Two months after the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) signed a Memorandum of Understanding in Paris with the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the Thales Group of Companies to set up a joint research laboratory, the three parties are inaugurating the CNRS-International-NTU-Thales Research Alliance (CINTRA) Laboratory at NTU. The CINTRA Laboratory aims to develop nanotech innovations for computing, sensing, and communications applications. Over the next two years, about 50 Singapore and French researchers will work on critical challenges faced by existing technologies in the microelectronic and photonic industries to develop innovations that will meet future commercial, defense, and security needs. The application-driven challenges include the development of enabling technologies such as an imaging chip to process and display real-time multi-dimensional information and a low-power signal processing chip capable of super high-speed performance of a trillion bits (terabits) per second or more. The alliance brings together a research center, a university, and a private company to capitalize on fundamental research, applied research, and technology transfer, according to Olivier Caron, French Ambassador to Singapore. “This model should not only drive breakthroughs in innovation but should also result in bringing these innovations to the market,” Caron says.
Source: Nanowerk