Kanagawa Academy of Science and Technology (KAST)

Current Research Projects: http://www.newkast.or.jp/english/projects/index.html

Monash University Research

Recent research highlights

* Revolutionizing the design of fuel cells used in the latest generation of hybrid cars, which could make the vehicles more reliable and cheaper to build.

* A way to remove stains using sunlight, which means that in a few years, there will be the potential to produce self-cleaning clothes.

* The development of a model for world’s best practice counter-terrorism community policing in collaboration with Victoria Police.

* The use of DNA fingerprinting to identify which embryos implanted after in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) have resulted in the birth of healthy babies.

* Developing a simple and inexpensive testing strip made from paper that instantly identifies a person's blood type.

Source: http://www.monash.edu.au/research/about/achievements.html

Organic electronics

Organic Materials Are Poised As Never Before To Transform the world of circuit and display technology. Using organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs), organic full-color displays may eventually replace liquid-crystal displays (LCDs) for use with laptop and even desktop computers.

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Unleashing the high frequency spectrum

The frequency range of 10-100 GHz offers a gold mine of commercial and military applications. Full-blown system integration has been rare, however. This is rapidly being transformed by indium phosphide heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs), a technology that is now yielding large-scale integrated (LSI) circuits packing 1000 to 10 000 transistors on a chip and operating at over 65 GHz. Success in integrating such fast, dense transistors has bred numerous analog, digital, and mixed-mode ICs having unprecedented performance. Moreover, such high-speed integration is not only possible but marketable, too, because consumer demand for data from the Internet, digital audio and video, and video-on-demand is on the rise.

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What the World Spends on Research

Research and development drives any high-tech economy, but the U.S. ranks only eighth in the world on R&D spending as a percentage of the gross domestic product.

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