The Institute for Sustainable Nano-Electronics (ISNE) at NTU aims to stimulate multi-disciplinary—across multiple NTU colleges—research by working with NTU faculty and their international partners to help start new laboratories that, through collaboration, will enable a world-class research agenda in sustainable electronics in the nanometer regime, aimed at overcoming the problems in energy and heat dissipation, battery life limitations limiting the deployment of transistors in mobile contexts—cell phones and embedded media devices, prosthetics in the biomedical domain, hybrid automobiles, among others—and ultimately, the physical limitations in manufacturing transistors as small as 20 nanometers in (feature) size with consistent and well-behaved properties.
The multidisciplinary activity of ISNE is grooming a world-class group at NTU by building upon NTU’s significant and long-standing strength in the electronics arena—of considerable importance to Singapore in an economic context. The laboratories of the institute supported by an international network of collaborators is playing a significant role in attracting top talent from all parts of the world, and through collaborations, enabling a community of excellence at the highest levels. ISNE is a key enabler of this activity and eco-system and is serving as a foundation for competing and successfully attracting significant additional funding and talent.
