Recognitions (K. Hono)

Honors and Awards

• Tsukuba Award (November 2016)
• The 2016 IEEE Magnetic Society Distinguished Lecturer (September 2015)
• Japan Institute of Metals Hakaru Hasumoto Award (March 2014)
• The Indian Institute of Metals, Honoary Membership (November 2013)
• TMS Life Time Membership (August 2012)
• The Magnetic Society of Japan, Achievement Award (September 2013)
• TMS Life Time Membership (August 2012)
• The Japan Institute of Metals Distinguished Achievement Award (November 2011)
• TMS Fellows Award (March 2011)
• 6th Honda Frontier Award (May 2009)
• MRS Outstanding Symposium Paper (J. Mater. Res. 2009)
• Magnetic Society of Japan Outstanding Research Award (September 2008)
• Japan Institute of Metals Metallography Award (March 2007)
• ISIHighlyCited.com (December 2006)
• Excellent presentation award, Annual meeting of Magnetic Society of Japan, November 2005
• Lee Hsun Lecturer Award, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academiy of Sciences (July 2003)
• Light Metal Advancement Award (November 2003)
• The Japan Institute of Metals Meritorious Honor Award (March 1997)
• Japan Institute of Metals Metallography Award, 1998
• Tsukuba Encouragement Award, 1998
• Japan Instiute of Metals Metallography Award, 1995
• SCIENCE Vol. 266, November 18, 1994
• Acta Metallurgica et Materialia Best Paper Award for 1992, 1994
• Japan Institute of Metals Young Scientist Award, 1993
• Murakami Memorial Young Scientist Award, 1992
• Japan Light Metals Institute Young Scientist Award, 1991
• Honda Memorial Young Scientist Award, 1991
• Japan Institute of Metals Metallography Award, 1985

