Facilities & Services
Research
The School houses a suite of premier research laboratories, instruments, facilities and equipment including:
- a clean room complex equipped with advanced instrumentation for materials fabrication, characterisation and analysis including focused ion beam microscopes, UHV AFM/STM scanning probe system, UV Raman spectrometer, and a pulsed laser deposition system
- a particle detector development and construction facility comprising clean rooms, precision wirebonder detector development, assembly and evaluation capabilities
- advanced X-ray, laser, microscopy and atom optics laboratories
- a 5 MV Pelletron accelerator providing source of MeV ion beams in 5 beamlines used in nuclear microprobe systems
Technical Centre
The School’s unique Technical Centre, comprising both Mechanical and Electronics workshops, is managed by Mr Roland Szymanski. The Centre plays an important part in the design and development of prototype research equipment for new and ongoing research programs as well as the maintenance and continual development of its extensive research infrastructure. It also provides engineering and technical support in the design, manufacture and maintenance of the School's teaching, laboratory and lecture equipment. For more details on examples of job completed please, refer to Technical Centre.
Laboratory
Laboratory Manager, Mr Nick Nicola, has available an extensive manual of Lecture Demonstrations suitable for undergraduate teaching and lecture purposes. Groups external to the School may arrange access to demonstrations upon consultation and availability of resources.
Outreach
Our Physics postgraduates and lectures have developed active outreach programs including teacher professional development, in-school and on-campus visits, interactive demonstration shows and enrichment programs that are aimed at both primary and secondary school.
Student Services
There are a wide range of services available to students at the University including the Physics First Year Learning Centre (FYLC), Physics Students’ Society (PSS) and Physics Postgraduates' Student Society (PPSS) for undergraduates and postgraduates, respectively.
IT Support
Physics IT support is available to staff and students including: how to get started, how to purchase hardware, requesting on-line support, news & alerts, storage and back-up, and policies.
Library
The Physics Research Library is located on the 6th floor of the School of Physics Building.
The Physics Liaison Support Librarian is Ms.Shirley Wong. The Chemistry and Physics Liaison Librarian is Dr.Graham Howard.
A full list of its collections and services along with the main floorplan is available.