Centre for Advanced Devices and Systems (CADS)

The Centre for Advanced Devices and Systems (CADS) is set up to consolidate research and innovation in the general scope of microelectronics which necessitate various components such as opto-electronics and nano-electronics material, device, design, fabrication and characterisation, application-specific microchip, and microprocessor circuit designs, and intelligent system and control models.

Group (1): Electronic Materials & Devices

• Thin Film Depositions by Evaporation, Pulsed Laser and RF/DC Magnetron Sputtering Guns
• Wet Chemical Processings by Sol-Gel Hydrothermal, Spin Coating and Spray Pyrolysis Techniques
• Transparent Conducting Oxides (TCOs, e.g. Intrinsic and Doped ITO, ZnO) Thin Films,Colloids, Nanostructures
• ZnO based Devices such as Sensors, Transistors, and Solar Cells
• Terahertz(THz) Electronic Devices
• Monte Carlo Studies ofAdvanced Semiconducting Materials and Devices
• Organic Light Emitting Diodes, Transistors and Solar Cells
• Magnetic Nanoparticles and Devices
• Thermoelectric Thin Films and Nanostructures
• Prototype Capacitors for DRAM
• Biomedical Devices

Group (2): Circuits & Systems

• CMOS Mixed-Signal IC Designs:
• Low-Power Integrated Circuit Design Techniques (CMOS)
• High-Speed Asynchronous I/O (CMOS) and CMOS Data Conversion Circuits
• Integrated Circuit for Wireless Applications

• Development of integrated circuits and sensors with applications for RFID and other short-reach wireless systems
• Noise and reliability studies of MEMS Sensors and Actuators
• Identification of Direction-dependent Processes – Modelling and Control of Single-input Single-output Direction-dependent Processes – Theoretical Study on Multivariable Direction-dependent Processes
• Design of Signals for Identification