Dr. Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Principal Invesitgator, and Dr. Kazuya Terabe, MANA Scientist, received the NIMS President's Research Achievement Award on April 1, 2010. The award was given to them for the “significant contributions to the area of the Atomic Switch: from its invention and fundamental research, to studies of its practical use.”

For more information of their research, please go to the Atomic Electronics Group
headed by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa

Nanoionics switching device: Atomic Switches
Hasegawa T, Terabe K, Sakamoto T, Aono M
MRS Bull, 2009; 34(12): 929-934.