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- 2008-No.27
- Message:Confidence in Our Advancement
- Feature:Focus on the Future Electronics -Next Generation Hardware to Support the Ubiquitous Society-
- To Improve the Performance of All Kinds of Electronic Devices
- MIRAI Project Builds the IT Society
- LSI Technology Aims to Be a New Direction for Development
- Nonvolatile Memory that Gives Ultra Low Electricity Consumption
- Brain-derived neurotrophic factor regulates cholesterol metabolism for synapse development
- A possible cognitive risk of using mobile phones during driving
- Toward filling the gap between ergonomics and neuroscience - - Autoilluminated fluorescent protein for greater sophistication in cell imaging
- GFP fluoresces without exposure to external excitation light - - High-precision measurement system for terahertz frequencies
- Development of superconducting heterodyne receiver and its application to gas spectroscopy - - Development of true 3D display using laser plasma in the air
- Spectrally selective coatings for solar control glass
- High heat-reflective and visible transmission for solar rays - - Multifunctional ionic gelator for a variety of solvents
- A high-sensitive quick-response NOX sensor
- Electrical switches with colorful patterns by nanoparticles of pigments
- Development of High-sensitivity, high-precision quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) immunosensor system
- Suitable for rapid analysis of environmental pollutants, disease markers, and allergens - - Magnetic levitation densimeter for PVT property standard
- President Yoshikawa Attends Thailand NSTDA International Advisory Board, and Exhibition at Thailand National Science and Technology Fair 2007
- Emeritus Advisor Michio Kuriyagawa Acknowledged as Member of National Academy of Sciences of Argentina
- Exhibition at "Japan Fair in Guangzhou" in China
- Report of Workshop with NSTDA and TISTR (thailand) and VAST (Vietnam)
- Minister of Science and Technology of Sri Lanka Visits AIST Tsukuba
- Keynote Lecture at the 6th Taiwan National Industrial Development Conference
- AIST Web Site
- 2008-No.28
- Feature:The 5th AIST Advisory Board Meeting
- Outline of the AIST Advisory Board Meeting
- Members' Comments and Advice for AIST
- Laboratory Tours by three groups of board members
- Feature:Global Warming - Mitigation Technology and its Assessment -
- Climate Change Mitigation in a Sustainable World
- Findings of the IPCC 4th Assessment Report - - The 2005 IPCC/TEAP Special Report on the Ozone Layer and the Global Climate System
- Summary of the Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (SRCCS)
- CCS Technology Development and Evaluation
- Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of Photovoltaic Power Generation
- Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of Biomass Utilization
- Assessment of Biomass Utilization System
- Assessment of Forest CO2 Absorption
- Isolation of enzyme involving in activation of vitamin D
- High-efficient production of hydroxylated vitamin D used for pharmaceutical purposes - - Estimation technology of species composition of phytoplankton
- Estimation method of species composition of phytoplankton based on in-situ measurement of excitation spectrum - - Successful re-activation of human mesenchymal stem cells by transducing single gene
- Leads to the spread of regenerative medicine using stem cells - - Universal design with robots
- Making robots more adaptable to human living environment - - Novel SRAM circuit using double-gate-MOSFET devices
- Promising solution for operational-stability enhancement in 22-nm generation - - Integration and simplification of ceramic manufacturing process
- Reduces the manufacturing periods to less than half by using microwave - - Highly sensitive and wide spectral range image sensor based upon the CuInGaSe2 solar cell techniques
- A total fluorine analyzer with an unprecedented high level of sensitivity as a conventional method
- Easy and rapid analyses of PFOS and total fluorine in environmental samples and industrial products - - Development of new gas separation methods using ionic liquids
- Technology for global warming with advantage of specific absorption phenomena of acidic gases - - Synthesis of single crystalline spinel LiMn2O4 nanowires
- Promising materials for the positive electrode of a high rate Li ion battery - - Octave-spanning optical frequency comb using mode-locked fiber laser
- Fiber comb - - DNA quantitation by isotope-dilution mass spectrometry
- Development of method for accurate quantitation of DNA and the application to the development of DNA reference material - - Fourth Biomass-Asia Workshop
- CAS-AIST-NEDO Workshop on Fuel Cells and Hydrogen
- AIST Contribution to Rare Metal Diplomacy with Southern Africa
