Yoshimura lab’s objectives are to develop highly functional ferromagnetic
and ferroelectric film materials with low electric power consumption driven
by electric field and apply them in electric devices.
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May, 2024
The 3rd year students of Faculty of Engineering Science of Materials Science have been assigned to the Yoshimura lab under an integrated education program.
April, 2024
Prof Yoshimura continue the Director of the Research Center of Advanced Materials for Breakthrough Technology (for the third term and fifth year) and assumed the Director of Materials Science and Engineering Course and Assistant Dean of the Graduate School of Engineering Science.
March, 2024
Prof. Yoshimura and Yoshimura lab’s 3rd doctoral student Mr. Soumyaranjan Ratha and 1st doctoral student Ms. Swati Sucharita Das made a research presentation at the 71th JSAP Spring Meeting 2024 held in Tokyo City University & online.
Prof. Yoshimura who was in charge of planning secretary held online "Utilization of synchrotron radiation" at the 2nd annual meeting of the Society of Materials Engineering for Resources of JAPAN.
Prof. Yoshimura made an invited lecture titled “Fabrication of new functional magnetic thin films for driving magnetic devices with low power consumption - Improving quality of the thin films by using pulsed DC reactive sputtering method” at The Japan Society of Vacuum and Surface Science - SP Subcommittee held at Kikai Shinko Kaikan (Minato-ku, Tokyo).
February, 2024
Prof. Yoshimura accepted two (M2) students from Department of Physics, VIT University (Vellore, India) as “special research students” (for 5 months) by applying and accepting the “the 2023 Study Abroad Support System” of the Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO).
January, 2024
Yoshimura lab’s 3rd doctoral student Mr. Soumyaranjan Ratha research paper titled “Optimizing the Reactive Ion Etching conditions with Minimal Damage for High Functional Magnetic Nano Device Application in BiFeO3-based Thin Film by Eu/Co Substitution” publish in Applied Surface Science.
Yoshimura lab’s 1st year master student Ms. Katsuyama’s research paper titled “Investigation of Fabrication Conditions and Acceleration of Crystallization of α"-Fe16N2 Thin Film Fabricated by Pulsed DC Reactive Sputtering for High Density Magnetic Recording Media Application” publish in Journal of the Magnetics Society of Japan.
December, 2023
Prof. Yoshimura who was in charge of planning secretary held online "Utilization of synchrotron radiation" at the 1st annual meeting of the Society of Materials Engineering for Resources of JAPAN.
October, 2023
Yoshimura lab’s 3rd doctoral student Mr. Soumyaranjan Ratha made a research presentation at The 14th APCTP Workshop on Multiferroics held in Tokyou University
September, 2023
Yoshimura lab’s 3rd doctoral student Mr. Soumyaranjan Ratha made a research presentation at The International Conference on Global Research and Education (Inter-Academia 2023) held in Shizuoka University & online.
Yoshimura lab’s 3rd doctoral student Mr. Soumyaranjan Ratha made a research presentation at The IEEE Around-The-Clock Around-The-Globe Magnetics Conference 2023 (AtC-AtG 2023) held online.
Prof. Yoshimura and Yoshimura lab’s 2nd master student Mr. Y. Suzuki made a research presentation at the 47th Annual Conference on MAGNETICS in Japan held in Osaka University.
A foreign researcher in Research Center of Advanced Materials for Breakthrough Technology Mr. Uzzaman Md Akhtar (Professor, Solar Energy Research Institute, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, who invited by Prof. Yoshimura)international co-authorship research paper titled “Synergistic Effect of Allium-like Ni9S8 & Cu7S4 Electrodeposited on Nickel Foam for Enhanced Water Splitting Activity” publish in Chemistry - An Asian Journal.
August, 2023
Yoshimura lab’s 1st master student Ms. I. Katsuyama and Ms. K. Hatakeyama made a research presentation at the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers annual meeting 2023 held in Tokyo University of Science & online.
Prof. Yoshimura research paper titled “Magnetization reversal of [Co/Pd] perpendicular magnetic thin film dot on (Bi,La)(Fe,Co)O3 multiferroic thin film by applying electric field” publish in Nanotechnology.
July, 2023
A foreign researcher in Research Center of Advanced Materials for Breakthrough Technology Mr. Uzzaman Md Akhtar (Professor, Solar Energy Research Institute, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, who invited by Prof. Yoshimura)international co-authorship research paper titled “Facile electrodeposition of biphasic CuSx/CoSx nanostructures as bifunctional electrocatalysts for seawater splitting” publish in Electrochimica Acta.
Yoshimura lab’s 3rd doctoral student Mr. Soumyaranjan Ratha research paper titled “Excellent magnetic properties in multiferroic BiFeO3 based thin films for magnetic devices application” publish in Nano-Structures & Nano-Objects.
Jun, 2023
Yoshimura lab’s 1st master student Ms. I. Katsuyama made a research presentation at the Reiwa 5th year Annual Meeting in the Society of Materials Engineering for Resources of JAPAN held in Akita University.
Prof. Yoshimura and Yoshimura lab’s 2nd master student Mr. Y. Suzuki made a research presentation at Multi Media Storage Study Group in the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers held in Tohoku University (Miyagi) & online.
May, 2023
Prof. Yoshimura and Yoshimura lab’s 3rd doctoral student Mr. Soumyaranjan Ratha made a research presentation at Intermag 2023 held in Sendai International Center(Sendai, Miyagi).
Prof. Yoshimura made an invited lecture titled “Development of BiFeO3-based Multiferroic Thin Films with Large Magneto-Optical Kerr Effect for Spatial Light Modulator Driven by Electric Field” at the 10th Annual Congress of Nano Science and Technology-2023 (Nano S&T-2023) held in Hyatt Regency Osaka (Osaka)
The 3rd year students of Faculty of Engineering Science of Materials Science have been assigned to the Yoshimura lab under an integrated education program.
April, 2023
Prof. Yoshimura made a keynote lecture titled “Magnetization reversal of highly functional magnetic film dot on BiFeO3 based multiferroic thin film by applying electric field for development of high-performance magnetic devices with low power consumption” at International Conference on Functional Materials for Future Technology 2023 (IC-FMFT 2023) held in VIT University (India) & online.
Yoshimura lab’s 2nd master student Mr. Y. Suzuki research paper titled “Effects of substituted elements and amounts of B-site on magnetic properties of ferromagnetic and ferroelectric (Bi,La)(Fe1-yMy)O3 (M =Ni,Co) thin films” publish in Journal of the Society of Materials Engineering for Resources of JAPAN.
