NTU-RP Advanced Materials Processing Lab

• Academic enrichment of RP’s students: RP and NTU will jointly develop and organise creative engagement (CE) activities, final year projects
  (FYPs), and specific academic modules to enrich students’ knowledge in the properties and processing of advanced materials, their characterisation and applications.
• Applied research and development (R&D): RP and NTU will collaborate in R&D work pertinent to the capabilities of this Joint Lab relating to the study of "Processing and Characterisation of Advanced Materials".
• Communication of the technology of advanced materials: RP and NTU will work together to establish the Joint Laboratory as a connecting node to the general public, industry and government agencies, to publicise the technology of advanced materials related to aerospace, defence, electronic, and biomedical applications and to highlight possible solutions that can be provided to Singapore manufacturing industries.

Staff-In-Charge

Valavan S (Dr)
Email: valavan_s@rp.sg
Tel: 3100 1260

Capabilities

This lab is equipped with instruments that support technology development in the following areas:

• Fabrication and characterisation of advanced functional materials for electronic and biomedical applications
• Fabrication of thermoelectric materials for solid state refrigeration and energy harvest applications
• Self healing materials for structural applications
• Development and characterisation of dental and bone implant materials
• Development of polymer composites and analysis
• Ceramic, alloys and metal coatings

• DC/RF sputtering equipment
• Plasma etching system
• Sol-gel processing and spin coating equipment
• High energy miller
• X-ray diffraction equipment
• Field emission scanning electron microscope
• Contact angle analyser
• Atomic force microscope
• X-ray micro-CT
• Surface profiler
• Semiconductor probe station
• Four point probe resistivity measurement
• Ferroelectric analyser
• Impedance analyser
• Furnaces
• Differential scanning calorimeter
• Laser flash thermal diffusivity analyser
• Instron micro-tester
• Electro-chemical deposition unit
• Particle size analyser

• Thermoelectric Micro-coolers for Electronic and Optoelectronic Applications
• Development and Application of an Integrated Piezoelectric Tactile Sensor for Minimally Invasive Surgery
• Application of Self Healing Materials
• Novel Thermoelectric Micro-coolers
• Fabrication and Characterisation of Ferroelectric Thin Films
• Sol-gel Processed Thermoelectric Thin Films