Date: Saturday, September 27, 2003
Venue: Block EA #06-02, Faculty of Engineering
Department: Electrical & Computer Engineering
Program Schedule
9.30 – 10.00 1 st Lab Tour - Optoelectronics Centre
(Tours Meeting Point – Block EA, #06-02)
10.00 – 11.00 Nanotechnology in Magnetism
by Asst Professor Adekunle O Adeyeye
11.00 – 11.15 Tea Reception
11.15 – 11.45 2 nd Lab Tour - Optoelectronics Centre
11.45 – 12.45 Carbon – An Experimental Platform for
Nanotechnology
By Assoc Professor Wu Yihong
Background:
Assistant Professor Adekunle Adeyeye
Dr Adekunle Adeyeye was selected as one of the world’s top 100 young researchers last year by TR100 – an award winning and prestigious MIT (Massachusetts of Technology) magazine on technology reviews. He will share his findings and applications of magnetism in nanotechnology. Nanotechnology is used in magnetism to create a new type of memory devices – magnetic random access memory (MRAM) – which can significantly enhance the performance of electronic products by storing greater amounts of data, yet enabling it to be accessed faster while consuming less battery power than existing electronic memory. MRAM is also able to retain data even after it loses its power supply, and allows computers to start instantly without waiting for the software to boot up.
Associate Professor Wu Yihong
Assoc Professor Wu is the recipient of the University’s latest Young Researcher Award. His seminar talk will focus on the latest developments in nanocarbon materials and their potential applications in various areas. For instance, how it can produce the world’s hardest material, the tiniest soccer ball or the smallest tubes or materials with excellent electronic, optical and magnetic properties.
Centre for Optoelectronics
A guided tour is planned to showcase the Centre which conducts research in areas such as materials growth processing and characterization, nano-scale tailoring of quantum structures, fundamental optoelectronics, optoelectronic waves and the design, stimulation and fabrication of semiconductor devices. The Optoelectronics
Centre conducts research to find ways of developing new, faster and more efficient ways of exploiting the properties of light. It brings together the physical, optical, electronic, chemical and material sciences.
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