University of Tokyo
Jeremy Wong from Engineering Physics program University of Tokyo
Placement Information Year you started your placement Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Professor Ryo Shimano Project Details Overview Since the discovery of superconductors at the beginning of the 20th century, much work has been done to fully understand their nature. Researchers and engineers dream of room-temperature superconductivity, which will be […]
Kobe Ng from Engineering Physics program University of Tokyo
Placement Information Year you started your placement Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Kosuke Yoshioka Project Details Overview The nobel prize in physics in 2019 was partially awarded for the discovery of exoplanets on a sun-like star. There is substantial interest in exoplanet discovery. However, since exoplanets generate a weak signal, […]
YiLin Liu from Engineering Physics program University of Tokyo
Placement Information Year you started your placement Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Hiroshima Fukuyama Project Details Overview To try and create nanoribbon networks on graphite and graphene surfaces. Project objectives To figure out the parameters required and processes required for nanoribbon creation Research outcomes Successfully patterned graphene Selectively formed defects […]
Kelton Whiteaker from Physics and Astronomy program University of Tokyo
Placement Information Year you started your placement Placement period May – August, September – December Supervisor’s name Kentaro Kitagawa Project Details Overview My laboratory at UTokyo, the Takagi-Kitagawa Laboratory, is a solid-state experimental research group: advanced synthesis techniques are employed, and experimental techniques include NMR under ultra-high pressures! Our supervisor is also very ambitious about […]