-Accompanying Mr. Akira Amari, Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry to the Republic of South Africa and the Republic of Botswana- - Presentation of GEO Grid at Fourth Earth Observation Summit
- MOU Follow-up Workshop between Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology of India and AIST
- 2008-No.29
- Feature:Rare Metals
- AIST Rare Metal Task Force
- Rare Earth Magnet without Use of Heavy Rare
- Palladium Dependency Reduction / Alternative Hydrogen Separation Membrane
- Recycling of Rare Earth Elements
- Rare-Earth: Resource Exploration and Development
- Non-invasive evaluation of arterial stiffness using conventional oscillometric blood pressure measurement
- A simple method for evaluating arterial stiffness - - A melt-treatment of asbestos by heating with infrared light
- Possible application to an easy and safe treatment for asbestos on site - - A new inorganic binder
- Aiming to develop an environment-friendly ceramic process with the binder - - High yield separation of metallic and semiconducting carbon nanotubes
- Quite simple, quick and scalable method - - Novel manufacturing technology for magnesium alloy sheets
- Full-dry hot pressing technology using a diamond-coated die - - Production of thick-film thermoelectric devices using centrifugal force
- One step forward to realization of high-efficiency thermoelectric devices - - A novel and practical method for pressureless sintering of boron carbide
- New process greatly lowers the cost of manufacturing the hardest and lightest engineering ceramics - - Development of an efficient tandem type dye-sensitized solar cell
- New architecture of dye-sensitized solar cells for higher conversion efficiency - - Accurate measurement of the volume of silicon spheres
- Interferometeric determination of the sphere volume for the redefinition of the kilogram based on an atomic mass - - Accurate quantification for the environmental pollutants at trace levels
- Accurate quantification using 13C-labeled internal standards - - Development of an optical lattice clock
- Toward the next-generation atomic clock -
- 2008-No.30
- Feature:Optical Information Technology — Optical Technology that Supports the Rapidly Growing Information Society
- Overview—Science & Technology, Information, Light
- Concept of Optical Path Network
- Ultrafast Optical Semiconductor Switch
- Optical Signal Processing Technology
- Super-RENS Optical Disc
- Flexible Device
- Development of ultrasensitive analytical method for cell surface proteins
- Surface enhanced Raman scattering measurement of one single protein on a living cell wall - - Novel reaction mechanism to remove reactive oxygen species
- The first hypervalent compound from natural sources - - Robot simulator "OpenHRP3"
- A common software platform for efficient development of the next-generation robots -
PodCastle: A speech information retrieval system in which its performance can be improved by users' contribution
- Launching an on-line speech recognition system that can handle recent words and grow on a daily basis - - Development of indoor autonomous positioning system for mobile information devices
- Measuring indoor position and moving trajectory only by radio beacon and mobile information devices - - Novel ferroelectric NAND flash memory cell
- Realization of more than 100 million program/erase cycles at less than 6 volts - - Observation of first acid dissociation at a H2SO4 aqueous solution surface
- Towards clarification of the heterogeneous reactions on/in sulfate aerosols - - Development of a cleaning system for transmission electron microscope
- For nanoscale imaging and chemical analysis with high performance and reliability - - Development of a highly effective electrochemical reactor for decomposition of NOx
- A practical low-temperature operation is achieved - - Development of a clay-plastic composite material with high hydrogen gas barrier property
- Applicable to hydrogen tanks for aircraft, spacecraft, and cars - - An accurate protein quantification based on amino acid analysis
- Development of protein quantification method applied to the certification of C-reactive protein standard solution. - - Proton diffusion measurement of a solid electrolyte for fuel cells with infrared spectroscopy
- Correlation between hydrogen bonding and proton diffusion in solid acids - - New mechanism of electron conduction in genomic DNA
- Development of observation technique for a conduction electron with attoseconds delocalization time - - CAS-AIST-NEDO Workshop on Biomass Gasification
- Beginning of Collaborative Relationship with Federative Republic of Brazil on Bioethanol Production from Biomass Residue without Any Competition with Food
- Exhibition at ASEAN Science and Technology Week
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