Nanostructure Physics Lab., Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, Japan

Biography: Akira Ishibashi, born in 1958, Saga, Japan, had received his Ph. D in 1990, Master’s degree in 1983, and Bachelor’s degree in 1981, all from Dept. of Phys., the University of Tokyo. He joined Sony Corp. Res. Ctr, 1983 and achieved the world first room-temperature CW operation of blue laser diode based on ZnMgSSe II-VI materials in 1993. He was a research assistant at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, USA in 1982-1983, visiting faculty in Loomis Lab., Dept. Phys., Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1990-1991, and a visiting professor at Inst. for Interdisciplinary Research, Tohoku Univ. in 1998. Since 2003, he has been a full professor heading Nanostructure Physics Lab., RIES, Hokkaido Univ., and he has been also the CTO of C’sTEC Corp., a venture company in collaboration with Hokkaido Univ. since 2006.

Speech Title: New solar-cell system and clean unit system platform (CUSP) for Electronics, Communications and Networks
Abstract: New devices and systems in materials science (atoms), information technology (bits), energy, and environment having been of increasing importance, it would be convenient for us to investigate those new devices and systems in atom-bit- energy/environment (ABE²) space. We have been studying quantum-cross devices in AB-plane, multi-striped orthogonal photon-photocarrier-propagation solar cell (MOP³SC) in BE-plane, and clean unit system platform (CUSP) in BE-plane. CUSP serves as a clean versatile environment having low power-consumption and high cost-performance, not only for processing new devices such as the high efficiency MOP³SC but also for medical/hygienic applications, which are of increasing importance in coming years.