NIMS News
High Coercivity Neodymium Magnet without Using Heavy Rare Earth Element Dysprosium
- 2010/08/30 (Mon) update Press Release NEW
- NIMS developed a method for increasing the coercivity of neodymium magnet powder without using dyspr…
Development of World’s Highest Performance Thin Film Condenser
High-k Dielectric Nanosheets Realizes the Smallest, Highest Capacitance Device
- 2010/08/24 (Tue) update Press Release NEW
- A research group headed by MANA Scientist Dr. Minoru Osada and Principal Investigator Dr. Takayoshi …
Development of FePt perpendicular magnetic recording media for thermally-assisted magnetic recording (TAMR)
- 2010/08/02 (Mon) update Press Release NEW
- Dr. Kazuhiro Hono, Managing Director of the Magnetic Materials Center at the NIMS, together with Dr.…
IF of STAM increased by 105% from 2008 to 2010
- 2010/07/29 (Thu) update News Archive NEW
- On 17th June, Thomson Reuters announced the latest impact factors for international journals, and it…
Iron-based Superconductivity – Induced by Alcoholic Beverages?
- 2010/07/27 (Tue) update Press Release NEW
- NIMS has discovered that alcoholic beverages, including red wine, beer, and others, are effective in…
National Institute for Materials Science and DSM to collaborate on research in biomedical material science
- 2010/07/23 (Fri) update Press Release NEW
- DSM and NIMS announced today the agreement on collaborative research in biomedical-related material …
NIMS Signed Comprehensive Collaborative Agreement with the University of Rennes 1 of France
- 2010/07/22 (Thu) update News Archive NEW
- NIMS Signed Comprehensive Collaborative Agreement with the University of Rennes 1 of France
Success in Spectroscopy of Impurities in Germanium Nanowires with Diameter of 20nm
– Establishment of New Characterization Technology for Next-generation Vertical Transistor Materials –
- 2010/07/15 (Thu) update Press Release NEW
- NIMS succeeded in nondestructive/noncontact detection of the states of dopant impurities introduced …
Success in Development of Optical Nano Sensor with Information Memory Capability
– Road to the Development of Artificial Eyes and Learning-type Image Recognition Systems –
- 2010/07/13 (Tue) update Press Release NEW
- A joint research group consisting of Assistant Professor Hirofumi Tanaka, Researcher Takami Hino, an…
Renewal of the NIMS Materials Database
– MatNavi Is Now Even Easier to Use –
- 2010/07/12 (Mon) update Press Release NEW
- The Materials Database Station of NIMS recently carried out a renewal of the NIMS Materials Database…
Realization of the Thinnest Integrated Circuit Component on Earth
– A Logic Inverter with Graphene Atomic Layer –
- 2010/06/23 (Wed) update Press Release NEW
- Researchers at the NIMS demonstrated an integrated circuit fundamental component with graphene, a hi…
World’s First Successful Direct Observation of “Vortex-shaped Spin Texture: Skyrmion Crystal”
– Revolutionary Improvement in Hard-Disk Read Sensitivity Expected –
- 2010/06/17 (Thu) update Press Release NEW
- As part of the JST Targeted Basic Research program, Prof. Yoshinori Tokura of the University of Toky…
Winner of the NIMS Award at the NIMS Conference
- 2010/06/14 (Mon) update Press Release NEW
- NIMS recently selected the winner of the NIMS Award for 2010. The Award Ceremony will be held during…
Discovery of a Novel High Activity Photocatalyst Material: A Great Step Toward the Realization of Artificial Photosynthesis
– Discovery of a Revolutionary Oxidation Property in Silver Phosphate with Quantum Yield of Approximately 90% in Visible Light –
- 2010/06/07 (Mon) update Press Release NEW
- The Photocatalytic Materials Cente of the NIMS discovered that silver phosphate (Ag3PO4) is a photoc…
NIMS Issues Data Sheets on the Mechanical Properties of Space Use Materials
- 2010/05/25 (Tue) update Press Release NEW
- NIMS in collaboration with JAXA is engaged in various activities related to the preparation of data …








