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The 21st Century Center of Excellence in Electronics, University of Tokyo, is jointly run by extended faculty members related to electronics in the University. The Center is aiming at establishing world-class research and education center in hardware-oriented electronics to contribute fruitful research in fields of electrical and electronic systems, integrated devices, nano materials, and photonics for a prosperous and safe world in 21st century, and to bring up world-class leaders capable of undertaking the development of next generation electronics.
Today, we have been entering an era when people are seeking more the quality of life than simply the material affluence. Safety and security, energy conservation, environmental protection, convenience, and freedom from cares, are all among the most important issues for a prosperous life. Electronics, a well-known key technology that helped realizing the material plenty in the 20th century, continuously plays a vital role in meeting the expectations on the quality of life in the 21st century. Consequently, ceaseless exploration and development in hardware-based electronics are essentially significant in the new era, along with the development of software-oriented IT technology.
With the aim of creating a prosperous society in the 21st century, this COE program is exploring innovative technological elements that comprise new functions in the social infrastructures such as security-safety sensing networks, information-communication networks, transportation networks, and energy-environment networks. For presenting innovative electronic technology with international competitiveness, the realization and application of new devices and materials are essential. With the emphasis on hardware-oriented research, this COE advances the fruitful individual research activities on topics across electronics systems, devices, and materials. Upon this basis, further efforts are put on concurrent interactive and collaborative research to stimulate the synergy among various topics and fields of materials, devices, and systems. On the other hand, this COE program is partially a doctoral educational program. The fact that this COE is set up to cover broadband research activities facilitates cultivating young researchers with extensive knowledge over related area and capable of bringing up and leading innovative research fields.
In order to reach above goals, we have set up two projects: the "system-electronics project" and "nano-electronics project," which integrate the technological fields of "systems and devices" and "devices and materials." Under the projects, five key research themes are founded, including "system photonics - novel function creation through exploring physics and integrated optoelectronics," "paradigmatic shift of energy system by integrating system technology and electronics," "next generation information infrastructure by integrating hardware and software," "functional integrated devices and systems," and "nano device and its applications in integrated electronics." Research groups are gathered and platform laboratories are built and expanded for each of the research themes. From the educational perspective of the COE program, we emphasize the initiative and independent research activities by students, acquisition of extensive knowledge in the broadband research fields, and training of international vision. We are in the process of developing various projects to implement these ideas.
In the past two and half years of implementation of this COE program, we have accumulated excellent achievements through individual and collaborative research activities. These achievements have been honored various awards and granted multiple large-scale competitive research funds. Some examples are "optical fiber nerve system for security and safety," "construction of ubiquitous computing environment," "global region-segmented energy model," "right brain computer hardware," "multifunction image sensor," "functional magnetic semiconductor devices," "semiconductor nano-structure device," "silicon mono-electron transistor," etc.
Taking advantage of these fruitful results, so far we plan to develop this program further to create the "secure-life electronics" undertaking a safe and secure life in the 21st century by integrating following technologies: communication and information network technology; energy and environmental technology; sensor device and sensing system technology; high-speed, energy-saving, and minimized-scale functional materials and integrated devices technology.
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