NIMS NOW International 2010.Vol.8 No.05<June>

Contents

• Increasing the Reliability of Material

  Activities of the Materials Reliability Center

  Toshio Ogata
  Managing Director,
  Materials Reliability Center

  Reliability Assessments in Extremely Severe Environments - Contributing th the Japanese Space Rocket H-ⅡA

  Toshio Ogata, Yoshinori Ono,
  Special Environment Group,
  Materials Reliability Center

  Aiming at the Construction of an Asian Atmospheric Corrosion Network

  Tadashi Shinohara, Akira Tahara
  Corrosion Group,
  Materials Reliability Center

  Failure Analysis by Fractography

  Etsuo Takeuchi, Yoshiyuki Furuya,
  Fatigue Group,
  Materials Reliability Center

• Research Highlights

  Atom Probe Tomography of Insulating Ceramics Using Ultraviolet Pulsed Laser

  T. Ohkubo,
  Group Leader, Nanostructure Analysis Group, Magnetic Materials Center
  
  Y. M. Chen, M. Kodzuka,
  Doctoral Program in Materials Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba
  
  K.Hono,
  NIMS Fellow and Managing Director, Magnetic Materials Center
  

  Eco-friendly Semiconductor: Potential as a Light-Emitter - A Controlled Interface of "Monolayer-Semiconductor" Nanostructure Leads to the Unique Luminescence Property -

  Naoto Shirahata,
  Principal Researcher, Fine Particle Processing Group, Nano Ceramics Center
  
  Yoshio Sakka,
  Managing Director, Nano Ceramics Center and Group Leader, Fine Particle Processing Group

  Development of Confocal Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy - From 2-Dimensional Images to 3-Dimensional Images

  Masaki Takeguchi,
  Advanced Electron Microscopy Group,
  Advanced Nano Characterization Center
  
  Ayako Hashimoto,
  Advanced Electron Microscopy Group,
  Advanced Nano Characterization Center
  
  Kazutaka Mitsuishi,
  Nano Growth Group, Quantum Dot Research Center
  
  

• Face Interview

  The Increasing Importance of Materials Science

  Dr. Junichi Sone,
  Vice President, NIMS

  Making NIMS a Global Hub of Materials Research

  Dr. Eiji Muromachi,
  Vice President, NIMS

• NIMS NEWS

  NEWS: The 1st Singapore-Japan Workshop on Progress in Nanomaterials

  INFO: Announcement of NIMS Conference 2010 in July

  Hello from NIMS