SINGAPORE, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) -- University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) and the Institute of Microelectronics (IME) of Singapore have reached an agreement on "green electronics" research collaboration.

    According to a statement by Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) on Tuesday, the agreement focused on developing ultra-efficient nano-scale transistors and exploring their circuit-level functionality.

    The collaborative research targets design, modeling, fabrication, and characterization of an emerging category of "green" nano-scale devices with ultra-low leakage.

    UC Santa Barbara is a global leader in bioengineering, chemical and computational engineering, materials science, nanotechnology and physics while the IME is a research institute of the Science and Engineering Research Council of A*STAR, Singapore's lead research agency.