March, 2023
Yoshimura lab’s 2nd doctoral student Mr. Soumyaranjan Ratha made a research presentation at 7th International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICONN-2023) held online.
Prof. Yoshimura and Yoshimura lab’s 2nd doctoral student Mr. Soumyaranjan Ratha made a research presentation at the 70th JSAP Spring Meeting 2023 held in Sophia University & online.
January, 2023
Prof. Yoshimura made a research presentation at the 16th meeting on Ferroic-ordering and their manipulation held in Tokyo University & online.
December, 2022
Yoshimura lab’s 2nd doctoral student Mr. Soumyaranjan Ratha made a research presentation at 2nd International Conference on Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology (ICAMN-2022) held in Jaypee Institute of Information Technology & online.
Yoshimura lab’s 4th year undergraduate student Ms. I. Katsuyama made a research presentation at the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers winter annual convention held in Tokyo University of Science & online.
Yoshimura lab’s 2nd doctoral student Mr. Soumyaranjan Ratha made a research presentation titled ”Improvement of Magnetic Properties in BiFeO3-based Multiferroic Thin Films for Devices Applications with Low Energy Consumptions” at Advanced Materials for Strategic Application and Sustainable Future (AMSAS-2022) held in KPR Institute of Engineering and Technology & online and awarded Best Paper Award.
Prof. Yoshimura and technical member Mr. G. Egawa research paper titled “Observation of clear magnetization and polarization reversal by local electric field in BiFeO3-based multiferroic thin film with using metallic MFM tip with optimized magnetization” publish in IEEE conference proceedings (IET ICETA)
Prof. Yoshimura who in charge of planning secretary held “New materials/functional materials, innovative materials, new energy R&D seminar”
Yoshimura lab’s 2nd doctoral student Mr. Soumyaranjan Ratha made a research presentation at National Conference on Advances in Condensed Matter Physics (ACMP-2022) held in Govt. (Autonomous) College & online.
Prof. Yoshimura made a keynote lecture titled “Development of High-Functional Multiferroic Thin Films for Application to Low Power Consumption Magnetic Devices” at 9th Malaysia-Japan Photovoltaics Workshop (MJPVW 2022) held online.
November, 2022
Yoshimura lab’s 2nd doctoral student Mr. Soumyaranjan Ratha made a research presentation titled “Enhancement of Magnetic Properties by Lanthanides substitution in (Bi,L)(Fe,Co)O3 (L = La, Nd, Sm, Gd, Dy, Er) Multiferroic Thin films” at The IEEE Around-The-Clock Around-The-Globe Magnetics Conference 2022 (AtC-AtG 2022) held online in August and awarded Best Oral Presentation Award.
Mr. Uzzaman Md Akhtar (Professor, Solar Energy Research Institute, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia)invited by Prof. Yoshimura assume Foreign Researcher the Reiwa 4rd year in Research Center on Advanced Materials for Breakthrough Technology. (1 month)
Yoshimura lab’s 2nd doctoral student Mr. Soumyaranjan Ratha made a research presentation at 3rd National Conference on Materials and Devices (3rd NCMD-2022) held in Teerthanker Mahaveer University & online.
Yoshimura lab’s 2nd doctoral student Mr. Soumyaranjan Ratha made a poster presentation at 13th Indian scientist association in Japan (ISAJ) Symposium held in Embassy of India (Tokyo).
October, 2022
Prof. Yoshimura awarded the Reiwa 3rd year excellent professor for activity evaluation in Akita University.
Yoshimura lab’s 2nd doctoral student Mr. Soumyaranjan Ratha research paper titled “Development of (Bi0.5L0.5)(Fe0.7Co0.3)O3 (L=La, Nd, Sm, Gd, Dy) thin films with excellent magnetic properties for magnetic device application” and Prof. Yoshimura’ international co-author research paper titled “Investigations on Spintronic RFeO3 Crystals Grown by Optical Floating Zone Technique” publish in International Journal of the Society of Materials Engineering for Resources.
Prof. Yoshimura made a research presentation titled “Observation of clear magnetization and polarization reversal by local electric field in BiFeO3-based multiferroic thin film with using metallic MFM tip with optimized magnetization” at 2022 IET International Conference on Engineering Technologies and Applications (IET ICETA 2022) held in National Changhua University of Education & online and awarded The Third Place of Best Paper Competition.
September, 2022
Yoshimura lab’s 2nd doctoral student Mr. Soumyaranjan Ratha made a research presentation titled “Influence of Lanthanides and Cobalt substituent in the magnetic properties of Bismuth Ferrite multiferroic thin films” at The 12th Annual Symposium on Magnetics 2022 held in Singapore & online and awarded Best Oral Presentation Award (Overseas).
Prof. Yoshimura made a research presentation at the 15th summer school on Ferroic-ordering and their manipulation held in Ishinomaki & online.
Prof. Yoshimura and Yoshimura lab’s 2nd year master student Mr. R. Suzuki made a research presentation at the 46th Annual Conference on Magnetics Society of Japan in Shinshu University (Nagano). Also Mr. Ozeki (who graduated from Yoshimura lab this spring) awarded the Magnetics Society of Japan Academic Encouragement Award (Uchiyama Award), and attended the award ceremony.
August, 2022
Yoshimura lab’s 2nd doctoral student Mr. Soumyaranjan Ratha made a research presentation at The IEEE Around-The-Clock Around-The-Globe Magnetics Conference 2022 (AtC-AtG 2022) held online.
Prof. Yoshimura made an invited lecture titled “Basic study of electric field driven magneto-optical light modulator with ferromagnetic and ferroelectric thin films” at The Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers Annual Convention 2022 held online.
Prof. Yoshimura and Yoshimura lab’s 2nd doctoral student Mr. Soumyaranjan Ratha and 2nd master student Mr. R. Suzuki made a research presentation at The Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers Annual Convention 2022 held online.
Yoshimura lab’s 2nd doctoral student Mr. Soumyaranjan Ratha made a research presentation at International Online Conference on Nano Materials (ICN 2022) held online.
Yoshimura lab’s 2nd doctoral student Mr. Soumyaranjan Ratha made a research presentation titled “Effect of Lanthanoids substitution against Bi on various magnetic properties of multiferroic (Bi,L)(Fe,Co)O3 (L: Lanthanoids) thin films”at National Conference on Functional Materials and its Application Aspects (NCFMAA-2022) held online, and awarded Best Oral Presentation Award.
July, 2022
Prof. Yoshimura’s research was adopted by Kioxia Encouragement Research.
Prof. Yoshimura who was in charge of planning secretary held “Next-generation synchrotron radiation facility (NanoTerasu)” in Akita University.
