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Interview : Energy-saving policy and standard research for solid-state lighting in the United States−170−Synthesiology - English edition Vol.2 No.2 (2009) time it is an energy-saving measure that the whole world is interested in. I feel you are doing very important work that links between the two. You are practicing “engaging in research while standardizing.” Since Dr. Ohno is a Group Leader at NIST, you must consider the career of young researchers. What kind of advice do you give to people whom you want to become established as researchers and also want to make contributions to society? It will be helpful to hear from you since we face the same problem. (Ohno)It is my experience that, when I attend committee meetings or workshops, I hear about many problems in the subject and I find what new researches will be needed. I always learn a lot from various questions asked and requests made at standards committee meetings. I try to take young researchers or let them go to these meetings and conferences as much as possible. Of course, we let them do research freely in part, but I think it is useful to have them conduct research while staying in touch with the demands of industry.Important for non-experts to understand (Ono)When publishing the results of standardization, I think it is important in which form they are presented. NIST publishes the results in various forms such as monographs and technical notes that are different from research theses. Do you think they are highly valuable? (Ohno)Definitely. Scientific papers are important and they must be published, but on the other hand, we also write articles for magazines for lay people. Recently we wrote for LED Review and LEDs Magazine, which are published on the Internet. I write about color rendering and measurements, and I receive good responses from people in the industry.In addition to these efforts, NIST publishes press-release articles to the media. They are typically about two pages long. I wrote such articles recently when we completed two standards for SSL and when we developed the measurement method for high power LEDs. These are written for people who are not experts, and perhaps they may be somewhat like AIST’s Synthesiology. These are highly recognized by management. (Ono)As you say, Synthesiology covers physics, engineering, agriculture, and pharmacology, and contains everything from life sciences to electronics and metrology standards. We have such editorial policies, and present papers in forms that can be read by people from other fields. (Ohno)Yes. I’ve read it, and felt that I can read the articles of the fields that are outside my expertise. (Ono)Thank you. That is one of the issues we were concerned about when we published this journal. I was a reviewer for the paper in the fields of the environment and geology, and I understood the content. I was surprised that I understood them. I was even more surprised that I was writing comments on them. (Ohno)You had discussions with the authors. That must have been fun.Research community works on various issues (Ono)There are many important issues such as global environmental problems in which the role of science and technology is huge. However, I felt that the scientists and researchers could not exchange their thoughts, and although they are connected with society through their respective channels, they could not issue a comment as a community. I think it is great that researchers got together for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to collaborate and publish reports for the process of standardization. The engineers and researchers attending exchanged their thoughts to create something together. I think this is wonderful.(Ohno)Standards are taken for granted, and it is a low-profile field. In fact, it’s difficult for this field to be visible. Therefore, the issue of SSL standardization was an opportunity for carrying out a major change. SSL is once-in-a-hundred-years event in the history of light sources. I think demand is very high, so if we capture the opportunity well, we can make many contributions as a national institute. There’s measurement technology, and in some parts we are moving into the research area of vision science. That is leading to a big dream led by DOE, and I hope to contribute to it.(Tanaka)Japan has similar demands and issues, but perhaps we need a clear message in terms of policy.(Ono)Thank you very much for talking with us today. I felt there were many common points with Synthesiology that came to light.(Ohno)It was informative for me, too. Thank you very much.

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