News 2017

The Science and Technology Promotion Foundation of Ibaraki (Director: Leo Esaki) announced that it will award the Tsukuba Prize 2017 to Dr. Terabe, MANA Principal Investigator, Dr. Masakazu Aono, Executive Advisor of MANA, and Prof. Tsuyoshi Hasegawa of the Waseda University. The invention of the Atomic Switch and research on its practical application have been highly valued, leading to winning the Tsukuba Prize 2017. The Award Ceremony will be held on November 21, 2017 in Tsukuba, Ibaraki.

Nanoionic Devices Group was visited by Prof. Fredrik Laurell from KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Dr. Terabe hosted a lab tour.

A farewell party was held for Dr. Kim, who spent 4 years in our group. Dr. Kim will assume a position at Keio University from July 1.

Dr. Tsuchiya gave an invited talk titled "Searching for novel functions and applications of solid state ionics" at the 21st International Conference on Solid State Ionics (SSI-21), Italy.

Dr. Terabe gave an invited talk titled "Current Progress of Solid State Ionics on Information and Communication Device Technology" at the 17th International Workshop on Junction Technology (IWJT2017), Kyoto, Japan.

The Atomic Switch is expected to exceed the technical limitations of semiconductor devices. We gave an introduction to the transitional process the ‘Atomic Switch’ has followed over the past dozen years, from its invention to its practical application, and presented the future perspective for the realization of brain-like computers.

Dr. Sakurai gave an invited talk, on the method of controlling the peptide self- assembling process, at the 10th Anniversary of Protein & Peptide Conference (PepCon-2017) held in Fukuoka, Japan.

MANA was visited by Prof. Katayama from the Dept. of Electronic Engineering, Osaka University. Dr. Terabe, Dr. Tsuruoka and Dr. Tsuchiya hosted a lab tour.

Dr. Tsuchiya gave an invited talk, about nanoionic devices, at an Ad Hoc Workshop held at Tokyo University.

A paper on the quantized conductance of polymer-based atomic switches was published online in Advanced Functional Materials.