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Since it was funded in 1988, National Nano Device Laboratories (NDL) has been playing a significant role in support of universities in Taiwan for research and development in advance semiconductor process technologies, and educating and training high-tech people for the microelectronics industries. With the recent development of the processing technologies into the nano-meter scale, NDL is facing many new research topics and new challenges. Therefore, NDL will further tighten up links with both the universities and relevant industries, to shift the R & D focus from sole-Si process-oriented to the new generation of nano-materials and nano-devices and relevant application areas. This strategic change follows the trend in the global research field, and demands a multidisciplinary knowledge base, innovative ideas, long-term efforts, and worldwide collaborations.
Together with researchers and engineers from all over the country in the nano area, NDL aims at efficiently developing research competence and expertise in nano-science and technology. All our staffs are making efforts to provide a better infrastructure for academic research, such that researchers and graduate students from universities and other research institutes may more effectively use the various software and hardware facilities at NDL to perform high-profile research at an internationally competitive level, while to train people that are demanded in this exciting high-tech field. We shall be "Creative for the future". So, along with the road towards the nano-world, NDL is full of enthusiasm to make contributions in promoting nanotechnologies in Taiwan.
Wei-Xin Ni
Director general of NDL