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  Malaysia
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• ChinSeong.Lim@nottingham.edu.my

Biography

Dr. Lim obtained his PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from National 188体育网址_188体育在线-【唯一授权网站】@ of Singapore (NU S), major in the area of micro/nano technology and development of semiconductor processes. He completed his Bachelor degree study in the field of Mechanical Engineering from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Skudai, Johor Malaysia. Prior to joining 188体育网址_188体育在线-【唯一授权网站】@ of Nottingham Malaysia (UNM), Dr. Lim has more than 8 years of working experience in R&D environment as well as high volume manufacturing industry. He was a 188体育网址_188体育在线-【唯一授权网站】@ Scientist in Data Storage Institute (DSI), an Agency of Science, Technology and 188体育网址_188体育在线-【唯一授权网站】@ (ASTAR) affliated research institute in Singapore, primarily working on numerous research projects such as the fabrication of nanostructures for optical nanoscopy and nanoimaging application. Dr. Lim also worked in hard disk drive industry (Seagate Industry) as manufacturing engineer, in semiconductor industry (Chartered Semiconductor) as senior engineer in technology development as well as in R&D (NUS) as research engineer. Throughout these years of work experiences, he had been exposed to various high end technologies in micro and nanoengineering. He has been involved in some of the process improvement projects in Seagate whereby through the execution of six sigma approach the yield had been significantly improved and 2 projects were awarded the best team awards.

Currently Dr. Lim is the Associate Professor in the 188体育网址_188体育在线-【唯一授权网站】@ of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC) at the Department of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering. He is the module convenor for Design and Manufacture 1, and Group Design and Make modules. His research interests include laser-based micro/nano fabrication technology, laser materials processing, development of semiconductor processing technologies, advanced manufacturing techniques, advanced materials synthesis and photonics-related research. Dr. Lim is the Malaysia campus director of the Institute of Aerospace Technology, 188体育网址_188体育在线-【唯一授权网站】@ of Nottingham and leading the Smart Manufacturing and Intelligent Systems research group in UNM.

Dr. Lim also served as the committee member in the Mechanical Engineering Technical Division (METD) in The Institution of Engineers Malaysia (IEM) for numerous years in which the division has won the prestige Annual IEM Presidential Award.

Expertise Summary

- Laser Materials Proceesing

• Ablation
• Surface Modification
• Laser-matter interaction

- Advanced Manufacturing

- Conventional and Non-conventional Machining eg. CNC maching, Electro-discharged Machining

- Additive Manufacturing

- Intelligent Systems in manufacturing and transportation.

- Condition Monitoring and Optimization

- Lithography - Optical & E-beam

- Etching - reactive ion etching, isotropic chemical etching, ion milling

- Thin Film Depositions

- Optical Engineering and Photonics

- Optical and Atomic Force Microscopy

- Spectroscopy

- Terahertz technology

- Metamaterials and Plasmonics

- Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) modeling and simulation

- Six Sigma in Manufacturing Industry for process improvement & yield reduction

Teaching Summary

Dr. Lim's teaching interests are in the area of design and manufacturing whereby he lectures in Year 1 Engineering Drawing and Manufacturing Technologies. He also conduct design office sessions on… read more

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Recent Publications

• HAO HUANG, HONGCHENG WANG, GUIHUA CHEN, MANNA CHEN, CHIN SEONG LIM and KOK-CHEONG WONG, 2023. Stable quantum droplets with higher-order vortex in radial lattices Chaos, Solitons & Fractals. 168, 113137
• R. ZAKARIA, M. MAHBUB and C.S. LIM, 2023. Studies of surface plasmon resonance effect on different metallic layers of silver (Ag) and copper (Cu) with molybdenum trioxide (MoO3) for formaldehyde sensor Results in Optics. 11, 100374
• TIYAMIKE BANDA, VERONICA LESTARI JAUW, ALI AKHAVAN FARID, NG HAO WEN, KEVIN CHOI WEI XUAN and CHIN SEONG LIM, 2023. In-process detection of failure modes using YOLOv3-based on-machine vision system in face milling Inconel 718 The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology. 128, 3885-3899
• TIYAMIKE BANDA, YU-CHEN LIU, ALI AKHAVAN FARID and CHIN SEONG LIM, 2023. A machine learning model for flank wear prediction in face milling of Inconel 718 The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology. 126, 935-945

