List of Visitor's Talks (Fiscal 1999)
Date
Speaker
Affiliation
"Topic"
l. Device Physics
April 5
Mr. Isao Tomita
Waseda University
"Persistent currents in mesoscopic rings;
the effect of correlated impurity potentials"
April 8
Dr. Sangam Banerjee
SPring8 - Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research
Institute
"Some new schemes to analyze X-ray reflectivity
data obtained from thin single and multilayer
films"
April 12
Mr. Ken-ichi Kanzaki
Osaka University
"Polymer materials for microelectronics"
April 13
Prof. Shinji Matsui
Himeji Institute of Technology
"Material-wave nanotechnology"
April 21
Dr. Noritaka Usami
The University of Tokyo
"Crystal growth and optical properties
of SiGe/Si quantum structures"
May 10
Dr. Kazushi Miki
Electrotechnical Laboratory
"Bismuth and antimony nanolines in Si
epitaxial layer for nanoelectronics applications"
"Direct observation of oxidation process
on Si(001) by STM"
May 28
Prof. Yukichi Shigeta
Yokohama City University
"Influence of surface structure on epitaxial
growth"
July 2
Prof. Takaaki Kawamura
Yamanashi University
"Simulation of MBE growth by extended
Monte Carlo method"
Sept. 20
Prof. Kang L. Wang
University of California, Los Angels, USA
"Self-organized and self-registered
Ge dots on Si and their potential application"
Sept. 21
Ms. Madhavi Seetamraju
Indian Institute of Science, India
"Hot carrier transport in modulation
doped Si/SiGe and Ge/SiGe superlattice"
Sept. 21
Mr. Federico Rosei
University of Rome, Italy
"Ge growth on patterned Si substrates"
Dec. 3
Dr. Piotr Jedrasik
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
"Neurocorrection of proximity effects
in nanolithography"
Dec. 3
Prof. John Boland
University of North Carolina, USA
"Hydrogen dynamics on Si surface"
Jan. 17
Dr. Nobuhiko Mizushima
Hamamatsu Photonics
"Optical interaction with plasma in
waveguide structures"
March 9
Mr. Fredrik Boxberg
Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
"Modeling of electronic structures and
transport in Si/SiO2 quatum wires and quantum
point contacts"
March 14
Dr. Nikolai Faleev
Texas Technical University, USA/Ioffe Physical-Technical
Institute of Russia Academy of Science, Russia
"The main features of X-ray and synchrotron
diffraction studies of different types of
heterostructures including quantum wells
and quantum dots"
ll. Materials Science
April 22
Mr. Toshiaki Hayashi
The University of Tokyo
"Tunnel magnetoresistance effect using
diluted magnetic semiconductor"
May 7
Mr. Tsuyoshi Kondo
Tokyo Institute of Technology
"MBE of polydiacetylenes on GaAs and
its optical properties"
May 28
Mr. Shiro Saito
The University of Tokyo
"Vortices in Josephson junction arrays"
June 1
Dr. Sergy Bukalov
Scientific and Technical Centre for Raman
Spectroscopy, Russian Academy of Sciences,
Moscow, Russia
"Spectroscopy in the study of modern
materials"
June 1
Prof. Larissa Leites
Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
"Spectroscopic analysis of polymer modifications"
June 4
Prof. Kiyotaka Shigehara
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
"Research & Developments of polymer
battery materials"
July 6
Prof. Yevgen Bezugliy
B. Verkin Institute for Low-temperature Physics
and Engineering, Ukraine
"Effect of spin-orbit and hyperfine
interactions on a supercurrent in a S-2DEG-S
structure"
Aug. 5
Mr. Takaaki Koga
Harvard University, USA
"Concepts and applications of the use
of the superlattice structures to design
super thermoelectric materials"
Aug. 27
Prof. Nobuo Matsumoto
Shonan Institute of Technology
"Recent studies of silicon polymers
and their future"
Aug. 30
Mr. Osamu Anegawa
Hokkaido University
"The effect of Zn and Ni on specific
heat of LaBaCuO"
Sept. 9
Prof. Serge M. Korogod
Dniepropetrovsk State University, Ukraine
"Geometry-induced features of current
transfer in neuronal dendrites"
Nov. 10
Prof. Philip Boudjouk
North Dakota State University, USA
"New routes to semiconducting materials"
Nov. 11
Dr. Pavel Zemanek
Institute of Scientific Instruments, Kralovopolska,
Czech
"Employment of Gaussian standing wave
for optical trapping of nanoparticles and
microparticles"
Jan. 20
Dr. Ken-ichiro Imura
Universite Paris-Sud, France
"Shot noise in fractional quantum Hall
devices"
lll. Quantum Electron Physics
May 14
Mr. Nobuyuki Iwata
Waseda University
"Fabrication and characterization of
