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The use of a fabrication technique borrowed from the semiconductor industry brings metamaterial applications a step closer to reality

Newly detected ‘energy-clustering’ structures inside rare-earth nanoparticles generate intense violet light, which is ideal for studying photon-induced transformations

A robust micrometer-scale structure for trapping light enhances optical interactions in advanced photonic devices

A high-performance ‘photonic transistor’ that switches light signals instead of electronic signals could revolutionize optical signal processing

A semi-analytical model can compute electromagnetic interference on an electronic circuit board ten times faster than existing commercial software

Computer modeling is assisting the design of optical modulators with low losses to improve optical communications

A*STAR’s Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R)'s innovations will be at IoT Asia and A*STAR SME Day. This includes toilet cleanliness, taxi queueing, outdoor carpark and ready-to-go technologies for SME's

Multidisciplinary research at A*STAR is producing new technologies to improve safety and efficiency in the aviation industry

A clever chemical transformation yields surface-bound microstructures that efficiently drive away oil- and water-based contaminants

A passive method for sorting and fixing microbeads of different sizes could lead to cheaper and more functional biological assays

A landmark experiment on wave interference from the early 1800s is revisited using gold nanoparticles

Flexible plastics that turn mechanical vibrations into electrical energy could spur the development of self-powered sensors and devices

NMC also announced an RCA with Mogas Flow Lab (MFL) to establish a R&D lab to develop bunker fuel-based Primary Liquid Flow Standard and a Heavy Hydrocarbon Calibration Rig (HHCR).

Singapore, 2 April 2014: The Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech) has inked three collaboration agreements that will play a part in speeding up the growth and development of the microfluidics industry.

Computer simulations indicate that mixing silicon with other materials improves the diversity of nanoscale electronic devices

A thinner probe array that uses a silicon-based microstructure could underpin safer neural implants

Improved design of lasers on optoelectronic chips will advance optical communications

Using electron beams to encode data in nanocrystals could help to improve the capacity of computer memory devices

Singapore, 18 March 2014 – A*STAR Institute of Microelectronics (IME) has launched the Silicon Micro Cooler (SMC) consortium to develop integrated thermal management solutions for semiconductor chips with extreme high heat dissipation and local hot spots applications.

Innovations within REACH @I2R: Over SGD$50 million invested by our industry partners to further develop leading-edge technologies for translation into industry impact

A modulator that converts an electrical signal into an optical signal could enable faster wireless data transmission

A data buffering scheme improves the performance of solid-state drives in large-scale, data-intensive applications

A low-power photodetection system can harness enough energy to power an autonomous sensor and monitoring network

Singapore, 11 March — Researchers from A*STAR’s Institute of Microelectronics (IME) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have demonstrated the smallest wavelength-tunable laser fabricated by microelectromechanical system (MEMS) technology.

Singapore, 10 March – A*STAR’s Data Storage Institute (DSI) will showcase its next generation Non-Volatile Memory systems and solutions at CeBIT 2014, Germany.

Singapore, 5 March - A*STAR’s Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC) and the Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute (SMMI) launched a joint laboratory in Maritime and Offshore Engineering R&D today, to develop solutions for technical issues faced by the maritime, energy and offshore sectors.

A*STAR Institute of Microelectronics (IME) and Cubic Micro today announce that they have developed and demonstrated a 400 MHz radio frequency (RF) transceiver with the highest power efficiency and leading performance reported to deliver high quality signals over industry’s widest coverage in wireless sensor network applications.

Experiments on tiny gold prisms help to explain the unusual electrodynamics of nanostructures

Adding carbon gives iron–platinum nanocrystals the ideal optical properties for heat-assisted magnetic recording

Nanoparticles with a core–shell structure can minimize the overheating of cells during bioimaging experiments