Pub Date : 2022-06-30DOI: 10.21820/23987073.2022.3.9
Haruo Kobayashi, A. Kuwana
Electronic circuits form the basis of much of the technology we use today. Professor Haruo Kobayashi and Assistant Professor Anna Kuwana, Division of Electronics and Informatics, Gunma University, Japan, are utilising classical mathematics, including theorems such as number theory and control theory in their design of circuits that contain elements of analogue signalling. Analogue circuit planning is regarded as an art as these circuits are typically designed based on mature designers' intuition and experiences in a process that is less systematic for coming up with new architectures and more designing than digital circuit design and Kobayashi and Kuwana firmly believe that 'beautiful' mathematics can facilitate truly great circuit design. Additional mathematics techniques employed by Kobayashi and the team are statistics, coding theory, modulation and signal processing algorithms and pairing pure mathematics theorems with electrical engineering is a key feature of the researchers' work. The team utilises theoretical analysis and simulations such as the circuit simulator (SPICE) and system simulator (MATLAB) to test its work and collaborates with semiconductor companies and electronic measurement instrument companies in Japan for smart circuit design and effective circuit testing. So far, results include that using SAR ADC configurations with Fibonacci sequence weights can improve the speeds and reliability of the SAR ADC. Also several new DAC architecutures and waveform sampling methods are derived based on mathematics.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-30DOI: 10.21820/23987073.2022.3.46
M. Nojima
Ion beams have many applications. Junior Associate Professor Masahi Nojima, Research Institute of Science and Technology at the Tokyo University of Science, Japan, is working to create a new generation of ion beams. Already, he has successfully developed new techniques for producing focused ion beams (FIB). In his most recent work, Nojima has developed a metallic solution ion source that will be used to construct unknown functional materials by using ion beams made up of specific elements. The metallic solution ion source can generate a copy of an original structure using elementally selected materials. With support from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), KAKENHI, the academic incentive system of the KIOXIA Corporation 2021 and the Toshiba Electric Devices & Storage Corporation 2021, Nojima is seeking to open up new materials for use as ion sources utilising electrospray ionisation (ESI) methods. By harnessing the elements of FIBs primarily created from liquid metal ion source (LMIS) by field ionisation processes, Nojima hopes to create new generations of ion beams. To date, he and the team have displayed the result of mass separating metallic ion solution ion beams on random conditions and, looking ahead, intend to estimate the stopping range of mass selected ion beams in solid materials.
{"title":"Development of a new generation of ion beams","authors":"M. Nojima","doi":"10.21820/23987073.2022.3.46","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21820/23987073.2022.3.46","url":null,"abstract":"Ion beams have many applications. Junior Associate Professor Masahi Nojima, Research Institute of Science and Technology at the Tokyo University of Science, Japan, is working to create a new generation of ion beams. Already, he has successfully developed new techniques for producing\u0000 focused ion beams (FIB). In his most recent work, Nojima has developed a metallic solution ion source that will be used to construct unknown functional materials by using ion beams made up of specific elements. The metallic solution ion source can generate a copy of an original structure using\u0000 elementally selected materials. With support from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), KAKENHI, the academic incentive system of the KIOXIA Corporation 2021 and the Toshiba Electric Devices & Storage Corporation 2021, Nojima is seeking to open up new materials for use\u0000 as ion sources utilising electrospray ionisation (ESI) methods. By harnessing the elements of FIBs primarily created from liquid metal ion source (LMIS) by field ionisation processes, Nojima hopes to create new generations of ion beams. To date, he and the team have displayed the result of\u0000 mass separating metallic ion solution ion beams on random conditions and, looking ahead, intend to estimate the stopping range of mass selected ion beams in solid materials.","PeriodicalId":88895,"journal":{"name":"IMPACT magazine","volume":"80 8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78585722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-30DOI: 10.21820/23987073.2022.3.18
Sang-Gyeong An
