{"id":3742,"date":"2025-12-01T16:45:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T07:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emme.riko.akita-u.ac.jp\/?page_id=3742"},"modified":"2025-12-02T11:32:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T02:32:30","slug":"functional_device_physics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/emme.riko.akita-u.ac.jp\/en\/research_contents\/functional_device_physics\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Advanced Materials and Electronics for a Sustainable Future"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Modern society relies on sophisticated electronic devices that support IoT technologies, new energy systems such as hydrogen, and innovative medical applications. These devices are built upon a wide range of materials like metals, semiconductors, magnetic and dielectric materials, light-emitting elements, and liquid crystals, and they operate according to fundamental physical laws governing electrons and light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Four Distinct Research Fields<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Functional Device Physics Course encompasses four research fields rooted in the physics of magnetism, electricity, waves (light), and atomic-level phenomena. Our mission is to develop new materials with unprecedented capabilities and to propose novel methods for controlling electrons and light. By integrating materials science and electronics, we aim to create next-generation devices and contribute to a sustainable future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1.\u3000Magnetic Materials and Their Applications<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Our research focuses on achieving dramatic performance improvements in magnetic sensors and magnetic recording technologies (hard disk drives), applications of nanomagnetic materials to functional devices, and the study of quasicrystals-materials and combining multiple elements to exhibit diverse properties, differing from both metals and crystals, and lacking translational symmetry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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