Jun, 2022
Mr. Ozeki (who graduated from Yoshimura lab this spring)’s research paper titled “Development of BiFeO3 based multiferroic thin films with large saturation magnetization and perpendicular magnetic anisotropy - Effect of substitution of Co against Fe on magnetic properties -” awarded MSJ Paper Encouragement Award in Journal of the Magnetics Society of Japan.
Prof. Yoshimura and Yoshimura lab’s 2nd year master student Mr. R. Suzuki made a research presentation at Multi Media Storage Study Group in The Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers held a hybrid (Tohoku University/Online)
Yoshimura lab’s 1st year master student Mr. Y. Suzuki and technical member Mr. Egawa made a research presentation at the Reiwa 4th year Annual Meeting in The Society of Materials Engineering for Resources of JAPAN held online.
Yoshimura lab’s 2nd year master student Mr. R. Suzuki’s research paper titled “Effect of laser-assisted heating and annealing on the crystal structure and magnetic properties of (Bi,A) FeO3 (A=Ca,Sr,Ba(alkaline earth metal)) thin films” awarded Young Paper Award at the Reiwa 4th year Annual Meeting in The Society of Materials Engineering for Resources of JAPAN held online.
May, 2022
The 3rd year students of Faculty of Engineering Science of Materials Science have been assigned to the Yoshimura lab under an integrated education program.
Mr. Ozeki (who graduated from Yoshimura lab this spring)’s research paper titled “Development of BiFeO3 based multiferroic thin films with large saturation magnetization and perpendicular magnetic anisotropy - Effect of substitution of Co against Fe on magnetic properties -” published in Journal of the Magnetics Society of Japan.
March, 2022
Yoshimura lab’s 1st year doctoral student Mr. Soumyaranjan Ratha made a research presentation at the 69th JSAP Spring Meeting 2022 held in Sagamihara Campus, Aoyama Gakuin University & online.
Yoshimura lab’s 2nd year master student Mr. Kobayashi’s research paper titled “Dependence of magnetic properties in superparamagnetic Co-granular thin films on deposition rate and effectiveness of a new pulsed DC reactive sputtering method for film fabrication with high deposition rate” have decided to publish in The academic journal of The Society of Materials Engineering for Resources of JAPAN.
Yoshimura lab’s 1st year master student Mr. R. Suzuki’s research paper titled “Effect of laser-assisted heating and annealing on the crystal structure and magnetic properties of (Bi,A) FeO3 (A=Ca,Sr,Ba(alkaline earth metal)) thin films” have decided to publish in Journal of The Society of Materials Engineering for Resources of JAPAN.
Yoshimura lab’s 1st year doctoral student Mr. Soumyaranjan Ratha made a research presentation at the Indo-Japan Workshop on interface phenomena for spintronics (IJW-IPS 2022) held online.
Prof. Yoshimura made a research presentation at Result and development VR Symposium “The future of energy harvesting” held online.
Prof. Yoshimura who was in charge of planning secretary held online "Utilization of synchrotron radiation-development of high-performance materials and their evaluation methods-" at the 1st annual meeting of the Society of Materials Engineering for Resources of JAPAN.
February, 2022
Prof. Yoshimura held online “SAKURA SCIENCE EXCHANGE PROGRAM(2nd)” applied for and adopted by Japan Science and Technology Agency for graduate students majoring in physics at VIT University in India.
January, 2022
Prof. Yoshimura made an invited lecture titled “Development of high-functional multiferroic thin films and their device application” at the Virtual Seminar Series on Functional Materials 2022 (1st) held online by the Center for functional Materials of VIT University in India.
Prof. Yoshimura held online “SAKURA SCIENCE EXCHANGE PROGRAM(1st)” applied for and adopted by Japan Science and Technology Agency for graduate students majoring in physics at VIT University in India.
Prof. Yoshimura and Yoshimura lab’s 1st year master student Mr. R. Suzuki made a research presentation at the 14th meeting on Ferroic-ordering and their manipulation in the japan Society of Applied Physics for held online.
December,2021
Prof. Yoshimura made an invited lecture titled “Development of high quality BiFeO3-based multiferroic thin films with excellent magnetic properties for realization of high performance and low power consumption magnetic devices” at the 2021 Global Research Efforts on Energy and Nanomaterials (GREEN 2021) held online.
Yoshimura lab’s 1st year doctoral student Mr. Soumyaranjan Ratha made a research presentation at the 2021 Global Research Efforts on Energy and Nanomaterials (GREEN 2021) held online.
Prof. Yoshimura made a research presentation at the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers winter annual convention held online.
Prof. Yoshimura made an online lecture entitled "Magnetic Recording & Devices" as "Guest Lecture" in the subject "Solid State Magnetism" for graduate students of VIT University in India.
October, 2021
Prof. Yoshimura made an invited lecture titled “Development and fabrication of high quality BiFeO3-based ferromagnetic and ferroelectric thin films with excellent magnetic properties for application to high performance and low power consumption magnetic devices” at the SPINICS Special Meeting 2021 held online.
Yoshimura lab’s 1st year doctoral student Mr. Soumyaranjan Ratha made a research presentation at The Ninth International Conference on Materials Engineering for Resources (ICMR2021 AKITA) held online.
September, 2021
Prof. Yoshimura made an invited lecture titled “Development of BiFeO3-based ferromagnetic and ferroelectric thin films with excellent magnetic properties for application to low power consumption magnetic devices with high functionality” at Reiwa 3rd year the 1st Meeting in Akita Prefectural High Energy Accelerator Technology Study Group held online.
August, 2021
Prof. Yoshimura, Yoshimura lab’s 2nd year master student Mr. Ozeki and technical member Mr. Egawa made a research presentation at the 45th Annual Conference on MAGNETICS in Japan held online.
June, 2021
Yoshimura lab’s 2nd year master student Mr. Kobayashi, 1st year master student Mr. Suzuki and technical member Mr. Egawa made a research presentation at the Reiwa 3rd year Annual Meeting in The Society of Materials Engineering for Resources of JAPAN held online.
Prof. Yoshimura who in charge of planning secretary held online “Recording system, general” at Multi Media Storage Study Group in the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers.
Yoshimura lab’s 2nd year master student Mr. Ozeki made a research presentation at Multi Media Storage Study Group in The Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers held online.
Prof. Yoshimura made a lecture titled “Electronics and electric materials - Fabrication of BiFeO3 based multiferroic film for high performance magnetic devices driven by electric field -” at Special Colloquium of Akita-Freiburg University Partnership.
Prof. Yoshimura assumed the chief examiner (from the deputy chief examiner) in the field of hard and soft magnetic materials of The Magnetics Society of Japan.