Assistant Professor Sangmin An is head of the Microscope-based Nanoscale Physics Laboratory (MNPL), Jeonbuk National University, South Korea. He and his team are using atomic force microscope (AFM)-based technology as the basis of their work to make advances in materials science on the atomic and molecular levels. The researchers are combining their AFM-based technology with the scanning tunnelling microscope (STM), Raman spectroscopy systems and scanning electron microscope (SEM). Using this variety of techniques is enabling the team to drive progress in their field and also assisting with advances in semiconductor technology, including improving surface roughness measurement technology, which directly impacts consumer electronics. An and the team are also focused on nanoscale 3D printing with a view to overcoming limitations associated with the resolution of 3D printing. The researchers have fabricated nanopipettes through laser irradiation of perforated glass or quartz using a mechanical puller. The nanopipettes are then attached to a crystal oscillator to enable 3D printing at the nanoscale. The team has developed a process in which physical properties of materials can be measured directly using AFM + in situ Raman spectroscopy. By combining AFM-based nanoscale 3D printing technology and optical apparatus, it is possible to measure the physical, electrical, chemical, and optical properties of target materials. An and the team are also performing investigations related to Kelvin probe force microscope (KPFM) and friction measurement, as well as improving AFM technology for AFM and quartz tuning fork AFM (QTF-AFM) systems.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-30DOI: 10.21820/23987073.2022.3.15
Kazumasa Iwamoto
Dr. Kazumasa Iwamoto, National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management, Japan, is interested in the history of the modernization of Japan and how this was influenced by an influx of innovations and Western philosophies. His analyses of urban space formation involve a historical approach, as well as civil engineering and architecture techniques and an awareness of technology's contributions. Iwamoto's work is novel as research themes linking civil engineering and history are unusual. He is exploring the planning and design influences of other countries, including how the planning and urban theory of Dutch engineers influenced the formation of urban infrastructure in modern Japan. In one project, Iwamoto and the collaborator investigated the role of Dutch civil engineering in modern port planning in Japan over the period of the 1870s to the 1890s by studying original Dutch and Japanese documents including investigative reports, design drawings, and survey maps, and then exploring the transfer of civil engineering techniques for port planning through three case studies. Through this research, they found that Dutch civil engineers had a significant impact on Japanese port planning through technological innovation, an example of which is the construction of artificial basins. The researchers are also investigating transport, including electric tramways and hydroelectricity, in Wakayama prefecture, and how this played a role in the industrialization of Wakayama and its development as a tourist resort.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-30DOI: 10.21820/23987073.2022.3.4
L. Annette
Collaboration is key to discovery and the National Science Foundation (NSF) is an example of a vehicle that is crucial to the scientific community as it facilitates international collaboration. It is a federal agency that was set up in 1950 and invests in basic research across the spectrum to support discovery and innovation. In the NSF's Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Performance and Financial Highlights report Director Sethuraman Panchanathan said that the agency is 'the Nation's preeminent source of federal funding for basic research in computer science, engineering, biology, the social sciences, mathematics, geosciences, the physical sciences, and education'. NSF has an annual budget of around US$8.3 billion and a broad reach, directly supporting an estimated 313,000 people in 2020. This support assisted researchers, postdoctoral fellows, trainees, teachers and students in bringing their ideas to life and, ultimately, moving closer to real-world impacts with the potential to solve societal challenges. Discovery, learning and research infrastructure are NSF's key strategic goals and it places emphasis on diverse, interdisciplinary and international collaborations in order to extend its reach as far as possible and invests in research connected to learning, innovation and service to society. Assistant directors head up NSF's seven sections; each one intended to support research and education in science and engineering. The sections are: biological sciences, computer and information science and engineering, engineering, geosciences, mathematical and physical sciences, social, behavioural and economic sciences, and education and human resources. In 2020, $8.4 billion funding was awarded by NSF to 1,900 colleges, universities and other institutions.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-30DOI: 10.21820/23987073.2022.3.29
Akira Saito
