Super microscope for SA helps drive industry development
Source: SA. Minister for Employment, Training & Further Education, Media Release
"South Australia now has a super high-powered, $3.5 million ion beam electron microscope to help drive scientific developments for our State’s mining, defence and ‘high tech’ manufacturing industries. The Minister for Science and Information Economy, Paul Caica, will launch the cutting-edge microscope – the most advanced instrument of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere – at the University of Adelaide’s Centre for Advanced Microscopy. It’s the flagship of the new $6.5 million SA node of the National Microscopy and Microanalysis Research Facility. The Facility has been jointly funded by an alliance of the State Government ($2.5m) and SA’s three universities ($1.5m) with support from the Commonwealth ($2.5m) under the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS)."