Science & Engineering
About AMF’09:
SIMTech (Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology) AMF is an annual event that brings together manufacturingprofessionals – high-level corporate decision-makers and researchers, for critical discussions and analysis of technology trendsand challenges.
For AMF’09, Tim Harper, renowned nanotechnology expert; Head of Nanotechnologies of Envision ALR and Founder of Cientifica - the world’s leading, global resource of nanotechnology intelligence is the invited Annual Manufacturing Lecture speaker. He will share his extensive experience on the business opportunities and strategies to adopt nanotechnology in the manufacturing environment.
Details are available at: www.SIMTech.a-star.edu.sg/AMF2009
Message from Chairman, Singapore Bioimaging Consortium (SBIC), Professor Sir George Radda
"Dear Colleagues,
I would like to give you the latest update of our activities, following the 24th Meeting of the SBIC Steering Committee on the 5th June 2009...
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SERC A*STAR Investigatorships
The SERC A*STAR Investigatorships (A*I) will support and promote the early career development of potential leaders in physical sciences and engineering research. The award supports research for a duration of 3 years with up to US$500,000 per year of research funding, and will be tenable at one of A*STAR prestigious science and engineering research institutes. A*STAR Investigators will select a mentor from A*STAR's research institutes and will be able to harness existing talents, equipment, and other resources as they conduct and publish their research independently. This year's call for proposals is currently open, and applicants are invited to submit proposals in the following areas:
- Robotics, including Cognitive Systems
- Metamaterials and Plasmonics
- Bioenergy and Energy Storage Technologies
- Medical Technologies for Diagnostics
The closing date is 31st May 2009. Application materials and additional information can be found at :
http://www.a-star.edu.sg/science_and_engineering/332-A-STAR-Investigatorships
IME Nanowire Technology Paper on Cover Page and Featured in the prestigious IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTRON DEVICES, Vol. 55, No. 11, November 2008
An invited paper in the area of nanowire devices entitled “ Si, SiGe Nanowire Devices by Top-Down Technology and Their Applications” by IME researchers Navab Singh, Kavitha D. Buddharaju, S. K. Manhas, A. Agarwal, Subhash C. Rustagi, G.Q. Lo, N. Balasubramanian, and Dim-Lee Kwong appears in the November issue of the prestigious journal IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices.
This is a special issue on ‘Nanowire Transistors: Modeling, Device Design and Technology’. The IME paper reviews the current status of the nanowire technology in circuit and sensor applications, delineates the challenges and explores the opportunities provided by nanowire technology using top-down approach.
The issue features invited papers from some of the most prestigious universities and research centers worldwide such as Harvard University, University of California, Eindhoven University (Netherlands), Arizona University, and, IBM, Hewlette Packard among others. The cover page of the issue is adorned by the images of different nanowire device structures developed at IME and presented in this paper.
More information can be found at
http://www.ime.a-star.edu.sg/html/highlights_200811_04.html
I2R's prototype achieve good performance in FCC field trial on white-space devices
FCC has officially released their test report on white-space device testing (spectrum sensing for cognitive radio) and has recommended opening up the TV spectrum for secondary access. As can be seen from the report , I2R’s device achieved superior performance in sensing DTV and wireless microphone in the actual field trial. In addition, FCC has voted unanimously on 4th Nov to approve the use of unlicensed white-space devices.
SERC "Tech Top Ten" publication
In conjunction with the opening of Fusionopolis and to commemorate our journey into the future R&D landscape, SERC has published a brochure highlighting the top ten technological and research breakthroughs from the research institutes over the past 7 years.
Join us as we recognise the best work of the SERC research institutes in this publication - The Tech Top Ten.
I2R’s Fish Activity Monitoring system wins IES Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award 2008
A team of engineers from A*STAR’s Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) has won the Institution of Engineers Singapore (IES) Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award 2008 for their work on Fish Activity Monitoring system or FAMS. This project was done in collaboration with PUB, the national water agency.
More information can be found here.
