Time: 11:00am

Location: Sindeband 414, Schapiro/CEPSR

Title: NanoCore: An Interdisciplinary Research Program in Singapore

Speaker:           T. Venkatesan
                         Director, NanoCore
                         National University of Singapore

Abstract:

NanoCore is a multimillion dollar initiative at NUS to harness the research of the most advanced teams on the Campus embracing various aspects of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. I will give you a flavor of the research being conducted here with examples from Oxide Electronics (e.g., defect induced ferromagnetism in doped oxides), Graphene electronics (non-volatile memories) and the march towards sub-nm scale imaging (with compositional analysis) and patterning using focused helium ion beams.

Biography:

Prof. T. Venkatesan has spent close to 17 years at Bell Labs and Bellcore in various capacities from Member of Technical Staff to Director of a Surface Research group. He was the founding Director of the Surface Modification facility at Rutgers University. After this he was a Professor of Physics and ECE at University of Maryland College Park MD for another 17 years. Over the last two years he is a Professor of ECE and Physics at NUS where he is the Director of NanoCore, a Program that has been founded to harness the best in Singapore in the area of NanoScience and Nanotechnology involving the medical school, life and physical scinecs and the school of engineering. He is the inventor of the Pulsed laser deposition process and is a pioneer in the area of Oxide Electronics. He is a highly cited Physicist (www.isihighlycited.com) with over 19000 citations, a world ranking of 66, H factor of 73 and has over 500 publications and 28 patents in the area of Oxides and other Nano structured materials. He has founded Neocera and helped found Blue Wave semiconductors. Ten of his former students and Post Docs have started entrepreneurial ventures. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), is a member of the World Innovation Forum and is currently the Vice Chair of the Forum on Industrial Applications of Physics in APS.

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