Biometrics combines principles from engineering, physics, chemistry, biology and informatics and applies them to create materials, systems and machines that mimic biological processes. The idea is to mimic things that exist naturally in order to develop artificial things with novel properties. Dr Akira Saito, Department of Precision Engineering, Osaka University, Japan, is working to develop new transmissive light materials inspired by butterflies. The blue Morpho butterfly has brilliant blue wings and scientists have discovered that the colour is attributed to a specific nanostructure that has both order and disorder. Saito and the team have been working to artificially reproduce this coloration and have proven the optical principles of the Morpho butterfly's reflection, progressed various application technologies and, more recently, found a new direction - the transfer from reflection to transmission which has applications in window technologies. The researchers have developed a daylight window that satisfies at once all conditions of high transmittance, wide angular spread, low colour dispersion, and spread-shape controllability and have also realised the diffuser that will enable the light source to 'see the object correctly' in terms of the colour rendering. This has potential to be used in fields that rely on different forms of lighting, including fine arts, surgery and various types of photography. The important methods that Saito and the team have used in their research are nanofabrication (including lithography, etching and nanoimprinting), structural and optical evaluation (SEM and AFM, measurement of reflectivity and transmittance versus angle with spectroscopy), and numerical simulation.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-30DOI: 10.21820/23987073.2022.3.6
Kuan-Jiuh Lin
Nanomaterials hold great potential in the development of lithium-ion microbatteries and could assist in developing ever smaller and more reliable power sources to facilitate 21st Century life. Professor Kuan-Jiuh Lin is based in the Department of Chemistry, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan, and runs the Interfacial Optical-Electronic (IOE) Lab. He and his team leader Dr Wen-Yin Ko are working to address gaps in nanotechnology, including how to conquer the strong interfacial coupling between the porous semiconductor membrane and the electro-plasmon metal-surface film. Their research is expected to have broad applications across electronics and optoelectronics. In a recent project, the researchers are working to develop more efficient lithium-ion microbatteries (micro-LIBs) using active nanostructured anode materials such as carbon nanomaterials composed of porous carbon, graphene and carbon nanotubes (CNTs). The researchers have developed a lightweight and high-rate CNT-based anode system that holds great potential for fast-charging batteries. The team has also created metal-doped MnO2 nanowalls with inter-networked vertically-oriented three-dimensional (3D) porous frameworks directly onto a AgCNT modified current collector, resulting in a superior performance anode material for LIBs. The researchers also created a novel 3D porous scaffold anode material of silicon–porphyrin pearl-chain-like nanowires which was placed onto the surface of a bundled titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanowire. In a world first, Lin and the team were able to achieve dial functionalities of antireflective and electrochemical properties-based anatase TiO2 nanowire devices with a high-porosity cross-linked geometry directly grown onto transparent conductive glass.
{"title":"Preparation of high-efficiency anti-reflective oxide electrodes and their application in biomedical testing and thin-film lithium batteries","authors":"Kuan-Jiuh Lin","doi":"10.21820/23987073.2022.3.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21820/23987073.2022.3.6","url":null,"abstract":"Nanomaterials hold great potential in the development of lithium-ion microbatteries and could assist in developing ever smaller and more reliable power sources to facilitate 21st Century life. Professor Kuan-Jiuh Lin is based in the Department of Chemistry, National Chung Hsing University,\u0000 Taiwan, and runs the Interfacial Optical-Electronic (IOE) Lab. He and his team leader Dr Wen-Yin Ko are working to address gaps in nanotechnology, including how to conquer the strong interfacial coupling between the porous semiconductor membrane and the electro-plasmon metal-surface film.\u0000 Their research is expected to have broad applications across electronics and optoelectronics. In a recent project, the researchers are working to develop more efficient lithium-ion microbatteries (micro-LIBs) using active nanostructured anode materials such as carbon nanomaterials composed\u0000 of porous carbon, graphene and carbon nanotubes (CNTs). The researchers have developed a lightweight and high-rate CNT-based anode system that holds great potential for fast-charging batteries. The team has also created metal-doped MnO2 nanowalls with inter-networked vertically-oriented\u0000 three-dimensional (3D) porous frameworks directly onto a AgCNT modified current collector, resulting in a superior performance anode material for LIBs. The researchers also created a novel 3D porous scaffold anode material of silicon–porphyrin pearl-chain-like nanowires which was placed\u0000 onto the surface of a bundled titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanowire. In a world first, Lin and the team were able to achieve dial functionalities of antireflective and electrochemical properties-based anatase TiO2 nanowire devices with a high-porosity cross-linked geometry\u0000 directly grown onto transparent conductive glass.","PeriodicalId":88895,"journal":{"name":"IMPACT magazine","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84977874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-06-30DOI: 10.21820/23987073.2022.3.21
