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- 2012-No.43
- Message:President's Message
Thoughts for the New Year 2012 - Feature:Tsukuba Innovation Arena for Nanotechnology (TIA-nano)
Taking on the Challenges of a Global Research Center - The Establishment of TIA-nano and its Fundamental Principles
- Establishment of a Medium-term Plan for TIA-nano and the TIA-nano Alliance Forum
- Expectations for TIA-nano
- Creation of New Industries and Employment from the Operation
- TIA-nano's Efforts in the Nanoelectronics Field
- Open Innovation at the Power Electronics Research Complex
- TIA-nano's Approach to N-MEMS
- Current Situation and Prospects of Research and Collaboration Activities in the Carbon Nanotubes and Nano-material Safety Research Domains
- Efforts of the Nano-green Research Domain at TIA-nano
- Graduate School Collaboration Activities at TIA-nano
- Open-user Facilities of TIA-nano
- A method to separate each rare earth phosphor from the mixture of phosphors
- A continuous and low-cost separation by using a high field gradient separation method - - High-efficiency monolithically integrated CIGS submodules on metal foils
- Demonstration of over 15 %-efficiency CIGS submodules - - Mechanism of template-independent RNA polymerization
- A tale of a polyA tail – how to get all As - - Development of an efficient method for the induction of safe iPS cells
- Improvement of the efficiency of iPS cell induction by new factor Glis1 - - Facile diagnosis of iPS cells using glycan profiling technology
- Identification of a novel pluripotency marker by high-density lectin microarray - - Integrated all-semiconductor ultra-high-speed optical gate switch
- Simultaneous transmission and reception of ultra high-definition images at 160 Gbit/s data rate - - A three-dimensional whole shape measurement system for processing of marine and agricultural products
- High-accuracy shape measurement of marine and agricultural products paving the way to automated processing - - First demonstration of ultra-small III-V/Ge CMOS transistors
- A breakthrough technology for next generation high-performance CMOS transistors of different alternative channel materials - - New recyclable green catalyst
- Efficient catalyst for oxidation reaction using metal-complex-type organic nanotubes - - A calibrator for precision linear encoders
- A length measuring system with sub-nanometer uncertainty was developed - - New evaluation method for EMI anechoic chamber over 1 GHz
- New proficiency test method for radiated electromagnetic interference measurement over 1 GHz - - President Nomakuchi Visits France and Germany
- MOU Concluded between Geological Survey of Japan and Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Ltd. of New Zealand
- Message:President's Message
- 2012-No.44
- Message:President's Message
Scientific and Technological Innovation at AIST - Feature:AIST Full Research Supporting the Embedded System Industry
Open innovation based on industry-academia-government collaboration that makes best use of the strengths of the local community - Activities of the Collaborative Research Team for Verification and Specification: An Introduction
- Example of Collaborative Research: Use of Formal Methods in the Development of a Test Design Technology for Highly Reliable Software
- Example of Collaborative Research: Technology Development for Large-scale Upstream Process Tests
– Front-loading of Embedded Systems Development– - New Trends in Research: Functional Safety Standards and Social Systems
- Path Leading to the Establishment of the Embedded System Industry Promotion Organization (ESIP)
- Developing the Advanced embedded software Industry-academia-government collaboration program
- Fostering of Human Resources for Model Checking
- "Satsuki" Cluster for Verification
- Verification Services
- Kansai Regional Innovation Strategy
- New production technology for polycrystalline silicon solar cells
- Surface texturing method of wafers sliced with fixed-abrasive wire - - Development of diamond bipolar transistor
- Low loss power device contributing to a sustainable society - - Development of positive electrode materials for low-cost and high-performance rechargeable lithium-ion batteries
- Co- and Ni-free and high capacity positive electrode materials - - Factor regulating the aging and rejuvenation of the brain
- Discovery of an environmental factor for the activation of aged neural stem cells - - Manufacturing technology for single-crystal thin films of organic semiconductors
- Highest-performance printed thin-film transistors have been realized - - Position control of a transistor source–drain junction with sub-nanometer accuracy
- Expected to be a new junction technology for the MOS transistors of 16-nm generation and beyond - - Development of silicon nitride ceramic with high thermal conductivity
- Expected as circuit boards for power devices - - Technique for reliable thermal diffusivity measurement
- Approach for inherent thermal diffusivity of solid materials - - For quantitative measurements of high and ultrahigh vacuum
- Development of standard conductance element - - Calibration technique for neutron dosimeters using pulsed white neutron sources
- Open the door to obtaining the energy response curve of neutron dosimeters experimentally - - X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy of light elements for green chemistry
- Opening a new era of materials analysis utilizing superconducting tunnel junction detector - - Report of "Electro-active polymer and Its Application", the Memorial Symposium for Collaboration between Fraunhofer IPA-AIST Kansai
- APMP 2011 Symposium
- The 8th Biomass Asia Workshop
- MOU Concluded between Geological Survey of Japan and U.S. Geological Survey
- Message:President's Message
- 2012-No.45
- Feature:The 7th AIST Advisory Board Meeting
- Feature:What Can Be Predicted from Records of Past Great Earthquakes?
