Personnel Change (April, 2022)

New members
Fumiya Nakamura (Graduate student)	Taiki Inoue (Undergraduate student)
Yuki Ushio (Undergraduate student)
Moving out
Rieko Oshima

Graduation (March, 2022)

Shuto Osaki (Ph. D.)	Kota Koike (Ph. D.)
Ryutaro Ohata (M.S.)
Rina Saratani (M.S.)	Yan Bangjie (M.S.)
Geng Junan (M.S.)

International joint seminar with Prof.Chu lab in National Taiwan University (NTU) and Smith Group in Osaka Uninersity
International joint seminar with Prof.Chu lab in National Taiwan University and Smith group in Osaka university was held on March 8th. We presented research progresses of our laboratories. Participants talk about their recent situation in harmonious atmosphere.

Kenta Temma stays in University of Oxford
Kenta Temma stays in University of Oxford.

Heqi Xi joined Nanophotonics lab as graduate student
Heqi Xi joined Nanophotonics lab as graduate student at Oct. 1st, 2021.

Matt Lindley joined Nanophotonics lab as doctoral scientist
Matt Lindley joined Nanophotonics lab as doctoral scientist, from Sep. 1st, 2021.

Personnel Change (April, 2021)

New members
Rieko Oshima (Research & Technical Assistant)	Yao Xiao (Graduate student)
Zu-Cheng Sheng (Graduate student)	Zhe Li (Graduate student)
Kakeru Kono (Undergraduate)	Takumi Kunimoto (Undergraduate)
Tomoaki Okumura (Undergraduate)	Wakana Miyamura (Undergraduate)

Graduation (March, 2021)

Ain Obara (M.S.)	Kohei Nagano (M.S.)
Yuga Okui (M.S.)	Hanae Hirano (M.S.)
Shumpei Yabuuchi (M.S.)	Hikaru Sato (M.S.)
Hao-Xiang Liao (M.S.)	Kosuke Tsuji (B.S.)
Masaki Irino (B.S.)	Tomoyuki Murashima (B.S.)
Kenta Mizushima (B.S.)

Ryosuke Oketani moved to Kyushu University as assistant professor
Ryosuke Oketani move to Kyushu University, department of chemistry as assistant professor, from Apr. 1st, 2021. Photo-physical chemistry lab

Hiroyuki Yoshikawa moved to Hiroshima Institute of Technology as associate professor
Hiroyuki Yoshikawa moved to Hiroshima Institute of Technology, department of computer science as associate professor, from Apr., 1st, 2021.

Kentaro Nishida received 2021 IEEJ Electronics, Information and Systems Division Research Group Incentive Award
Kentaro Nishida received 2021 IEEJ Electronics, Information and Systems Division Research Group Incentive Award. The award title was "Super-resolution transmission microscopy utilizing saturated light absorption of dye molecules."

Hiroki Ide, Yuga Okui and Hikaru Sato are going to present their progresses in The 68th JSAP spring Meeting
Hiroki Ide, Yuga Okui and Hikaru Sato are going to present our researches at The 68th JSAP Spring Meeting online Congress Center.

Kentaro Nishida presented our research progresses in The IEE domestic council on optical and quantum devices
Kentaro Nishida presented our research progresses at The IEE domestic counsil on optical and quantum devices online.Congress Center.

International joint seminar with Prof.Chu lab in National Taiwan University(NTU)
International joint seminar with Prof.Chu lab in National Taiwan University was held on March 10th. Students presented research progresses of their laboratory. Participants talk about their recent situation in harmonious atmosphere.

Masahito Yamanaka joined Nanophotonics lab as specially appointed associate professor.
Masahito Yamanaka joined Nanophotonics lab as specially appointed associate professor, from Jan. 1st, 2021.

New members
Hiroyuki Yoshikawa (Assistant Professor)	Masato Saito (Assistant Professor)
Briones Jonathan Campos(Graduate)	Shuto Osaki(Graduate)
Hiroki Ide(Graduate)	Ain Obara(Graduate)
Kohei Nagano(Graduate)	Yuga Okui(Graduate)
Ryutaro Ohata(Graduate)	Rina Saratani(Graduate)
Yotaro Doi(Graduate)	Kosuke Tsuji(Undergraduate)
Masaki Irino(Undergraduate)	Tomoyuki Murashima(Undergraduate)
Kenta Mizushima(Undergraduate)

Graduation (March, 2020)

Shunsuke Maeda (M.S.)	Kenta Temma (M.S.)
Astushi Nakayama (M.S.)	Li Qiye (M.S.)
Takuma Shibata (B.S.)	Shunya Tanaka (B.S.)

Dr. Devineau Stephanie Helene Jacqueline stays in Nanophotonics lab
Dr. Devineau Stephanie Helene Jacqueline (Paris Diderot University) stays in Nanophotonics lab from Feb. 1st, 2020 to Jul. 31st, 2020.

Kota Koike stays in Columbia University
Kota Koike stays in Columbia University, from Oct. 19th, 2019 to Apr. 1st, 2020. This stay is supported by JST.

Junan Geng joined Nanophotonics lab as research student.
Junan Geng joined Nanophotonics lab as research student, from Sep. 19th, 2019.

Yasuaki Kumamoto joined Nanophotonics lab as assistant professor.
Yasuaki Kumamoto joined Nanophotonics lab as assistant professor, from Sep. 2nd, 2019.

Lasie Summer School, July 28 - 29th, 2019
We had summer school with lasie members in July 28- 29th 2019, at Kyoto. Students presented their research progresses through the oral and the poster presentations, and enjoyed the discussion.

Hung-Yu Chen stays in Nanophotonics lab
Hung-Yu Chen (National Taiwan University) stays in Nanophotonics lab for two months by JSPS core-to-core program.

Toshiki Kubo stays in University of Oxford
Toshiki Kubo stays in University of Oxford, from Apr. 13rd, 2019 to Oct. 1st, 2019. This stay is supported by JST.

New members
Takuma Shibata (Undergarduate)	Shunya Tanaka (Undergarduate)
Hikaru Sato (Graduate student)	Bangjie Yan (Research student)

Moving out

Atsushi Taguchi (Assistant Professor)

Kota Koike (M. S.)	Yuta Kaseyama (M.S.)
Masahiro Yagyu (M.S.)	Hanae Hirano (B.S.)
Shumpei Yabuuchi (B.S.)

Lab trip, March 28 - 29th, 2019
We went Lab trip on March 28- 29th, 2019 at Awaji-shima. We had poster session, research introduction and BBQ. We enjoyed the discussions among everyone in the lab.

The 14th Osamu Nakamura (ON) Conference, March 29 - 30th, 2018
The 14th Osamu Nakamura (ON) Conference has been held on March 29 - 30th, 2019 at Awaji Yumebutai International Conference Center. We discussed recent advances in photonics, nanophotonics and plasmonics research as well as future perspectives. We enjoyed the discussions across various fields of science.

Pang-Han Wu and Yu-Feng Chien stayed in Nanophotonics lab
Pang-Han Wu and Yu-Feng Chien (National Taiwan University) stayed in Nanophotonics lab from Mar. 11st, 2019 to Mar. 26th, 2019.

Prof. Chunxian Tao stays in Nanophotonics lab
Prof. Chunxian Tao (University of Shanghai for Science and Technology) stays in Nanophotonics lab from Mar. 5th, 2019 to Mar. 4th, 2020.

Kazuki Bando was awarded at Technical Meeting on Optical and Quantum Devices
Kazuki Bando was awarded by Tohoku-Hokkaido Branch of Laser Society of Japan at Technical Meeting on Optical and Quantum Devices. Recsearch title was "Synthesize of functionalized metallic nanoparticles and intracellular SERS imaging"

Kentaro Nishida stayed Prof.Chu lab in National Taiwan UniversityTU
Kentaro Nishida stayed in Prof. Shi-Wei Chu lab, National Taiwan University, from Oct. 15th to Jan. 7th, 2019. This stay is supported by JSPS Core to Core program.

Shunsuke Maeda was awarded at The International Symposium for Materials Scientists “Inspiration for Innovation by Interaction” (ISMS III)
Shunsuke Maeda was awarded best poster present award at The International Symposium for Materials Scientists “Inspiration for Innovation by Interaction” (ISMS III). The research title was "High-Speed Raman Imaging by Using Multi-line Illumination".

Katsumasa Fujita promoted as Professor of Appplied Physics
Katsumasa Fujita was promoted as Professor of Applied Physics, Osaka University, on October 16, 2018.

Vaibhav Bansode joined in Nanophotonics lab
Vaibhav Bansode has joined in Nanophotonics lab as a research student from Oct. 1st, 2018.

Maximilian Obst stays in Nanophotonics lab
Maximilian Obst (Dresden University of Technology) stays in Nanophotonics lab from Oct. 1st, 2018 to Mar. 31st, 2019.

