International Symposium on Nanoscale Transport and Technology (ISNTT2013)
International Symposium on Nanoscale Transport and Technology
(ISNTT2013) was held at the NTT Atsugi R&D Center from November 26
to 29, 2013, and brought together 208 participants from 16 countries. The
participants enjoyed oral and poster presentations at the symposium, exchanging
their views and ideas on nanotechnology and quantum devices. Since 1998,
NTT Basic Research Laboratories (BRL) has been holding a lot of international
conferences on various topics and technologies. ISNTT was first organized
in 2009 to promote mutual exchange between different device and material
technologies on semiconductors, superconductors, and new materials, and
since then it has been held about every two years. ISNTT2013 of which the
logo represents hybrid system was co-chaired by Drs. Akira Fujiwara, Hiroshi
Yamaguchi, and Koji Muraki of NTT BRL, and it was aimed at further enhancing
interaction among different research fields to develop new idea and technology.
On the 26th, 27th, and 29th, respectively, the session
started with keynote lectures entitled "The UC Santa Barbara quantum
computing effort" by Prof. Andrew Cleland (University of California),
"Quantum anomalous Hall effect in magnetic topological insulators"
by Prof. Qi-Kun Xue (Tsinghua University), and Flying qubits and quantum
electron optics with surface acoustic wave by Prof. Seigo Tarucha (The
University of Tokyo). Throughout the symposium we had 13 oral sessions
with 48 oral presentations including 17 invited talks by world leading
researchers, on nanodevices, topological insulators, nanomechanics, quantum
bits and computers, single-electron devices, graphene, quantum spin Hall
effect, optical devices, and so on. In addition there were 71 presentations
at the poster session on the 26th and 27th. Since a part of the poster
sessions was held jointly with the 6th NTT-BRL school, many young researchers
and students had enthusiastic discussions in front of the posters. The
symposium was stimulating and successful, strengthening worldwide network
among researchers based on the open-laboratory policy of NTT BRL.
