Nano-scale Science & Technology Research Group

Group Director
Mizuo MAEDA (D.Eng.)
Fundamental studies on Nano-technology are carried out by the following 4 teams. 1) Fundamental Nano-scale Analysis and Control Technology Team; fabrication of nano-scale structure and development of new method to measure the function, 2) Chemical Functions at Nano-scale Level Team; chemistry of single molecules and low dimensional systems, 3) Research Technique to Study Nano-scale Condensed Matter under Extreme Conditions Team; low dimensional electron systems confined in a nano-scale space and their quantum phenomena, and 4) Nanodevice Science and Technology Team; development of nano-meter scale devices and investigation of the application field.
- Electronic functions at Nano-scale
- Nano-functional photonics
- Functional nano-spin research
- Nano Bio-Functional Molecular Systems
- Motobayashi K, Kim Y, Ueba H, and Kawai M
"Insights into action spectroscopy for single molecule motion and reactions through inelastic electron tunneling."
Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 076101 (2010). - Shin HJ, Clair S, Kim Y and Kawai M
"Substrate-induced array of quantum dots in a single-walled carbon nanotube"
Nature Nanotech. 4 567-570 (2009). - Cao Y, Takeyasu N, Tanaka T, Duan XM, and Kawata S
"3D Metallic Nano-Structure Fabrication By Surfactant-Assisted Multi-Photon-Induced Reduction."
Small 5, 1144-1148 (2009). - Hayazawa N, Furusawa K, Taguchi A, Kawata S and Abe H
"Tip-enhanced two-photon excited fluorescence microscopy with a silicon tip"
Appl. Phys. Lett. 94, 193112 (2009). - Nishino T, Negishi R, Kawao M, Nagata T, Ozawa H, and Ishibashi K
"The fabrication and single electron transport of Au nanoparticles placed between Nb nanogap electrodes"
Nanotechnology, 21, 225301 (2010). - Tabata H, Shimizu M, and Ishibashi K
"Fabrication of single electron transistors using transfer-printed aligned single walled carbon nanotubes arrays."
Appl. Phys. Lett. 95, 113107, (2009) - Rees DG, Kuroda I, Marrache-Kikuchi CA, Höfer M, Leiderer P and Kono K
"Point-Contact Transport Properties of Strongly Correlated Electrons on Liquid Helium"
Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 026803 (2011) - Oshiro T, Zako T, Watanabe-Tamaki R, Tanaka T and Maeda M
"A facile method towards cyclic assembly of gold nanoparticles using DNA template alone"
Chem Commun, 46, 6132-6134 (2010) - Suzuki, K. Hosokawa, K., Maeda M
"Controlling the number and positions of oligonucleotides on gold nanoparticle surfaces"
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 31, 7518-7519 (2009) - Tanaka S-i, Miyata T, Kato T, Namba K, Yanagida T, Sako Y, Kawata S and Inouye Y
"Construction of two color semiconductor Quantum dots wire by utilizing the complementarity of DNA"
DNA-Based Nanodevices 116-122 (2008)