Nanotechnology in New Zealand

Majority of research is undertaken by the MacDiarmid

Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology
www.macdiarmid.ac.nz
The MacDiarmid Institute is a Government funded Centre
of Research Excellence
Established July 2002 with 6 years operational funding
and an initial NZ$9.8 m (US$7 m) capital equipment fund

Alison Downard
MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology
Department of Chemistry, University of Canterbury
Christchurch, New Zealand
The MacDiarmid Institute is a virtual
institute with researchers located at
universities and Crown Research
Laboratories throughout NZ
Auckland

Approximately 35 Principal Investigators,

50 graduate students and 20 postdoctoral Palmerston North
fellows
Wellington
All researchers are employed by their own
organisations and receive research Christchurch

funding from the MacDiarmid Institute

Dunedin
The MacDiarmid Institute does not own
any equipment or employ staff
 Four Theme Areas

• Nanoengineered materials and devices

• Novel electronic, electro-optic and superconducting
materials
• Functional materials
• Soft materials
Near-field Optics
Sub-wavelength imaging
Fundamental studies

Multilevel nanoimprint

a) Optical micrograph
of a large scale 3D
map of NZ in
developed resist.
b) Imprinted pattern
from SiN mold

Raith prize; Raith 2005 calendar

Interferometric Lithography Nanostructured Molecular
Films
NO 2
CH3

N
N

5
nm
5
μm
330nm period dot pattern formed by IL

Biochips for Cell Imaging

SiO2
PR
 Nanocluster Wires
Table of Contents

NanoCluster Devices Ltd Issue date: April 1, 2005

Features
UC startup company COVER STORY
A Novel Approach to Directed Assembly of
First NZ nanotech patents Nanowires
A new technique has resulted in nanowires that
Link with NanoDynamics can be self-assembled and self-connected, and
(USA) where electrical current can be passed through
the wire as soon as it is formed.
Raith 150 EBL Karl Suss MA6 mask Aligner

Oxford Plasmalab
Plus80 RIE system

DI3100 AFM
Molecular Beam Epitaxy

Edwards AUTO500
Sputterer

COMPex 205 Excimer Laser