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Nano-scale Science & Technology Research Group
Mizuo MAEDA
Group Director
Mizuo MAEDA (D.Eng.)

Research Areas

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.

Research Subject

  1. Electronic functions at Nano-scale
  2. Nano-functional photonics
  3. Functional nano-spin research
  4. Nano Bio-Functional Molecular Systems

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RIKEN RESEARCH

December 26, 2008
Writing between the lines
Nano-patterning on silicon: a single compound reacts with silicon surface to form perpendicular molecular lines New Window

List of Selected Publications

  1. 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).
  2. 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).
  3. 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).
  4. 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).
  5. 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).
  6. 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)
  7. 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)
  8. 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)
  9. 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)
  10. 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)