• NTT Research Lab
• Alcatel Multimedia Lab
• Intel Microelectronics Lab
• Intel Advanced Network Architecture Lab
• Nokia Wireless Communication Lab
• Microfabrication Lab
• Wave Radiation Lab
• Centre of Photonics Research, Innovation and Applications (CPRIA)
• Centre of Multimedia Communication (CMMC)
• Centre of Applied Electromagnetics (CAEM)
• Centre for Smart Systems and Innovation (CSSI)

NTT RESEARCH LAB

Location : b-A4023

Equipment Facilities in NTT Research Lab
Facilities in NTT Research Lab are mainly used for research in the area of Virtual Reality Telecommunication, Broadband and Multimedia Networking. Some of the major equipments available are as follows:

Virtual Reality Telecommunication System (VRTS)
The equipment setup for the system is basically divided into 2 parts:

• 3D video communication system: consists of 3D video camera, microphones, 3D VCR, sound mixer, video mixer, matrix switcher, MPEG-2 codec, video line doubler, power amplifier, speakers and 3D monitor.
• Robotic arm: A prototype robotic that imitates human arm motion for gesture information transmission in communication.

The current plan is to test and evaluate these two systems in terms of psychological and technical aspects, and then the integration of the systems as the terminal prototype for VRTS.

Audiometric chamber
Controlled environment for audiometry measurements. The chamber is able to suppress noise to a certain level and reduce reverberation time.

Digital Audio Tape (DAT) recorder
Records audio signal and transfers all the data digitally on to a Digital Audio Tape (DAT).

ADSL Line Simulator
The simulator is used to test the ADSL working environment in various conditions. ADSL is the broadband transmission method utilizing copper telephone line.

ADSL Line Simulator

vc3D Video Communication System

 

Optical Communication System
The optical communication system equipments can be used to carry out research in optical communication systems, specifically in Intensity Modulated Direct Detection (IMDD) and Subcarrier Multiplexed systems (SCM). The equipments include:

Bit Error Rate Tester Optical Attenuator Oscilloscope Couplers Arrayed Waveguide Optical Power Meter Optical Sampling Scope GPIB Controller Card Fiber Spans (SMF) SDH Tester Optical Time Domain Reflectometer Spectrum Analyzer DFB Laser

DFB Laser Unit

Optical Receiver and Oscilloscope

 

ALCATEL MULTIMEDIA LAB

Location : b-A4021

Equipment & Facilities in Alcatel Multimedia Lab

• 1 unit of HP Netserver LH6000 PIII Xeon 550 256 MB Serve
• 8 unit of HP Kayak XM600 PIII / 667 Mhz 128 MB workstation
• HP DAT 24i Backup Drive
• 2 unit of Alcatel ATM Omniswitch Hardware
• 2 unit of Alcatel ATM Omniswitch Software
• 1 unit of X-Vision foe Enterprise Software for managing Alcatel Internetworking's Omniswitch
• HP Laserjet 4050N Printer
• MS Visual C++ ( 8 license)
• MS Office 2000 Fullpack
• Rational Rose Software for UML Simulation

HP Kayak Workstation	Networking Switch , OmniSwitch 5wx

INTEL MICROELECTRONICS LAB

Location : b-A4020

Equipment Facilities in Intel Microelectronics Lab
Intel Microelectronics Lab is for teaching and research in the area of microelectronics and RF design. The high speed computing facility available is also used for doing simulation studies. Most of the equipment in this lab is donated by Intel Technology Inc.

