Discovery of new submarine hydrothermal activity area off the western coast...
Researchers from National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) conducted surveys of the seafloor off the coast around Kumejima Island, Okinawa Prefecture and Okinoerabujima...
View ArticleUnderground permeation of seawater in tsunami disaster areas caused by 2011...
Researchers from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) conducted an airborne electromagnetic survey by helicopter in Watari-cho and Yamamoto-cho of Watari-gun in...
View ArticleConversion efficiency of 10.5 % achieved for thin-film microcrystalline...
A researcher with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) has developed a novel light-trapping structure to enhance optical absorption inside thin-film silicon solar...
View ArticleNaturally occurring mineral for thermoelectric power generation
Researchers with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology have confirmed that a naturally occurring mineral, tetrahedrite, which mainly consists of non-toxic and...
View ArticleNovel probe for live human iPS cell imaging
Researchers from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) have developed a highly sensitive lectin probe, rBC2LCN, for human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS...
View ArticleResearchers examine mechanism determining plant height and leaf and seed size
Japanese researchers from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) have confirmed that the length of a plant cell is controlled by the antagonistic actions of three...
View ArticleCircuit-characteristics analysis system capable of reflecting lithography...
Researchers from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), have developed a circuit-characteristics analysis system that can reflect the detailed shape of a circuit...
View ArticleImproved adhesion and patterning of plated metal thin film by light irradiation
Researchers from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) have found that when a metal thin film formed by electroless plating on a plastic substrate is irradiated...
View ArticleTechnology to suppress the degradation of crystalline silicon photovoltaic...
Atsushi Masuda of Collaborative Research Team and Kohjiro Hara of Collaborative Module-Reliability Research Team, the Research Center for Photovoltaic Technologies of the National Institute of Advanced...
View ArticleEnergy-saving light-control film that automatically controls sunlight...
The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST; President: Ryoji Chubachi) and Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. (Sumitomo Chemical; President: Masakazu Tokura) have developed a...
View ArticleDevelopment of new heat insulating paint using irregular silica
Researchers from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) have developed a heat insulating paint of a new type with irregular silica. Basic experiments were conducted...
View ArticleTunnel FET having a new architecture with potential for substantial...
Researchers from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) have demonstrated the operation of a synthetic electric field tunnel field-effect transistor with a new...
View ArticleNovel biological function of polyester in insect-bacterium symbiosis
Researchers from AIST have demonstrated that an intestinal symbiotic bacterium, which has beneficial effects on the growth and reproduction of the bean bug (Riptortus pedestris) known as a soybean...
View ArticleDevelopment of technology for producing micro-scale interconnect from...
Researchers from AIST have developed a low-resistivity and highly reliable interconnect using multi-layer graphene, which is a two-dimensional nanocarbon material.
View ArticleResearchers develop industrial gasket with excellent sealing properties and...
Researchers from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) have developed an industrial-use sheet gasket by alternately laminating composite films of clay and...
View ArticleMass-production of high-performance surfactants from non-edible biomass using...
Researchers at AIST have established the technology to mass-produce naturally-derived high-performance surfactants called "biosurfactants" from non-edible biomass.
View ArticleDiscovery of complex symbiotic system comprising the metabolic pathways of...
Researchers from AIST, in collaboration with the University of Montana (USA), the Open University of Japan, and others, have discovered that two types of bacteria with extremely reduced genomes...
View ArticleA CIGS photovoltaic sub-module with conversion efficiency of 18.34 percent
CIGS photovoltaic modules and sub-modules generally utilize an integrated structural design that takes advantage of the characteristics of thin-film photovoltaic cells. In a project commissioned by the...
View ArticleGuides for increasing the efficiency of organic solar cells
AIST researchers have calculated the theoretical limit of the photoelectric conversion efficiency of organic solar cells, which have gained attention as a new generation of solar cells.
View ArticleHeated ion implantation technology realizes low resistance of an ultra-thin fin
Japanese researchers at AIST led by Meishoku Masahara have developed a low-resistance source/drain formation technology that can be applied in the finFETs of 14-nm generation and beyond.
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