Kenta Temma and Atsushi Nakayama are going to present their progresses in The 79th JSAP Autumn Meeting
Kenta Temma and Atsushi Nakayama are going to present their researches at The 79th JSAP Autumn Meeting in Nagoya Congress Center.

Our research is going to be displayed at Innovation Japan 2018
We are going to display our research at Innovation Japan 2018 in Tokyo Big Site, Aug. 30th and 31st.

Steven Meyer Demers stays Nanophotonics lab
Steven Meyer Demers (Rice University) stays in Nanophotonics lab from Jun. 19th to Aug. 21st, 2018. This stay is supported by JSPS Summer Program 2018.

Kentaro Mochizuki was awarded with Young Scientist Poster Award of The Spectroscopical Society of Japan
Kentaro Mochizuki was awarded with the Young Scientist Poster Award at annual meeting/The Spectroscopical Society of Japan (2018/5/22-5/25).

Yahya Bougdid stays Nanophotonics lab
Yahya Bougdid (MAScIR) stays in Nanophotonics lab from May. 10th to Jun. 1st, 2018.

Katelyn Miyasaki has awarded Honorable Mentions by 2018 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship
Katelyn Miyasaki, who stayed our lab for through the NanoJapan Program , has awarded Honorable Mentions by 2018 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship. Ryosuke Oketani, postdoc in our lab, is also mentioned as her mentorship.

New members
Hanae Hirano (undergarduate)	Shunpei Yabuuchi (undergarduate)
Hao-Xiang Liao (research student)

Moving out
Kota Saito	Yu Jun
Zhiqiang Zhang

Natsuo Taguchi (Ph. D.)	Sho Nitta (M.S.)
Daigo Oue (M.S.)	Toshiki Kubo (M.S.)
Kentaro Nishida (M.S.)	Shunsuke Maeda (B.S.)
Atsushi Nakayama (B.S.)	Kenta Temma (B.S.)

Lab trip, March 30 - 31st, 2018
We went to Lab trip on March 30- 31st, 2018 at Wellness park Goshiki. We had poster session, research introduction and BBQ. We enjoyed the discussions among everyone in the lab.

The 13th Osamu Nakamura (ON) Conference, March 29 - 30th, 2018
The 13th Osamu Nakamura (ON) Conference has been held on March 29 - 30th, 2018 at Awaji Yumebutai International Conference Center. We discussed recent advances in photonics, nanophotonics and plasmonics research as well as future perspectives. We enjoyed the discussions across various fields of science.

Ryosuke Oketani was awarded at Technical Meeting on Optical and Quantum Devices
Ryosuke Oketani was awarded by Tohoku-Hokkaido Branch of Laser Society of Japan at Technical Meeting on Optical and Quantum Devices(2018/3/5).

Kentaro Nishida visits Prof.Chu lab in NTU
Kentaro Nishida stayed in Prof. Shi-Wei Chu lab, National Taiwan University, from Feb. 26th to Mar. 26th, 2018. This stay is supported by JSPS Core to Core program.

Yun-Chen Chung visits Nanophotonics lab
Yin-Chen Chung (National Taiwan Normal University) stays in LaSIE from Jan. 23rd to Feb. 15th, 2018. This stay is supported by JSPS Core to Core program.

Yi-Shiou Duh visits LaSIE
Yi-Shiou Duh (National Taiwan University) stays in Nanophotonics lab from Jan. 15th to Feb. 9th, 2018. This stay is supported by JSPS Core to Core program.

Rene Richter visits Nanophotonics lab
Rene Richter (Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena) stays for 6 months in Nanophotonics lab from Oct. 6th, 2017.

Prof. Rainer Heintzmann visits Nanophotonics lab
Prof. Rainer Heintzmann (Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena) visits Nanophotonics lab for three weeks from Sep. 12, 2017. This stay is supported by Heiwa Nakajima Foundation.

Giulia Zanini visits Nanophotonics lab
Giulia Zanini (University of Geno) stays in Nanophotonics lab from Sep 11th, 2017 to Jan 15th, 2018.

Yun Chen Chung visits Nanophotonics lab through JSPS Core-to-Core Program
Yun Chen Chung from National Taiwan Normal University comes short stay in Nanophotonics lab from 3 Jul, 2017 for one month and a half. This stay is supported by JSPS Core-to-Coren Program.

Katelyn Miyasaki visits Nanophotonics lab through the NanoJapan Program
Katelyn Miyasaki will stay in Nanophotonics lab through the NanoJapan Program for two months from June 5th, 2017.

Hiroyuki Kawagoe joins in Nanophotonics lab
Hiroyuki Kawagoe joins Nanophotonics lab as a postdoc from Jun. 1, 2017.

The Best Poster Award and the Best Presentation Award of the spectroscopical society of Japan
Kazuki Bando was awarded the Young Scientist Poster Award of The Spectroscopical Society of Japan. Jun Ando (Institute for Molecular Science) and Liang-da Chiu (The University of Tokyo), presented their results in our lab, were awarded the Best Presentation Award. (May 25, 2017).

Qiye Li joins Nanophotonics lab
Qiye Li joins Nanophotonics lab as a research student from Apr. 11, 2017.

New members
Shunsuke Maeda (undergarduate)	Atsushi Nakayama (undergarduate)
Kenta Temma (undergarduate)

Ryosuke Oketani（Ph. D.）	Ken Ito（M.S.）
Yousuke Sakai (M.S.)	Lee Taeho (M.S.)
Yuta Kaseyama (B.S.)	Kota Koike (B.S.)
Masahiro Yagyu (B.S.)

The 12th Osamu Nakamura (ON) Conference, March 31 - April 1st, 2017
The 12th Osamu Nakamura (ON) Conference has been held on March 31- April 1st, 2017 at Awaji Yumebutai International Conference Center. We discussed recent advances in photonics and plasmonics research as well as future perspectives. We enjoyed the discussions across various fields of science.

(Group Photo)

Dr. Jun Ando has moved to Institute for Molecular Science
Dr. Jun Ando has moved to Institute for Molecular Science/Okazaki Institute for Integrative Bioscience, and has been promoted to an assistant professor.

Prof. Hsiang-Lin Liu and Ms. Yun-Chen Chung (National Taiwan Normal Univeristy) visit Nanophotonics lab
Prof. Hsiang-Lin Liu and Ms. Yun-Chen Chung (National Taiwan Normal Univeristy) stayed in Nanophotonics lab via the Core to core program from Feb. 23th to 28th, 2017.

Hongki Lee(Yonsei University) visits Nanophotonics lab
Hongki Lee from Yonsei University stayed in Nanophotonics lab for Raman microscopy research from Feb. 6th to 10th, 2017.

Hong-Bo Sum (Jilin University) visits Nanophotonics lab
Hong-Bo Sum (Jilin University) visited Nanophotonics lab for Intensive course from Nov. 28th to Dec. 1st, 2016.

Gitanjal Deka (National Taiwan University) visited Nanophotonics lab
Gitanjal Deka from National Taiwan University has visited Nanophotonics lab for SAX microscopy research from Nov. 22th to Dec. 15th, 2016.

Kozue Watanabe was awarded the Best Presentation Award
Kozue Watanabe was awarded the Best Presentation Award at Optics & Photonics Japan 2016 (Oct. 30th - Nov. 1th 2016).

Atsushi Taguchi was awarded the Best Paper Award
Atsushi Taguchi was awarded the Best Paper Award by the Optical Society of Japan. The award ceremony was held in the Optics & Photonics Japan 2016 on Nov. 2th.

Kazuki Bando was awarded the Best Poster Award
Kazuki Bando was awarded the Best Poster Award at JSPS Kansai symposium (Oct. 7th 2016).

Fangfang Tai joins in Nanophotonics lab
Fangfang Tai joins in Nanophotonics lab as a research student from Oct. 3, 2016.

Hou-Xian Ding from National Taiwan University visits Lasie
Hou-Xian Ding from National Taiwan University will stay in LaSIE via the Core to core program from Aug 22th to Sep 16th.

Shirahama Summer School 2016
Shirahama summer school 2016 was held on Aug 5-6, 2016 at Granpas In Shirashama.

(Left: Presentation by the student　Right: Group photo)

Kozue Watanabe was awarded with Best Presentation Award
Kozue Watanabe was awarded with Best Presentation Award at Annual meeting/ International symposium of the Spectroscopical Society of Japan 2016 (May 24th-26th 2016).

Mayssa Gregoire visits LaSIE through the NanoJapan Program
Mays Gregoire from St. Joseph’s College, USA, will stay in LaSIE through the NanoJapan Program for two months.

