2024

The 41st

Mitsuru Funato(Associate Professor, Kyoto University)

“Confinement of Excitons within GaN 1D Nanoarchitectures Formed on AlN Molecular Steps”

2023

The 40th

Ziyi Zhang(Chief Investigator, Asahi Kasei Corporation)
Maki Kushimoto(Lecturer, Nagoya University)
Akira Yoshikawa(Senior Chief Engineer, Asahi Kasei Corporation)
Chiaki Sasaoka(Designated Professor, Nagoya University)
Hiroshi Amano(Professor, Nagoya University)

“Room temperature continuous-wave lasing of AlGaN-based deep ultraviolet laser diode by current injection”

2022

The 39th

Yuki Fuseya(Associate Professor, University of Electro-Communications)
Hiroyasu Katsuno(Postdoctral Research Fellow, Hokkaido University)

“Spontaneous pattern formation at the atomic scale based on Turing theory”

2021

The 38th

Jun Nozawa(Specially Appointed Assistant Professor, Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University)

“Study on the growth mechanism and growth control of the colloidal crystals”

Kosuke Sato(Asahi Kasei Corporation)
Motoaki Iwaya(Professor, Faculty of Science and Technology, Meijo University)
Tetsuya Takeuchi(Professor, Faculty of Science and Technology, Meijo University)
Hideto Miyake(Professor, Graduate School of Regional Innovation Studies, Mie University)

“Fabrication of High Quality AlGaN Films and UV-B Semiconductor Lasers”

2020

The 37th

None

2019

The 36th

Yuki Kimura(Associate Professor, Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University)

“Elucidation of formation processes of cosmic dust particles based on homogeneous nucleation experiments”

2018

The 35th

Teruki Sugiyama(Associate Professor, National Chiao Tung University Adjunct Professor, Nara Institute of Science and Technology)
Ken-ichi Yuyama(Assistant Professor, Hokkaido University)

“Control of Amino Acid and Protein Crystallization by Optical Trapping”

2017

The 34th

Mihoko MARUYAMA(Specially Appointed Associate Professor, Kyoto Prefectural University)
Hiroshi Y. YOSHIKAWA(Associate professor, Department of Chemistry, Saitama University)

“Promotion of protein crystal growth by actively switching crystal growth mode via femtosecond laser ablation”

2016

The 33rd

Hiroki HIBINO(Professor, School of Science and Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University)
Hiroyuki KAGESHIMA(Professor, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Shimane University)

“Thickness Determination of Two-Dimensional Materials from Quantized Oscillation in Reflectivity of Low-Energy Electrons”