May, 2021
Yoshimura lab’s research paper titled “Magnetic properties of (Bi1-xLax)(Fe,Co)O3 films fabricated by a pulsed DC reactive sputtering and demonstration of magnetization reversal by electric field” was published in Scientific Reports.
The 3rd year students of Faculty of Engineering Science of Materials Science have been assigned to the Yoshimura lab under an integrated education program.
April, 2021
Prof. Yoshimura assumed executive secretary of Multi Media Storage Study Group in the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers.
Prof. Yoshimura made a keynote lecture titled “Measurement of dynamic magnetization reversal of magnetic film fabricated onto BiFeO3 based multiferroic film by applying electric field and development of the multiferroic film with high magnetization for this method” at International Conference on Science and Applied Science 2021 held online by Sebelas Maret University, Indonesia.
March, 2021
Prof. Yoshimura who was in charge of planning secretary held online “State of the art physical property evaluation using synchrotron radiation -From facility outline to application-” at the 2nd annual meeting of the Society of Materials Engineering for Resources of JAPAN.
January, 2021
Prof. Yoshimura made a research presentation at the 12th meeting on Ferroic-ordering and their manipulation in the japan Society of Applied Physics for held online.
December, 2020
Prof. Yoshimura made a research presentation at the 44th Annual Conference on MAGNETICS in Japan held online.
November, 2020
Yoshimura lab’s 1st year master student Mr. Kobayashi made a research presentation at the 19th Tohoku branch Research Presentation Convention in The Japan Institute of metals and Materials held online.
Prof. Yoshimura awarded Akita City Sports Boy Scouts 50th Anniversary Award.
October, 2020
“A-STEP” Prof Yoshimura applied for was adopted by Japan Science and Technology Agency.
The content of this achievement was press-released by Akita university and also introduced in What's New by Faculty of Engineering Science Akita University.
Prof. Yoshimura made a research presentation at Multi Media Storage Study Group in the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers held online.
August, 2020
Yoshimura lab’s Master’s student K. Takeda’s research paper titled “Guidelines for fabrication of high quality BiFeO3 based multiferroic thin films in pulsed DC reactive sputtering method” was published in Transaction of the Magnetics Society of Japan (Special Issues).
“SAKURA SCIENCE EXCHANGE PROGRAM (SAKURA SCIENCE PLAN)” Prof. Yoshimura applied for was adopted by Japan Science and Technology Agency.
July, 2020
Prof. Yoshimura's lead inventor, "Spatial Light Modulators and Display Devices," has been registered as a patent (Patent No. 6741452).
Prof. Yoshimura's lead inventor, "Spatial Light Modulators and Display Devices," has been registered as a patent (Patent No. 6741453).
June, 2020
Prof. Yoshimura made a keynote lecture titled “Development of high-functional and high-quality multiferroic thin films for application of high performance magnetic devices driven by electric field” at One Day Virtual International Conference on Photovoltaic and Material Science held online by VIT University, India.
Prof. Yoshimura assumed standing director of The Society of Materials Engineering for Resources of Japan.
“JAPANESE GOVERNMENT (MEXT) SCHOLARSHIP (RESEARCH STUDENTS)” Prof. Yoshimura had applied for was adopted by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT).
April, 2020
Prof Yoshimura assumed the Director of the Research Center of Advanced Materials for Breakthrough Technology.
March, 2020
Prof. Yoshimura awarded “an excellent activity and evaluation professor in Akita University”.
January 2020
Prof. Yoshimura as a representative of Akita University, attended SAKURA Science meeting for interaction and collaboration among educational and research institutes in Japan and India hosted by Japan Science and Technology Agency.
“Memorandum of Understanding on Student Exchange” was concluded between National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan and Akita University with the help of Prof. Yoshimura.
Prof. Yoshimura and Yoshimura lab’s 1st year master student Mr. Takeda and Mr. Hosoya made a research presentation at the 10th Study Group Ferroic-ordering G in the japan society of applied physics held in Tokyo.
December 2019.
Prof. Yoshimura made a keynote lecture titled “Development of novel magnetic recording device driven by electric field using BiFeO3-based ferromagnetic and ferroelectric thin films” at 2019 Global Research Efforts on Energy and Nanomaterials (GREEN 2019) held in Taipei, Taiwan.
Prof. Yoshimura exhibited at the booth in Akita Industry-academia-government collaboration forum held at ALVE, Akita city.
November 2019
Prof. Yoshimura made a research presentation at the 64th Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (MMM2019) held in Las Vegas, the U.S.
October 2019
Prof. Yoshimura made a keynote lecture titled “Trial to application of BiFeO3-based multiferroic films to new magnetic memory devices” at International Conference on Science, Engineering & Technology (ICSET-2019) held at VIT University, India.
Prof. Yoshimura made an invited lecture titled “Attempt of application to memory or display devices in BiFeO3-based multiferroic films -Fabrication of high-qualified films, material research, and functional verification-” at the World Summit on Advances in Science, Engineering and Technology (Indiana Summit 2019) held at Indiana-Purdue University in Indianapolis, the U.S.
September, 2019
Prof. Yoshimura and Yoshimura lab’s 2nd year master student Mr. Yamamoto and 1st year master student Mr. Takeda made a research presentation at the 43th Annual conference on MAGNETICS in Japan held in Kyoto, Japan.
Yoshimura lab’s post doctoral fellow, M. Kuppan (2017.6-2019.8) got a job at TDK Corporation.
August, 2019
Prof. Yoshimura's lead inventor, "Electric Field Driven Magnetic Memory" has been registered as a patent (Patent No. 6573374).
June, 2019
Prof. Yoshimura had spent three months as “Adjunct Professor” at VIT University, India and had international activities.
Prof. Yoshimura made an invited lecture titled “Attempt of application to memory or display devices in BiFeO3-based multiferroic films -Fabrication of high-qualified films, material research, and functional verification-” at the Multi Media Storage Study Group in The Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers (ITE-MMS 2019) held at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan.
April, 2019
Prof. Yoshimura invited Prof. S. Kalainathan from VIT University in India who served as “guest professor” for two months.
Assoc. Prof. Yoshimura got promoted to Professor.
March,2019
Assoc. Prof. Yoshimura completed “Creation of innovative nanoelectronics through the fusion of materials, devices and systems” by SAKIGAKE JST Strategic Basic Research programs.
Research titled “Development of electric field driven ultra-low power consumption magnetic memory”
December 2018
Assoc. Prof. Yoshimura taught 15 classes with credits as a lecturer at Nagoya University.
