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Quantum Science Talk November 18, 2022

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On Nov 18th, SHINE hosted the Quantum Science Talk given by Dr.Kristiaan De Greve, Scientific Director and Program Director of Quantum Computing of imec, Belgium. Held at the campus of College of Design and Engineering, the response to the talk was overwhelming with close to 80 turn-up. The talk commenced at 10:30 am with Prof Aaron Thean, Director of SHINE centre, kicking things off.

During the talk, Dr Kristiaan spoke about factory mean and novelty of some activities of phenomena of qubit platform as well as the recent collaboration with NUS on photonics communication. He further shared about spin qubit superconducting and advantages of advanced manufacturing technology.

He highlighted the “ugly” side in semiconductor foundry facilities that may cause potential surface damage, resulting in high coherence and large variability for large scale fabrication. He also shared some examples on the direct and indirect consequences of material limitations of superconducting quantum circuits. He followed on by explaining the investigation of resonators to improve qubit performance, further discussing some recent results of materials control such as both superconducting and silicon spin qubit platform. He also shared the process challenges and emphasised the need of high uniformity, high yield, high process control qubit application. Lively discussion ensued at the end of the session with numerous questions raised from attendees. The session wrapped up at 11.30 am with Prof Aaron Thean presenting Dr Kristiaan with a gift as a token of appreciation.
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About the Speaker

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Dr. Kristiaan De Greve is Scientific Director and Program Director of Quantum Computing at imec. He is also a part-time professor at KU Leuven (ESAT-MNS) and visiting researcher at Harvard University. He obtained his engineering degree (Burg. Ir. Elektrotechniek, summa cum laude with congratulations of the board of examiners, valedictorian) at KULeuven – ESAT, with research on spintronics and nanomechanical systems performed at imec and Caltech. He graduated from Stanford University with a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 2012 where he was a Stanford Graduate Fellow working with Yoshi Yamamoto. He was awarded the Springer thesis prize for his Ph.D. research.

He joined Harvard University’s physics department as a fellow from 2012 until 2019, working with Misha Lukin, Amir Yacoby, Philip Kim, and Hongkun Park, after which he moved to imec. He holds additional degrees in economics and physics from Stanford and a mini-MBA from Harvard Business School. He’s the recipient of several awards and prizes and has authored multiple patents and over 30 papers in journals like Nature, Science, Nature Physics, Nature Photonics, Nature Nanotechnology and etc., which have been highly cited. His scientific interests span a wide range from advanced materials research, quantum mechanics, photonics, cryptography, and information science to novel, disruptive computing paradigms and artificial intelligence.

The Neuropixels Platform Talk October 3, 2022

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Recent advances in CMOS integrated MEMS, have enabled and increased routine extracellular electrophysiology recording capability and capacity from dozens to thousands of neurons. Applying “a scaling platform approach” will enable the next generation of systems to visualize 10’s to 100’s of thousands of neurons.

On the Monday afternoon of 3 Oct 2022, We were pleased to have Mr. Barundeb Dutta, Chief Scientist of IMEC, Belgium, in the campus of College of Design and Engineering to share in person on how this vision could become reality!

In this Engineering-in-Medicine talk, Mr. Dutta shared his development work on on a very high channel count electrophysiology device: Neuropixels, and the prospects for another 10-50X capacity increase, and addressed progress towards “recording form the whole brain”. For the Neuropixels technology, he illustrated a few transformational neuroscience experiments that the technology enables, and its power to co-integrate different modalities, such as enabling precise and continuous monitoring of the neuron activities in the whole brain.

In addition, he talked about some of the challenges in the Neuropixels data volume has created and the potential for single-neuron-based neuro-electronic medicine. He also discussed about the power of a global ecosystem for a technology platform to impact and accelerate an interdisciplinary science, of semiconductor engineers, neurotechnologists, neuroscientists, and neurosurgeons. To quote Mr Dutta, “ask the right questions, solve the right problem, the multi-discipline solution can change the world”.

At the end of the session, attendees got to explore with Mr. Dutta the limits of this research frontier: How much is enough neurons? It was a lively discussion session with numerous questions raised from attendees. 

The session wrapped up at 2:30 pm, with Professor Aaron Thean, Director of SHINE centre, presenting Mr Dutta with a gift as a token of appreciation.