New members
Yuta Kaseyama (undergarduate)	Kota Koike (undergarduate)
Masahiro Yagyu (undergarduate)

Moving out
Almar F Palonpon	Kyoko Masui
Shota Ushiba

Yan Zhao-Xu（Ph. D.）	Kozue Watanabe（Ph. D.）
Wataru Kamo (M.S.)	Takayuki Kobayashi (M.S.)
Haruka Suda (M.S.)	Takumasa Sekiya (M.S.)
So Fujiwara (M.S.)	Daigo Oue (B.S.)
Toshiki Kubo (B.S.)	Kentaro Nishida (B.S.)
Sho Nitta (B.S.)	Naoto Masukura (B.S.)

Shota Ushiba was awarded with Best Poster Award
Shota Ushiba was awarded with Best Poster Award at Nanophotonics in Asia 2015 (Dec. 10th-11th 2015).

Masui Kyoko and Shota Ushiba were awarded with Best Photo
Masui Kyoko and Shota Ushiba were awarded with Best Photo at the 6th JSAP Photo Contest.

TERS-5
5th International Conference on Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (TERS-5) will be held on Oct. 29-30th at Nakanoshima Center, Osaka University.

Shirahama Summer School 2015, August 19 - 21, 2015
Shirahama Summer School 2015 was held on August 19 - 21, 2015. LaSIE students reported their latest research progress and discussed science with all the members.

Yen-Ting Wang from National Taiwan Normal University visits Lasie
Yen-Ting Wang from National Taiwan Normal University will stay in LaSIE via the Asian Core Project from Jul 13th to Sep 13th.

Dr. Yasuaki Kumamoto has moved to Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine
Dr. Yasuaki Kumamoto has moved to Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, and has been promoted to an assistant professor.

Aaron Long visits LaSIE through the NanoJapan Program
Aaron Long from Yale University, USA, will stay in LaSIE through the NanoJapan Program for two months.

Li Kuan-Yu from National Taiwan University visits Lasie
Li Kuan-Yu from National Taiwan University will stay in LaSIE via the Asian Core Project from May 27th to Aug 23rd.

The 10th Osamu Nakamura (ON) Conference, April 2- 3rd, 2015
The 10th Osamu Nakamura (ON) Conference has been held on April 2- 3rd, 2015 at Awaji Yumebutai International Conference Center. We discussed recent advances in photonics and plasmonics research as well as future perspectives. We enjoyed the discussions across various fields of science.

(Group Photo)

Dr. Kota Saito joins LaSIE as a researcher
Dr. Kota Saitou joins LaSIE as a postdoctoral researcher starting April 1, 2015.

Dr. Zhiqiang Zhang joins LaSIE as a researcher
Dr. Zhiqiang Zhang joins LaSIE as a postdoctoral researcher starting February 2, 2015.

Opto Osaka 2015
In observance of the International Year of Light, Osaka University invites you to Opto Osaka 2015, an international symposium to discuss the frontier and future of photonics with world leaders, on January 14, 2015 at Grand Front Osaka. Prof. Sir John Pendry, Prof. Thomas Baer, and Prof. Satoshi Kawata are the invited guests.

Dr. Yasunori Nawa joins LaSIE as a researcher
Dr. Yasunori Nawa joins LaSIE as a postdoctoral researcher starting January 5, 2015.

Dr. Susan Skelton has moved to University of St. Andrews
Dr. Susan Skelton has moved to University of St. Andrews, UK.

Dr. Liang-da Chiu has moved to University of Tokyo
Dr. Liang-da Chiu has moved to University of Tokyo, and has been promoted to a project assistant professor.

Shirahama Summer School 2014, July 30 - Aug 1, 2014
Shirahama Summer School 2014 was held on July 30 - Aug 1 at Grampus Inn Shirahama. LaSIE students reported their latest research progress and discussed science with all the members.

(Conference in Grampus )

Lisa Chiba visited LaSIE through the NanoJapan Program
Lisa Chiba from Rice University, Texas, USA, stayed in LaSIE through the NanoJapan Program for two months.

The 9th Osamu Nakamura (ON) Conference, April 1- 2nd, 2014
The 9th Osamu Nakamura (ON) Conference has been held on April 1- 2nd, 2014 at Hotel Heian no Mori Kyoto. We discussed recent advances in photonics and plasmonics research as well as future perspectives. We enjoyed the discussions across various fields of science.

(Picture: Group photo)

Dr. Masahito Yamanaka has moved to Nagoya University
Dr. Masahito Yamanaka has moved to Nagoya University, Kyoto, and has been promoted to an assistant professor.

Dr. Mitsuhiro Honda has moved to Tokai University
Dr. Mitsuhiro Honda has moved to Tokai University.

Dr. Atsushi Taguchi joins LaSIE as an assistant professor
Dr. Atsushi Taguchi joins LaSIE as an assistant professor starting March 16, 2014.

Dr. Satoru Shoji has moved to The University of Electro-Communination
Dr. Satoru Shoji has moved to The University of Electro-Communination, Tokyo, and has been promoted to an associate professor.[Prof. Shoji Lab HP]

Hsuan Lee, from National Taiwan University, visits Lasie
Hsuan Lee, from National Taiwan University, stays in Lasie via the Asian Core Project from Feb. 25th to May 20th to do research on plasmonics.

Hsueh-Yu Wu from National Taiwan University visits Lasie
Hsueh-Yu Wu, a student from National Taiwan University, stays in Lasie under the FrontierLab Mini Program from September 29th to December 25th to do research on plasmonics.

Prof. Hsiang-Lin Liu from National Taiwan Normal University stays in Lasie as a visiting scientist
Prof. Hsiang-Lin Liu from National Taiwan Normal University is on sabbatical and stays in Lasie as a visiting scientist from Aug 8, 2013 to Feb 15, 2014.

Shirahama Summer School 2013, August 1-2, 2013
Shirahama Summer School 2013 was held on August 1-2 at Grampus Inn Shirahama. LaSIE students presented their latest research progress and discussed science with all the members.

(Left: Student presentation, Right: Science discussion)

Yen-Ta Huang, a student from National Taiwan University, visits Lasie
Yen-Ta Huang, a student from National Taiwan University, stays in Lasie under the Asian Core Project from July 11 to October 6 to do research on plasmonics.

Jordan Hoyt visits LaSIE under the NSF-Rice Univ summer program "Nano Japan Program
Jordan Hoyt from the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma, US, stays in LaSIE as an intern under the NSF-Rice Univ summer program "Nano Japan Program" for two months beginning June 3rd.

Dr. Bo-Han Cheng joins LaSIE as a visiting scientist.
Dr. Bo-Han Cheng joins LaSIE as a visiting scientist for one year starting from May 15th, 2013 to work on plasmonics research. Dr. Cheng is affiliated with the Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.

Announcing the first international workshop on UV-DUV Plasmonics and Nanophotonics (UPN2013), October 28-29, 2013, Osaka University
We announce the first international workshop on ultraviolet (UV) and deep-ultraviolet (DUV) plasmonics and nanophotonics to be held on October 28-29, 2013 at Osaka University. For more details, please visit the UPN2013 website.

Prof. Fu-Jen Kao from National Yang-Ming University visits LaSIE.
Prof. Fu-Jen Kao from the Institute of Biophotonics, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan, visits Lasie from April 14 to May 2, 2013.

The 8th Osamu Nakamura (ON) Conference, March 31- April 1, 2013
The 8th Osamu Nakamura (ON) Conference has been held on March 31- April 1, 2013 at Kobe Portopia Hotel. We discussed recent advances in photonics and plasmonics research as well as future perspectives. We enjoyed the discussions across various fields of science.

(Group photo)

Dr. Susan Skelton joins LaSIE.
Dr. Susan Skelton joins LaSIE as a postdoctoral fellow beginning March 1st, 2013.

Huang Kai-Chih from National Taiwan University visits LASIE
Huang Kai-Chih, a student from National Taiwan University, stayed in Lasie for 1 month to do research on surface-enhanced Raman scattering microscopy last January 2013.

Shufeng SUN, an associate professor from Wenzhou University, visits LASIE
Dr. Shufeng SUN, an associate professor from Wenzhou University, will stay in LaSIE for two months from 10th January for research on laser fabrication.

Huang Li-Chuan from Taiwan University
Huang Li-Chuan from Taiwan University stays in LaSIE under the "FrontierLab Program" for about 6 months from the end of Septemeber.

Chen Mei-Yu from National Taiwan University visit LASIE
Chen Mei-Yu, a student from National Taiwan University, will stay in Lasie for 3 months to do research on Raman microscopy from September.

Shirahama Summer School 2012, August 2-4, 2012
Shirahama Summer School 2012 was held on August 2-4 at Grampus Inn Shirahama. LaSIE students presented their recent research progress and discussed science with all the members. RIKEN Nanophotonics team also joined the event.

(Photo: Conference in Grampus)

Hsuan Lee, Min-Ying Lee and Ko-Fan Huang from National Taiwan University visit LASIE
Hsuan Lee, Min-Ying Lee and Ko-Fan Huang, students from National Taiwan University, will stay in Lasie for 2-3 months to do research on plasmonics and microscopy. They will conduct their research from July to September, 2012.

