TAN Ooi Kiang
Professor and Associate Chair (Curriculum & Graduate Studies)
of School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Division of Microelectronics

Phone: (65) 6790 5411, Fax: (65) 6791 2687
Office: S1-B1a-29
Email: eoktan@ntu.edu.sg

Biography

Tan Ooi Kiang received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Nanyang Technological University in 1999, MSc in Microelectronics System Design from the University of Edinburgh in 1988 and B.Eng (1 st class Hons) in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Singapore in 1983. He also obtained a Postgraduate Diploma for Teaching in Higher Education 1994 at the National Institute of Education.

He joined the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological Institute in 1987 and has been lecturer, senior lecturer and associate professor in 1988, 1993 and 1999 respectively. He served as the Sub-Dean (Students Affair) in School of EEE from 1991 to 2000 and has been the Head of Division of Microelectronics since 2001. Prior to his appointment at NTU, Dr Tan has been a MOS IC Design Engineer with SGS Semiconductor Pte. Ltd (now known as STMicroelectronics at Ang Mo Kio) from 1984 to 1987 and Test/Product Engineer with National Semiconductor Pte. Ltd in 1983.

Dr Tan has been actively involved in the Sensors, Actuators, and Smart Materials as well as the Nanoelectronics and Silicon Technology research groups in the Microelectronics Center, School of EEE. His research focus is in the area of microelectronics and nanoelectronics materials and devices design for electronics, bio-medical, functional sensor and actuator applications. These includes the synthesis, fabrication and characterization of semiconductor & ferroelectric nano-structured metal oxide and composite materials, thick and thin film functional devices; solid-state reaction high-energy ball milling and sol-gel processing, ICP-CVD nano-technology; bio-chemical sensor and actuator applications; and silicon-based device fabrication & integration. Dr Tan is principal investigator for 12 research projects with a total funding of $3.6 millions including 6 on-going grants of $2.5 millions mainly in the areas of chemically-activated nano materials and functional devices.

He has been appointed as a member of International Steering Committee for the East Asian Conference on Chemical Sensors since 2001. He is currently the General Chair for the 7 th East Asian Conference on Chemical Sensors (EACCS) to be held in Singapore in December 2007. He is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (USA) . He also serves in numerous national boards and committees, including the SERC A*STAR Steering/Management Committee for NanoElectronics Programme with 13 projects of amount $13.8 millions.

Research Interest

Functional electronics materials, devices, and applications; Chemically-activated nano-structured metal oxide semiconductor and ferroelectrics materials for chemical and bio-sensor devices.

Selected Research Projects

  • “Nano-structured metal oxide semiconductor material synthesis and surface modification for enhancement of visible-light photo-catalytic properties in anti-bacteria application”, A*STAR SERC 052 101 0038 and RG 93/05– S$690,050.

  • “Development of Ferroelectric-based biosensors for nose and throat cancer virus” Inflexion Corporate Pte Ltd & University Academic Research Fund RGM 1/04 - S$560,000.

  • “Development of Advanced Nanotechnology for Deposition of Nano-size Particles & Thin Films for Gas-sensing Application” A*STAR SERC 022 101 0022 and RGM 5/02 - S$640,975

Selected Publications

  • H Huang, OK Tan, YC Lee, MS Tse, J Guo, and T White, “Effects of plasma treatment on the growth of SnO 2 nanorods from SnO 2 thin films”, Nanotechnology, UK, 2006, Vol 17, 743-746
  • HW Lau , and OK Tan, “Influence of oxidizing ambient to tetraethyorthosilicate thin films containing solid-state reaction silicon nanocrystals”, Applied Physics Letters, USA , 2006, Vol 88, Iss 10, 103101.
  • XY Fang, OK Tan, Q Wei, MW Yao, and SC Tjin," Dielectric Film for Biosensor Application", Sensors and Actuators B, Switzerland, 2006, in press.
  • H Huang, OK Tan, YC Lee, DC Truong, MS Tse, X Yao, “ Semiconductor Gas Sensor based on Tin Oxide Nano-rods Prepared by PECVD with Post Plasma Treatment”, Applied Physics Letters, USA , 2005, Vol 87, Iss 16, 163123.
  • Y Hu, OK Tan , JS Pan*, and X Yao, “A new form of nano-sized SrTiO 3 material for near human body temperature oxygen sensing applications”, The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, USA, 2004, Vol 108, 11214-11218.