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Mr. Barun Dutta has been the Chief Scientist of IMEC, since 2010, leading multiple R&D programs in Silicon Technology Systems, with an emphasis on novel materials and device technologies.  He most recently initiated and has led device programs in GaN LED’s, Power/RF Devices, ultra-high performance imaging, integrated photonics, wafer scale technologies for life sciences applications in neurotech and genomics. His current interests in device scaling lie in the realization of new devices from 2D materials and their patterning.\

From 1998-2010 as a Venture Capitalist and General Partner at Sevin Rosen Funds-Alta Berkeley (A Sevin Rosen  Semiconductor Systems Incubation Fund) and Entrepreneur, he worked as a Board Member and/or CXO, incubating and mentoring 15 founding teams/companies, which included, Iobox(acquired by Telefonica), Synad(acquired by ST-Micro), Native Networks(acquired by Alcatel), Siliquent (acquired by Broadcom), BeInSync(acquired by Phoenix Tech), Teradici(acquired by HP), Castify(acquired by Harmonic), Xtellus(merged w/Oclaro), PA Semi(acquired by Apple), Touch Clarity(acquired by Omniture/Adobe), Amantsys(acquired by Fidelity), Javelin Semiconductor (acquired by Avago) and Dune Networks (acquired by Broadcom).

He spent the first decade of his career, from 1988-1998, as a Member of Technical Staff and Program manager at Bellcore/Bell Labs doing research in various areas of semiconductor materials and process technology and was also an assignee at IMEC from Bell Labs/TI.

He was educated and received his undergraduate and graduate degrees, from Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA respectively.

Shine Inaugural Technical Workshop July 1, 2022

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On 1 July 2022, Singapore Hybrid-Integrated Next Generation μ-Electronics (SHINE) centre continued its second day of launch series with an Inaugural Technical Workshop. This workshop was open to SHINE research community and consortium members only.

The principal investigators and co-investigator of the four research thrusts under SHINE centre were presenters of the day. They were Prof Chen Xiaodong, Prof Lee Pooi See, Prof Antonio Helio Castro Neto, Prof Ahmed Busnaina, Prof Qiu Cheng Wei, Prof Lim Yeow Kheng, Dr Vincent Leong, Dr Lim Teck Guan, Dr Evgeny Zamburg, Prof Koen Mouthaan, and Prof Massimo Alioto. The presenters shared the one-year milestone of their research activities, challenges and technical progression in SHINE.

Prof Lim Yeow Kheng, program director of SHINE, kicked off the day-2 workshop with his sharing of program revies and highlights. SHINE’s Light House Project is a Smart Surface Aware Remote Sensing Skin. The project is divided among 4 Thrusts with the final goal to produce a design platform, material, system design, and integration technique to be extended to various technology disruptors. The centre also emphasizes on Public-Private-Gov Research Partnership and aims to bridge the gap between academia and industry, for example, a Master of Science programme is being planned to address the talent demand/training by industrial partners.

Professor Chen Xiaodong, deputy director of SHINE centre shared his vision on lab-to-fab translation of material manufacturing. Using flexible electronics as an example, Prof Chen identified key challenges in materials manufacturing from research stage to mass production stage and put forth the stages in product manufacturing: design, materials supply, processing, and integration. To overcome these obstacles, standardization, iteration between basic and applied research, and adoption of smart manufacturing must be in place at various development stages. He hoped that with concerted efforts from SHINE centre and academia, developing technologies would be able to cross the “valley of death” in the transition from low to high Technological Readiness Level.

Prof Lee Pooi See shared her team’s effort on the design and preparation of low interfacial thermal resistive materials through surface modification. Insulative, soft, and stretchable thermal resistive materials have been prepared using liquid metal particles and elastomer. The dielectric nanocomposites can be screen-printed and achieved good thermal conductivity. This dielectric nanocomposite ink is important for high frequency antennas, high speed microprocessors as well as thermal interface materials..

Prof Antonio Helio Castro Neto is the founder and Director of NUS Centre for Advanced 2D Materials (CA2DM) and Co-Director of NUS institute for Functional Intelligent Materials. He expressed his wishes to combine the efforts of CA2DM and SHINE centres to provide innovative solutions through technological breakthroughs. Afterwards, he explained the need for materials with high thermal conductivity, anisotropic thermal conduction, high material processability, and low bending rigidity. Then, he proposed a new type of 2D carbon film to address these stringent demands.