The list of equipment includes:

• Dell Power Edge Server 6300/500 server
• Dell workstation 410MT
• Dell workstation 610MT
• ALL-11 Universal Programmer
• UV eraser

Software packages available include:

• Cadence Affirma VHDL simulator ver 3.0
• Synplify Synplicity 5.1
• Cadence HDL analyst option to Synplify Synplicity 5.1
• HP Advance Design System (ADS) for RF design and simulation
• WCDMA library for HP Advance Design System (ADS)

Dell Workstation	Intel Network Processor Evaluation Platform IXP1200

Iris Scanner

INTEL ADVANCED NETWORK ARCHITECTURE LAB

Location : b-A3006

Equipment Facilities in Intel Advanced Network Architecture Lab
The facilities in this lab enable research and course development on Intel's family of IXP(R) network processors
The lab is equipped with Intel IXP 1200  Network  Processor Evaluation Kit, Intel IXA Software Development Tool and Pentium 4 Personal Computers .

In addition to that the lab is also equipped with Altera FPGA hardware (Flex 10K board) and MAX+PLUS II software development tools for digital system design .Computer aided design software available are Accel Schematic, Accel P-CAD PCB Design and Dr Spice Simulation.
 

Intel IXP 1200  Network  Processor Evaluation Kit	Intel IXA Software Development Tool and Pentium 4 Personal Computers
IXP 1200 Network Processor board	Altera FPGA board

NOKIA WIRELESS COMMUNICATION LAB

Location : b-A4010

Equipment Facilities in NOKIA Wireless Communication Lab
NOKIA Wireless Communication Lab has the facilities to perform a complete evaluation of the GSM Network architecture. This testbed consists of Base Station Subsystem (BSS), Network Subsystem (NSS) and Network Management System (NMS).

The BSS consists of Base Station Controller (BSC), Base Transceiver Station (BTS) and Transcoder Submultiplexer (TCSM). The NSS is formed by Mobile Switching Centre (MSC), Home and Visitor Location Registers (HLR/VLR), Authentication Centre (AC) and Equipment Identity Register (EIR). The NMS is mainly a monitoring and management software system.

The elements in this lab are:

• BTS (2^nd and 3^rd generations DF34, Ultrasite, Metrosite and Insite)
• BSC
• TCSM
• HLR
• MSC
• NMS (Software with PCs)

Nokia Lab - In door Antenna	Lab Snapshot

Flexihopper, Metrohopper Microwave Transmitter/Antenna

MICROFABRICATION LABORATORY (MICROLAB)

Location : b-C3048

The Microfabrication Laboratory (Microlab) is a resource centre for the engineering community of the University. It provides research space in semiconductor and microfabrication technology. The Microlab is a compact, highly flexible laboratory for the microfabrication design, preparation and manufacture of small structures such as novel device & technology; micro-sensors; micro-electro mechanical systems (MEMS); display technology etc using current photolithographic techniques.

The Microlab occupies an area of about 400 square feet providing Class 100 environment and basic fabrication modules: - Photolithography and Wet Etching, Thermal Diffusion and Implantation, Dry Etching and Sputtering and Film and Device Characterisation.

Equipment & Facilities in Microfabrication Lab

• Karl Suss Contact Aligner
• Photoresist Spin coater
• Probe Station
• Photoresist Bake Oven
• Deionised (DI) Water System
• Thermal Evaporator
• Pulsed Laser Deposition System (PLD)
• Chemical Preparation Bench
• Ultrasonic cleaning
• Stereoscope (up to 4x)
• Furnace
• Optical Microscope (in progress)
• D.C. and R.F. Magnetron Deposition System (in progress)
• Ion Beam Etching System (dry etching) (in progress)
• Hall-effect Electronic Transport Measurement System (in progress)
• Stylus Profiler (in progress)
• Wire Bonder (in progress)

Current Project

• Pulsed Laser Deposition of Diamond-like Carbon Films.
• Charaterisation of Localised Surface Defects on Silicon Wafer.
• Double Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor for High Power and High Temperature Applications.
• Thin-Film Battery.

WAVE RADIATION LAB

Location : b-A0004

We are in the process of setting up a Multipurpose Anechoic Chamber which will operate over a very wide frequency range from 30 MHz through 18 GHz. It can be used for EMC tests, antenna measurements, radar cross-section measurements,  RF transceiver testing, calibration of scatterometer, microwave Remote Sensing investigation, and other electromagnetic research topics.