Invited Talks

• International Magnetism Conferece, 1993, Stockholm
• 41st International Field Emission Symposium, 1994, Rouen, France
• Materials Research Society 1995 Spring Symposium, San Francisco, U.S.A.
• 43rd International Field Emission Symposium, 1996, Moscow
• IUMRS-ICA-97, 1997, Makuhari, Japan
• 121th annual meeting of the Japan Institute of Metals, Symposium Keynote Lecture, 1997, Sendai, Japan
• Microscopy & Microanalysis '98, 1998, Atlanta, U.S.A.
• Materials Research Society 1999 Spring Symposium, San Francisco, U.S.A.
• International Conference on Solid->Solid Phase Transformations 99 (PTM'99), 1999, Kyoto, Japan
• 10th International Conference on Rapidly Quenched and Metastable Materials, 1999, Bangalore, India
• Microscopy & Microanalysis of Engineering Materials (MMEM2000), 2000, Melbourne, Australia
• Bulk Metallic Galsses, Singapore, 2000.
• MRS 2000 Fall Meeting, 2000, Boston
• TMS 2001 Annual Meeting, "Interanational Symposium on Properties of Nanocrystalline Materials"
• Eotvos Graduate School, Summer Course & Workshop 2001 in Physics, "Application of Atomic Resolution Methods for the Study of Advanced Materials", Lecturer, August 28.
• 22nd RISO International Symposium on Materials Scinece on "Science of Metastable and Nanocrystalline Alloys", Septermber 2001.
• Asia Academic Seminar, December 12-21, 2001, Hyderabad, India, supported by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and Department of Science and Technology, government of India.
• International Conference on Advances in Materials and Materials Processing (ICAMMP-2002), 1-3 February, 2002, Kharagpur, India.
• Bulk Metallic Glasses II, March 24-28, 2002, Keelung, Taiwan.
• 11th International Conference on Rapidly Quenched & Metastable Materials 25 - 30 August, 2002, Oxford University.
• The 2002 Korea-US Symposium on Phase Transformations of Nano-Materials, Seoul, Korea, October 25-26, 2002.
• 131th annual meeting of the Japan Institute of Metals, Keynote Lecture, 2002, Sendai, Japan.
• 132th Spring meeting of the Japan Institute of Metals, Invited Lecture, 2003, Tokyo, Japan
• Intermag2003, March 30 - April 3, 2003, Boston
• Lee Hsun Lecture Series, August 28, 2003, Institute of Metal Research, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science
• 16th Conf. on Soft Magnetic Materials (SMM16), 9.-12. September 2003 in Duesseldorf,Germany
• 1st International Symposium on Nanostructured Materials: Structural Applications, organized by the Center for Nanostructured Materials Technology and KIMM, October 30-31, 2003, KIST, Seoul, Korea
• The 2003 Korea-Japan Symposium "Current Issues on Phase Transformations", Busan, Korea, November 21-22, 2003
• MRS 2003 Fall Meeting, Boston, November 30 - 5, 2003.
• International Conference on Fabrication and Properties of Metallic Nanomaterials, June 17 - 19, 2004, Warsaw, Poland
• ECI Conference on "L1₀ Ordered Intermetallic and Related Phases for Permanent Magnet and Recording Applications", August 15 - 20, 2004, Copper Mountain, Colorado
• 18th International Workshop on High Performance Magnets and Their Applications, August 29 - September 2, 2004, Annecy, France.
• TMS annual meeting, February 2005.
• 9th European Workshop on Modern Developments and Applications in Microbeam Analysis, Florence, Italy, May 22 to 26, 2005
• 12th International Conference on Rapidly Quenched and Metastable Materials, August 21-26, 2005, Jeju, Korea
• Plenary Lecture, 12th International Conference on Rapidly Quenched and Metastable Materials, August 21-26, 2005, Jeju, Korea.
• Keynote Lecture, 3rd International Conference on Nanomaterials by Severe Plastic Deformation (NanoSPD3), September 22-26, 2005, Fukuoka.
• International Symposium on Frontiers in Design of Materials (FDM 2005), November 12-13, 2005, Chennai, India.
• MRS2005 Fall Meeting, Symposium Z, December 1, 2005, Boston
• TMS2006 135th Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Ultrafine Grained Materials - Fourth International Symposium: Processing and Microstructures II, March 14, 2006, San Antonio.
• TMS2006 135th Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Symposium on Phase Transformation in Magnetic Materials, March 14, 2006, San Antonio.
• ICYS-ICMR Summer School 2006 on Nanomaterials, July 22(Sat) - 28(Fri), 2006 Tsukuba, Japan.
• The International Wrokshop of the SFB602 and the Oxide Thin film OTF 2006, University of Goettingen, July 26, 2006.
• KINKEN-WAKATE 2006, 3rd Materials Science School for Young Scientists "Physics and Applications of Advanced Magnetic Materials", Akiu, Sendai, August 26 - 28, 2006.
• 2nd International Symposium on New Materials Science, 21st Century COE Project "New Materials Science", Kyoto University, September 5 - 6, 2006.
• JAPAN NANO 2007, Tokyo Big Site, February 20 - 21, 2007.
• Dedication of the 'Wide-Angle Laser-Assisted Tomographic Atom Probe", Institute of Material Physics, University of Muenster, May 10, 2007.
• Asian Workshop on Metallic Glass and nanostructured Materials, Yonsei University, Seoul, May 18 - 19, 2007.
• Workshop on Nanoscale Order in Amorphous and Partially Ordered Solids, Trinity College, Cambridge, UK, 9-11 July 2007.
• 9 th International Workshop on Non-Crystalline Solids, Porto 27 - 30, April 2008.
• The 51st International Field Emission Symposium, Rouen, June 29 - July 4, 2008.
• WUT - NIMS - EMPA Workshop on Nanomaterials for Energy and Environment Protection, Warsaw, June 15 - June 17, 2008.
• The 13th International Conference on Rapidly Quenched & Metastable Materials RQ13, Dresden, August 24 - 29, 2008
• 20 th workshop on rare earth permanent magnets and applications, September 8 - 10, 2008, Crete, Greece
• K. Hono, "Search of Heusler alloys and their applications to magnetoresistive devices", MS&T Oct. 27, 2009, Pittsburgh.
• Inter. Symp. "Emerging Challenges for Metals and Materials: Engineering and Technology", Nov. 15, 2009, Kolkata.
• 5th International Workshop on High-Resolution Depth Profiling, Kyoto, Japan, November 15-19, 2009
• JSPS-DST Asia Academic Seminar：Advanced Materials for Sustainable Development, December 8-10, 2009, Yokohama, Japan.
• K. Hono, "Development of Heat Treatable High Strength Wrought Magnesium Alloys", Keynote talk, the 18th International Conference on Processing and Fabrication of Advanced Materials (PFAMXVIII), December 12 -14, 2009, Sendai, Japan.
• 応用物理学会
• K. Hono and T. Ohkubo, Advances in laser assisted atom probe and its applications to the interface characterization of permanent magnets, the 13th International Conference on Intergranular and Interphase Boundaries in Materials (iib2010), June 27 - July 2, 2010, Shima Kanko Hotel the Classic, Mie, Japan.
• K. Hono et al., "Broadening the applications of the atom probe technique by ultraviolet femtosecond laser", 52nd International Field Emission Symposium, July 5-8, 2010, Sydney, Australia
• K. Hono and T. Ohkubo, Advances in laser atom probe and its applications to semiconductor and insulator materials, Asia-Pacific Conference on Semiconducting Silicides and Related Materials Science and Technology Towards Sustainable Optoelectronics, July 24 - 26, 2010, EPOCAL Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan.
• K. Hono et al. "Atomic Tomography of Insulating Ceramics by Laser Assisted 3D Atom Probe", The 7th Pacific Rim International Conference on Advanced Materials and Processing, 2-6 August 2010, Cairns Convention Centre , Cairns, Australia
• K. Hono, Advances in laser assisted 3D atom probe and its applications to light metals, Keynote Talk, ICAA12, September 8, Yokohama.
• K. Hono, "Microstructure and coercivity relationships in permanent magnets for energy-efficient devices", 55th Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, November 14 - 18, 2010, Atlanta, GA
• K. Hono and T. Ohkubo, Enhancement of coercivity of Nd-Fe-B sintered magnets by grain boundary modification, TMS2011 140th Annual Meeting & Exhibition, February 28, 2011, San Diego, CA.
• Hono, Y. K. Takahashi, T. Furubayashi, S. Li, and Y. Du, Prospect of MR sensors using FM Heusler alloys, TMRC2013, August 22, 2013, Tokyo Inst. Technology
• K. Hono, Y. K. Takahashi, T. M. Nakatani, T. Furubayashi, Materials for ultrahigh density magnetic recording, JEMS 2012, Plenary Talk, August 11, 2012, Parma, Italy
• K. Hono, "Toward the development of Dy-free high coercivity Nd-Fe-B permanent magnets", Plenary Speaker, the 2013 Fall Meeting of the Korean Institute of Metals and Materials, Gwangju on October 24, 2013.
• K. Hono, "Toward the development of Dy-free high coercivity Nd-Fe-B permanent magnet", Plenary Speaker, 51st National Metallurgists' Day and 67th Annual Technical Meeting of the Indian Institue of Metals, November 15, 2013, Varanashi, India.
• K. Hono, H. Sepehri-Amin, T. Ohkubo, Toward the development of Dy-free high coercivity Nd-Fe-B permanent magnets, German Physics Society Spring Meeting 2014
• K. Hono, “Towards the development of Dy-free high coercivity Nd-Fe-B permanent magnets”, Intermag 2014, Dresden
• K. Hono, "Dy-free high coercivity Nd-Fe-B hot-deformed magnet", 23rd International Workshop on Rare Earth and Guture Permanet Magnets and Their Applications (REPM2014), August 17-21, 2014, Annapolis
• K. Hono, "The 15th International Conference on Rapidly Quenched & Metastable Materials (RQ15), August 24, 2014, Shanghai
• K. Hono, "Heusler-Alloy-based Magnetoresistive Devices with High MR Outputs", Heusler Alloys for Spintronic Devices, July 30-31, 2015, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
• K. Hono, "Structure optimizaiton of FePt-C nanogranular films for HAMR media", TMRC 2015, August 17 – 19, 2015, Minneapolis, Minnesota