Assoc. Prof. Yoshimura attended in the external judging committee on the renewal of ISO14001 as the chairman of the Communication WG Department, Environmental Management Committee, and contributed to obtain and renewal of "ISO 14001: 2015 / JIS Q 14001: 2015" of Akita University (24th January 2019).
Assoc. Prof. Yoshimura and Yoshimura lab’s 1st year master student Mr. Yamamoto made a research presentation at academic lecture in the Japan Society of Applied physics, Tohoku chapter held in Sendai, Japan.
Assoc. Prof. Yoshimura made a lecture at “Seminar for better environment and safety” hosted by Akita University.
November, 2018
Assoc. Prof. Yoshimura made a lecture titled “Development of ultra-low power consumption magnetic recording device -New recording method using new functional thin film material-” at the Heisei 30th Citizen course of Akita University Regional Creation Center "Research introduction of the Faculty of Engineering Science that creates the future of Akita and Japan" held at Akita college plaza.
October, 2018
Assoc. Prof. Yoshimura introduced Akita University to students interested in studying abroad in Japan at JAPAN HIGHER EDUCATION FAIR 2018 held at VIT University, India.
Yoshimura lab’s post doctoral fellow, M. Kuppan made a presentation titled ”Properties of magnetic Kerr effect of (Bi1-xLax)(Fe0.75Co0.25)O3 multiferroic thin films with perpendicular anisotropy fabricated by a pulsed DC reactive sputtering technique” and awarded most outstanding presentation at the International Workshop on Materials and Applications (IWMA 2018) held at VIT University, India.
Assoc. Professor Yoshimura made an invited lecture titled “High Functional Multiferroic Thin Films for Novel Magnetic Devices with System of Magnetization Reversal by Electric Field” at the International Workshop on Materials and Applications (IWMA 2018) held at VIT University, India.
September 2018
Yoshimura lab’s research paper titled “Fabrication of highly qualified (Bi1-xBax)FeO3 multiferroic thin films by using a pulsed DC reactive sputtering method and demonstration of magnetization reversal by electric field” was published in Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Selected Topics in Applied Physics.
August, 2018
Assoc. Prof. Yoshimura and Senior lecturer Yamada exhibited the booth at Innovation JAPAN 2018 -University trade fair & Business matching- held at Tokyo big sight.
July 2018
Assoc. Prof. Yoshimura made a visit to College of Science, National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan which concludes Memorandum of Understanding on Student Exchange with Graduate School of Engineering Science, Akita University.
Assoc. Prof. Yoshimura and Yoshimura lab’s Dr. M. Kuppan, post doctoral fellow made research presentations at the 21st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MAGNETISM (ICM2018) held in San Francisco, the U.S.
April 2018
Assoc. Prof. Yoshimura invited Prof. S. Kalainathan from VIT University, India to serve as a guest professor for two months.
Assoc. Prof. Yoshimura adopted by Hosou Bunka Foundation.
Research subject: "Control of magnetic Kerr effect by electric field application for spatial light modulators for 3-D display"
Research Center of Advanced Materials for Breakthrough Technology, Yoshimura lab and Yamada lab were established due to the reorganization.
The 3rd year students of Faculty of Engineering Science of Materials Science have been assigned to the Yoshimura lab under an integrated education program.
April, 2024
Prof Yoshimura continue the Director of the Research Center of Advanced Materials for Breakthrough Technology (for the third term and fifth year) and assumed the Director of Materials Science and Engineering Course and Assistant Dean of the Graduate School of Engineering Science.
March, 2024
Prof. Yoshimura and Yoshimura lab’s 3rd doctoral student Mr. Soumyaranjan Ratha and 1st doctoral student Ms. Swati Sucharita Das made a research presentation at the 71th JSAP Spring Meeting 2024 held in Tokyo City University & online.
Prof. Yoshimura who was in charge of planning secretary held online "Utilization of synchrotron radiation" at the 2nd annual meeting of the Society of Materials Engineering for Resources of JAPAN.
Prof. Yoshimura made an invited lecture titled “Fabrication of new functional magnetic thin films for driving magnetic devices with low power consumption - Improving quality of the thin films by using pulsed DC reactive sputtering method” at The Japan Society of Vacuum and Surface Science - SP Subcommittee held at Kikai Shinko Kaikan (Minato-ku, Tokyo).
February, 2024
Prof. Yoshimura accepted two (M2) students from Department of Physics, VIT University (Vellore, India) as “special research students” (for 5 months) by applying and accepting the “the 2023 Study Abroad Support System” of the Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO).
January, 2024
Yoshimura lab’s 3rd doctoral student Mr. Soumyaranjan Ratha research paper titled “Optimizing the Reactive Ion Etching conditions with Minimal Damage for High Functional Magnetic Nano Device Application in BiFeO3-based Thin Film by Eu/Co Substitution” publish in Applied Surface Science.
Yoshimura lab’s 1st year master student Ms. Katsuyama’s research paper titled “Investigation of Fabrication Conditions and Acceleration of Crystallization of α"-Fe16N2 Thin Film Fabricated by Pulsed DC Reactive Sputtering for High Density Magnetic Recording Media Application” publish in Journal of the Magnetics Society of Japan.
December, 2023
Prof. Yoshimura who was in charge of planning secretary held online "Utilization of synchrotron radiation" at the 1st annual meeting of the Society of Materials Engineering for Resources of JAPAN.
October, 2023
Yoshimura lab’s 3rd doctoral student Mr. Soumyaranjan Ratha made a research presentation at The 14th APCTP Workshop on Multiferroics held in Tokyou University
September, 2023
Yoshimura lab’s 3rd doctoral student Mr. Soumyaranjan Ratha made a research presentation at The International Conference on Global Research and Education (Inter-Academia 2023) held in Shizuoka University & online.
Yoshimura lab’s 3rd doctoral student Mr. Soumyaranjan Ratha made a research presentation at The IEEE Around-The-Clock Around-The-Globe Magnetics Conference 2023 (AtC-AtG 2023) held online.
Prof. Yoshimura and Yoshimura lab’s 2nd master student Mr. Y. Suzuki made a research presentation at the 47th Annual Conference on MAGNETICS in Japan held in Osaka University.
A foreign researcher in Research Center of Advanced Materials for Breakthrough Technology Mr. Uzzaman Md Akhtar (Professor, Solar Energy Research Institute, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, who invited by Prof. Yoshimura)international co-authorship research paper titled “Synergistic Effect of Allium-like Ni9S8 & Cu7S4 Electrodeposited on Nickel Foam for Enhanced Water Splitting Activity” publish in Chemistry - An Asian Journal.