Kuray Preeya visits LaSIE under the NSF-Rice Univ summer program "Nano Japan Program"
Kuray Preeya from Rutgers University, US, will stay in LaSIE as an intern under the NSF-Rice Univ summer program "Nano Japan Program" for two months.

Huang Li-Chuan from Taiwan University
Huang Li-Chuan from Taiwan University stays in LaSIE under the "FrontierLab Program" for about 6 months from the end of Septemeber.

The 7th Osamu Nakamura Conference, March 30-31, 2012
The 7th Osamu Nakamura Conference has been held on March 30-31, 2012 at Kobe Portopia Hotel. We discussed recent advances in photonics research and future perspectives, and enjoyed the science discussions.

(Group photo (left), Kachoen (right))

Dr. Liang-da Chiu joined LaSIE.
Dr. Liang-da Chiu joined LaSIE as a postdoctoral fellow on October 17st, 2011.

Prof. Shi-Wei Chu from National Taiwan University
Prof. Shi-Wei Chu from National Taiwan University visited LaSIE from August 22nd to 26th, 2011.

Dr. Lanting Shi joined LaSIE.
Dr. Lanting Shi joined LaSIE as a postdoctoral fellow on August 1st, 2011.

Tung-Yu Su from National Taiwan University
Tung-Yu Su from National Taiwan University joined us on 2nd July, 2011. He will study with us for three months.

Prof. David Rueda from Wayne State University
Prof. David Rueda from Wayne State University visited LaSIE on June 7th, 2011.

The 6th Osamu Nakamura Conference held April 1-2, 2011
The 6th Osamu Nakamura Conference was held on April 1-2, 2011 at Hotel Sunroute Hikone. We discussed recent advances in photonics research and future perspectives.


   
(Photos upper: all members, lower left: dinner time, lower right: Hikone castle)

Yuika Saito promoted as an Associate Professor of Applied Physics
Yuika Saito was promoted as an Associate Professor of Applied Physics, Osaka University, on April 1, 2011.

Prof. Jean-Michel Nunzi from Queen's University
Prof. Jean-Michel Nunzi from Queen's University (Canada) visited LaSIE on February 15th, 2011.

Zhao-Xu Yan from Jilin Univ.
Zhao-Xu Yan from Jilin university joined us on Octorver 5th, 2010. He will study with us for three years.

Prof. Junichiro Kono from Rice University
Prof. Junichiro Kono from Rice University visited LaSIE on July 20th, 2010.

Shirahama Summer School 2010, July 22-23, 2010
Shirahama Summer School 2010 was held on July 16-17, 2010 at Grampus Inn Shirahama.
  

ShanShan Kou from Switcherland stayed in LaSIE for two weeks
ShanShan Kou visited LaSIE from Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switcherland. She gave a talk in a LaSIE Seminar on July 12th, 2010. She joined the "Osaka University Frontier Biosciences Summer Program 2010" for two weeks.

Professor Shi-Wei Chu stayed in LaSIE for two months from National Taiwan University
Professor Shi-Wei Chu stayed in LaSIE for research collaboration on laser scanning microscopy.

Warren Cheng visited us as an intern from Columbia University, US under NSF-Rice Univ summer program "Nano Japan Program"
Warren Cheng visited us as an intern from Columbia University, US under NSF-Rice Univ summer program "Nano Japan Program". He stayed in LaSIE for two months.

Natsumi Oura and Mako Sasaki joined LaSIE as administrative staff
Natsumi Oura and Mako Sasaki joined LaSIE as administrative staff. (May, 2010)

5th Osamu Nakamura Conferece held April 2-3, 2010
5th Osamu Nakamura Conferece was held on April 2-3, 2010 at Hotel New Omi. We discussed recent advances in photonics research and future perspectives. (Link: photos of the 5th Osamu Nakamura Conference 1 2 3).

Prabhat Verma promoted as a Professor of Appplied Physics
Prabhat Verma was promoted as a Professor of Applied Physics, Osaka University, on April 1, 2010.

Nicholas Smith is now an Associate Professor of iFReC
Nicholas Isaac Smith was appointed an Associate Professor of Immunology Frontier Research Center (iFReC), Osaka University, on April 1, 2010.

Shin-ichi Tanaka appointed Assistant Professor of Frontier Biosience School
Shin-ichi Tanaka was appointed an Assistant Professor of Frontier Bioscience School, Osaka University, on April 1, 2010.

Undergraduate students


Asaba Kenji	Kazuki Bandou
Kenichi Imoto	Kotaro Ogawa
Yoshiro Ohashi	Iori Shirakawa
Takayuki Umakoshi	Koichi Watanabe

Jun Ando (Doctor)	Masashi Motohashi (Doctor)
Fumiya Futamatsu (Master)	Yoshiaki Kittaka (Master)
Hideaki Kobayashi (Master)	Takuya Takarada (Bachelor)

IDEC	Osaka University
Sysmex	Sharp
LinkandMotivation

Fekhra H'Dhili joined LaSIE.
Fekhra H'Dhili joined LaSIE as a postdoctoral fellow, on January 6, 2010.

Obashi from Tokyo Univ.
Obashi joined LaSIE on Decenber 20, 2009. He stayed in our lab for 3 months.

A laboratory tour from Twente Univ., Nobember 20th, 2009
The thirty graduated students and the two teachers from Twente Univ. visited our laboratory on Nobember 20th, 2009. They observed the latest instruments for 3D nano-fabrication, near-field scanning optical microscopy, super-resolved microscopy. Exchanges between the students and OSA student chapter members has been also held. [Pictures of the Labo tour: 1 2 3 4 5 6]

Japan - France symposium, Octorber 26-29, 2009
Japan - France symposium was held on Octorber 26-29, 2009 in Marseille, France. This was the second symposium, and 30 scientists from Japan, France and USA discussed recent advances in their researches.

Yu Jun from Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (China)
Yu Jun joined LaSIE on October 5, 2009 as an exchange student from Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics (China).

Shirahama Summer School 2009, July 22-23, 2009
Shirahama Summer School 2009 was held on July 22-23, 2009 at Grampus Inn Shirahama. We discussed recent advances in photonics research and future perspectives. (Link: Photos of Shirahama Summer School 2009 1 2 3 ).

Prachyathit Kanburapa from Chulalongkom University (Thailand)
Prachyathit Kanburapa from Chulalongkom University (Thailand) joined LaSIE from June 2. He will stay in our lab for 3 months.

Shomesh Chaudhuri visited us as an intern from Harvard University, US under NSF-Rice Univ summer program "Nano Japan Program"
Shomesh Chaudhuri visited LaSIE as an intern from Harvard University, US under NSF-Rice Univ summer program "Nano Japan Program " He stayed in LaSIE for 2 months.

Maurizio Righini from Spain
Maurizio Righini from Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques (ICFO), Spain, stayed in LaSIE for 3 months from May 11th for research collaboration on optical trapping.

4th Osamu Nakamura Conferece, April 1-2, 2009
4th Osamu Nakamura Conferece has been held on April 1-2, 2009 at International House Osaka. We discussed recent advances in photonics research and future perspectives. (Link: A group photo of the 4th Osamu Nakamura Conference 1 2).

Shota Kuwahara joined LaSIE
Shota Kuwahara joined LaSIE as a postdoctoral fellow, on April 1, 2009.

Maouli Imad from Al Akhawayn University (Morroco)
Maouli Imad joined LaSIE on April 1, 2009 as an exchange student from Al Akhawayn University(Morroco).

Song Yi Jian from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China)
Song Yi Jian joined LaSIE on April 1, 2009 as an exchange student from Shanghai Jiao Tong University(China). He stayed in our lab for 2 years.

Postdoc Researcher


Dr. Shota Kuwahara


Master course students


Yoshito Okuno

Kazuma Yonekawa


Undergraduate students


Shota Ushiba	Sodai Mino
Yasuo Yonemaru	Kentaro Mochiduki
Yasuki Minami	Takuya Takarada

Keisaku Hamada (Ph.D)	Almar Palonpon (Ph.D)
Thomas Rodgers (Ph.D)	Hirohiko Niioka (Ph.D)
Hiroyuki morita(Master)	Huy K. Nguyen (Master)
Shunsuke Yasugi (Master)	Hirofumi Yoshikawa (Master)
Shintaro Fujii (Master)

SHARP	FUJIKURA
PANASONIC	OLYMPUS
KEYENCE	Osaka University
Japan Science and Technology Agency

OSA Chapter Scientific Seminar
On the 26th of February, OSA Chapter Scientific Seminar was held by Osaka Univ. Student Chapter of OSA. Youngmin Kim(Seoul National University, Ph. D. course student) was invited to talk about 2D-3D convertible display using integral imaging.

Satoshi Kawata received the award of the Spectroscopical Society of Japan, 2008
Satoshi Kawata received the award of the Spectroscopical Society of Japan, 2008. The award title is "Plasmonics and Nano Spectroscopy".