I2R researcher awarded prestigious Technology Review 35 Award
Dr Victor Tong Joo Chuan, a researcher at A*STAR’s Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), has been conferred the “TR35 Award” for his research work on Personalized Vaccine Design. He is one of the 35 top innovators in science and technology under the age of 35 honoured by MIT’s Technology Review magazine this year.
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Fusionopolis
Fusionopolis is a uniquely designed concept featuring a work-live-learn-play environment that serves as a vibrant hub for research, technology, media and business. The co-location of A*STAR research institutes, companies and corporate innovation and R&D labs will foster public and private sector partnership and R&D collaborations that will create the next generation of technologies, products, applications and services.
Fusionopolis will create an ideal test-bedding environment for novel concepts, prototypes and business models. Shared facilities, direct satellite access, state-of-the-art IT infrastructure to support intensive computing needs and broadband connectivity will also be provided.
Who will be there in Phase 1
Public research institutes under Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
- Science & Engineering Research Council (SERC)
- Institute For Infocomm Research (I2R)
- Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC)
- Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech), Industrial Informatics Group
- Data Storage Institute (DSI), Network Storage Group
For more information on Fusionopolis, please click here .
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OEMServices and D-SIMLAB Technologies in Long-Term Partnership for Optimization of Airbus A380 Spare Parts Support
D-SIMLAB Technologies Pte Ltd, a spin-off from Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech), provides simulation-based decision support solutions to asset intensive industries. D-SIMLAB's current flagship product D-SIMSPAIR is targeted at the aerospace sector. It enables and ongoing business paradigm shift in spare spares management and multimillion dollar, maintainable savings for MRO companies, component service providers and airlines. Its high-performance computing infrastructure also enables it to perform optimization tasks with high fidelity and is more than 100 times faster than any conventional solution. One of the first commercial applications has been secured with OEMServices, a joint venture of four major Airbus suppliers, for the optimisation of spare part support services for airlines operating Airbus A380 such as Singapore Airlines and Emirates.
Efforts to launch the technology into other domains such as semiconductor manufacturing and seaport container terminal operations are under way.
For more information, please visit www.d-simlab.com
IME honoured with the 2007 George E. Smith Award for its Ground Breaking Work on Si-Based Nanowire Technology
The IME’s Nanoelectronics team has won the prestigious 2007 IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) George E. Smith Award for its ground breaking work on "Vertically Stacked SiGe Nanowire Array Channel CMOS Transistors" published in the IEEE Electron Device Letters (EDL) on March 2007. This annual award recognizes the best paper published in IEEE EDL in 2007.
IME and Unisantis (Japan) captured the world’s attention with the announcement in last November to co-develop next generation high performance vertical transistors which could revolutionize the semiconductor industry and overcome the predicted end of Moore’s Law scaling using state-of-the-art CMOS technology. This accolade echoes the pioneering work at IME and impact to both the research community and industry. Prof. Cor Claeys, President of IEEE EDS, congratulated the authors, highlighting that “about 278 articles were published in EDL in 2007, [and] the selection of [the] paper for the award is a strong endorsement of the quality of the work”.
A*STAR Paper Receives Widespread Interest and Visibility
The “Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics” recently informed A*STAR authors that their paper “Peculiarities of light scattering by nanoparticles and nanowires near plasmon resonance frequencies in weakly dissipating materials” has been downloaded over 250 times since it was published online on August 22, 2007. The paper is thus receiving wide interest and is the result of collaboration between researchers from DSI and their colleagues in UK, Japan and Russian Universities.
The paper discusses a new optical effect - anomalous light scattering, which replaces classical Rayleigh scattering for small particles near plasmon resonance frequencies. Instead of usual dipole-type scattering the nanoparticle works as a light mill-wheel, milling the incident plane wave into quite a complicated near-field energy flux. This opens new prospects for optical manipulation in the field structure in the nanoscale region with many possible attractive applications including, nanotechnology, medicine and quantum computing.