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Dr. Lim's teaching interests are in the area of design and manufacturing whereby he lectures in Year 1 Engineering Drawing and Manufacturing Technologies. He also conduct design office sessions on Design and Manufacture as well as workshops on Design Methodology for Year 4 Group Design Project students. Besides that Dr. Lim also supervises BEng and MEng final year research projects students which support part of his research activities in Advanced Manufacturing Technology and Laser Micro/Nano Fabrication Techniques.

MM1DM1 Design and Manufacture 1 - Details

MM4GDM Group Design and Make - Details

MM4ATR Advanced Technology Review

BEng Individual Project & Group Design Project

MEng Individual Project & Group Design and Make Project

MSc Project/Dissertation

Current 188体育网址_188体育在线-【唯一授权网站】@

Dr. Lim's main research interests are in the area of laser-based micro/nano fabrication technology and advanced manufacturing techniques. He had actively been working on the development surface micro/nano structuring technique for micro/nano-device fabrication and characterization. He is actively involving in the development of semiconductor processing techniques particularly in photolithography and thin film coating technologies for the synthesis of advanced functional materials. He also working on the research of advanced manufacturing technologies such as CNC machining, 3D printing and non-conventional machining processes. Dr. Lim has vast experiences on operation of various laser systems, semiconductor manufacturing processes and characterization methods. He has published papers in numbers of prestige journals such as Nature, Optics Express, Applied Physics Letters and International Journal of Machine Tool and Manufacture, etc.

• Laser materials processing
• Advanced manufacturing and non-conventional manufacturing
• Additive Manufacturing
• Condition monitoring and optimization
• Intelligent Systems in manufacturing and transportation.
• Micro and nano fabrications
• Semiconductor manufacturing processes
• Micro optics fabrication and characterization
• Surface nanopatterning and nanostructuring
• Advanced Materials Synthesis
• Optics and Photonics
• Terahertz and Metamaterials
• Plasmonic and surface plasmon