Prof Qiu Cheng Wei is well-known for his works metasurfaces and optical manipulation. Most artificial thermal conductivities can be effectively reached by mixing/doping different naturally-occurring thermal materials of different filling fractions. As a result, natural material and metamaterial only possess specific thermal conductivity as discrete ‘digital’ values and fixed dissipative processes. In his work, Prof Qiu aims to realize tunability of effective conductivity through dynamic strategy possessing a single-spinning fluid layer and out-of-plane thermal transport channel as additional freedom to create ultra-conductive thermal metamaterials. Through these works, Prof Chen hopes to create a new avenue of studying intelligent thermal management with dynamic and passive systems.

Prof Lim Yeow Kheng presented his approach in thermal management utilizing effective heat dissipation through the use of nanomaterials and nanostructures. First, he proposed the principle of heat dissipation under various thermal environment. Second, he introduced the nanomaterial and nanostructure as well as additive manufacturing approach in his works. Also, evaluation of heat dissipation on SHINE Light House Project was presented. Various cooling scenarios were considered and a combination of thermal spreader/storage and radiator was considered a workable solution from the Thrust.

Dr Vincent Leong, director of the RF program in DSO National Laboratories, Singapore, kicked off the afternoon workshop with his talk on Design of RF Transceiver on Chiplet-based Heterogeneous Integration Platform. His research and development work involve the design, modelling and characterization of MMIC/solid state power amplifiers, high dynamic range RF receivers, and novel passive structures such as baluns and couplers. In his talk, the speaker discussed on the design issues and the challenges in designing RF transceivers on the chiplet-based HI platform.

Followed on was the talk by Dr Lim Teck Guan, senior scientist from System-in-Package group in IME. Currently, he is developing the Si-interposer and the FOWLP platform for various integration applications such as High-Performance Computer, 5G Communications, Radar, and Sensor. He presented the development of the Si-interposer which includes the RF, thermal, and mechanical integration design and optimization, as well as the fabrication and assembly process.

The next talk was made by Dr Evgeny Zamburg, senior research fellow of the SHINE Thrust 3 for developing multi-scale heterogeneous integration process technologies for flexible antenna system. During this talk, he shared the approach on thermal management where heat is transferred from Si dies to SiC interposer and then removed by phase-change-material-based microfluidic thermal management solution.

Then Prof Koen Mouthaan of ECE department at NUS, Co-Investigator of SHINE Thrust 3, whose research interests include microwave and millimetre-wave circuits and systems, phased array antennas, digital beamforming, and design and innovation, further introduced the challenges in the design of flexible phased arrays by showing simulation and measurement results of antennas using flexible substrates.

The last invited speaker was Prof Massimo Alioto of ECE department at NUS, Co-Investigator of SHINE Thrust 1, whose primary research interests include ultra-low power integrated systems, green silicon design technologies, circuits for machine intelligence, hardware security, and emerging technologies. In this talk, the challenges of heterogeneous integration were addressed through a paradigm shift that enables the design of high-mix low-volume systems, introducing an ecosystem of pre-designed silicon dice (SiBlox) and application-agnostic design methodologies. Techniques to enable design reuse to this new level are discussed along with the challenges at the presented to enable the sustainable generation of innovative and competitive silicon systems without going to the last nanometre in CMOS processes. Emphasis was given on relentless energy and cost reductions through new ecosystem-centric design techniques.

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Partnership Launch and Technical Seminar June 30, 2022

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On 30 June 2022, Singapore Hybrid-Integrated Next-Generation μ-Electronics (SHINE) centre held its
Industry Partnership Launch and Technical Seminar after one year of the establishment of centre. The
seminar themed on promoting pioneering insights and breakthroughs while supporting innovations and collaborations. The Day 1 event was open to the public, professors, staff, researchers and industry
collaborators at NUS College of Design and Engineering Campus with over 180 attendees. The guest
of honour, BG Ng Chad-Son, Deputy Secretary (Technology), Ministry of Defence, graced the event with
his presence.

Prof Aaron Thean, Director of SHINE, opened the conference with a welcome address. Prof Thean outlined the motivation for establishing SHINE centre and its beliefs in research strategies specific to R&D and the research ecosystem that brings collaborative academic and industry partners across the semiconductor value chain to promote innovation through science and breakthrough to become the next “technology game-changer”. Finally, he celebrated the initial collaborations with a first-anniversary commemorative video put together for this partnership launch and inauguration event.