Yanjuan Xiang joined LaSIE
Yanjuan Xiang has joined LaSIE as a postdoctoral fellow, on September 1, 2008.

Juan Manuel Merlo Ramirez from INAOE (Mexico)
Juan Manuel Merlo Ramirez has joined LaSIE on September 1 as an exchange student from INAOE (National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics, Mexico). He stayed in our lab for 4 months.

Microbull, over 500 citations
Our paper, "Finer features for functional microdevices, Nature 412, 697 (2001)," was cited over 500 times in scientific research papers (20 August 2008).

Andrea Barrett visited us as an intern from Georgia Institute of Technology, US under NSF-Rice Univ summer program "Nano Japan Program"
Andrea Barrett from Georgia Institute of Technology visited us as an intern from Georgia Institute of Technology, US under NSF-Rice Univ summer program "Nano Japan Program". She stayed in LaSIE for 2 months.
(link to a photo of Andrea's farewell party, 1st August 2008) Group photo

Prof. Brian Orr from Macquarie University
On the 23rd of July, Professor Brian Orr visited LaSIE and Photonics Center. Brian Orr is a Professor of Molecular and Optical Physics, as well as the Director of the MQ Photonics Research Centre, based at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.

M'hammed Chraibi from Al Akhawayn University
M'hammed Chraibi joined LaSIE on June 23 as an exchange student between Al Akhawayn University and Osaka University. He stayed in LaSIE for 11 months.

FOM2008 on Nature Photonics
Nature Photonics reported Focus on Microscopy 2008 (FOM2008) held on 13 -16 April, 2008 in the issue published in June, 2008. Here is the link for the issue.

FOM 2008 in Awaji Island
Focus on Microscopy 2008 (FOM 2008), the largest conference on advanced microscope was held in Osaka, Awaji Island, Japan on April 13-16. Satoshi Kawata was a co-chair organized the conference.

Conference photo
*group photo *April 13 *April 14 *April 15 *April 16 *banquet

3rd Osamu Nakamura Conferece, April 1-2, 2008
3rd Osamu Nakamura Conferece was held on April 1-2, 2008 at KKR Hotel Osaka ( group photo ).

New commers April, 2008

New members

Ph.D. course students


Mei-Ling Zheng


Master course students


Yoshiaki Kittaka


Undergraduate students

Tomoki Hamano	Hiroshi Kasai
Shinya Mito	Yoshikiyo Moriguchi
Kota Nishibe	Tetsuya Yoneda

Sana Nakanishi (Ph.D.)	Sawako Ishitobi (Master)
Daigo Hiraga (Master)	Shogo Kawano (Master)
Satoshi Kawaguchi (Master)	Ryota Kito (Master)
Yasuaki Kumamoto (Master)	Kyoko Masui (Master)
Masahito Yamanaka (Master)

Accenture	Japan Patent Office
Shiseido Co., Ltd.	West Japan Railway Co., Ltd.

Sastoshi Kawata was decorated with a purple ribbon medal
Satoshi Kawata was decorated with a purple ribbon medal from the government of Japan for his contribution to applied physics research (2 Nov 2007).

Prof. Mikael Lindgren from The Norweigian University of Science and Technology (NTNU).
Prof. Lindgren Mikael from The Norweigian University of Science and Technology, stayed in LaSIE for two months under the invitation fellowship program for research in Japan by Japan Society of the Promotion of Science (JSPS). He will work on developing a novel probe for bio-imaging using nonlinear spectroscopy.

Prof. Ebbesen from University Louis Pasteur in France
Prof. Thomas Ebbesen from University Louis Pasteur in France, visited LaSIE on October 15, 2007.

Meiling Zheng stayed in LaSIE
Meiling Zheng from the Chinese Academy of Sciences stayed in LaSIE for approximately one and a half years. She researched carboxysilane dendrimers and related applications for microscopy.

Sin-ichi Tanaka joined LaSIE
Shin-ichi Tanaka joined LaSIE as a postdoctoral fellow, on October 1, 2007.

Nicholas Isaac Smith promoted as a Lecturer
Nicholas Isaac Smith was promoted as a Lecturer of Photonics Center, Osaka University, on October 1, 2007.

Katsumasa Fujita promoted as an Associate Professor
Katsumasa Fujita was promoted as an Associate Professor of Applied Physics, Osaka University, on 16 August, 2007.

Prof. Naomi Halas from Rice University, US
Prof. Naomi Halas from Rice University, US, visited us on 31st July and the 1st of August, 2007. Prof. Halas is widely known for research on nanoshells and plasmonics, and her visit allowed us to discuss applications and future prospects of plasmonics. She leaves our lab to give a seminar at the Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP) 75th anniversary symposium.

Prof. Fausto Rossi from Polytechnic University of Torino, Italy
Profs Fausto Rossi and Rita Lotti visited on July the 30th, and Prof Rossi gave us a challenging seminar on quantum modelling of cascade lasers and other complex optical systems. Profs Rossi and Lotti are investigating real optical systems from a quantum-level approach, and have successfully predicted several notable optical effects before they have been later experimentally observed. Prof Rossi was also the Phd advisor of Dr Remo Proietti, who is currently a post-doctoral fellow in our lab.

Paul Thompson and Matthew Carlson visited us as an intern from US under NSF-Rice Univ summer program "Nano Japan Program"
Two undergraduate students from the US, Paul Thompson (Rice University) and Matthew Carlson (University of Wisconsin) visited us as an intern from US under NSF-Rice Univ summer program "Nano Japan Program". Paul and Matthew worked on research projects of Biophotonics and Nanophotonics for two months

4th International Conference on Advanced Vibrational Spectroscopy (ICAVS4)
We presented the following papers in 4th International Conference on Advanced Vibrational Spectroscopy (ICAVS4) (Corfu island, June 10-15, 2007).

Masashi Motohashi, Norihiko Hayazawa, Yuika Saito and Satoshi Kawata, "Characterization of local strain in strained Si by tip-enhanced Raman Spectroscope in reflection Mode," 11:20~11:40, 13 June, 2007.

Taka-aki Yano, Prabhat Verma, Yasuhi Inouye and Satoshi Kawata, "Tip-pressurized near-field Raman spectroscopy for molecular nano-imaging," 14:30~16:00, 13 June, 2007.

SPIE Optics+Photonics Conference
We presented the following papers in SPIE Optics+Photonics Conference (San Diego, USA, August 26-30, 2007)

Prabhat Verma, Takaaki Yano, Taro Ichimura, Yasushi Inouye, and Satoshi Kawata, "Tip-enhanced Raman scattering: regulating the tip-sample distance," 11:00-11:30, 28 August 2007 (invited).

Satoru Shoji, Hidemasa Suzuki, and Satoshi Kawata, "Optical polarizer made of mechanically aligned carbon nanotubes," 13:10-13:30, 29 August 2007.

Takaaki Yano, Prabhat Verma, Yasushi Inouye, and Satoshi Kawata, "Tip-pressurized near-field Raman spectroscopy of carbon nanotubes," 16:30~16:50, 28 August 2007.

Yuika Saito, Kazuhiro Yanagi, Hiromichi Kataura, Norihiko Hayazawa, and Satoshi Kawata, "Tip-enhanced near-field Raman spectroscopy applied to nano-composite materials," 16:50-17:10, 28 August 2007

Sana Nakanishi, Hong-Bo Sun, and Satoshi Kawata, "Elasticity of two-photon-fabricated nano-wires," 11:20-11:40, 29 August 2007.

Atsushi Ishikawa, Takuo Tanaka, and Satoshi Kawata, "Photon tunneling at material boundary by positive permeability metamaterials," 14:15~14:35, 26 August, 2007.

Feng Jing from China
Feng Jing joined LaSIE from April 16 as an exchange student between the Chinese Academy of Science and Osaka University. He stayed in LaSIE for one year to study photofabrication.

2nd Osamu Nakamura Conferece, April 2-3, 2007
2nd Osamu Nakamura Conferece has been held on April 2-3, 2007 at Awaji Yumebutai International Conference Center. We discussed recent advances in photonics research and future perspectives. (Link: A picture of the 2nd Osamu Nakamura Conference).

Nicholas Isaac Smith appointed a Lecturer
Nicholas Isaac Smith was appointed a Lecturer of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, on April 1, 2007.