Josephson junction using a ferromagnetic
material as an insulator"
May 18
Dr. Kumar Shiralagi
Motorola Laboratories, Physical Sciences
Research Laboratory, USA
"Resistless patterning and selective
growth for devices"
May 26
Prof. Fumio Komori
The University of Tokyo
"STM observation and tunneling spectroscopy
of inhomogeneous superconductor surfaces"
July 7
Prof. Pierre M. Petroff
University of California, Santa Barbara,
USA
"Splitting and restoring excitons in
strain coupled quantum dots"
July 8
Dr. Antonio Polimeni
Notingham University, UK
"Carrier hopping in InAs/(AlGa) As self-assembled
quantum dots"
July 21
Prof. W. Stolz & Prof. F. Hohnsdorf
Philipps-University, Martburg, Germany
"MOVPE of III-V device structures using
alternative group V precursors"
July 21
Dr. Bernard Jusserand
Concepts and Devices for Photonics Laboratory,
CNET/DTD and CNRS/URA250, France
"Raman scattering on electronic excitations
in deep etched modulation-doped GaAs quantum
wires : the quantum limit situation"
July 28
Prof. Vladimir V. Mitin
Wayne State University, Detroit, USA
"New results on 2D electron interaction
with acoustic phonons in hetero-structures"
Sept. 17
Dr. Jens Herfort
Paul-Drude-Institute, Berlin, Germany
"In situ controlled growth of LT-GaAs
and its application for mode-locking devices"
Oct. 13
Prof. Ray Ashoori
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
"Imazing quantum Hall liquid and quantum
dots"
Oct. 20
Prof. Yshai Avishai
Ben Gurion University, Israel
"Quantum dots with even number of electrons:
Kondo effect in a finite magnetic field"
"Quantum Hall plateaus transitions in
disordered superconductors"
Oct. 26
Dr. Bruce Alphenaar
Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory, UK
"Coherent transport of electron spin
in a ferromagnetically contacted carbon nanotube"
Dec. 7
Dr. Peter A. Maksym
University of Leicester, UK
"Moving quantum dots: a quantum standard
of electrical current ?"
Jan. 12
Dr. Wang Hailong
Institute of Semiconductor, Chinese Academy
of Science, China
"Growth and characterization of self-organized
quantum dots"
Feb. 16
Dr. Toru Okamoto
Gakushu-in University
"Metal-insulator transition and spin
in Si two-dimensional electorn gas systems"
Feb. 16
Prof. Shinji Kawaji
Gakushu-in University
"Integer quantum Hall effects: collapse
of quantized Hall resistance and energy dissipation"
Feb. 17
Mr. Nobuyoshi Sato
Iwate University
"Growth and structure of Ce/Cu and BiSrCaCuO
films"
Feb. 18
Dr. David Moore
Cambridge University, UK
"Silicon micromachining for nanoscale
devices"
Feb. 28
Prof. Artur Ekert
University of Oxford, UK
"Geometric quantum computation"
March 17
Dr. Patrik Waltereit
Paul-Drude-Institute, Germany
"MBE growth and characterization of
group III-nitrides"
lV. Quantum Optics & Optical Materials
May 14
Mr. Motohiro Kumagai
Tokyo Institute of Technology
"Optical-optical double resonaunce spectroscopy
by a phase-controlled light source"
July 23 Prof. Christoph Lienau
Max-Born-Institut fur Nichtlineare Optik
und Kurzzeitspektroskopie Berlin, Germany
"Picosecond and femtosecond near-field
scanning optical microscopy of semiconductor
nanostructures"
Aug. 30
Dr. Elizabeth Donley
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH,
Zurich, Switzerland
"Comparing single-molecule spectra in
crystalline and amorphous hosts at sub-Kelvin
temperatures"
Sept. 6
Dr. Gilles Lerondel
Tohoku University
"All-silicon photonics"
Sept. 7
Prof. Yoshihisa Yamamoto & Dr. Fumiko
Yamaguchi
Stanford University, USA
"Crystal lattice quantum computer"
Sept. 9
Prof. Lu J. Sham
University of California, San Diego, USA
"Theory of exciton correlation and optical
and spin coherence in semiconductor heterostructures"
Sept. 10
Prof. Christos Flytzanis
Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
"Persistent hole burning and photo-induced
spectral changes in rare-earth (Eu or Sm)-doped
glasses in room temperature: nonlinear spectroscopic
studies and extensions"
"Photo-induced magnetization and polarization
rotation in semi-magnetic semiconductor nano-structures
and micro-cavities"
Sept. 16
Prof. Lu J. Sham
University of California, San Diego, USA
"Exciton condensation in solids: theory
of manifestations in optically excited and
in strongly correlated semiconductors"
Feb. 16 Mr. Fumiaki Morikoshi
Hokkaido University
"Recovery of entanglement lost in entanglement
manipulation"