• HAO HUANG, HONGCHENG WANG, GUIHUA CHEN, MANNA CHEN, CHIN SEONG LIM and KOK-CHEONG WONG, 2023. Stable quantum droplets with higher-order vortex in radial lattices Chaos, Solitons & Fractals. 168, 113137
• R. ZAKARIA, M. MAHBUB and C.S. LIM, 2023. Studies of surface plasmon resonance effect on different metallic layers of silver (Ag) and copper (Cu) with molybdenum trioxide (MoO3) for formaldehyde sensor Results in Optics. 11, 100374
• TIYAMIKE BANDA, VERONICA LESTARI JAUW, ALI AKHAVAN FARID, NG HAO WEN, KEVIN CHOI WEI XUAN and CHIN SEONG LIM, 2023. In-process detection of failure modes using YOLOv3-based on-machine vision system in face milling Inconel 718 The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology. 128, 3885-3899
• TIYAMIKE BANDA, YU-CHEN LIU, ALI AKHAVAN FARID and CHIN SEONG LIM, 2023. A machine learning model for flank wear prediction in face milling of Inconel 718 The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology. 126, 935-945
• TIYAMIKE BANDA, KING YUNG HO, ALI AKHAVAN FARID and CHIN SEONG LIM, 2022. Characterization of Tool Wear Mechanisms and Failure Modes of TiAlN-NbN Coated Carbide Inserts in Face Milling of Inconel 718 Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance. 31(3), 2309–2320
• LAW, WEE KING, WU, ZI YANG, WONG, KOK CHEONG, WANG, HAO LIANG, SUN, ZHEN ZHONG and LIM, CHIN SEONG, 2022. Investigation of the Influence of Selective Laser Melting Process Parameters on the Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of 18Ni-300 Maraging Steel Key Engineering Materials. 913, 259-264
• HAO HUANG, HONGCHENG WANG, MANNA CHEN, CHIN SEONG LIM and KOK-CHEONG WONG, 2022. Binary-vortex quantum droplets Chaos, Solitons & Fractals. 158, 112079
• TIYAMIKE BANDA, VERONICA LESTARI?JAUW, CHUAN LI, ALI?AKHAVAN?FARID and CHIN SEONG LIM, 2022. Flank wear prediction using spatial binary properties and artificial neural network in face milling of Inconel 718 The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology. 120, 4387–4401
• BANDA, TIYAMIKE, FARID, ALI AKHAVAN, LI, CHUAN, JAUW, VERONICA LESTARI and LIM, CHIN SEONG, 2022. Application of machine vision for tool condition monitoring and tool performance optimization-a review INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADVANCED MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY. 121(11-12), 7057-7086
• BEH, SIN Y., JAUW, VERONICA L., LIM, CHIN SEONG and LIEW, CHEE LEONG, 2022. An Investigation of Automating Fungus Inspection Process of Aircraft Fuel Tank via Image Processing In: 2022 IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Engineering and Technology (IICAIET). 153-157
• JULIANA, HO QIU ANN, SAKUNDARINI, NOVITA and LIM, CHIN SEONG, 2022. Classification of Contaminants in Glass Recycling Using Hybrid CNN-SVM Model In: 2022 IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Engineering and Technology (IICAIET). 113-118
• A. H. ABDULLAH RIPAIN, YUAN FENG LIM, CHIN SEONG LIM and ROZALINA ZAKARIA, 2022. Tailoring of optical and wetting properties of electron beam deposited Ag nanostructure films by oblique angle deposition Journal of Optics.
• K.B. NG, W.Y. CHONG, C.S. LIM and H. AHMAD, 2022. Single-mode SU-8 waveguide fabricated using ultrafast direct laser writing Optik. 270, 170068
• TIYAMIKE BANDA, BRYAN YEOH WEI JIE, ALI AKHAVAN FARID and CHIN SEONG LIM, 2021. Machine Vision and Convolutional NeuralNetworks for Tool Wear Identification andClassification Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering: Recent Trends in Mechatronics Towards Industry 4.0. 730, 737-747