A*STAR-EADS Master Research Collaboration Agreement Signing Ceremony
A*STAR and European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) signed a Master Research Collaboration Agreement on 20 Feb 2008 at the EADS chalet, Singapore Airshow 2008. The agreement between EADS and A*STAR will involve collaborative R&D in EADS strategic areas ranging from Sensors, Electronics & Systems Integration to InfoComm and Cryptography. Dr Jean Botti, CTO, EADS and MD, A*STAR officiated at the signing ceremony.
Local researchers make it into Computational Linguistics
A journal paper entitled "A twin-candidate model for learning based conference resolution" has been accepted for publishing in Computational Linguistics. This paper is the result of the research collaboration between researchers from I2R and NUS, and is the first time in the past decade that a local research team has managed to publish their research findings as a formal paper in Computational Linguistics.
Computational Linguistics is the leading publication devoted exclusively to the design and analysis of natural language processing systems. From this unique quarterly, university and industry linguists, computational linguists, artificial intelligence (AI) investigators, cognitive scientists, speech specialists, and philosophers get information about computational aspects of research on language, linguistics, and the psychology of language processing and performance.
The inaugural UK-Singapore Workshop on Energy Technology held on 26 Nov 07
Funded by the British High Commission in Singapore, the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) organised this energy workshop in collaboration with the UK Energy Research Centre and the Sterling Group on 26 November 2007. The Guest of Honour (GOH) for the workshop was Minister of State for Trade and Industry, Mr. Lee Yi Shyan. The workshop included presentations made by 6 UK speakers, 5 Singapore speakers and 1 industry speaker from Rolls-Royce Fuel Cell Systems.
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X-Lab Workshop held from 14-16 August 2007
The X-Lab workshop held from 14th to 16th August 2007 is centered on the development of new ideas and the formulation of project plans to try out at the X-Lab. 28 participants including SERC scholars and interested RI participants attended the workshop. The workshop also served to expose students and younger researchers to methodologies on ideation and innovation. The novel ideas generated includes renewable energy, virtual workspaces, device for seeking items, fabric suited for the tropical environment and aid for the visually impaired.
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Endorsed by the Ministry of Trade and Industry, the National RFID Centre, located at the Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech), will serve as the focal point for Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) in Singapore.
The primary objective of the Centre is to drive the development and adoption of RFID technology to help Singapore industries achieve economic benefits and growth.
A*STAR Researchers' Database
The database provides a listing of Singapore's biomedical and science & engineering research talents in an easily-searchable form. It aims to promote collaborations and networking opportunities and inform students interested in biomedical and engineering sciences of ongoing research opportunities.
I²R voiceprint technology clinches number one spot at US standards agency rankings
A*STAR Paper Published in Nature Photonics
DSI and NUS researchers published the paper "Creation of a needle of longitudinal polarized light in vacuum using binary optics" in August's issue of Nature Photonics 2008. The paper demonstrates that by focusing a radially polarized Bessel-Gaussian beam with the combination of a binary-phase optical element and a high-numerical-aperture lens, it is possible to create a "needle" of longitudinally polarized light. Such a needle can be used for particle acceleration, fluorescent imaging, second harmonic generation and Raman spectroscopy. The new method suggested in this paper has high conversion efficiency in contrast to previously suggested methods. The binary optics works as a special polarization filter which enhances the longitudinal component. This opens new prospects for attractive applications in nanotechnology, material processing and data storage.
IME's work featured as Cover Image for Applied Physics Letters Journal
IME has designed and fabricated 3D-confined structures with triangular lattice air-hole photonic crystal patterns to enhance light output from silicon based light emitting structure. A nearly 10x enhancement in photoluminescence intensity in the vertical direction was observed which is consistent with theoretical expectations. This work advances the technology one step closer towards the realization of Si-based light emitting device with the potential for full monolithic opto-electronic integrated circuit in applications like communications, display and bio-devices. This work has been accepted by the prestigious Applied Physics Letters Journal and the image has been chosen as the Cover Image for the upcoming Sept 1st / 2008 Issue.