It is suitable for both industrial use and basic research. The equipment that are available include Vector Network Analyzer, EMC Analyzer, Portable E-Field Radiation Meter, Microwave Synthesizer, RF Power Amplifier, Bilog Antennas, Dipole Antenna sets, Wideband Horn Antennas, Standard Gain Horn Antennas, etc.

 

CENTRE for PHOTONICS RESEARCH, INNOVATION and APPLICATIONS (CPRIA)

Location : b-A3001

Equipment & Facilities in CPRIA

This centre is mainly used by staff and postgraduate researchers.

Facilities available in the centre:

Fibre Optic Equipment 

The experimental setup to measure the coupling loss between laser diodes and optical fibers	A splicing machine use to splice two fiber together
This is a fully automated alignment system used to align optical devices with the optical fibers and vice versa	The fusion splicer is used to splice two optical fibers together using the electric arc heating method
This beam profiler is used to study the far field radiation pattern of optical light sources	This OSA (Optical Spectrum Analyser) is used to study the optical spectrum, transmission characteristics in an optical network and analyze different type of light sources like the LED, DFB-LD, FP-LD and so on
Tunable light source provider in the L-Band and the C-band	Optical test system comprises of two modules that are the polarization scrambler and the PDL/OL meter. The polarization scrambler is a device that transforms the input state of polarization (SOP) of a beam into a different output SOP. The PDL/OL meter is to measure the polarization dependance loss and the optical loss in an optical network

CENTRE for MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS (CMMC)

Location : b-A3010

Equipment & Facilities in CMMC

This centre is mainly used by staff and postgraduate researchers.

Facilities available in the centre:

• RF equipment peripheral (The equipment is mainly for RF test and measurements)
  
• Vector Network Analyzer, RF Amplifiers, VNA accessories, Attenuators, N(f)-N(f) Adaptor
  
• Computer and supporting peripheral:

Personal Computers, Hub, Matrox Meteor Frame Grabber Card, Iomega Zip Drive

Multimedia Networked Computers	mnNetwork Analyzer

CENTRE for APPLIED ELECTROMAGNETICS (CAEM)

Location : b-A3010

Equipment & Facilities in CAEM

This centre is mainly used by staff and postgraduate researchers.

Facilities available in the centre:

• Synthesized Sweeper: Can be used to generate various kinds of waveforms. Currently used for remote sensing research.
• SAR Processing Software: A software to process Synthetic Aperture Radar imagery. Can be used for interferometry processing. Currently installed at Computer Architecture Lab.
• Mobile Microwave Monostatic Scatterometer

Mobile Microwave Monostatic Scatterometer	Synthesized Sweeper

CENTRE for SMART SYSTEMS and INNOVATION (CSSI)

Location : b-A3001

Equipment & Facilities in CSSI

This centre is mainly used for staff and postgraduate researchers.

Facilities available in the centre:

• Solid-state ionic (Li ion batteries) research facilities: a 1100 deg. C furnace, a 250 deg. C vacuum oven, a laminator for making flexible thin Li-ion batteries, a electronic balance, two units magnetic stirrer/heater, fume chamber, dessicator and dessicator cabinets, glassware, and other facilities for solid-state ionic researches.
• Thin film deposition facilities: a vacuum evaporator (waiting for setup), a pulse laser depositor (call for quotation).
• Clean room facilities: This clean room will be set up outside the centre. This is set up mainly for fabricating opto-electronic materials, organic electronics, and electroluminescent devices. The equipment received is a water deionizer (waiting for setup). It is expected that the clean room will be ready at the end of next year (2001).
• Other equipment: a pyroelectric joule meter (10 micro-J to 10 milli-J), a fibre optic spectrometer (call for quotation).
• Work station facilities: two HP9000 workstations with two licensed Fortran 77/C/ANSI C compilers, one 4 mm tape drive, one 8 mm tape drive and a HP1600CM Deskjet Printer.

Equipment in the Advance Power Source Laboratory	Battery Testing System