• TIYAMIKE BANDA, KOK-CHEONG WONG, ALI AKHAVAN FARID and CHIN SEONG LIM, 2021. Comparative Study of Temperature Prediction in the Machining Process of Ti-6Al-4V, Inconel 718 and AISI4340 Using Numerical Analysis In: Recent Trends in Manufacturing and Materials Towards Industry 4.0. 579-588
• KOK-CHEONG WONG, ZHI JIE TEE, BOON HOE GOH, CHIN SEONG LIM, ENG HWA YAP and ANDREW HUEY PING TAN, 2021. Thermal Performance of a Double Layer Microchannel Heat Sink with Staggered Triangular Ribs in the Transverse Microchambers In: Recent Trends in Manufacturing and Materials Towards Industry 4.0. 59-68
• LAW, WEE KING, WONG, KOK-CHEONG, WANG, HAOLIANG, SUN, ZHENZHONG and LIM, CHIN SEONG, 2021. Microstructure Evolution in Additively Manufactured Steel Molds: A Review JOURNAL OF MATERIALS ENGINEERING AND PERFORMANCE. 30, 6389–6405
• NURUL SYAZWANI ROHIZAT, ATIENA HUSNA ABDULLAH RIPAIN, CHIN SEONG LIM, CHEE LEONG TAN and ROZALINA ZAKARIA, 2021. Plasmon?enhanced reduced graphene oxide photodetector with monometallic of Au and Ag nanoparticles at VIS–NIR region Scientific Report. 11, 19688
• RAYMOND YEOW CHU CHAI, RICKY CHEE LEONG LIEW and CHIN SEONG LIM, 2021. Investigation on shear strength of AISI 431 martensitic stainless steel subjected to high temperature heating Materials Today: Proceedings. 48(6), 1885-1891
• KOK BIN NG, JINGWEN CHEW, WU YI CHONG, CHIN SEONG LIM and HARITH BIN AHMAD, 2020. Surface ablation of poly allyl diglycol carbonate polymer using high-repetition-rate femtosecond laser Optical Engineering. 59(5), 057102
• WEN SIN CHONG, SOON XIN GAN, HASSAN MOHAMMED AL-TUWIRIT, WU YI CHONG, CHIN SEONG LIM and HARITH AHMAD, 2020. Nanolitre solution drop-casting for selective area graphene oxide coating on planar surfaces Materials Chemistry and Physics. 249, 122970
• HO JINN SHYUAN, PUNG YUH FEN, AZZAHRAAIZZATI BT AZIZA, CHEW HUI YEE, YING YUETLEE, NGUYEN DUONG NGOC DIEM and LIM CHIN SEONG, 2020. Potent antifungal activity of ZnO Nanoparticles on R. mucilaginosa is mediated by reactive oxygen species and zinc ion IOSR Journal of Engineering. 10(4), 44-57
• MOHANKUMAR PALANISWAMY, ANIS SUHAILA SHUIB, KHAI CHING NG, SHAJAN KOSHY, KARUTHAN CHINNA and CHIN SEONG LIM, 2019. Validation of finite element model of human lumbar vertebrae under mechanical forces AIP Conference Proceedings: Proceedings of the International Engineering 188体育网址_188体育在线-【唯一授权网站】@ Conference. 2137, 040004
• SHANMUGA VADIVU, N.AND ZAKARIA, R.AND MEZHER, M. H.AND MAHESWAR, R.AND LIM, C. S.AND LAI, D.AND AMIRI, I. S., 2019. Graphene oxide coated side polished surface plasmon resonance optical fibre sensor with varying polishing losses Optical and Quantum Electronics. 51(11), 366
• S.F.A.Z. YUSOFF, C.S. LIM, S.R. AZZUHRI, H. AHMAD and R. ZAKARIA, 2018. Studies of Ag/TiO2 plasmonics structures integrated in side polished optical fiber used as humidity sensor Results in Physics. 10, 308-316
• IRAJ S. AMIRI, M.M. ARIANNEJAD, D. VIGNESWARAN, C.S. LIM and P. YUPAPIN, 2018. Performances and procedures modules in micro electro mechanical system packaging technologies Results in Physics. 11, 306-314
• ROZALINA ZAKARIA, SITI FATIMAH AZ ZAHRA YUSOFF,, KOK CHUNG LAW,, CHIN SEONG LIM, and HARITH AHMAD, 2017. Investigation on the Effects of the Formation of a Silver “Flower-Like Structure” on Graphene Nanoscale 188体育网址_188体育在线-【唯一授权网站】@ Letters. 12(1), 1-9
• A. LOW, S.H. SAW, V. DAMIDEH and C. S. LIM, 2016. Process Development and Optimisation of Carbon-based Thin Film Deposition through Ablation of Graphite Key Engineering Materials: Science and Engineering of Materials II. 701, 42-46
• A. XAVIER and C.S. LIM, 2015. Simulation and Analysis of Temperature Distribution and Material Properties Change of a Thermal Heat Sink Undergoing Thermal Loading in a Mobile Computer IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering. 88(1), 012043
