There are three research centres with several research groups in Microelectronics Division: MicroElectronics Centre, Photonics Research Centre and Nanyang NanoFabrication Centre.
The Microelectronics Centre was established in 1990 in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang
Technological University. Within a few years, the Centre has expanded its research and development activities in a number
of key areas in microelectronics. The research facilities, microfabrication facilities, processing facilities and various
equipments are provided to facilitate the research work. The key areas of research are:
Research activities include:
- Advanced alloy silicide for nanostructures and nanodevices
- Device reliability characterization Gate dielectrics
- Cu interconnects and low-k materials reliability
- Nanosilicided heterojunction wire for MOSFETs
- Pulsed laser annealing
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Research activities include:
- Oxide-based nanoelectronics
- Carbon based nanoelectronics
- Electronic applications of SiC, CVD diamond, diamond-like carbon film
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Research activities include:
- Semiconducting metal-oxide, ferroelectric thin films
- Biochemical / Medical Sensing Devices
- MOEMS
- Tunable lasers
- RF MEMS
- PBG and Bio-chip
- BioMEM
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Research activities include:
- III-IV semiconductors
- Quantum well, wire and dot structures, devices and arrays
- New nano-scaled materials and devices for low and room temperature infrared detection
- Optoelectronic devices and integration
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Research activities include:
- Multi-level simulation environment from process through device, circuit, block, up to system
- Development of application-specific tools at various levels of abstraction, such as Monte Carlo, numerical process and device, compact device and circuit
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Contact Person:
Professor Pey Kin Leong,
Center Director of Microelectronics Centre
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The Photonics Research Centre in Nanyang Technological University is dedicated to research and teaching in the fast-paced field of Photonics
science and technology. The culture of openness and the broad range of expertise and equipment in the Centre provide a stimulating and dynamic
environment for researchers and students alike. The Centre was founded in 1994 as a research laboratory and aimed to spearhead strategic research
in state-of-the-art photonics and related technologies for short- and long-term benefits to the industry in Singapore. Today it encompasses 21
academic staff, 35 research staff and 60 research students, conducting research in 6 main areas as described below:
Research activities include:
- Optical coherence tomography (OCT) for disease diagnosis
- Photothermal imaging for imaging sub-cellular organelles
- Photonic devices for bio-chemical sensing
- Optical tweezers for biomedical applications
- Advanced multimodal optical techniques in bioimaging and microscopy
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Research activities include:
- Novel LED devices for energy-efficient solid state lighting (SSL)
- Novel structures for high-efficiency solar cells
- Low-power electronic displays (e-paper, OLED, LCD etc.)
- Solar hydrogen for clean energy generation
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Research activities include:
- Diode pumped ultrashort pulse solid state lasers and Soliton fiber lasers
- Diode pumped ceramic lasers
- Nonlinear laser wavelength conversion and nonlinear dynamics of lasers
- Nonlinear optics of artificial mesoscopic structures
- Photonic crystal fibers for high-power lasers and high-power laser delivery
- Microstructure fibers and fiber Bragg grating devices for environmental-/bio- sensors
- Microwave Photonics and radio-over-fibers
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Research activities include:
- Micro-optofluidics
- Micro-total analysis systems (uTAS)
- Lab-on-a –chip
- MEMS/NMES biomedical systems
- Biophotonic chip and systems
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Research activities include:
- Dense photonic integration, photonic crystals, high Q resonant cavity
- Photonic integrated devices and circuits, resonators, MMI devices, couplers
- Meta-materials, negative refraction, superlens physics and design
- Surface plasmonic structures and devices
- Nano-crystal semiconductor optoelectronic materials and devices
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Research activities include:
- Semiconductor optoelectronic materials, devices and processing
- Nanoparticles in oxide based materials for light emitting devices, solar cells and waveguide devices
- Quantum dots and quantum cascade semiconductor lasers for the mid-IR for biomedical and environmental monitoring
- UV ZnO semiconductor laser diodes
- MOVPE epitaxy growths of compound semiconductors and semiconductor nanostructures and optoelectronic devices
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Contact Person:
Professor Lin Chinlon,
Center Director of Photonics Research Centre
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Nanyang NanoFabrication Centre (N2FC)
The Research Centre in Nanyang Technological University is dedicated to provide nanofabrication support to the Nanyang’s community for research in nanoscience and nanotechnology.
Contact Person:
Professor Pey Kin Leong,
Center Director of NanoFabrication Centre
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