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Miniaturized Medical Device

Miniaturized medical devices are a major opportunity for advancing Medtech into new avenues by enhancing medical technology and making it affordable to all. IME researchers is designing, fabricating, packaging (biocompatible) and testing highly sensitive and miniaturized Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) that can measure physiological parameters for medical applications. All these are integrated with an Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) and wireless interface circuits with only ultra-low power consumption.... more

A New Era in Cardiac Health Diagnostics With Silicon-Based Integrated System

Researchers at A*STAR’s Institute of Microelectronics (or IME) have developed a rapid and sensitive integrated system to test for specific cardiac biomarkers in blood. Compared to the conventional testing platform known as ELISA (Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay), the new integrated system significantly cuts sample preparation and analysis time which typically requires 6 hours to just 45 minutes... more

Germanium Photodetector Technology for Next Generation Optical Interconnects Applications

Research into the limits of electrical interconnects indicates that the requirements for data communication in future generations of CMOS integrated circuits can hardly be met with metal wires. While the demand for on-chip functionality continues to grow as predicted by Moore’s Law, it is now widely recognized that copper interconnect will increasingly suffer from severe propagation delays for clock signals, overheating, information latency and electromagnetic interference... more

Diffraction Grating Effect on Waveguided Germanium MSM Photodetector Response

Germanium-on-silicon-on-insulator (Ge-on-SOI) photodetectors have been actively pursued for optical interconnection / communication applications because of its large absorption coefficient and its integration compatibility with silicon (Si) complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) process technology. In particular, the metal-semiconductor-metal (MSM) configured photodiodes have been widely used due to its relative ease of fabrication and high speed performance... more

 
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Advanpack Solutions Pte. Ltd. (APS) engages IME in the upgrading of their R&D Capabilities

Homegrown enterprise, Advanpack Solutions Pte. Ltd. (APS), engages IME in the upgrading of their core packaging technologies under A*STAR T-Up (Technology for Enterprise Upgrading) programme. The T-Up programme aims to help Singapore enterprises upgrade their R&D capabilities through the secondment of experienced researchers as well as to train and build up the R&D human capital in the industry...more

IME delivered an invited talk on the Development and Outlook of Silicon-based Electronic-Photonic Integrated Circuits (EPIC) Technology at IEDM 2009

IME presented 5 papers and 1 invited paper in 2009 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), held from 7th – 9th December 2009. In the invited talk by Prof. Dim-Lee Kwong, Executive Director of IME, Prof. Kwong reviewed the current status of EPIC in IME as well as the advancements made world-wide in the last few years... more


Collaboration between Institute of Microelectronics and Unisantis on the Development of Three-Dimensional Transistor Advances to Next Stage

4th December 2009 – The Institute of Microelectronics (IME) and leading technology research and development company Unisantis Electronics (Japan) Ltd. today inked another collaborative research agreement to advance on the development of the world’s first three-dimensional transistor… more


IME Shared Plans of Singapore MEMS Consortium and 3D-TSV at SEMI Industry Session

On 20th November 2009, Dr. Rakesh Kumar and Dr. Vaidyanathan Kripesh from IME were invited to speak at an industry session organised by Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) Singapore on MEMS and 3D-TSV research activities. SEMI, the global industry association serving the manufacturing supply chains of the microelectronics, display and photovoltaic industries, presented the market trends to more than 80 attendees, mainly senior executives, from the Singapore semiconductor industry… more


IME presented 6 papers at the IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC) 2009

IME researchers presented 6 papers at the IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC) 2009. The A-SSCC 2009 held in Taiwan from 16th – 18th November 2009 at The Grand Hotel, Taipei, comprised of a series of plenary talks, panel discussions and oral presentation sessions, covering topics in Analog Circuits & Systems, SoC & Signal Processing Systems, RF, Memory and Wireline & Mixed-Signal Circuits… more


IME participated in the 13th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (µTAS 2009)

The µTAS 2009, held in Jeju, Korea from 1st – 5th November 2009, continued a series of conferences for reporting research results in microfluidics, microfabrication, nanotechnology, integration, materials and surfaces, analysis and synthesis, and detection technologies for life science and chemistry… more

 

 

Seeking a Challenging and Rewarding Career in the area of Microelectronics Research? Exciting career opportunities await you at IME...

 

Lab/Programme Directors

- Microsystems, Modules & Components Laboratory

- Bio-Electronics Programme

- Sensor and Actuator Microsystems Programme

Industry Development Manager

- Bio-Electronics

Senior/Technical Manager

- Materials Devices Reliability & Analysis

Senior Research Engineers

- Advanced Semiconductor Process

- Integrated Circuits & Systems

- Neuroprobe (Post 1)

- Neuroprobe (Post 2)

- Patch Clamp

- Photonics Packaging

- Wafer Level Packaging for MEMS devices

 

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Beside the above mentioned vacancies, we are constantly seeking talented PhD candidates who have a passion for research in the areas of Nano-Electronics, Nano-Photonics, Nano-MEMS, Bio-Electronics, Bio Photonics, Medical Devices, Advanced Packaging, Ultra Low Power, Wireless and High Band Width. Pertinent industry experiences will be an added advantage.

 

If you feel that you have what it takes to be part of the research scene, we invite you to email us your detailed resume, including expected and current salaries, publications and patents lists.

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IME Staff Received the Ministry of Trade (MTI) Going the Extra Mile Service (GEMS) Award 2009 for his Outstanding Service ... more

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