聽
Power electronics and drives聽laboratory聽聽
This laboratory supports power electronics research through the following sophisticated systems and software:聽聽聽
- Extensive power electronic invert/conductor systems for operation with a range of motor drives and other applications such as superconducting fault limiting devices聽
- Data acquisition systems used for fast online parameter determination of rotating machines聽
- Finite element analysis software for magnetic, thermal and electric field modeling and analysis聽
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The Australian Centre for Renewable Energy laboratory provides power quality assessment equipment for monitoring the characteristics of power electronic inverters supplied by renewable sources such as photovoltaic systems.听
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Mobile聽communication laboratories聽聽
Our mobile communication laboratories contain some of the most advanced measurement and simulation equipment for communications systems in the country. These include facilities for testing GSM, IS-95, 3G, PCS RF and antenna design.听聽
Audio anechoic chamber
EE&T now hosts a large audio and radio frequency anechoic chambers for future mobile telecommunications and acoustic systems development
Communication network聽laboratories聽
We provide a state-of-the-art experiential environment that enables researchers to carry out traffic analysis, design and test protocols at all levels and conduct performance analysis of end terminals and servers. Our laboratories also provide a large-scale simulation of networked systems. This network includes:聽
- Commercial low and high-end routers聽
- LAN switches聽
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- Linux and FreeBSD based PC routers聽
- Wireless LAN and Infrared access points聽聽
- Specialist measurement devices that allow real-time and non-real-time analysis of network traffic and protocol performance聽
Signal processing
Signals, Information & Machine Intelligence Lab (SIMI)
The Signals, Information and Machine Intelligence (SIMI) Lab brings together a wealth of expertise in speech, image and signal processing, machine learning, system identification and modelling, telecommunications, networking, control theory and high-performance computing.听
Speech and Behavioural Processing Research Laboratory
The Speech and Behavioural Signal Processing Laboratory is known internationally for its research into automatic emotion and mental state inference from speech and behavioural signals, pronunciation detection and speaker and language identification.
Interactive Visual Media Processing Lab (IVMP)
The Interactive Visual Media Processing (IVMP) lab is a world leader in developing coding, estimation and post-processing technologies for visual media, including images, video and higher dimensional media such as volumetric and plenoptic content.
Systems laboratories聽
We designed this laboratory for signal processing, microelectronics and systems and control education. It includes PCs equipped with the latest Texas Instruments signal processing hardware and equipment for聽analysing聽speech and video signals.
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We are proud to offer a comprehensive range of聽phototonic聽facilities to support research in this area, including:聽
- A solid-state laser system capable of tuning from 200nm to 2000nm聽
- Conventional laser sources like YAG, Argon,聽HeNe聽and diode lasers聽
- Amplified spontaneous emission and聽fibre聽laser sources聽
- An optical autocorrelator for measuring femtosecond pulses聽
- A low coherence reflectometer for micron resolution device聽characterisation聽
- A聽fibre聽tpering聽facility for coupler manufacture聽
- A Carl-Zeiss聽Yena聽interference microscope for phase measurement聽聽
Silica optical聽fibre聽fabrication聽facility聽
Our optical聽fibre聽facility is for fabricating special silica-based optical聽fibres聽and聽fibre聽devices. The facility includes:聽
- MCVD preform fabrication system聽
- A聽fibre聽drawing system聽
- Capacity to produce rare-earth doped聽fibres聽for聽fibre聽amplifiers and lasers, photosensitive聽fibres, single polarization聽fibres, multi-core聽fibres, D-shaped聽fibres聽and custom聽fibres聽for specific applications聽
- Facilities for聽characterisation聽and measurement of聽fibre聽preforms and optical聽fibres聽
Polymer optical聽fibre聽fabrication聽facility聽
We support extensive research in novel optical聽fibre聽technology through a range of facilities that equip researchers for the following:聽
- Material processing聽
- Preform fabrication聽
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- Electro-optic聽fibres聽for optical switches and modulators聽
- Laster-dye doped and rare-earth-doped聽fibres聽for聽fibre聽amplifiers and lasers聽
- Single-mode polymer optical聽fibres聽for聽fibrebragg聽grating and sensing聽
Optical waveguide聽fabrication聽facility聽
This facility support research in聽phototonic聽waveguide circuitry technology and includes:聽
- A Hollow Cathode Plasma Enhanced Chemical聽Vapour聽Deposition (HC-PECVD)聽
- A Hollow Cathode Plasma Enhanced Reactive Ion Etch (HC-RIE)聽
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Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF)聽
We provide Australian researchers from both the public and private sectors with access to micro- and nano-fabrication tools and services through the ANFF. Our facility is one of eight within the national network under the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) and offers advanced nanofabrication capability supported by:聽
- Cleanrooms and laboratory spaces spanning 750 square聽metres聽
- Three electron beam lithography systems, capable of producing sub-20nm device features聽
- A full Si-MOS process line (high temperature furnaces for oxidation, diffusion and annealing; photolithography; a ranger of deposition and etching tools; and dicing, packaging and bonding capability)聽
- A suite of molecular beam epitaxy systems producing ultra-low-disorder III-V heterostructure material聽聽
- A wide range of high-quality complex oxide layers and nanocomposites聽
More details about the ANFF-NSW facility can be found聽.听
CAD facilities聽
These include a network of SUN workstations supporting software for computer aided design of integrated circuits, VHDL design, MEMS devices. CAD packages include Mentor Graphics, H-Spice, ANSYS.听
Systems and聽control聽discipline聽
Our Systems and Control Research Group facilities span several areas in engineering into the biological and medical sciences, with three groups of laboratories available.听
Industrial and process聽control聽
We enable problem-based learning and research using pilot plants in these laboratories. These pilot plants聽utilise聽computer-based workstations equipped with data acquisition equipment and may be motor sets simulation electromechanical systems, interacting tanks whose levels are to be controlled or air heater processes representing process control plants. The laboratories are also equipped with:聽
- Standard software packages such as聽Matlab聽and聽Simnon聽for control design and analysis聽
- Boeing鈥檚 EASY5 nonlinear simulation package聽
- A modular simulation shell SSIM allowing the user to build up complex simulation from component modules聽
- A real time kernel for adaptive tuning and control聽
Systems聽Neuroscience and聽Biomedical聽Engineering聽
This laboratory has numerous medical workstations equipped to study human movement control systems including:聽
- Electrical activity from muscles, nerves and the brain聽
- Measurements of joint angles and forces聽
- Response characteristics of reflex and voluntary muscle control systems聽
- Cardiovascular control systems聽
Vision and control聽laboratory聽
The laboratory is under development. Activities underway include visual serving experiments and autonomous vehicle control of a model hovercraft.听