Kohei Iritani
Existing methods for producing transparent fluorescent materials are adequate for small scale production but unsuitable for larger scales. Assistant Professor Kohei Iritani and his team at the Department of Applied Chemistry, School of Engineering, Tokyo University of Technology, Japan, are working to develop 2D monolayers to overcome this. These monolayers are formed by the self-assembly of organic molecules at the solid/liquid or air/water interface and monolayers with the aggregation-induced emission (AIE) effect have the potential to be used as transparent fluorescent materials. The researchers have been successful in synthesising various AIE molecules and have made attempts to form a monolayer using the Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) trough. The team established a method whereby if a monolayer could not be obtained, feedback was given to the molecular design and a process of trial and error was repeatedly performed while new molecules were synthesised. This led to the construction of a fluorescence monolayer that can be transferred to a glass substrate while maintaining fluorescence emission. In their work to construct a monolayer with AIE effect at the air/water interface the researchers are seeking to suppress intramolecular motion using a flat surface of water as a substrate and make it emit fluorescence by forming a monolayer.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-30DOI: 10.21820/23987073.2022.3.24
L. Annette
The European Innovation Council (EIC) was launched as part of Horizon Europe in March 2021 in order to identify and support novel technologies and innovations. In February 2022 the European Commission (EC) adopted the EIC's 2022 work programme, which provides funding opportunities and boasts new features compared to last year's programme. These new opportunities include increased funding for breakthrough innovators with a focus on creating new markets, a scale up initiative for deep tech companies and extra emphasis on support for women innovators. Mariya Gabriel, Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, said: 'The work programme for this year is backed by the biggest ever annual funding for visionary entrepreneurs and researchers, as well as new measures to support female innovators and scale-ups.' Indeed the funding available for 2022 for start-ups and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is €1.16 billion, and more than €480 million is available for transnational research collaborations. This funding is organised into three categories: categories: the EIC Pathfinder, the EIC Transition and the EIC Accelerator. The EIC Pathfinder supports visionary thinking around innovative new technologies while the EIC Transition supports innovations in and beyond the lab and the EIC Accelerator supports SMEs, with a focus on startups. In addition to financial support, the businesses receive expertise and assistance with scaling up their innovations. New to the 2022 work programme is an expansion of the definition of women-led companies. Another component of the extra support to female innovators is the development of an innovation gender and diversity index to identify gaps and stimulate diversity within companies.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-30DOI: 10.21820/23987073.2022.3.40
L. Annette
There is a well documented gender gap in science and technology and, despite advancements, women remain underrepresented, particularly in fields such as engineering, mathematics, computing and physics. This is worsened still by the presence of skills shortages in these fields and UNESCO recommends efforts to attract and retain women to these fields. The European Commission (EC)'s European Research Area (ERA) Policy Agenda intends to 'promote gender equality and foster inclusiveness'. 'She Figures' is a study that began in 2003 and collects data and statistics on the status of gender equality in European research and innovation (R&I). It is updated every three years, allowing progress with the evolving situation to be closely monitored. In the 2021 edition of 'She Figures' it is highlighted that while numbers of female students at bachelor's, master's and doctoral levels are steadily rising, women are distinctly underrepresented in R&I careers. Mariya Gabriel, Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, said: "We still need to do more to promote gender equality, in particular to inspire girls for a career in STEM." The report highlighted disparities among different fields of study with, for example, only 21 per cent of female ICT graduates and 27 per cent of female engineering graduates, while in health and welfare, the figures rise to 60 per cent and 67 per cent respectively. This suggests remaining outdated misconceptions in terms of traditionally male-dominated and female-dominated areas and the need for change.
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