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Kotaro Oikawa, second year master student, is invited to the PIERS 2011 conference (Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium, link) He gave an oral lecture with the title "An optical instability phenomena in the optical emission of InGaN devices", the abstract is here and the submission details here. Some event picture are in the following links: pic1, pic2, pic3 The presentation travel expences were sponsored by Yokohama City University. |
21 February
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Dr Francesco Enrichi of the Institute CIVEN and Nanofab, Marghera (Venice), Italy, visited Micheletto's group and made a presentation of his nano-bio sciences research to
the students and colleagues. He gave a class in the framework of the "Basic Sciences Seminars", to students, professors and researchers of the Nanosystems and Genomesystems faculties. The title of his talk was "Veneto Nanotech, the Italian Cluster for Nanotechnology: presentation, mission and research activity". The abstract of the presentation is here. |
2010
13 December
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Prof. Yoshiharu Asaki of the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (JAXA), Sagamihara, Tokyo area, visited Micheletto's group and made a presentation of his space-related research to
the students and colleagues. He also briefly discussed about possible collaborations and exchange of students and/or researchers. It has been proposed that next year, some of Micheletto's laboratory younger students will visit JAXA research center and possibly establish a common research theme. |
8 December
Prof. Micheletto was invited for a presentation at the Italian Embassy in Tokyo. He presented in front of the consul ministry and and other representatives his research in the field of Cognitive Information Science.
Topic was the current status of his research "VisualSound: a portable system for the conversion of visual stimuli in sounds as aid for people with vision problems". The project is in collaboration with of Hicare Srl, Torino, Italy, G. Iannizzotto and F. Battaglia of Visilab in Messina, Italy and T. Kishino of Yokohama City University, Japan.
The project has been issued within the framework of the Scientific and Technological Co-operation Agreement between Japan and Italy (link). A summary of the meeting with downloadable abstract of the talk is here.
15-16 November
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Prof. Khalil El-Hami of the Polydisciplinary Faculty of Khouribga, Hassan First University, visited Micheletto's group and made a presentation of his research to
the students and colleagues (a picture with prof. M. Tachibana, pic1). He discussed about possible collaborations with the group and about exchange of students and/or researchers. Also he established a plan for a possible application of funds for international collaboration. |
4-5 November
Prof. Micheletto is invited at the France-Japan workshop on Nanophotonics. He presented a talk with the title "The optical instabilities and blinking phenomena in the emission of InGaN quantum wells", and a poster with the same title. The book of Abstracts is here (pdf, 3Mb), the poster is here and a picture of the event is here (pic1).
5-12 September
Prof. Micheletto guided the International Field-work trip of the "Statistical Mechanics" course. This is a regular event sposored by our university. Prof. Micheletto and six of his student of visited academic and industrial sites in Italy. The group visited these places:1. The Nanofab lab in CIVEN, in Venice.
2. The department of physics in the Ca'Foscari University of Venice (pic1, pic2)
3. The department of Asian Studies in the Ca'Foscari University of Venice (pic1, pic2)
4. The department of Experimental physics at the University of Torino, Italy (pic1)
5. The department of Physics at the University of Pisa Italy (pic1)
6. The VIRGO gravitational antenna in Pisa (pic1,pic2)
The group followed meetings, special events and lectures organized by the hosts. A report of the fieldwork trip is here (pdf, 2Mb), and a gallery with pictures is here (pdf, 10Mb).
17 July
Prof. Micheletto and master student Oikawa Kotaro are invited to the Science Fair exhibition of Kanagawa prefecture in Yokohama. They introduce very simple physics experiments to high school students and children to induce them to like and study physics. Some picture of the event are here: pict1 and pict2.
To the event contributed also prof. Claudio Capiglia visiting professor at Politecnico di Torino and program manager of Recruit R&D Co., Ltd.
15-16 July
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Master student Oikawa Kotaro presented a research talk at the 19th Nano-optics research group meeting of the Japanese Optical Society. The title of his talk was "Local evidence of optical instabilities in the photoluminescence of InGaN by SNOM real-time investigation" (here). |
21-24 June
Prof. Micheletto partecipate at the 2010 OSA Optical Sensors Conference in Karlsruhe, Germany. He presents a paper with this title "Index of Refraction
Sensors; Virtually Unlimited Sensing Power at Critical Angle" (here) and a poster with the same title (here).The conference include the "LaserFest": celebration of the 50 Years of Lasers, with the talk of two Nobel Laureates (prof. T. W. Haensch and prof. C.H. Townes).