In the opening speech, BG Ng shared that flexible technology transforms the way we design and utilize consumer electronics and that setting up of the SHINE centre “could not have been more timely”.

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SHINE was honoured to line up five distinguished speakers to deliver the keynote speeches. They were Dr Suresh Venkatesan, CEO of POET Technologies, Mr Guillaume Besnard, Innovation Technology Leader of SOITEC, Prof Philip Wong of Stanford University (Calinfornia),  Prof Takao Someya of University of Tokyo and Dr Thomas J. Knisley, Seminconductor Chemist of Applied Materials. 

Prof Ahmed Busnaina of Northeastern University (USA), Mr Chin Jiann Min, Director of Device Failure Analysis of AMD, Dr Surya Bhattacharya, Director of SiP of A*STAR IME, Dr Vincent Leong, Director of RF Programme of DSO and Mr Markus Bebendorf, Senior Exppert of Central Researc of Automotive Continental comprised the five esteemed invited speakers. 

Dr Suresh kicked off the first keynote speech touching on a unique hybrid integration platform for wafer-scale passive assembly of electronics and photonics devices using a CMOS-based optical interposer from POET Technologies, Inc.

Followed on keynote topic was substrate engineering for microelectronics by Mr Guillaume Besnard. He shared that AIoT and IoT markets have a high growth potential, but are fragmented among many industries. Mr Besnard was optimistic that engineered substrates are well positioned to support the development and deployment of high growth areas such as 5G, AIoT, and electrical vehicle.

Prof Ahmed shared a very new and cost-effective additive manufacturing technology for nanoelectronics that can enable the industry to leverage novel properties of nanomaterials and their applications. The new technology costs one to two orders of magnitude less than the current conventional semiconductor manufacturing. Prof Lim of NUS announced that SHINE centre will be equipped with state of the art equipment by early 2023. 

Mr Chin Jiann Min presented on challenges of advanced packaging failure analysis and the trend to enable functionality diversification with next generation packaging through stacking and “dis-integration”. He concluded his presentation with several insightful case studies.

Prof Philip Wong delivered the next keynote on 3D MOSAIC (MOnolithic Stacked Assembled IC) of N3XT Chips. He expressed that the prospect is in abundant-data computing and for innovation beyond chip level. 

Prof Takao continued with his topic on stretchable, ultrathin, conformable and biocompatible next-era electronics in robotics and medical applications. He enlightened on the frontiers of tomorrow for wearable electronics being smart apparel, sensor patch and skin electronics. 

Dr Thomas spoke on high-value problems in the semiconductor industry for enhancing BEOL metallization and obstacles in advanced patterning schemes.

Dr Vincent enlightened on promising RF technologies and examples of RF frontend subsystem that can be potentially enabled by them.

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Dr Surya Bhattacharya communicated on System-in-Package Integration for Diverse Applications, a rich area for product-driven technology research and development.

Our last speaker of the day, Mr Markus discussed about future integration technologies for high-end automotive electronics. He addressed on some solutions/strategies to fulfil the requirements of high-performance computing connecting heterogeneous integration as a robust contributor with their challenges and possibilities. 

Professor Lim Yeow Kheng shared the latest state-of-the-art equipment and BEOL capabilities for SHINE lab at NUS E6NanoFab during lunch break. Professor Chen Xiaodong shared the capabilities of the new SHINE Centre at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

During breakfast, lunch and breaks, the attendees viewed exhibits highlighting the latest innovations and advanced technologies developed by researchers from NUS, NTU, A*STAR, SIMTech, Continental and POET Technologies. The exhibition provided attendees an avenue to engage in in-depth technical discussions and exchanges with the academia and industry exhibitors at the event space.

 

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The event ended successfully at 5 pm and set the momentum for an inaugural technical workshop the following day on 1 July 2022 which was opened only to SHINE consortium members and industry partners.

To find out more about the speakers and synopsis of their presentations, click here. 

Partnership Launch Video

In the video, partners like POET Technologies, SOITEC, Continental and DSO shared about their motivation and expectation of the Hybrid-Integration Technology research. They were excited to be part of SHINE research partnership ecosystem to develop high talent pool for advanced microelectronics industry in Singapore.  

 

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