Invention, development,
and practical application
Professor Aono is a world-famous pioneer of nanoscale science and technology. He was called the “Leader in Atomic-scale Control and Nano-manipulation” in an issue of the American Chemical Society journal (ACS Nano 1, 397 (2007), and when he received the Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology (Foresight Institute, USA), the reason given for him being awarded the prize was: “. . . in recognition of his pioneering and continuing work" and for " . . . his inspiration of an entire generation of researchers, who have made their own ground-breaking contributions to nanotechnology.” (2010). His representative research accomplishments are as shown below.
Atomic Switches
Invention, development,
and practical application
Multiprobe SPMs (STM & SFM)
Nanoscale electrical
conductivity measurement, etc.
Nanochemistry
Controlling chemical reactions
locally at the molecular scale
STM combined with synchrotron X-rays
Elemental identification
in STM images, etc.
Aono Atomcraft Project
Atom manipulation and nanoscale
structure fabrication
Surface & bulk energy band mapping
Angle-resolved
photoelectron spectroscopy
Surface structure analysis
Invention of a special
mode of ion scattering spectroscopy
2017 |
Tsukuba Prize (“Invention, Development and Practical Application of the Atomic Switch”) |
2013 |
Nanoscience Prize, International ACSIN Conference 2013 (“Pioneering Work on Nanoscale Fabrication and Measurement”) |
2010 |
Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology (USA) (“Pioneering and Continuing Work on Various Fields of Nanotechnology”) |
2007 |
Advanced Grant of the World Premier International Center Initiative (WPI Program), Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology of Japan (Inauguration of “MANA” Center) |
2007 |
Fellow of the Applied Physics society of Japan |
2007 |
Outstanding Paper Award, Surface Science Society of Japan (“Atomic Switch: Novel Nanoscale Ionic Device”) |
2007 |
Minister Prize, Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology of Japan (“Development of the Atomic Switch”) |
2004 |
Surface Science Society of Japan Prize (“Distinguished Contributions to Surface Science”) |
2004 |
Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK) |
2004 |
Fellow of the National Institute for Materials Science (Japan) |
2003 |
Fellow of the American Vacuum Society (AVS) |
1992 |
Advanced Technology Award, Nikkei Business Publishers (“Superconducting Magnetic Shield for Detecting Weak Magnetic Wave from the Human Brain”) |
1989 |
Advanced Grant of the Japan Science and Technology Agency (Aono Atomcraft Project, ERATO Program) |
1983 |
Norio Kumagai Prize, Vacuum Science Society of Japan (“Distinguished Studies on Low-energy Ion Scattering Spectroscopy”) |
1983 |
Minister Prize, Science and Technology Agency of Japan (“Invention of Impact-collision Ion Scattering Spectroscopy”) |