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Community Service

• International Field Emission Society, Steering Committee Member (1995 - 1997)
• Member of the Board of Review of Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A (1996 - 2000)
• The 44th International Field Emission Symposium, Chairman (1997)
• Member of The Technical Divisions Committee, The Japan Institute of Metals (1999 - )
• Microscopy and Microanalysis of Engineering Materials 2000, Technical Committee, 2000, Melbourne
• NANO2000, Local Organizing Committee and Program Committee (2000)
• Journal of Metastable and Nanocrystalline Materials, Associate Editor (2000 - )
• Editorial Committee, Materials Transaction JIM and Journal of Japan Institute of Metals (2000.6- )
• Editor, Scripta Materialia, (2001.1- )
• Principal Editor, Acta Materialia, (2001.1- )
• Nanostructured Advanced Magnetic Materials, June 9-13, 2002, Irsee, Germany, Organizing Committee Member and Guest Editor
• International Magnetics Conference 2005 (Intermag 2005), Nagoya, Program Committee (2003-2005)
• Rapidly Quenched and Metastable Materials (RQ12), Guest Editor (2005)
• Science Advisery Board, Netehrland Institute of Metals (2006)
• Bulk Metallic Glasses V, Local organizing committee and guest editor (2006)
• Advisory committee, Magnetic Society of Japan (2006 - 2007)
• TMS/ASM Phase Transformation Committee (2006 - )
• Auditor, Magnetic Society of Japan (2007 - )
• International Advisory Board of "Metals and Materials International", Korean Institute of Metals (2007.11 - )
• TMS Magnetic Materials Committee (2009.3- )
• Internationl Field Emission Society, Steering committee (2010.8 - )
• Vice Chair, 34th Annual Conference on Magnetics in Japan 2010, the Magnetic Society of Japan
• MMM2011 Program Committee (2010 - 2011)
• Symposium Cochair:"Magnetic Materials for Energy Devices" TMS2011 annual meeting
• Local organizing committee, REPM’12
• International Advisory Committee, The 4th Asian Symposium on Magnesium Alloys, 2011
• Editor for MMM 2014 in Honolulu, Hawaii
• Program Committee, Intermag 2014, Dresden
• Advisory Boad, APT&M 2014, Stuttgart, Germany
• Program Committee Member, MMM 2014
• Co-chair, ESICMM-G8 Symposium on Next Generation Permanent Magnets, June 2015
• Local Co-Chair, The 28th Magnetic Recording Conference (TMRC2017)

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