NIMS signs MOU with Nanjing University

( April 23, 2007) The Nano System Functionality Center (NSFC) signed Memorandum of Understanding for collaboration with the Research Institute of Superconductor Electronics (RISE), the Department of Electronic Science and Engineering (DESE) of Nanjing University, China.

From left to right: Prof. L. Kang, Prof. J. Chen, Prof. W. W. Xu (Chair, DESE), and Prof. P. H. Wu (Academician, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Director, RISE), Nanjing University; Dr. T. Hatano (Group Leader), and Dr.H. B. Wang (Senior Researcher), NSFC, NIMS.

RISE is a leading institute in China in the high frequency applications of superconducting devices. NSFC and RISE plan exchange of researchers and information on the researches, either of their own or of the joint ones between them, and other activities in the field of nano superconductor electronics, starting with joint research on terahertz devices and quantum computing utilizing Josephson junctions.