Equipment

Below is a list of major equipment that form part of the Optofab Adelaide facilities,聽enabling capabilities in Advanced Manufacturing, Glass and Fibre, and more.

A complete list of Optofab equipment across Australia can be found on the聽

  • Glass and fibre
    • 6m Fibre Draw Tower (Heathway/Controls Interface)聽
    • 4m Fibre Draw Tower (Heathway/Controls Interface)
    • Glass Extruder 聽250kN (Custom)
    • Glass Extruder 聽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)

  • Advanced manufacturing
    • DMG DMU-20 linear Ultrasonic, simultaneous 5-axis ultrasonic and HS machining
    • DMG DMU-40 linear Ultrasonic, simultaneous 5-axis聽CNC
    • 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
    • Bambu Labs X1-Carbon polymer printer
    • Bambu Labs H2D polymer printer

  • Testing and validation
    • Micro-VU Vertex 312UC CMM (camera and touch probes)
    • Netzsch STA449 F3 Jupiter + QMS403 Aeolos庐 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聽
    • J.A. Woollam IR-VASE Ellipsometer
    • Perkin Elmer Spectrum 400 Fourier transform infrared spectrophotometer (FTIR)

  • Etching
    • HF etching facilities (Custom HF etching)
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