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Crystal Growth Information Engineering Lab
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A lab that grows next-generation semiconductor crystals, making full use of AI.
AboutAbout the lab
Growing high-quality crystals together with AI.
The Ujihara Lab centers on crystal growth, the process of growing crystals, and researches next-generation semiconductors and materials that handle heat.
For SiC crystals, which are expected to be a material for power semiconductors that control electric power, the lab also investigates how defects, which are disorders in the arrangement of atoms, form.
To speed up materials development, the lab incorporates AI (machine learning) into searching for crystal growth conditions and optimizing manufacturing processes.
Key terms
- Crystal growth
- Growing a crystal, in which atoms or molecules are arranged in a regular pattern, to a large size in a liquid or gas.
- Power semiconductor
- A semiconductor that converts and controls electric power in devices such as electric vehicles and home appliances.
- Defect
- A place in a crystal where the arrangement of atoms is disordered. It can degrade semiconductor performance.
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The lab researches growing high-quality crystals such as SiC, which is used in next-generation power semiconductors. It also works on materials development using AI (machine learning), evaluation of crystal defects, and materials that control heat.
*Illustrative imageCrystal Growth of SiC
The lab researches and develops SiC, a new material for power semiconductors that control electric power. It is expected to outperform the characteristics of today's silicon (Si) by about 10 times.
*Illustrative imageAccelerating Materials Development with AI
Overturning the conventional wisdom that “materials development takes decades,” the lab incorporates AI (machine learning) into materials development to make development possible in two to three years.
*Illustrative imageEvaluating Crystal Defects
In SiC and GaN crystals, which are ideal materials for high-performance devices, the lab clarifies how defects, disorders in the arrangement of atoms, form, supporting high-quality crystal growth.
*Illustrative imageMaterials That Switch Heat
To make use of the energy (heat) that is wasted on Earth, the lab researches materials that switch by themselves between a state that stores heat and a state that releases it.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Ujihara Lab consist of faculty, researchers, secretaries, technical assistants, and students in the doctoral, master's, and undergraduate programs.As of 2025
- ProfessorToru Ujihara
- Associate ProfessorShunta Harada
- Associate ProfessorKentaro Kutsukake
- Project Associate ProfessorLIU Xin
- Project Assistant ProfessorTomoki Harada
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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: “Rounded Silicon Carbide Ingot (cropped)” LaMèreVeille / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Crystal Growth of SiC: “SiC wafers 6inch” FDominec / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Accelerating Materials Development with AI: “PDC server room” Esquilo / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Evaluating Crystal Defects: “Scrutinyite crystal structure (Wyckoff 1963) polyhedra model on (001)” Ra'ike (Wikipedia) / CC0 (cropped)
- Materials That Switch Heat: “KSD-301 thermal switch 03” Retired electrician / CC0 (cropped)
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