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We support our Electrical Engineering community to deliver impactful research by providing accessible, world-class learning and teaching spaces.Ìý

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 specialised research laboratories house some of the most unique facilities in the country.Ìý 

Energy systems 

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Our High Voltage Laboratory provides a unique facility in Australia for teaching and re­search activities in high voltage power engineering. Major facilities available include 5 screened high voltage test bays equipped with a 400kV/20kJ impulse generator, 50Hz AC supplies up to 250kV/25kVA, HV DC supplies up to 50kV. The laboratory is equipped with a wide range of ad­vanced as well as industry-standard test and measurement instruments - sensing devices (voltage, current, EM field, pressure, etc), partial discharge, dielectric dissipation factor, insulation resistance, space charge, time and frequency domain spectroscopy, thermal imaging, high voltage amplifier, state-of-art data acquisition systems etc.

Power electronics and drives laboratory  

This laboratory supports power electronics research through the following sophisticated systems and software:   

• Extensive power electronic invert/conductor systems for operation with a range of motor drives and other applications such as superconducting fault limiting devices 
• Data acquisition systems used for fast online parameter determination of rotating machines 
• Finite element analysis software for magnetic, thermal and electric field modeling and analysis 

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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.Ìý

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Mobile communication laboratories  

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.Ìý 

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 laboratories 

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: 

• Commercial low and high-end routers 
• LAN switches 
• High-Speed Programmable Network Switches
• Linux and FreeBSD based PC routers 
• Wireless LAN and Infrared access points  
• AI Powered Network Traffic Analysis for Application Quality-of-Experience and Cybersecurity

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.Ìý

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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.

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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.

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Systems laboratories 

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 analysing speech and video signals.

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We are proud to offer a comprehensive range of phototonic facilities to support research in this area, including: 

• A solid-state laser system capable of tuning from 200nm to 2000nm 
• Conventional laser sources like YAG, Argon, HeNe and diode lasers 
• Amplified spontaneous emission and fibre laser sources 
• An optical autocorrelator for measuring femtosecond pulses 
• A low coherence reflectometer for micron resolution device characterisation 
• A fibre tpering facility for coupler manufacture 
• A Carl-Zeiss Yena interference microscope for phase measurement  

Silica optical fibre fabrication facility 

Our optical fibre facility is for fabricating special silica-based optical fibres and fibre devices. The facility includes: 

• MCVD preform fabrication system 
• A fibre drawing system 
• Capacity to produce rare-earth doped fibres for fibre amplifiers and lasers, photosensitive fibres, single polarization fibres, multi-core fibres, D-shaped fibres and custom fibres for specific applications 
• Facilities for characterisation and measurement of fibre preforms and optical fibres 

Polymer optical fibre fabrication facility 

We support extensive research in novel optical fibre technology through a range of facilities that equip researchers for the following: 

• Material processing 
• Preform fabrication 
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• Electro-optic fibres for optical switches and modulators 
• Laster-dye doped and rare-earth-doped fibres for fibre amplifiers and lasers 
• Single-mode polymer optical fibres for fibrebragg grating and sensing 

Optical waveguide fabrication facility 

This facility support research in phototonic waveguide circuitry technology and includes: 

• A Hollow Cathode Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapour Deposition (HC-PECVD) 
• A Hollow Cathode Plasma Enhanced Reactive Ion Etch (HC-RIE) 

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Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF) 

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 nanofabri