August, 2023
Yoshimura lab’s 1st master student Ms. I. Katsuyama and Ms. K. Hatakeyama made a research presentation at the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers annual meeting 2023 held in Tokyo University of Science & online.
Prof. Yoshimura research paper titled “Magnetization reversal of [Co/Pd] perpendicular magnetic thin film dot on (Bi,La)(Fe,Co)O3 multiferroic thin film by applying electric field” publish in Nanotechnology.
July, 2023
A foreign researcher in Research Center of Advanced Materials for Breakthrough Technology Mr. Uzzaman Md Akhtar (Professor, Solar Energy Research Institute, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, who invited by Prof. Yoshimura)international co-authorship research paper titled “Facile electrodeposition of biphasic CuSx/CoSx nanostructures as bifunctional electrocatalysts for seawater splitting” publish in Electrochimica Acta.
Yoshimura lab’s 3rd doctoral student Mr. Soumyaranjan Ratha research paper titled “Excellent magnetic properties in multiferroic BiFeO3 based thin films for magnetic devices application” publish in Nano-Structures & Nano-Objects.
Jun, 2023
Yoshimura lab’s 1st master student Ms. I. Katsuyama made a research presentation at the Reiwa 5th year Annual Meeting in the Society of Materials Engineering for Resources of JAPAN held in Akita University.
Prof. Yoshimura and Yoshimura lab’s 2nd master student Mr. Y. Suzuki made a research presentation at Multi Media Storage Study Group in the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers held in Tohoku University (Miyagi) & online.
May, 2023
Prof. Yoshimura and Yoshimura lab’s 3rd doctoral student Mr. Soumyaranjan Ratha made a research presentation at Intermag 2023 held in Sendai International Center(Sendai, Miyagi).
Prof. Yoshimura made an invited lecture titled “Development of BiFeO3-based Multiferroic Thin Films with Large Magneto-Optical Kerr Effect for Spatial Light Modulator Driven by Electric Field” at the 10th Annual Congress of Nano Science and Technology-2023 (Nano S&T-2023) held in Hyatt Regency Osaka (Osaka)
The 3rd year students of Faculty of Engineering Science of Materials Science have been assigned to the Yoshimura lab under an integrated education program.
April, 2023
Prof. Yoshimura made a keynote lecture titled “Magnetization reversal of highly functional magnetic film dot on BiFeO3 based multiferroic thin film by applying electric field for development of high-performance magnetic devices with low power consumption” at International Conference on Functional Materials for Future Technology 2023 (IC-FMFT 2023) held in VIT University (India) & online.
Yoshimura lab’s 2nd master student Mr. Y. Suzuki research paper titled “Effects of substituted elements and amounts of B-site on magnetic properties of ferromagnetic and ferroelectric (Bi,La)(Fe1-yMy)O3 (M =Ni,Co) thin films” publish in Journal of the Society of Materials Engineering for Resources of JAPAN.
March, 2023
Yoshimura lab’s 2nd doctoral student Mr. Soumyaranjan Ratha made a research presentation at 7th International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICONN-2023) held online.
Prof. Yoshimura and Yoshimura lab’s 2nd doctoral student Mr. Soumyaranjan Ratha made a research presentation at the 70th JSAP Spring Meeting 2023 held in Sophia University & online.
January, 2023
Prof. Yoshimura made a research presentation at the 16th meeting on Ferroic-ordering and their manipulation held in Tokyo University & online.
December, 2022
Yoshimura lab’s 2nd doctoral student Mr. Soumyaranjan Ratha made a research presentation at 2nd International Conference on Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology (ICAMN-2022) held in Jaypee Institute of Information Technology & online.
Yoshimura lab’s 4th year undergraduate student Ms. I. Katsuyama made a research presentation at the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers winter annual convention held in Tokyo University of Science & online.
Yoshimura lab’s 2nd doctoral student Mr. Soumyaranjan Ratha made a research presentation titled ”Improvement of Magnetic Properties in BiFeO3-based Multiferroic Thin Films for Devices Applications with Low Energy Consumptions” at Advanced Materials for Strategic Application and Sustainable Future (AMSAS-2022) held in KPR Institute of Engineering and Technology & online and awarded Best Paper Award.
Prof. Yoshimura and technical member Mr. G. Egawa research paper titled “Observation of clear magnetization and polarization reversal by local electric field in BiFeO3-based multiferroic thin film with using metallic MFM tip with optimized magnetization” publish in IEEE conference proceedings (IET ICETA)
Prof. Yoshimura who in charge of planning secretary held “New materials/functional materials, innovative materials, new energy R&D seminar”
Yoshimura lab’s 2nd doctoral student Mr. Soumyaranjan Ratha made a research presentation at National Conference on Advances in Condensed Matter Physics (ACMP-2022) held in Govt. (Autonomous) College & online.
Prof. Yoshimura made a keynote lecture titled “Development of High-Functional Multiferroic Thin Films for Application to Low Power Consumption Magnetic Devices” at 9th Malaysia-Japan Photovoltaics Workshop (MJPVW 2022) held online.
November, 2022
Yoshimura lab’s 2nd doctoral student Mr. Soumyaranjan Ratha made a research presentation titled “Enhancement of Magnetic Properties by Lanthanides substitution in (Bi,L)(Fe,Co)O3 (L = La, Nd, Sm, Gd, Dy, Er) Multiferroic Thin films” at The IEEE Around-The-Clock Around-The-Globe Magnetics Conference 2022 (AtC-AtG 2022) held online in August and awarded Best Oral Presentation Award.
Mr. Uzzaman Md Akhtar (Professor, Solar Energy Research Institute, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia)invited by Prof. Yoshimura assume Foreign Researcher the Reiwa 4rd year in Research Center on Advanced Materials for Breakthrough Technology. (1 month)
Yoshimura lab’s 2nd doctoral student Mr. Soumyaranjan Ratha made a research presentation at 3rd National Conference on Materials and Devices (3rd NCMD-2022) held in Teerthanker Mahaveer University & online.
Yoshimura lab’s 2nd doctoral student Mr. Soumyaranjan Ratha made a poster presentation at 13th Indian scientist association in Japan (ISAJ) Symposium held in Embassy of India (Tokyo).
October, 2022
Prof. Yoshimura awarded the Reiwa 3rd year excellent professor for activity evaluation in Akita University.
Yoshimura lab’s 2nd doctoral student Mr. Soumyaranjan Ratha research paper titled “Development of (Bi0.5L0.5)(Fe0.7Co0.3)O3 (L=La, Nd, Sm, Gd, Dy) thin films with excellent magnetic properties for magnetic device application” and Prof. Yoshimura’ international co-author research paper titled “Investigations on Spintronic RFeO3 Crystals Grown by Optical Floating Zone Technique” publish in International Journal of the Society of Materials Engineering for Resources.
