News and Highlights
The latest news and happenings at the Applied Materials – NUS Advanced Materials Corporate Lab.
2021 - 2023
26 Apr 2023
Visit by the FIESC Technical Mission, Santa Catarina Federation of Industries, Brazil
Date & Time: 26th April, 2023, 10.00am to 12.00pm
Venue: NUS-AMAT Corporate Lab Conference Room, Level 6, E6
21 Sep 2021
Singaporean Researchers Global Summit (SRGS) 2021 Summit
Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) Heng Swee Keat spoke to Professor Silvija Gradečak-Garaj, from the National University of Singapore. Together with her team, she works at an integrated material and module research facility (E6Nanofab) to enable the next generation of semiconductor technologies. DPM Heng is holding a silicon wafer coated with a nanocrystalline diamond film potentially used as a hard mask for the semiconductor processing industry and development of next-generation electronics.
20 Oct 2021
Visit by ESM Goh Chok Tong
During his visit, Emeritus Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong was briefed on the key research projects which are expected to have major real-world applications to boost the semiconductor industry. The AMAT-NUS Advanced Materials Corporate Laboratory was established in April 2018, with a joint investment of S$70 million from National Research Foundation, Applied Materials, and NUS.
8 Feb 2021
Visit by Prof Sean Li, Australian Research Council Future Fellow at University of New South Wales (UNSW)
Time: 9.00am
Venue: Corporate Lab, Building E6
Professor Li chairs the Scientific Advisory Committee for the Hebrew-NTU Nanomaterials programme at CREATE.
24 Mar 2021
Visit by Quality Assurance Framework for Universities (QAFU) Visit
Time: 1.30pm – 2.50pm
Venue: Conference Room (Eureka I&II), AMAT-NUS Applied Materials Corporate Lab Site Visit to Applied Materials-NUS Corporate Lab.
An External Review Panel (ERP) visited the University from 22 Mar to 26 Mar 2021.
25 Jan 2021
Visit by Senior Management, Temasek Holdings to AMAT-NUS Advanced Materials Corporate Laboratory
Date: Monday, 25 January 2021
Time: 3.00pm to 6.00pm
Venue: E6 Building, Level 6, 5 Engineering Drive 1, S(117411)
2018 - 2020
31 Oct 2020
NUS Board Of Trustees Visit To AMAT-NUS Advanced Materials Corporate Laboratory And SembCorp-NUS Corporate Laboratory
Date: Saturday, 31 October 2020
Time: 9.00 am – 12.00 pm
Venue: E6 Building, Level 6
13 Dec 2019
Visit to Applied Materials @ Santa Clara, USA
Co-Directors of Applied Materials-NUS Corporate Lab led a team of Principal Investigators and Staff from Singapore for a two full-day visit to Applied Materials in the United States from 12th to 13th of December 2019.
Professor Aaron Thean gave a lecture to Applied Materials researchers and staff on campus. His topic was “Defect Engineering for Novel Electronics – Paving the Way Forward towards a New Materials Engineering Renaissance”. The lecture highlighted the potential to provide additional knobs to enable application-specific functional scaling with innovative mix-and-match material integration and material engineering through defect control. Applications in material engineering include the emergence of a range of applications from IoT sensor network, wearables and neuromorphic computing. In addition, Professor Richard Wong presented his work on molecular simulation, where the audience learnt about how to use simulation to screen new materials.
25 Oct 2018
Applied Materials Inc and NUS jointly launched the Applied Materials-NUS Advanced Materials Corporate Lab
This is Applied Materials’ first research laboratory jointly set up with a university in Singapore and its establishment is supported by the National Research Foundation Singapore (NRF). The S$70 million Applied Materials-NUS Advanced Materials Corporate Lab was officially launched by Mr Heng Swee Keat (third from left), Minister for Finance.
25 Oct 2018
New Lab at NUS launched
Along with a $1.5 million fund in scholarships to grow the pool of talent in the electronics sector, the lab, a collaboration between US equipment supplier Applied Materials and NUS will work on accelerating the discovery and commercialisation of new materials for manufacturing advanced semiconductors. More than 50 researchers, engineers and doctoral students are expected to be trained at the lab in NUS.
25 Oct 2018
New NUS Lab & Scholarships to Boost Electronics Sector
Speaking at the launch, Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat said that electronics remain a key pillar of exhibits displayed at the launch of the lab. The new lab “seeks to develop the next generation of semiconductors that are smaller, cheaper, faster and more power efficient” DPM Heng said. “It will also reinforce NUS efforts in building research capabilities to ride the new waves of technological shifts in artificial intelligence and semiconductor technology which can be applied to autonomous vehicles, robotics and many others.”