The Integrated Circuit  design Lab (ICLAB) is part of the Microelectronics Research Group (MRG). The MRG has built up to be one of Australia's largest and most respected microelectronics research groups.  This has led to collaboration with a wide range of international and Australian industry and research organisations. In 2008, the MRG was awarded a prestigious Eureka Prize for Science in Support of Defence and Security for its world leading work.

The MRG work covers areas from semiconductor device modelling, fabrication, and fundamental material characterisation, through instrumentation and control electronics, to systems integration and analysis. The support for the research and engineering projects undertaken by the MRG comes from a mixture of Government and industrial funding. The facilities available are among the best in Australia in the area of semiconductor material and device fabrication, characterisation and modelling. The group operates a
nanofabrication facility for fabrication of semiconductor devices, and has a multitude of test and characterisation equipment, as well as commercial packages used for device and circuit simulations, modelling and layout.

The projects undertaken by the MRG cover:

• Microelectronics,

• Optoelectronics,

• Micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS),

• Nanotechnology, and

• VLSI

with applications in:

• Agriculture,

• Defence,

• Manufacturing,

• Medicine,

• Remote sensing and environmental monitoring,

• Spectroscopy,

• Surveillance, and much more