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Oogane-Nakano Lab
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The lab aims to acquire brain information through spintronics that makes every kind of magnetic field visible.
AboutAbout the lab
Aiming to make every magnetic field visible
The Oogane-Nakano Lab (Spin Electronics Division) aims to realize brain information acquisition devices using quantum spintronics sensors (TMR sensors).
With the goal of devices usable "anytime, anywhere, by anyone," the lab works on developing new materials and devices, as well as integration, circuit, and AI technologies.
Applications listed for TMR sensors include medicine and healthcare, infrastructure inspection, current sensors, position detection sensors, and resource exploration.
On the lab's website, it is introduced under the name "Oogane Lab."
Key terms
- Spintronics
- A technology that uses not only the charge of electrons but also their spin (the magnet-like property of electrons)
- TMR sensor
- Common name for a quantum spintronics sensor. A type of magnetic sensor that measures magnetic fields
- Brain-machine interface (BMI)
- A technology that connects the brain and machines to exchange information
NewsLab news
Spin I/O, headed by a doctoral student, wins the top prize at Deep Tech Grand Prix 2026
A paper on materials for highly sensitive magnetic sensors, with a doctoral student as first author, is published
ResearchResearch themes
Aiming to make every magnetic field visible, the lab works to realize brain information acquisition devices using quantum spintronics sensors (TMR sensors). The applications of TMR sensors are said to extend to medicine and healthcare, infrastructure inspection, resource exploration, and more.
*Illustrative imageAcquiring Brain Information with TMR Sensors
The lab regards quantum spintronics technology, which can acquire human brain information with high precision and process it at high speed, as a key technology for the next digital revolution. It aims to realize brain information acquisition devices using TMR sensors.
*Illustrative imageDeveloping Materials, Devices, Circuits, and AI Technologies
Toward devices that can be used "anytime, anywhere, by anyone," the lab creates new materials and devices and develops integration, circuit, and AI technologies. It is also working on spintronics-based brain-machine interfaces (BMI), an extremely compact MRI system, and materials that enhance the magnetoresistance effect and spin injection efficiency.
*Illustrative imageDiverse Applications of TMR Sensors
The applications of TMR sensors go beyond medicine and healthcare. The lab states that they can also be used for non-destructive inspection deep inside infrastructure, current sensors for electric vehicles and storage batteries, position detection for autonomous driving, and resource exploration undersea and in space. They are planned to be installed on a rocket heading for Mars around 2030.
MembersFaculty
The Spin Electronics Division consists of faculty, project faculty, academic researchers, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, administrative assistants, temporary agency staff, research collaborators, and commissioned researchers.As of 2026
- ProfessorMikihiko Oogane
- Associate ProfessorTakafumi Nakano
- Assistant ProfessorChaoliang Zhang
- Project ProfessorTsutomu Miho
- Project LecturerHiroyuki Kanno
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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: “Tchibo Electronic Puzzle - board-4451” Raimond Spekking / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Acquiring Brain Information with TMR Sensors: “Brain-computer interface experiment” Laurens R. Krol / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Developing Materials, Devices, Circuits, and AI Technologies: “Micro-chips wafer (25079)” Syced / CC0 (cropped)
- Diverse Applications of TMR Sensors: “Space Shuttle Columbia launching” NASA / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Advanced Spintronics Medical Application Engineering Joint Research Lab): “Hall sensor square van der Pauw Geometry” Panoga / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Next-Generation Spin Electronics Materials Engineering [Tsunoda] Lab): “Actuator arm assembly of a hard disk drive” Mk2010 / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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