Photo-System Physics

Ogawa received the "Outstanding Presentation Award" at the 2024 Hokkaido Branch Conference of the Japan Society for Precision Engineering.

Dr. Hsiang-Lin Liu (National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan) visited our lab from August 1 to 6.

We will participate in the "2024 Hokkaido University Chemistry Department Two-Day Experience" organized by the Hokkaido Branch of the Chemical Society of Japan, hosting high school students from within Hokkaido and giving them the opportunity to experience three-dimensional micro-printing technology using lasers.

Dr. Junze Zhou (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, US) will visit and stay with us for research collaboration from May 15th to 31st, 2024.

Retirement

Keiji Sasaki

Move

Pin Christophe (Light-Matter Interaction for Quantum Technologies Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology)

An-Chieh Chen (Center for Mesoscopic Science, Institute for Molecular Science)

Ryota Shinohara (M.S.)

Takuya Ogawa (Undergrad)

Ryota Shinohara was awarded the Presentation Incentive Award at the Hokkaido Branch of the Optical Society of Japan Symposium.

Yuji Sunaba was awarded as Best Student Paper Prize at the Optical Manipulation and Structured Materials Conference (OMC2023).

New members

Takuya Ogawa (Undergrad)

Graduation (March, 23th, 2023)

Ryota Aisaka (M.S.)

Ryo Kakuta (M.S.)

Yamato Fukui (M.S.)

Yuji Sunaba and Hikaru Takehara participated in the workshop "Structured Light for Life" held at Adelaide University from Feb 21 for two days.

Mr. Hao-Tse SU from National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU), Taiwan, will stay for two months to study optical manipulation.

Mr. Hao-Tse SU from National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU), Taiwan, will stay for two months to study optical manipulation.

Mr. Muhamad Safuan Mat Yeng from Sultan Idris Education University (UPSI), Malaysia, will stay for three months to study optical manipulation.

Ryota Aisaka will give an oral presentation at Optics & Photonics Japan 2022 (Nov 11–16, 2022).

We organize NJRC Seminar for Materials and Devices at Centennial Hall in Hokkaido University on Sep 29, 2022. Everyone is welcome to join us.  Detail

Ryo Kakuta will give an oral presentation at the 83nd JSAP Autumn Meeting 2022 (Sep 20-23, 2022).

Professor Teruki Sugiyama at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Taiwan will visit and stay with us for research collaboration from Sep 5 to 9, 2022.

Yuji Sunaba will give an oral presentation at SPIE Optics+Photonics 2022  (San Diego, 21 - 25 Aug 2022).

Yamato Fukui, Ryo Kakuta, Yuji Sunaba, Hikaru Takehara will give research presentations at the CLEO-PR2022. (Sapporo, Jul 31-Aug 5, 2022).

New members

Koki Ogawa (Undergrad)

Taichi Nagaoka (Undergrad)

Keisuke Doi (M.S.)

Ryosuke Bamba (M.S.)

O Suzuki (B.S.)

Kota Uenishi (B.S.)

Yamato Fukui gave an invited presentation at the 69th JSAP Spring Meeting 2022 on his work awarded as the 51st Young Scientist Presentation Award (Mar 22, 2022).

Hikaru Takehara was awarded as Best Poster Award at Global Nanophotonics 2022 (GNP2022) held on Mar 14-15, 2022. The presentation title was "A design of high NA reflective objective for DUV micro-spectroscopy."

Yuji Sunaba and Hikaru Takehara are going to participate Global Nanophotonics 2022 (GNP2022) (Nakanoshima, Osaka, Mar 14-15, 2022).

Bamba and Doi gave oral presentations at the 57th JSAP Hokkaido Branch Meeting 2022. (Virtual, Mar 8-9, 2022).

Ryosuke Bamba is going to give a poster presentation at the 22th RIES-Hokudai International Symposium (Virtual, Dec 6-7, 2021).

Yamato Fukui was awarded as the 51st Young Scientist Presentation Award for the oral talk given at the 82nd JSAP Autumn Meeting held on Sep, 2021. The presentation title was "Finding a nanogap structure with chirality."

Yamato Fukui, Yuji Sunaba, and Hikaru Takehara are going to Pacifichem 2021 (Honolulu, Hawaii, Dec 16-21, 2021).

We had Sasaki Winter School on December 2nd for two days in Sapporo Campus, Hokkaido University. We enjoyed student presentation and discussion.

Yamato Fukui, Ryo Kakuta, and Hikaru Takehara will give oral presentations at Optics & Photonics Japan 2021 (Oct 26-29, 2021).

Yamato Fukui and Yuji Sunaba gave oral presentations at the 82nd JSAP Autumn Meeting 2021 (Sep 10-13, 2021).

An-Chieh Cheng joined as an assistant professor from May 1st, 2021.

The OMC Best Paper Award was given to Christophe Pin at the 8th Optical Manipulation and Structured Materials Conference (OMC2021). The presentation title was "Optical trapping and assembly of particle clusters using hybrid plsmonic-photonic nanotweezers".

New members

Ryota Shinohara (Undergrad)

Oh Suzuki (Undergrad)

Kota Uwenishi (Undergrad)

Ryohei Ohtsuka (M.S.)

Yohei Nishikawa (M.S.)

We had Sasaki Winter School on December 2 for two days in Sapporo Campus, Hokkaido University. We enjoyed student presentation and discussion.

New members

Ryota Aisaka (Undergrad)

Ryo Kakuta (Undergrad)

HIkaru Takehara (Undergrad)

Yamato Fukui (Undergrad)

Moving out

Kenji Setoura (Assistant Professor), promoted as a Lecturer in Kobe City College of Technology

Hiroki Aikawa (M.S.)

Seiya Fujikawa (M.S.)

Shinsuke Kita (M.S.)

Hiroki Kitajima (M.S.)

Issei Sato (M.S.)

Keisuke Kawahara (B.S.)

Yu Kitamura (B.S.)

Ryosuke Bamba stayed in Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad from Feburary 15th to March 6th, 2020, under the support of STSI Program.

We had Sasaki Winter School on December 9-10th in Komaoka, Sapporo. We enjoyed student presentation and discussion.

An-Chieh Cheng (National Chiao Tung University) stays from September 2nd to Octover 1st, 2019.

Shinsuke Kita stays in National Chiao Tung University from August 3rd to 24th, 2019.

Atsushi Taguchi joined as an associate professor from April 1st, 2019

Kenji Setoura joined as an assistant professor from April 1st, 2019