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Satoshi Hiura, Professor
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The Electronic Materials Lab studies electronics technology, including nanoelectronic materials, to create new electronic and optical functions. The lab seeks to understand how electrons and light behave in semiconductor nanoelectronic materials from the perspectives of both electronic engineering and condensed matter physics. Based on this understanding, the lab makes energy-saving light-emitting diodes, lasers, and photodiodes, and explores new devices for optoelectronic information conversion. The lab also works on simulation of the plasma used to integrate these devices.
Tetsuya Uemura, Professor
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The Nanoelectronic Devices Lab studies "spintronics," which makes use of both the charge and the spin of electrons. The lab freely controls the spin state of electrons in various materials, such as ferromagnets and semiconductors, to create devices with new functions. Using half-metals, ferromagnets in which spin direction is 100% aligned, the lab works on technologies leading to next-generation ultra-high-capacity, ultra-low-power memory and logic circuits. Toward quantum information devices that use spin, the lab also investigates the properties of electron spins and nuclear spins in semiconductors.
Hiroki Tokunaga, Professor
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The Optoelectronics Lab studies quantum optics and quantum information, as well as nonlinear optics and optical information processing. Making use of the "quantum nature of light," the lab works on unconditionally secure quantum cryptographic communication, quantum computers that process enormous amounts of data, and quantum measurement with extreme sensitivity. Focusing on the "wave nature of light," the lab also handles optical information processing technologies such as ultra-high-capacity optical communication, optical phase conjugation, and super-resolution image processing. Its goal is breakthroughs that greatly change society, beyond what steady incremental improvements can reach.
Kuniharu Takei, Professor
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The Nano Material Properties Engineering Lab aims to realize highly functional, high-performance devices using inorganic nanomaterials. Beyond making individual devices, the lab studies everything in one integrated effort: materials, devices, process development, and machine learning for data analysis. Applications are wide-ranging, including wearable health monitoring systems, electronic skin, IoT, plant health monitoring, and VR/AR. Undergraduate students also get to take part in international conferences and write papers in English, with the aim of training researchers and engineers who feel no barrier with English.
Fumitaro Ishikawa, Professor
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The Advanced Nano-Electronic Materials Lab studies new electronic materials using "epitaxial growth," in which semiconductor crystals are built up layer by atomic layer. When materials reach the nanometer scale, they show properties different from those they have at visible sizes. Building on molecular beam epitaxy, the lab makes semiconductor materials such as "nanowires," needle-shaped crystals that take advantage of these size effects. The lab was founded in April 2022, and its master's and doctoral students actively present at international conferences and write papers.
Masayuki Ikebe, Professor
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The Functional Communication and Sensing Lab studies systems, circuits, and devices for information communication and sensing, aiming to realize an IoT society. It works on devices that handle terahertz waves using low-cost CMOS technology, circuits that run on very little power, and intelligent sensing technology that also relates to human sensibility. In the device group, for power devices that must be highly efficient to save energy, the lab fabricates and evaluates the interface between gallium nitride (GaN) and insulating films (the MOS interface), and studies how to establish methods to control it.
Hiromichi Ohta, Professor
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The Functional Thin Film Materials Lab (Ohta Lab) studies new devices made from thin films of functional oxides. From oxides that have traditionally been treated as ceramics, the lab grows high-quality thin films with atomically flat surfaces and brings out their inherent properties. The lab works on three topics: "thermal transistors" that switch heat flow on and off, oxide thermoelectric materials that convert heat into electricity, and transparent oxide transistors. The lab conducts joint research with overseas universities, including Pusan National University in South Korea.
Hajime Nakanotani, Professor
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The Organic Quantum Photonic Devices Lab studies how electrons transition within materials and how materials interact with light. Through fundamental research that aims to understand these mechanisms from the ground up, the lab pursues research that leads to next-generation organic optoelectronics. The lab was launched in April 2025 and is run jointly by faculty members with different areas of expertise.
Hidemi Watanabe, Professor
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The Genome Informatics Lab reads genome information, the totality of the genetic information an organism carries, through information processing and comparative analysis. The lab aims to elucidate various biological phenomena as well as the diversity of organisms and the process of their evolution. In addition to information analysis using large-scale computers, the lab also carries out biological experiments such as DNA sequencing. Research themes include genome analysis of plants and viruses and analysis of biodiversity.
Toshinori Endo, Professor
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The Bioinformatics Lab focuses on genes and proteins, the information carried by living organisms, and studies their structure, function, and evolution. The lab aims to understand the essence of life by clarifying the organizing principles of biomolecules, their behavior in networks, biodiversity, and molecular phylogeny. The lab hopes to connect its findings to advances in medicine, drug discovery, and agriculture. Students are free to choose their own research topics within related areas.
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