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MEMS & NEMS (Micro & Nano Electromechanical Systems) is drawing much attention in electronics community with various advantages, such as low-power budget, small footprint, high sensitivity, and capability of multiple functions in single unit. With the help of world top-class CMOS cleanroom facilities at DGIST, RE is working on various MEMS/NEMS technologies including RF devices, optoacoustic chips, environmental sensors, to name a few.

Such research governs device design & fabrication, characterization, embedded circuit deign, and field-application. Currently, we are working on multiple government funded projects.

With outstanding portability and adaptability, wearable electronics is emerging as one of the key technologies in coming era.

Especially, flexible electronic-skins posses a great potential towards tactile and biosensing applications, which can have direct impacts on robotics, healthcare devices, fitness monitoring, and so on.

DGIST RE pioneers flexible thin-film electronics and fibers that can be directly mounted on human skin or clothes. In addition, we are working on in-vivo and in-human body devices that can harvest energy from biomechanical motions for prolonged operations without the necessity of external power sources.

Silicon photonics is an emerging technology integrating optical circuits on chips using semiconductor fabrication technologies. As light can deliver information much faster than electrons, silicon photonics is a promising technology that can far exceed the performance of electronics.

Intelligent Nanophotonics Laboratory develops AI accelerators, quantum computers, LiDARs, and ultra-sensitive sensors, based on ultra-low-power silicon photonics.

In particular, we are supported by Samsung Science & Technology Foundation for developing an optical Ising machine that can solve the combination optimization problem 10,000 times faster than existing supercomputers. In addition, we have another Samsung Science & Technology Foundation grant for developing an ultra-high-sensitive 3D ultrasound image sensor based on silicon photonics.

Also, we are conducting research with KIST (Korea Institute of Science and Technology) to integrate optical quantum computers on a chip.

By integrating high-performance optical information processing technologies into chips, we are pioneering new areas that electronic circuits have never reached.