BIOGRAPHY
Personal Homepage : http://eeeweba.ntu.edu.sg/BKTay/
Dr Tay Beng Kang is a full Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He received his Bachelor (Hons) degree from National University of Singapore in 1985 and Ph.D. from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 1999. He is the pioneer in Filtered Cathodic Vacuum Arc (FCVA) technology and works over many years in thin film technology especially in graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides, nanocomposites and carbon nanotubes. His current research is includes growth and application of carbon based and 2D materials for thermal and high frequency applications. To date, Dr Tay has published more than 400 international journal papers with Google Scholar H index of 60. On top of that, he has jointly-invented an industrial viable film deposition system based on FCVA technology and is currently the co-inventor of 16 international patents filed between 1995 and 2018. The research team was awarded the ASEAN Outstanding Engineering Award and National Technology Award in 1997 and 2000 respectively for outstanding R&D contributions on a new Filtered Cathodic Vacuum Arc Technology.
The high quality of the films produced by FCVA attracted many foreign visitors and potential customers from abroad. Nanofilm Technologies International Pte Ltd (Nanofilm), a spin-off company was finally set up in May 1999 with NTU Ventures to design, develop and commercialize FCVA related vacuum coating systems.The FCVA technology represents a significant advancement in thin film deposition and has been commercialized successfully through Nanofilm. The production systems are now widely used in HDD industry for slider and media carbon overcoat applications. Nanofilm is doing well, not only selling machine and systems, but also the coating service. It received the prestigious National i-Award (Innovation) in 2001.
Prof Tay’s research has been recognized internationally where he works closely with companies such as Excelitas Technologies, IIA Technologies, Thales Group where he also supervised several EDB Industry Postgraduate Programme (IPP) students. He is also currently the Deputy Director of CINTRA, a UMI research unit cofounded by CNRS, NTU and Thales (http://cintra.ntu.edu.sg/). He has been an invited speaker at numerous international conferences and universities. Prof Tay was awarded the 2007 IES Prestigious Engineering Achievement Awards for their work in Nano-engineered Carbon Hybrid Systems, the NTU Alumni Service Award in 2003 and the Long Service Medal (Singapore National Day Awards) in 2015.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Presently, Prof Tay is maintaining research activities in the following areas through final year project students, postgraduate students, research staff and collaborative research interactions:
Fabrication of carbon nanotubes for high frequency applications (such as EM shielding, Slow wave devices, etc)
Preparation and characterization of wafer-scaled 2D materials and their heterostructures
Application of 2D materials for photodetectors (using graphene / 2D thermoelectric materials, etc)
Development of Filtered Cathodic Vacuum Arc technologies
Applications of diamond-like carbon / nanocomposites for wear resistive coatings
CURRENT PROJECTS
- 2D Layered Antimonene By A Novel Sputtering System
- 2D Material based Transistors for Ternary Logic Devices
- Advanced EM shielding through novel CNT fence wall transfer technology
- CRYOGENIC ENERGY STORAGE for COLD ECONOMY in SINGAPORE
- Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Designs & Solutions for Infrared (IR) Pyroelectric Sensors
- Emerging Technology for RF and Millimeter-Wave Circuits based on Carbone Nanotubes (TRiCOT)
- Green Data Centres Through Cryogenic Energy System
- Nanomaterials for Latent Heat Thermal Energy Systems
- Project Nano Antenna Array
- Rational Design of Carbon-Nanotube Interconnects
- Sub-Project 2 – Setting-up an In-plane Thermal Conductivity Measurement System
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Qinyu Kong, Laurence Bodelot, Bérengère Lebental, Yu Dian Lim, Li Lynn Shiau, Boris Gusarov, Chong Wei Tan, Kun Liang, Congxiang Lu, Chuan Seng Tan, Philippe Coquet, Beng Kang Tay. (2018). Novel three-dimensional carbon nanotube networks as high performance thermal interface materials. Carbon, 132, 359-369.
- Boris Vaisband, Ange Maurice, Chong Wei Tan, Beng Kang Tay, Eby G. Friedman. (2018). Electrical and Thermal Models of CNT TSV and Graphite Interface. IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, 65(5).
- Julia Gusakova, Vasilii Gusakov, Beng Kang Tay. (2018). DFT study of structural and Electronic Properties of MoS2(1-x)Se2x alloy (x=0.25). Journal of Applied Physics, 123, 161594.
- LIM, YU DIAN; Grapov, Dmitry; Hu, Liangxing; KONG, QINYU; Tay, Beng Kang; Labunov, Vladimir; Miao, Jianmin; Philippe, Coquet; Aditya, Sheel. (2017). Enhanced Field Emission Properties of Carbon Nanotube Bundles Confined in SiO2 pits. Nanotechnology, , NANO-115930.R1.
- Wai Leong Chow, Peng Yu, Fucai Liu, Jinhua Hong, Xingli Wang, Qingsheng Zeng, Chuang-Han Hsu, Chao Zhu, Jiadong Zhou, Xiaowei Wang, Juan Xia, Jiaxu Yan, Yu Chen, Di Wu, Ting Yu, Zexiang Shen, Hsin Lin, Chuanhong Jin, Beng Kang Tay, Zheng Liu. (2017). High Mobility 2D Palladium Diselenide Field-Effect Transistors with Tunable Ambipolar Characteristics. Advanced Materials, .