New comers April, 2007

New members

Ph.D. course students


Masashi Motohashi


Undergraduate students

Fumiya Futamatsu	Mitsuhiro Honda
Hideaki Kobayashi	Hiroyuki Morimura
Masaya Okada

Akiko Fujita (Ph.D.)	Atsushi Ishikawa (Ph.D.)
Ryota Matsui (Ph.D.)	Takaaki Yano (Ph.D.)
Tsunemi Hiramatsu (Master)	Katsuya Ishitani (Master)
Jun-ichi Jono (Master)	Takamasa Kai (Master)
Akari Kanazawa (Master)	Hidemasa Suzuki (Master)

ASAHI GLASS Co., Ltd.	DENSO Co., Ltd.
Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.	KONICA MINOLTA Co., Ltd.
Nikon Co., Ltd.	OLYMPUS Co., Ltd.
RICOH Co., Ltd.	Japan Science and Technology Agency
UC Berkeley	Osaka University

Ya Qi has left for China
Ms. Qi Ya finished her research in Osaka University and left for China on March 31, 2007. She worked on laser fabrication of photonics crystals and reported her achievement in the LaSIE seminar on March 20, 2007.

Yuika Saito has been appointed a Lecturer
Dr. Yuika Saito has been appointed a Lecturer of the Faculty of Engineering, Osaka University, on November 1, 2006.

Prabhat Verma promoted as an Associate Professor
Dr. Prabhat Verma, who was working with us as a designated Associate Professor of Applied Physics, was promoted as an Associate Professor of the Department of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, starting from October 1, 2006.

Alka Ingale from the Centre for advanced technology, Indore
Dr.Alka Ingale stayed in LaSIE for one month from August 25. Alka is from the Raja Ramanna Centre For Advanced Technology and did near field photonics research with us.

Ed from University of Oxford
Edward J. Botcherby (Ed) from University of Oxford stayed in LaSIE from July 3 to 14 for the 2nd COE summer school of Dpt. of Frontier Biosciences (FBS). Ed was chosen as a speaker of FBC colloquium. He gave a talk about "Scanning two-photon fluorescence microscopy with extended depth of focus" in the colloquium.

Prof. Konig and Dr. Campagnola's visit
Prof. Konig (Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering, Germany) and Dr. Campagnola (Connecticut Univ., USA) visted our lab on 4th July. We enjoyed the seminar and discussion on biophotonics research.

Satoru Shoji promoted as an Assistant Professor
Dr. Satoru Shoji was promoted as an Assistant Professor of Applied Physics, Osaka University, on May 1, 2006.

Harald Baumann from Germany
Harald Baumann stays in LaSIE for six months from May 1. Harald is from the University for Technique and Business Aalen and will do biophotonics research with us.

Qi Ya from China
Qi Ya started her research in LaSIE from April 25 as an exchange student between the Chinese Academy of Science and Osaka University.

New comers April, 2006

New members

Ph.D. course students


Thomas C. Rodgers


Master course students


Ryota Kito

Kyoko Masui


Undergraduate students

Shintaro Fujii	Hiroyuki Morita
Huy K. Nguyen	Kazumasa Uetsuki
Shunsuke Yasugi	Hirofumi Yoshikawa

Shigeki Iwanaga (Ph.D.)	Atsushi Ono (Ph.D.)
Kenji Takada (Ph.D.)	Ryoichi Kitahara (Master)
Yasuhiro Morita (Master)	Mamoru Tanabe (Master)
Masanobu Umemoto (Master)	Kazuo Yamamoto (Master)

Fujifilm Co., Ltd.	Nikon Co., Ltd.
Omron Co., Ltd.	Sharp Co., Ltd.
Sysmex Co., Ltd.	Osaka University
RIKEN

Dr. Yasushi Inouye promoted as a full Professor of Frontier Biosciences
Dr. Yasushi Inouye waspromoted as a full Professor of Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences on February 1, 2006.

Ki-Seok Jeon from Kongju National University
Jeon stayed in LaSIE for twenty days from March 6 for research collaboration on nearfield optics.

Prof. Yung Doug Suh stayed in LaSIE
Prof. Yung Doug Suh from the Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology stayed in LaSIE for research collaboration on nearfield optics from December 11 to 13.

Prof. Sishen Xie stayed in LaSIE
Prof. Sishen Xie from the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science stayed in LaSIE. He talked about "Synthesis and Characterization of SWNTs rings" in a LaSIE seminar on December 15.

Ki-Seok Jeon from Kongju National University
Jeon stayed in LaSIE for three weeks from November 22 for research collaboration on nearfield optics.

Serafin Delica from Philippines stayed in LaSIE
Serafin stayed in LaSIE for six months from November 9 as a scholarship student from the University of the Philippines.

Thomas Cameron Rodgers from Australia visited LaSIE
Thomas visited LaSIE as a Monbukagakusho-scholarship student from Swinburne University. He was enrolled in the Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University after a half-year intensive Japanese language course.(10/4/2005)

Dr. Rosaria Piga visited LaSIE
Dr. Rosaria Piga from the Advanced Industrial Science and Technology visited LaSIE. She talked about "Nano-probing of the membrane dynamics of rat pheochromocytoma by near-field optics" in a LaSIE seminar on October 4.

Prof. Mark I. Stockman' visited LaSIE
Prof. Mark I. Stockman from Georgia State University visited LaSIE. He talked about "Ultrafast, Nonlinear, and Active Nanoplasmonics" in a LaSIE seminar on September 27.

Prof. Alexei Sokolov visited LaSIE
Prof. Alexei Sokolov from University of Akron visited LaSIE. He talked about "Tip-enhanced Raman Spectroscopy with High Contrast" in a LaSIE seminar on September 7.

Open Lab. for high school students
Open lab. for high school students was held on 8-9 August, 2005. The students of Imabari-nishi, Onomichi-kita, Kannonjidaiichi, marugame high school visted LaSIE, and had a experience of study in LaSIE.

Prof. Qihuang Gong from Peking University, China
Prof. Qihuang Gong visited our lab and we discussed nonlinear opitcs and its applications to varieties of field. He gave a talk "The application of femtosecond laser to functional optical materials and devices" in LaSIE seminar on 11th August.

Prof. Mark Brongersma visited LaSIE
Prof. Mark Brongersma from Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University visited LaSIE. He talked about "Towards CMOS Compatible Nanophotonics and Plasmonics " in a LaSIE seminar on July 19.

Jin Sun Park from Hannam University, Korea
Jin Sun Park visited our lab for collaboration research between Prof. Kwang-Sup Lee's lab in Hannam Univeristy and our lab. Her stay started from 15 July and she will stay with us for 40 days to study two-photon photofabrication technique and its applications.

Martin Booth from University of Oxford, UK
Martin Booth visited our lab for collaboration research on adaptive optics from 4 July. He stayed with us for about a week.

Ran Hee Kim from Hannam University, Korea
Ran Hee Kim visited our lab for collaboration research between Prof. Kwang-Sup Lee's lab in Hannam University and our lab. Her stay started from 26 June and stayed with us for about two months to study two-photon photofabrication technique and its applications.

Personnel Change in April, 2005

Post doctoral fellows - Dr. Miroru Kobayashi PhD course students - Yuko Yamamoto, Almar Palonpon Master course students - Hidemasa Suzuki, Tsunemi Hiramatsu Undergraduate Students - Sawako Ishitobi, Satoshi Kawaguchi, Yasuaki Kumamoto, Daigo Hiraga, Masahito Yamanaka Graduation - Koshiro Kaneko (PhD), Minoru Kobayashi (PhD), Toru Suwa (Master), Masatoshi Futatsuya (Master), Kohei Yamada (Master), Yoshimichi Yamada (Master), Toshinori Kawasaki (Bachelor) Positions after graduation - Dentsu Co., Ltd., Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Kyocera Co., Ltd., Seiko Epson Co., Ltd., Osaka University

Almar Palonpon from the Philippines
Almar will stay with us as a Monbukagakusho-scholorship student from the Philippines. He will be enrolled in a PhD course of Graduated School of Engineering, Osaka University after a half-year intensive Japanese language course. (4/19/2005)

The 4th AWAJI Conference
The 4th AWAJI conference was held on 5 -6 April, 2005. We have enjoyed the conference with members from LaSIE, CoCoNo Seminar, RIKEN Nanophotonics Lab, and Nanophoton. (4/19/2005)

Dr. Enzo Di Fabrizio and Dr. Stefano Cabrini stay in LaSIE
Dr. Fabrizio and Dr. Cabrini stay in LaSIE for research collaboration between Osaka University and ELETTRA, Italy for about 3 weeks from 3 March 2005. They gave a lecture, "Cross beam lithography from nanometric structures," in LaSIE seminar on 11 April 2005. (4/19/2005)

Prof. Yung Doug Suh and Ki-Seok Joen stayed in LaSIE
Prof. Suh and Joen stayed in LaSIE for research collaboration on nearfield optics. Prof. Suh gave a lecture, "Nano Raman Spectroscopy," in LaSIE Seminar on 28 March 2005. Joen stayed with us to do experiments on nearfield optics for about 4 weeks from 7 March 2005. (4/19/2005)

Sad news
Professor Osamu Nakamura has passed away at 5:07 on 23 January 2005 at Handai hospital. His funeral was held at Senri Kaikan Osaka on 25 January.
Link: Prof. Nakamura's HP