- Lessons of the 2011 Off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake
- Evidence of Past Crustal Movements and Tsunamis Recorded in Geological Deposits
- Shedding Light on the History of Past Great Subduction Earthquakes
- Decreasing "Unexpectedness" through the study of Coastal Paleoseismology - - Integrated Groundwater Observation Stations for Forecasting the Tokai, Tonankai, and Nankai Earthquakes
- Evidence of Inland Large Earthquakes Remaining in Geomorphic and Geological Features
- Investigation of Timing and Displacements due to Past Earthquakes - - Physical Model of Earthquake Generation Processes for Forecasting Inland Large Earthquakes
- Toward the Evaluation and Forecasting of Ground Surface Deformation Caused by a Fault Movement
- Closing in on Future Disasters via Field Surveys and Numerical Calculations - - An oxygen gas barrier film that self-repairs minor damages
- Development of a food packaging film using clay - - Discovery of non-translational role in the ribosome
- Specific inhibition of Ribonuclease T2 by helix41 of 16S rRNA - - Transforming service fields into laboratories
- Virtualization of indoor environments and behavior of customers and employees - - Flexible, film-like thermoelectric devices fabricated through printing processes
- Improvement in the usability of thermoelectric devices making possible the application to energy harvesting field - - High-quality 64 kb ferroelectric NAND flash memory array
- Towards the industrial production of the next-generation nonvolatile semiconductor memory - - PodCastle: a spoken content retrieval service based on speech transcriptions
- Improving speech recognition performance through cooperation from many users - - Development of a copper paste for crystalline silicon solar cells
- Replaces silver pastes and accelerates the reduction in the cost of high-efficiency solar cells - - Electrically induced giant magneto-resistance from nonmagnetic phase-change memory
- Magneto-resistance ratio of over 2,000 % at room temperature - - High-performance isotropic sintered magnets without addition of dysprosium
- Contribution to resolution of resource problem in high-performance magnets by advanced sintering technique - - Compact inspection apparatus for nonuniformity in the luster of gold plating
- Digitization of nonuniformity in the luster of gold plating and automatic acceptance recognition based on objective criteria - - Technology for measuring static electricity using sound waves
- Visualization of static electricity distribution on flat surfaces by scanning focused sound waves - - Influence of 2011 Off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake on sea floor environments
- Wide distribution of sea floor disturbance around the earthquake source area - - Re-extension of Memorandum of Understanding on Comprehensive Research Cooperation with CSIRO of Australia and Workshop
- Conclusion of Memoranda of Understanding on Comprehensive Research Cooperation with Chinese Academy of Sciences and with Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- 2012-No.46
- Message:AIST as a Platform for Full Research
- From investigation and discovery of seed technologies to standardization - - Feature:Lithium-Ion Battery Research at AIST
- Research and Development of Lithium-Ion Batteries at AIST
- Challenges for Elucidation of the Degradation Mechanisms of Lithium-Ion Secondary Batteries for Vehicles
- Development of a Lithium-Ion Battery with a High-Capacity Silicon-Based Negative Electrode
- Using Computational Science to Investigate the Interface between the Electrolyte and Electrode in a Lithium-Ion Secondary Battery
- First-principles calculations of the interface between an ionic liquid and metallic lithium - - Development of Rechargeable Batteries with Organic Substances
- Aiming for a rare-metal-free battery by replacing inorganic electrode materials with organic materials - - Lithium Redox Flow Batteries
- Development of a New Titanium Oxide Negative Electrode Material for Next-Generation Lithium-Ion Batteries
- Challenging the Development of an All-Solid-State Thin-Film Lithium-Ion Battery by the Aerosol Deposition Method
- Ceramic Electrolyte Sheet for Next-Generation Rechargeable Batteries
- Establishment of Evaluation Technologies Applicable to Lithium-Ion Battery Materials
- Novel function of elongation factors of protein synthesis
- Translational elongation factors as replication factors - - A factor that maintains the resting phase of hair growth cycles
- Suppression of the factor shortens resting phases, causing rapid succession of hair cycles. - - Finding the primary factor causing variability of scaled transistors
- Contribution to yield improvement of integrated circuits such as SRAM - - Novel ferroelectric resistive switching memory
- A solution to the issues of data retention and endurance for ReRAM - - Fabrication of a UHF-RFID antenna on a flexible substrate by printing
- Inexpensive RFID tags can be supplied in large quantities. - - A technique for direct optical coupling of an optical integrated circuit to optical fibers
- Development of a high-performance micro-optical converter to scale transmitted signal light - - A system to integrate radiation data from various regions
- Creating big data by easy normalization of data in many formats - - New evaluation method for grain boundaries of organic transistors
- Promoting the researches of flexible electronic devices - - Cesium adsorption by Prussian blue nanoparticles
-Utilized for decontamination of radioactive Cs contaminated ash - - Materials able to be repeatedly liquefied and solidified at room temperature by light irradiation
- Reusable by fluidizing and hardening without the application of heat - - Development of small radiation dosimeter
- Long battery life of more than 1 year on a button cell battery - - AIST Concludes MOU with Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and Participates in High Level Forum in Grenoble
- Conclusion of a Memorandum of Understanding on Research Cooperation among the World's Three Leading Institutes for Solar Energy Research
- Message:AIST as a Platform for Full Research
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