Dr. Tadashi Takano

Space tourism is now going to start this year by Virgin Galactic. Blue Origin follows next. Their style is to reach the height about 100 km and return, so that it is much safer than revolving around the earth. The passengers can enjoy acceleration in the ascending phase, gravity-free environment at the top, and views of space and the earth in vacuum through the windows.

 From technical points of view, a manned space ship should be reused with great safety. For passengers, cloths should be specially designed, and communication system may be required. Japan can contribute to these items using strong technologies. The speaker would like to share the present status with participants, and discuss what to do in the future.

Biography:

Digh Hisamoto received the B.S., M.S. degrees in reaction chemistry and Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 1984, 1986, and 2003, respectively.

In 1986, he joined Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, where he started research on device physics and process technologies of various advanced MOS devices. Since then, he has consistently studied MOS devices, including when he was a visiting industry fellow at the University of California, Berkeley (1997-1998).

In the logic CMOS field, he firstly developed FinFET and received the IEEE Andrew S. Grove Award for its achievements. In the field of non-volatile memory, he has developed embedded flash memory using split gate MONOS charge trap technology to achieve both high speed operation and high reliability as field data.

Since 2008, he has expanded the research interests into wide bandgap semiconductor power MOS devices, where he has been developing SiC power MOSFETs. In addition, he is currently interested in quantum sensing devices and quantum computing devices using MOS technology.

He has been a member and chair of CMOS and Power Devices Subcommittee of major international conferences on electronic devices (IEDM, VLSI Symposium, SSDM). And also, he has been serving as an executive committee member of VLSI Symposium and SSDM. He served as Director and Executive Director of Japan Applied Physics (2011-2012) and assigned to Visiting Professor of School of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology (2015-2020).

Dr. Hisamoto is Fellow of IEEE and Fellow of JSAP. Currently, he is Technology Advisor, Research and Development Group, Hitachi, Ltd.