Mr. Sun Zhengbin's and Ms. Dong Xianzi's stay in LaSIE
Mr. Sun Zhengbin and Ms. Dong Xianzi from Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences have stayed from February 24. They study about photo-fabrication methods in LaSIE. (2/28/2005)

Dr. Maitreyee Roy's stay in LaSIE
Dr. Maitreyee Roy from University of Sydney stayed from November 19 to January 20. She studied about microscopy in LaSIE. She talked about "Low coherence geometric phase technique for mapping complex microsurfaces" in a LaSIE seminar on December 6th. (1/04/2005)

Dr. Andrey Sukhorukov's stay in LaSIE
Dr. Andrey Sukhorukov from Australian National University stayed in LaSIE. He talked about "Nonlinear photonics in optically-induced lattices" in a LaSIE seminar on October 26. (10/30/2004)

Joint seminar with Prof. Matsumoto's lab
We held a joint seminar with Prof. Matsumoto's lab in the institute of scientific and industrial research, Osaka University on September 28, 2004. We discussed about carbon nanotubes and imaging. (9/30/2004)

Mr. Michael Schwertner's stay in LaSIE
Mr. Michael Schwertner from University of Oxford stayed in LaSIE. He studied at Riken from August 31 to October 28 as a research student. (9/10/2004)

The 8th International Conference on Near-Field nano Optics
We attended The 8th International Conference on Near-Field nano Optics. The schedule and the titles of our presentation are as below.
9/6 14:30
Sub-Micron Near Field IR Imaging and Spectroscopy
Utilizing a Free Electron Laser and an Apertured Cantilever in Figerprint Region
Y. Inouye, T. Masaki, S. Kawata
9/6 17:45
Tip-pressurized near-field Raman spectroscopy of DNA base molecule using apertureless metallic probe tip
H. Watanabe, N. Hayazawa, Y. Inouye, S. Kawata
9/8 10:30
Molecular nano-imaging with plasmon-enhanced coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering
T. Ichimura,N. Hayazawa, M. Hashimoto, Y. Inouye, S. Kawata
9/9 11:00
Nano-scale characterization of single wall carbon nanotubes using nano plasmonic light source
Taka-aki Yano, Norihiko Hayazawa, Yasushi Inouye, Satoshi Kawata
(09/03/2004)

2nd International Nanophotonics Symposium Handai
2nd International Nanophotonics Symposium Handai was held on July 26-28, 2004 at Ichyo Kaikan, Osaka University. [photo album] The schedule and the titles of our presentation are as below.
qdJuly 26 11:30-12:00;Satoshi Kawataq…Æetallic Nano-Probe for Nonlinear and Near-Field Molecular ImagingqÀùbr> (06/29/2004)

AWAJI CONFERENCE
From April 27 to April 28, Kawata Lab., Nakamura Lab., CoCoNo Group in information Science & Technology, Nanophotonics group in RIKEN, Handai FRC and Nanophoton Co., Ltd. held the 3rd Awaji conference in Awaji Westin Hotel. Photograph(05/10/2004)

Prof. Colin J.R. Sheppard's stay in LaSIE
Prof. Colin J.R. Sheppard from National University of Singapore stayed from February 14 to February 28. He talked about "Fundamentals of laser scanning microscopy" and "Phase microscopy using the transport of intensity equation" at a COE21 seminar. (02/16/2004)

Dr. Martin J. Booth, Mr. Michael Schwertner, Mr. Harald Baumann stayed in LaSIE
Dr. Martin J. Booth, Mr. Michael Schwertner and Mr. Harald Baumann from Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford stayed in LaSIE for research discussion about adaptive optics. (01/20/2004)

Dr. G.P.Wang visited in LaSIE
Dr. G.P.Wang from Department of physics, Wuhan University visited LaSIE for research discussion about local plasmon resonance of metallic particle . (01/20/2004)

International Conferene on Nanophotonics 2004
International conference on Nanophotonics was held on Jan. 10-12, 2004 at Hakone Prince Hotel. (01/20/2004)

Japan-France conference
Japan-France conference will be held on Oct. 26-29, 2003 at Awaji Yumebutai International Convention Center. The topic is "Molecular Photonics and Biophotonics at Micro and Nano-scale". For more information, please visit the site: http://lasie.ap.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp/JFC2003/. (08/05/2003)

Dr. JunHo Kim's stay in LaSIE
Dr. JunHo Kim from Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, in Korea will stay from September 8 to September 30. He worked on evaluation of self-assemble monolayer using near field raman spectroscopy. (09/16/2003)

Prof. Din-Ping Tsai's stay in LaSIE
Prof. Din-Ping Tsai from National Taiwan University, Taipei will stay from August 18 for one month. He conducted research collaboration with us on development of multi-photon laser nanofabrication using novel composite material systems. (09/01/2003)

Dr. Remo Proietti Zaccaria's stay in LaSIE
Dr. Remo Proietti Zaccaria from INFM (National Institute For Matter Physics), Italy will stay as a JSPS research fellow for one year from August 18. He will work on two-photon laser nanofabrication based on the quantum interferometric mechanism. (09/01/2003)

The Internationa Nanophotonics Symposium Handai
The Internationa Nanophotonics Symposium Handai was held from July 24 to 26 at Icho-Kaikan in Suita Campus, Osaka University. (7/26/2003)

LaSIE Summer School in Shirahama
LaSIE Summer School was held from July 20 to 22 in Shirahama. In the Summer School, progress review of M1 students was held. (7/23/2003)

Personnel change on July 16, 2003
Assistant Professor of Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences: Dr. Nicholas Smith (7/16/2003)

Mr. Yang and Mr. Kim's stay in LaSIE
Mr. Hyun-Kwan Yang and Mr. Moon-Soo Kim from Hannam University, Korea stayed for two months. They worked on micro-photofabrication. (06/25/2003)

Mr. Michael Ventura's stay in LaSIE
Mr. Michael Ventura from Swinburne University of Technology, Australia, will stay for three months from June 23. He worked on fabrication and evaluation of photonic crystal devices. (06/24/2003)

Mr. Ono's stay in Australia
Atsushi Ono, a Ph. D course student stayed at Swinburne University of Technology in Australia from June 16 to September 13. He worked on design and fabrication of 2D, 3D photonic crystals. (06/23/2003)

Dr. Jin-Yu Shao's stay in LaSIE
Dr. Jin-Yu Shao from Washington University stayed in LaSIE for one month for reseach collaboration. He worked on femto-pico newton measurement. (05/15/2003)

AWAJI CONFERENCE
From May 9 to May 10, Kawata Lab., Nakamura Lab., CoCoNo Group in information Science & Technology, and Nanophotonics group in RIKEN held the 2nd Awaji conference in Awaji Westin Hotel. (05/12/2003)

New LaSIE members from April, 2003
Undergraduate Student
Taro Beppu
Ryoichi Kitahara
Hirohiko Niioka
Mamoru Tanabe
Masanobu Umemoto
Kazuo Yamamoto

Focus on Microscopy
We attend Focus on Microscopy held at Genoa, Italy in April 13-16. (4/14/2003)

SENSOR EXPO JAPAN 2003
We attended SENSOR EXPO JAPAN 2003 held by Japan industrial journalat Tokyo big sight in April 9-11. (4/10/2003)

2003 Spring JSAP annual meeting
We have attended 2003 Spring JSAP annual meeting. The schedule and the titles of our presentation are as below.

March 27, 10:45-11:00; Shigeki Iwanaga, Katsumasa Fujita, Nicholas Smith, Tomoyuki Kaneko, Masahito Oyamada, Tetsuro Takamatsu, Satoshi Kawata, Osamu Nakamura
"Investigation of intracellular calcium wave generation induced by femtoseconds near-infrared laser pulses"
March 27, 14:15-14:30; Hidekazu Ishitobi, Zouheir Sekkat, Satoshi Kawata,
"Two-Photon Induced Isomerization and Orientation of Diarylethene derivatives in films of PMMA"
March 27, 14:40-15:25; Osamu Nakamura and Katsumasa Fujita,
"Nonlinear optical imaging of living cells"
March 27, 15:00-15:15; T. Suwa, K. Takada, H.-B. Sun, S. Kawata
"Micro-nanofa brication and characterization of two-photon photopolymerized 3D logpile ph otonic crystals"
March 28, 10:35-10:40(short presentation) & 13:00-15:00(poster session);Taro Ichimura, Norihiko Hayazawa, Mamoru Hashimoto, Yasushi Inouye, Satoshi Kawata,
"Local enhancement of coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering by metallic nanoparticles"
March 28, 10:35-10:40(short presentation) & 13:00-15:00(poster session); Hiroyuki Watanabe, Norihiko Hayazawa, Yasushi Inouye, Satoshi Kawata
"Vibrational analysis for adsorbed species observed in metallic tip-enhanced near field Raman spectroscopy" March 29, 9:30-11:30(poster session); K. Kaneko, X.-M. Duan, H.-B. Sun, S. Kawata
"Patterning of Gold nanoparticles in Polymer Matrix by Two-photon process"
March 30, 9:30-1130(poster session); Kenji Takada, Hong-Bo Sun, Satoshi Kawata,
"Improvement of spatial resolution in photopolymerization based 3D micro/nano fabrication"
March 30, 9:30-11:30; Xuan-Ming Duan, Hong-Bo Sun, Koshiro Kaneko, Satoshi Kawata
"Fabrication of Polymeric Structures Containing Titanium Oxide by Two-Photon Polymerization"(3/26/2003)

