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Yokota Lab
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A lab that creates thin, lightweight, bendable, soft sensors.
AboutAbout the lab
Thin, lightweight, bendable sensors.
The Yokota Lab conducts basic and applied research on flexible and stretchable devices, including organic electronics.
Organic electronics can be easily fabricated on film substrates using printing techniques such as inkjet and screen printing.
For this reason, they are attracting attention as next-generation electronics that are thin, lightweight, and bendable.
In particular, the lab is developing soft sensors that can detect physical quantities such as light, temperature, and pressure.
Key terms
- Organic electronics
- Electronic devices made from organic materials containing carbon. They can be fabricated on film by printing.
- Stretchable
- The ability to keep working as an electronic circuit without breaking, even when stretched and contracted.
- Imager
- An element that receives light and converts it into an image. It corresponds to the "eye" of a camera.
NewsLab news
A paper by a master's student was published in IEEJ Transactions on Sensors and Micromachines (Trans. E)
Assistant Professor Takakuwa received the Young Leader Award at ICFPE2026
A paper co-authored with a research group at Tsinghua University was published in ACS Nano
A paper co-authored with a research group at the University of Toronto was published in Science Advances
A review of flexible infrared image sensors was published in npj Flexible Electronics
ResearchResearch themes
The lab conducts basic and applied research on flexible and stretchable devices, including organic electronics. In particular, it is developing soft sensors that can detect physical quantities such as light, temperature, and pressure.
*Illustrative imageDevelopment of Soft Sensors
The lab creates bendable and stretchable sensors using new materials and new principles. By dispersing conductive materials in a polymer material, the lab succeeded in developing a flexible temperature sensor.
*Illustrative imageFlexible Imagers
The lab fabricates organic optical devices on soft substrates to develop lightweight, thin imagers. This leads to integration into wearable devices and to bioimaging with imagers attached to the skin.
*Illustrative imageBiosensing with Devices
The lab develops skin-attachable sensors and textile-based sensors using soft, flexible devices. The aim is a system that can continuously measure biosignals and information from inside the body over a long period.
MembersFaculty
The Yokota Lab consists of faculty members; doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students; research fellows; project researchers; visiting researchers; and technical assistants.As of 2026
- Associate ProfessorTomoyuki YokotaPublications ↗
- Assistant ProfessorMasahito TakakuwaPublications ↗
- Assistant ProfessorYusaku TagawaPublications ↗
- Project Assistant ProfessorBaocai Du
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Report an errorAbout the images
The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Strain gauge” Cristian V. / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Development of Soft Sensors: “Flexible Printed Circuit Board Glued To Support” Richard Wheeler User:Zephyris / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Flexible Imagers: “CMOS image sensor chip-scale package top” Phiarc / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Biosensing with Devices: “Two fold conductive yarn” Svasile / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Takamiya Lab): “TI HC32 Die Shot (4x2-Input OR Gate)” Cole L / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Someya-Jimbo Lab): “Stretchable Electronics” Steve Jurvetson from Menlo Park, USA / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Toprasertpong Lab): “Ferroelectric domains at a PZT grain boundary ( )” Oak Ridge National Laboratory / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Tanaka-Ohya-Nakane-Le Lab): “Molecular-beam epitaxy system at LAAS 0514” Guillaume Paumier (user:guillom) / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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