31 March
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Prof. Micheletto assigned a mobility grant for the years 2010-2011 from the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for a research project in partnership with Dr. R. Marchisio of Hicare Srl, Italy. The project title is "VisualSound: a portable system for the conversion of visual stimuli in sounds as aid for people with vision problems". The project is also in collaboration with prof. G. Iannizzotto and F. Battaglia of Visilab in Messina and T. Kishino of Yokohama City University. The project has been issued within the framework of the Scientific and Technological Co-operation Agreement between Japan and Italy (link). |
25 March
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Prof. Micheletto visited prof. Tiziana Lippiello at the University Ca' Foscari in Venice, Italy. They discussed about the possible exchange of students and researchers between the two universities. |
5 February
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Prof. Micheletto is invited to give a lecture at the Technicalshow Yokohama 2010. His talk was with this title: "Versatile optical fiber based vibration sensors". |
20-22 January
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Prof. U. T. Schwarz of Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics, visited Micheletto group and made a presentation with the title "Optical properties and efficiency of InGaN quantum wells of high power LEDs on the sub-nanometer length scale" (21 of January, 18:00). |
2009
21 December 2009 - 8 January 2010
Prof. Micheletto left for Europe. He took winter vacations and subsequently visited prof. J.G. Mendes, of the University of Porto, in Portugal for discussion of possible research collaboration.30 November:
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| Published Transient memory effect in the photoluminescence of InGaN single quantum wells by C. Feldmeier, M. Abiko, U.T. Schwarz, Y. Kawakami and R. Micheletto, Optics Express 17, 22855 (2009). here. |
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1-7 November:
Invited visit by the Dept. of Experimental physics, Torino University and Dep. of Physics "E. Fermi", Pisa University in the framework of project "Near-field polarization contrast for nano-optics applications" (Executive program of coopeartion between Italy and Japan, project number 31)October 18-23
Prof. Micheletto contributed to the presentation, "Metal Nanoparticle Induced Blinking in Green InGaN Quantum Wells" by Anne Kuhnert, Ulrich T. Schwarz, Christian Feldmeier and Ruggero Micheletto held at the 8th International Conference on Nitride Semiconductors, ICNS-8, Oct. 18-23, 2009, Jeju, Korea. The abstract of the talk is here.30 september
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Christian Feldmeier concludes his visit in Japan and comes back to his home university in Regensburg. He summarized his research work in a final thesis "Diplomarbeit" with the title "Blinking Phenomena in InGaN Quantum Wells". It is possible to download the whole diploma thesis in pdf format from these links: part1 (3Mb), part2 (2Mb). |
3 Sept
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Invited Speech at the Yokohama Creative Technology Forum (the pamphlet is here). Prof. Micheletto is invited to give a lecture with title "Characteristics of the InGaN photoluminescence blinking phenomena" (here). |
August 23
Prof. Micheletto appears on 神奈�新� the State newspaper Kanagawa-shinbun. He was invited to give a talk in the occasion of the celebration of the 150 anniversary of the Opening of Yokohama harbour. He spoke briefly about the future of Yokohama City.
May 24-31, Mini-workshop in Pisa, Italy:
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Micheletto is invited to give a lecture to the School of Graduate
Studies "Galileo Galilei", the University of Pisa, Italy for the
Miniworkshop on Confocal and near-field polarization applications. The talk was held at the Physics Department, University of Pisa Pisa 26, 27 and 28 May 2009. The title of the talk was "Japanese research in Nanotechnology: Kyoto University and Yokohama City University research topics and applications", 27 of May, 15:30 (the call for the talk is here). |
April 4
Maria Fernanda Avila Ortega joined the group as Research Student. She is currently preparing her Master course entrance examination. She will be involved in one of our biosample analysis related projects.
April 1
Oikawa Kotaro joined the group as B4 student. His research will concern the use of near-field optical techniques for the study of solid state InGaN material optical properties.
2008:
October 16
Christian Feldmeier joined the group as Research Student. He will be involved in the optical analysis of InGaN luminescence instabilities and blinking.October 31
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| Publication on Applied Physics Letters: "Tenfold improved sensitivity using high refractive-index substrates for surface plasmon sensing", by R. Micheletto, K. Hamamoto, T. Fujii and Y. Kawakami, here. |
October 15-17
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Prof. Micheletto is invited to present his research at
the "Manufacture and Technology Collaboration meeting" at the Industrial Technology
Center in Ebina Yokohama. He present a poster with the title "An Optical Multiple reflection super high sensitivity sensor" (here) |
September 11
Prof. Micheletto is invited to give a speech at the
"Physical Sensor" meeting of the Institute of Electrical Engineering.
The meeting was held in Waseda University, Tokyo. Title of his talk was "A multiple reflection optical sensor", here.
September 5
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Prof. Micheletto is invited at the 10th international Conference on Near-field Optics, NFO-10, Buenos Aires, 1-5 Sept 2008. He presented a research with the following title: A NEAR-FIELD METHOD FOR THE ANALYSIS OF THE POLARIZATION PROPERTIES OF QUANTUM DOTS IN INGAN by R. Micheletto, M. Allegrini and Y. Kawakami. |
August 27
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| Prof. Micheletto presents a poster at the "Nanotechnology Simposium 2008", held in Yokohama "Marineria" Hall. Title of his research was "Super high sensitivity multiple reflection optical sensor" (here) |
August 3-8
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| Prof. Micheletto co-authored with prof. A. Kunold a poster at the 15th International Conference on Superlattices, Nanostructures and Nanodevices, held in Natal, Brazil (link). Title of the research was "Blinking Luminous Centers in a InGaN Quantum Well", by R. Micheletto, S. Suzuki, Y. Kawakami, A. Kunold, P. Pereyra, Y. Narukawa and T. Mukai (conference program here) |
April 30
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Publication on Optics Express:"A polarization-modulation method for the near-field mapping of laterally grown InGaN samples", by R. Micheletto, D. Yamada, M. Allegrini and Y. Kawakami. here. |
April 1
Ruggero Micheletto is elected associated professor and head of his laboratory of "Sensory Information Science".