1st International Symposium on the
Functionality of Organized Nanostructures
(FON'04)
(Celebrating the 15th Anniversary of the Atomcraft Project)
§November 30, 2004
18:00 Early Registration and Mixing (Okura Frontier Hotel Tsukuba)
 
§December 1, 2004
8:00 Regstration (International Congress Center)
 
Chair: T. Nakayama
8:45 T. Nakayama (NIMS & University of Tsukuba)
Opening Remark
8:50 T. Kishi (President of NIMS)
Greetings
9:00 H. Rohrer (Nobel Laureate, Switzerland)
Nano materialscience
 
9:30 Short break
 
Chair: D. Eigler
9:45 J.K. Gimzewski (UCLA, USA)
Nanomechanical probes from bacteria to nuclear fusion
10:15 T. Kawai (Osaka University, Japan)
DNA based nano-scale bio-devices
10:45 H. Tokumoto (Hokkaido University, Japan)
Single multi-walled carbon nanotubes for SPM-tips and FE sources
11:15 Poster Session (Group Photo & Coffee Service)

 
12:15 Lunch
 
Chair: T. Sakurai
13:15 D. Eigler (IBM, USA)
Single-atom spin-flip spectroscopy
13:45 M. Kawai (RIKEN & Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Electron Phonon Interaction at Surfaces
14:15 T.T. Tsong (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Quantum and size effects on the growth of surface nano structures
14:45 K. Takayanagi (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
STM-UHV electron microscope study on nanowires and nanocontacts: Structure and electronic conductance quantization
 
15:15 Short break
 
Chair: F. Himpsel
15:30 C. Joachim (CNRS, France)
Electronic contact conductance on a molecular wire
16:00 M. Tsukada (Waseda University, Japan)
Recent theoretical progress of SPM and nano-structures
16:30 A. Tonomura (Hitachi & RIKEN, Japan)
The quantum phenomena observed by electrons
17:00 S. Tarucha (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Control over spin effects in semiconductor quantum dot molecules
17:30 Y. Arakawa (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Fabrication and optical properties of quantum dots for advanced photonic devices
 
19:00 Banquet (Okura Frontier Hotel Tsukuba)

 
§December 2, 2004
Chair: H. Yokoyama
8:30 E. Maruyama (RIKEN, Japan)
Some historical notes on nanoscience/technology research in Japan
9:00 C. Gerber (IBM, Switzerland)
Nanomechanics : a toolbox for the small
9:30 K. Namba (Osaka University, Japan)
Self-assembly and dynamic switching of the bacterial flagellum
10:00 Y. Horiike (NIMS, Japan)
Behaviors of DNA in nano-channel
 
10:30 Short break
 
Chair: C. Joachim
10:50 H. Yokoyama (AIST, Japan)
Novel electro-optical and mechanical functionalities in nanostructured liquid crystals
11:20 P.S. Weiss (Pennsilvania State Univ., USA)
Creating nanostructures through self- and directed assembly
11:50 T. Hashizume (Hitachi, Japan)
Characteristics of organic nanowires using two-/four-probe fine electrodes fabricated by SPM nanofabrication
 
12:20 Lunch
 
Chair: J.K. Gimzewski
13:20 F. Himpsel (Univ. of Wisconsin Madison, USA)
Atomic chains on silicon: From low-dimensional electrons to the limits of data storage
13:50 N. Koguchi (NIMS, Japan)
Self-assembly of semiconductor quantum dots by droplet epitaxy
14:20 J.-S. Tsai (NEC & RIKEN, Japan)
Recent progresses in superconducting charge qubit
14:50 K. Matsumoto (Osaka University)
Carbon nanotube applications for nanoelectron devices
 
15:20 Short break
 
Chair: J.-S. Tsai
15:40 J.-G. Hou (Univ. of Sci. & Technol. of China, China)
Study of single molecules and nanoparticles with a scanning tunneling microscope
16:10 M. Hara (Tokyo Inst. of Technol. & RIKEN, Japan)
Self-Assembled Monolayers and Single Molecular Detection
16:40 J. Pethica (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland)
Nanomechanics, energy dissipation and shape formation
17:10 T. Sakurai (Tohoku University, Japan)
Alkali metals adsorption on the Si (111)-7x7 surface: From 2D gas to magic clusters
17:40 M. Aono (NIMS & Osaka Univ., Japan)
Fabrication, characterization and organization of nanostructures
 
18:10 F. Grey (CERN, Switzerland)
Closing Remark