Prof. Yoshimura made a research presentation titled “Observation of clear magnetization and polarization reversal by local electric field in BiFeO3-based multiferroic thin film with using metallic MFM tip with optimized magnetization” at 2022 IET International Conference on Engineering Technologies and Applications (IET ICETA 2022) held in National Changhua University of Education & online and awarded The Third Place of Best Paper Competition.
September, 2022
Yoshimura lab’s 2nd doctoral student Mr. Soumyaranjan Ratha made a research presentation titled “Influence of Lanthanides and Cobalt substituent in the magnetic properties of Bismuth Ferrite multiferroic thin films” at The 12th Annual Symposium on Magnetics 2022 held in Singapore & online and awarded Best Oral Presentation Award (Overseas).
Prof. Yoshimura made a research presentation at the 15th summer school on Ferroic-ordering and their manipulation held in Ishinomaki & online.
Prof. Yoshimura and Yoshimura lab’s 2nd year master student Mr. R. Suzuki made a research presentation at the 46th Annual Conference on Magnetics Society of Japan in Shinshu University (Nagano). Also Mr. Ozeki (who graduated from Yoshimura lab this spring) awarded the Magnetics Society of Japan Academic Encouragement Award (Uchiyama Award), and attended the award ceremony.
August, 2022
Yoshimura lab’s 2nd doctoral student Mr. Soumyaranjan Ratha made a research presentation at The IEEE Around-The-Clock Around-The-Globe Magnetics Conference 2022 (AtC-AtG 2022) held online.
Prof. Yoshimura made an invited lecture titled “Basic study of electric field driven magneto-optical light modulator with ferromagnetic and ferroelectric thin films” at The Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers Annual Convention 2022 held online.
Prof. Yoshimura and Yoshimura lab’s 2nd doctoral student Mr. Soumyaranjan Ratha and 2nd master student Mr. R. Suzuki made a research presentation at The Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers Annual Convention 2022 held online.
Yoshimura lab’s 2nd doctoral student Mr. Soumyaranjan Ratha made a research presentation at International Online Conference on Nano Materials (ICN 2022) held online.
Yoshimura lab’s 2nd doctoral student Mr. Soumyaranjan Ratha made a research presentation titled “Effect of Lanthanoids substitution against Bi on various magnetic properties of multiferroic (Bi,L)(Fe,Co)O3 (L: Lanthanoids) thin films”at National Conference on Functional Materials and its Application Aspects (NCFMAA-2022) held online, and awarded Best Oral Presentation Award.
July, 2022
Prof. Yoshimura’s research was adopted by Kioxia Encouragement Research.
Prof. Yoshimura who was in charge of planning secretary held “Next-generation synchrotron radiation facility (NanoTerasu)” in Akita University.
Jun, 2022
Mr. Ozeki (who graduated from Yoshimura lab this spring)’s research paper titled “Development of BiFeO3 based multiferroic thin films with large saturation magnetization and perpendicular magnetic anisotropy - Effect of substitution of Co against Fe on magnetic properties -” awarded MSJ Paper Encouragement Award in Journal of the Magnetics Society of Japan.
Prof. Yoshimura and Yoshimura lab’s 2nd year master student Mr. R. Suzuki made a research presentation at Multi Media Storage Study Group in The Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers held a hybrid (Tohoku University/Online)
Yoshimura lab’s 1st year master student Mr. Y. Suzuki and technical member Mr. Egawa made a research presentation at the Reiwa 4th year Annual Meeting in The Society of Materials Engineering for Resources of JAPAN held online.
Yoshimura lab’s 2nd year master student Mr. R. Suzuki’s research paper titled “Effect of laser-assisted heating and annealing on the crystal structure and magnetic properties of (Bi,A) FeO3 (A=Ca,Sr,Ba(alkaline earth metal)) thin films” awarded Young Paper Award at the Reiwa 4th year Annual Meeting in The Society of Materials Engineering for Resources of JAPAN held online.
May, 2022
The 3rd year students of Faculty of Engineering Science of Materials Science have been assigned to the Yoshimura lab under an integrated education program.
Mr. Ozeki (who graduated from Yoshimura lab this spring)’s research paper titled “Development of BiFeO3 based multiferroic thin films with large saturation magnetization and perpendicular magnetic anisotropy - Effect of substitution of Co against Fe on magnetic properties -” published in Journal of the Magnetics Society of Japan.
March, 2022
Yoshimura lab’s 1st year doctoral student Mr. Soumyaranjan Ratha made a research presentation at the 69th JSAP Spring Meeting 2022 held in Sagamihara Campus, Aoyama Gakuin University & online.
Yoshimura lab’s 2nd year master student Mr. Kobayashi’s research paper titled “Dependence of magnetic properties in superparamagnetic Co-granular thin films on deposition rate and effectiveness of a new pulsed DC reactive sputtering method for film fabrication with high deposition rate” have decided to publish in The academic journal of The Society of Materials Engineering for Resources of JAPAN.
Yoshimura lab’s 1st year master student Mr. R. Suzuki’s research paper titled “Effect of laser-assisted heating and annealing on the crystal structure and magnetic properties of (Bi,A) FeO3 (A=Ca,Sr,Ba(alkaline earth metal)) thin films” have decided to publish in Journal of The Society of Materials Engineering for Resources of JAPAN.
Yoshimura lab’s 1st year doctoral student Mr. Soumyaranjan Ratha made a research presentation at the Indo-Japan Workshop on interface phenomena for spintronics (IJW-IPS 2022) held online.
Prof. Yoshimura made a research presentation at Result and development VR Symposium “The future of energy harvesting” held online.
Prof. Yoshimura who was in charge of planning secretary held online "Utilization of synchrotron radiation-development of high-performance materials and their evaluation methods-" at the 1st annual meeting of the Society of Materials Engineering for Resources of JAPAN.
February, 2022
Prof. Yoshimura held online “SAKURA SCIENCE EXCHANGE PROGRAM(2nd)” applied for and adopted by Japan Science and Technology Agency for graduate students majoring in physics at VIT University in India.
January, 2022
Prof. Yoshimura made an invited lecture titled “Development of high-functional multiferroic thin films and their device application” at the Virtual Seminar Series on Functional Materials 2022 (1st) held online by the Center for functional Materials of VIT University in India.
Prof. Yoshimura held online “SAKURA SCIENCE EXCHANGE PROGRAM(1st)” applied for and adopted by Japan Science and Technology Agency for graduate students majoring in physics at VIT University in India.