Prof. Tony Wilson, Dr. Martin Booth's stay in LaSIE
Prof. Tony Wilson and Dr. Martin Booth from University of Oxford, UK stayed in LaSIE for research collaboration. Dr. Martin Booth worked on 3D nano-fabrication for two weeks. (03/25/2003)

The 3rd Handai Frontier Symposium
The 3rd Handai Frontier Symposium/Exhibition was held from March 3 to 4 in Nakanoshima, Osaka. Panels were exhibited at Chu-ou kokaido(March 3 -4). Symposiums titled "Fusion of universities and industries" (March 3) and "Fusion of science areas" (March 4) were held at Chu-ou kokaido. (09/20/2002)

nano tech 2003 + Future
We attended nano tech 2003 + Future held by NEDO, JETRO, AIST in February 26-28 at Makuhari, Chiba.(03/02/25)

Dr.Fekhra D'hili in LaSIE
Dr. Fekhra D'hili from Riken visited in LaSIE for research discussion. She presented her research about near-field microscopy and lithography.(02/25/2003)

Dr.Yuika Saito in LaSIE
Dr. Yuika Saito from Riken stayed in LaSIE for collaboration for two months. She worked on near-field microscopy. (02/25/2003)

Prof. Kawata won the Shimadzu prize
Prof. Kawata was awarded Shimadzu prize for his development of near-field spectroscopy and nano-photonics on February 3. (02/25/2003)

Dr.Gilbert Walker in LaSIE
Dr. Gilbert Walker from University of Pittsburgh, USA visited LaSIE for research discussion. (01/15/2003)

University Science Symposium on Nanotechnology and Nanoscience Using Light
The 17th University Science Symposium, "Nanotechnology and Nanoscience Using Light," was held at International Conference Center Kobe on Dec. 14 and 15, 2002. (10/18/2002)

Personnel change on October 16, 2002
Assistant Professor of Graduate School of Engineering: Dr. Katsumasa Fujita (10/16/2002)

Personnel changes on October 1, 2002
CREST Postdoctoral Fellow: Dr. Nicholas Smith
FRC Postdoctoral Fellow: Dr. Prabhat Verma
FRC Associate Professor: Takahiro Ode
PRESTO Postdoctoral Fellow: Dr. Satoru Shoji (10/01/2002)

Nikkei Nanotech Fair and Exhibition Micromachine 2002
In November 2002, we presented our research activities at Nikkei Nanotech Fair (Nov. 6-8, Tokyo) and Exhibition Micromachine 2002 (Nov. 13-15, Tokyo). (09/27/2002)

Japan-Taiwan Symposium on Nanophotonics Technology
A Japan-Taiwan bilateral symposium named "Nanophotonics Technology" was held at Osaka University Convention Center from Nov. 5 to 6. Twenty papers on state-of-the-art photonics technologies were presented at the symposium.Photograph (10/12/2002)

Opening ceremony for Handai Museum
The opening ceremony for Handai Museum was held from Oct. 12 through 20 at the atrium of NHK Osaka. Posters were exhibited which showed research activities of 20 laboratories in our university. Posters by LaSIE included those concerning micro-photofabrication, external control of implanted devices, and near-field microscopy. (08/13/2002)

The 2nd Handai Frontier Symposium
The 2nd Handai Frontier Symposium/Exhibition was held form Sept. 17 to 19 in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Panels were exhibited at the west exit of the Shinjuku Station (Sept. 17 -19). A symposium titled "Creation of new industries" was held at Yasuda Seimei Hall (Sept. 18). (09/20/2002)

Mr Yang and Mr Park's stay in LaSIE
Mr Hyun-Kwan Yang of Hannam University, Korea, and Mr Yong-Hak Park of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea, stayed with us for the three months. They studied micro-photofabrication. (08/01/2002)

LaSIE Summer School
From July 23th to July 25th, LaSIE Summer School was held in Shirahama. Program and Picture(07/30/2002)

Benjamin Levine's stay in LaSIE
Benjamin Levine from University of Paul Sabatier, France, stayed in LaSIE for about 2 months for research on near-field optics.(07/02/2002)

New Trends and Future in 3D Multilayer Memory
From May 22 to May 23, Handai FRC and OPTOELECTRONIC INDUSTRY AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION held the New Trends and Future in 3D Multilayer Memory at Koku-kaikan(04/22/2002)

AWAJI CONFERENCE
From May 9 to May 10, Kawata Lab., Nakamura Lab., CoCoNo Group in information Science & Technology, and Nanophotonics group in RIKEN held the 1st Awaji conference in Awaji Westin Hotel. (04/15/2002)

Personnel changes on April 1, 2002

Professor of CoCoNo Group in Information Science, Graduate School of Osaka University.(Prof Satoshi Kawata) Director of Nanophotonics Group, RIKEN. (Prof. Satoshi Kawata) Professor of Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences. (Dr. Osamu Nakamura) Associate Professor of Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences. (Dr. Yasushi Inouye) CREST Postdoctoral Fellows. (Drs. Xuan-Ming Duan, Norihiko Hayazawa) FRC Postdoctoral Fellows (Drs. Katsumasa Fujita, Hidekazu Ishitobi)

Dr. Martin Booth's stay in LaSIE
Dr. Martin Booth from University of Oxford, UK stayed in LaSIE as a research fellow for 2 weeks. (04/15/2002)

Personnel changes on March 1, 2002

Assistant Professor of Graduate School of Engineering(Dr. Hongbo Sun)(04/015/2002) Assistant Professor of Department of Multi-Disciplinary Sciences - Basic Science, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo(Dr. Tomoyuki Kaneko)(04/15/2002)

CREST "Nonlinear Nanophotonics"
Prof. Kawata's 5-year research project, "Nonlinear Nanophotonics," has been adopted by JST as a Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST) project. The project has been under way since December 2001.(04/15/2002)

PRESTO "Fabrication and applications of the photonic crystals by two photon photopolymerization."
Dr. Sun's 3-year research project, "Fabrication and an application of the photonic crystals by two photon photopolymerization," has been adopted by PRESTO. The project has been under way since December 2001.(01/17/2002)

Prof. Kawata becomes the Director of FRC
Prof. Kawata has been appointed to as a Director of Handai Frontier Research Center° FRC°À(04/15/2002)

10 / 08 / 97 (LaSIE)
NFO5 Information
Information about NFO5(5th International conference on Near Field Optics) is now available.

10 / 01 / 97 (LaSIE)
We have new comers.
We have new members of postdoctral researchers from this October.
Dr.Zouheir SEKKAT came from Morocco. He will make research with us for 2 years.
Dr.Koji MURAKAWA was a member of LaSIE. He got master degree in LaSIE.
Dr.Guo ping WANG came from China. He has made research on holographic materials.

07 / 27 / 97 (LaSIE)
Good Luck Katchan!
Fujita (he is called 'Katchan') departed for Philippines. He will stay for 10 months and study at University of the Philippines. He is supported by International Exchange Program of Students between Osaka Universiy, Japan, and University of Philippines. Vince has taken place in LaSIE by same program.

07 / 07 / 97 (LaSIE WWW)
Photos Page was Renewed.
New pictures at Photos Page are now available!

07 / 03 / 97 (LaSIE)
JNFO6 was held.
6th Domestic Meeting of Near Field Optics was held on 3rd July by Optical Society of Japan.
Prof. D. Courjon from CNRS, France, and Prof. S. Morita from Osaka University, Japan, were invited to give lectures.
Information of JNFO6 is still available here (I'm Sorry, only Japanese).

06 / 30 / 97 (LaSIE)
Welcome, Prof. Courjon!
Prof. Daniel Courjon came to LaSIE from CNRS, France.
He is the pioneer in the research of NSOM (Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopy).
He will give us lecture in LaSIE Seminar on July 2nd. He is also invited to JNFO6 on July 3rd as a special speaker.
He will stay in Osaka until 7th July.

06 / 25 / 97 (LaSIE)
NFNO page is completed.
Home page of 'Near Field Nano Optics', which is sponsored by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas, is now available.
LaSIE takes part in this project. Please try to visit there, if you are interested in our works.
Excuse me, NFNO page is available only in Japanese.

URL : http://www.tuat.ac.jp/~nfno/