• LIM, CS, HONG, MH, KUMAR, A SENTHIL, RAHMAN, M and CHONG, TC, 2012. Study of field intensity distribution of laser beam propagating through a micro-lens array Applied Physics A. 107(1), 149-153
• HAN, NR, CHEN, ZC, LIM, CS, NG, B and HONG, MH, 2011. Broadband multi-layer terahertz metamaterials fabrication and characterization on flexible substrates Optics express. 19(8), 6990-6998
• WANG F, HAN Y, LIM CS, LU Y, WANG J, XU J, CHEN H, ZHANG C, HONG M and LIU X, 2010. Simultaneous phase and size control of upconversion nanocrystals through lanthanide doping. Nature. 463(7284), 1061-5
• CHEN, ZC, HONG, MH, DONG, H, GONG, YD, LIM, CS, SHI, LP and CHONG, TC, 2010. Parallel laser microfabrication of terahertz metamaterials and its polarization-dependent transmission property Applied Physics A. 101(1), 33-36
• LIM, CS, HONG, MH, LIN, Y, TAN, LS, KUMAR, A SENTHIL and RAHMAN, M, 2010. Large area parallel surface nanostructuring with laser irradiation through microlens arrays Surface Review and Letters. 17(03), 383-387
• CHEN, ZC, HONG, MH, LIM, CS, HAN, NR, SHI, LP and CHONG, TC, 2010. Parallel laser microfabrication of large-area asymmetric split ring resonator metamaterials and its structural tuning for terahertz resonance Applied Physics Letters. 96(18), 181101
• LIM, CS, HONG, MH, CHEN, ZC, HAN, NR, LUK?YANCHUK, B and CHONG, TC, 2010. Hybrid metamaterial design and fabrication for terahertz resonance response enhancement Optics express. 18(12), 12421-12429
• LIN, Y, HONG, MH, CHEN, GX, LIM, CS, WANG, ZB, TAN, LS, SHI, LP and CHONG, TC, 2008. Patterning of phase change films with microlens arrays Journal of Alloys and Compounds. 449(1), 253-257
• LIN, Y, HONG, MH, TAN, LS, LIM, CS, SHI, LP and CHONG, TC, 2008. Three Dimensional Micro/Nano-structure Fabrication of Phase-change Film J. Laser. Micro. Nanoen. 3, 52-57
• HONG, MINGHUI, LIM, CHIN SEONG, ZHOU, YI, TAN, LENG SEOW, SHI, LUPING and CHONG, TOW CHONG, 2008. Surface nano-fabrication by laser precision engineering The Review of Laser Engineering. 36(APLS), 1184-1187
• ZHOU, Y, HONG, MH, FUH, JYH, LU, L, LUK?YANCHUK, BS, LIM, CS and WANG, ZB, 2007. Nanopatterning mask fabrication by femtosecond laser irradiation Journal of materials processing technology. 192, 212-217
• LIN, Y, HONG, MH, CHEN, GX, LIM, CS, TAN, LS, WANG, ZB, SHI, LP and CHONG, TC, 2007. Hybrid laser micro/nanofabrication of phase change materials with combination of chemical processing Journal of materials processing technology. 192, 340-345
• LIM, CS, HONG, MH, LIN, Y, CHEN, GX, KUMAR, A SENTHIL, RAHMAN, M, TAN, LS, FUH, JYH and LIM, GC, 2007. Sub-micron surface patterning by laser irradiation through microlens arrays Journal of materials processing technology. 192, 328-333
• LIM, CS, HONG, MH, KUMAR, A SENTHIL, RAHMAN, M and LIU, XD, 2006. Fabrication of concave micro lens array using laser patterning and isotropic etching International journal of machine tools and manufacture. 46(5), 552-558
• LIM, CS, HONG, MH, LIN, Y, XIE, Q, LUK?YANCHUK, BS, SENTHIL KUMAR, A and RAHMAN, M, 2006. Microlens array fabrication by laser interference lithography for super-resolution surface nanopatterning Applied physics letters. 89(19), 191125
• LIN, Y, HONG, MH, CHONG, TC, LIM, CS, CHEN, GX, TAN, LS, WANG, ZB and SHI, LP, 2006. Ultrafast-laser-induced parallel phase-change nanolithography Applied physics letters. 89(4), 041108
• LAW, WEE KING, WU, ZIYANG, SONG, CHENGHAO, WANG, HAOLIANG, WONG, KOK-CHEONG, LIM, CHIN SEONG and SUN, ZHENZHONG, Optimization of Selective Laser Melting Process Parameters Via Taguchi's Methods and Gray Relational Analysis for 3D Printing of 18Ni-300 Maraging Steel steel research international. n/a(n/a), 2200203