Prof. Yoshimura and Yoshimura lab’s 1st year master student Mr. R. Suzuki made a research presentation at the 14th meeting on Ferroic-ordering and their manipulation in the japan Society of Applied Physics for held online.
December,2021
Prof. Yoshimura made an invited lecture titled “Development of high quality BiFeO3-based multiferroic thin films with excellent magnetic properties for realization of high performance and low power consumption magnetic devices” at the 2021 Global Research Efforts on Energy and Nanomaterials (GREEN 2021) held online.
Yoshimura lab’s 1st year doctoral student Mr. Soumyaranjan Ratha made a research presentation at the 2021 Global Research Efforts on Energy and Nanomaterials (GREEN 2021) held online.
Prof. Yoshimura made a research presentation at the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers winter annual convention held online.
Prof. Yoshimura made an online lecture entitled "Magnetic Recording & Devices" as "Guest Lecture" in the subject "Solid State Magnetism" for graduate students of VIT University in India.
October, 2021
Prof. Yoshimura made an invited lecture titled “Development and fabrication of high quality BiFeO3-based ferromagnetic and ferroelectric thin films with excellent magnetic properties for application to high performance and low power consumption magnetic devices” at the SPINICS Special Meeting 2021 held online.
Yoshimura lab’s 1st year doctoral student Mr. Soumyaranjan Ratha made a research presentation at The Ninth International Conference on Materials Engineering for Resources (ICMR2021 AKITA) held online.
September, 2021
Prof. Yoshimura made an invited lecture titled “Development of BiFeO3-based ferromagnetic and ferroelectric thin films with excellent magnetic properties for application to low power consumption magnetic devices with high functionality” at Reiwa 3rd year the 1st Meeting in Akita Prefectural High Energy Accelerator Technology Study Group held online.
August, 2021
Prof. Yoshimura, Yoshimura lab’s 2nd year master student Mr. Ozeki and technical member Mr. Egawa made a research presentation at the 45th Annual Conference on MAGNETICS in Japan held online.
June, 2021
Yoshimura lab’s 2nd year master student Mr. Kobayashi, 1st year master student Mr. Suzuki and technical member Mr. Egawa made a research presentation at the Reiwa 3rd year Annual Meeting in The Society of Materials Engineering for Resources of JAPAN held online.
Prof. Yoshimura who in charge of planning secretary held online “Recording system, general” at Multi Media Storage Study Group in the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers.
Yoshimura lab’s 2nd year master student Mr. Ozeki made a research presentation at Multi Media Storage Study Group in The Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers held online.
Prof. Yoshimura made a lecture titled “Electronics and electric materials - Fabrication of BiFeO3 based multiferroic film for high performance magnetic devices driven by electric field -” at Special Colloquium of Akita-Freiburg University Partnership.
Prof. Yoshimura assumed the chief examiner (from the deputy chief examiner) in the field of hard and soft magnetic materials of The Magnetics Society of Japan.
May, 2021
Yoshimura lab’s research paper titled “Magnetic properties of (Bi1-xLax)(Fe,Co)O3 films fabricated by a pulsed DC reactive sputtering and demonstration of magnetization reversal by electric field” was published in Scientific Reports.
The 3rd year students of Faculty of Engineering Science of Materials Science have been assigned to the Yoshimura lab under an integrated education program.
April, 2021
Prof. Yoshimura assumed executive secretary of Multi Media Storage Study Group in the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers.
Prof. Yoshimura made a keynote lecture titled “Measurement of dynamic magnetization reversal of magnetic film fabricated onto BiFeO3 based multiferroic film by applying electric field and development of the multiferroic film with high magnetization for this method” at International Conference on Science and Applied Science 2021 held online by Sebelas Maret University, Indonesia.
March, 2021
Prof. Yoshimura who was in charge of planning secretary held online “State of the art physical property evaluation using synchrotron radiation -From facility outline to application-” at the 2nd annual meeting of the Society of Materials Engineering for Resources of JAPAN.
January, 2021
Prof. Yoshimura made a research presentation at the 12th meeting on Ferroic-ordering and their manipulation in the japan Society of Applied Physics for held online.
December, 2020
Prof. Yoshimura made a research presentation at the 44th Annual Conference on MAGNETICS in Japan held online.
November, 2020
Yoshimura lab’s 1st year master student Mr. Kobayashi made a research presentation at the 19th Tohoku branch Research Presentation Convention in The Japan Institute of metals and Materials held online.
Prof. Yoshimura awarded Akita City Sports Boy Scouts 50th Anniversary Award.
October, 2020
“A-STEP” Prof Yoshimura applied for was adopted by Japan Science and Technology Agency.
The content of this achievement was press-released by Akita university and also introduced in What's New by Faculty of Engineering Science Akita University.
Prof. Yoshimura made a research presentation at Multi Media Storage Study Group in the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers held online.
August, 2020
Yoshimura lab’s Master’s student K. Takeda’s research paper titled “Guidelines for fabrication of high quality BiFeO3 based multiferroic thin films in pulsed DC reactive sputtering method” was published in Transaction of the Magnetics Society of Japan (Special Issues).
“SAKURA SCIENCE EXCHANGE PROGRAM (SAKURA SCIENCE PLAN)” Prof. Yoshimura applied for was adopted by Japan Science and Technology Agency.
July, 2020
Prof. Yoshimura's lead inventor, "Spatial Light Modulators and Display Devices," has been registered as a patent (Patent No. 6741452).
Prof. Yoshimura's lead inventor, "Spatial Light Modulators and Display Devices," has been registered as a patent (Patent No. 6741453).
June, 2020
Prof. Yoshimura made a keynote lecture titled “Development of high-functional and high-quality multiferroic thin films for application of high performance magnetic devices driven by electric field” at One Day Virtual International Conference on Photovoltaic and Material Science held online by VIT University, India.
Prof. Yoshimura assumed standing director of The Society of Materials Engineering for Resources of Japan.
“JAPANESE GOVERNMENT (MEXT) SCHOLARSHIP (RESEARCH STUDENTS)” Prof. Yoshimura had applied for was adopted by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT).
April, 2020
Prof Yoshimura assumed the Director of the Research Center of Advanced Materials for Breakthrough Technology.
March, 2020
Prof. Yoshimura awarded “an excellent activity and evaluation professor in Akita University”.
January 2020
Prof. Yoshimura as a representative of Akita University, attended SAKURA Science meeting for interaction and collaboration among educational and research institutes in Japan and India hosted by Japan Science and Technology Agency.
“Memorandum of Understanding on Student Exchange” was concluded between National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan and Akita University with the help of Prof. Yoshimura.
Prof. Yoshimura and Yoshimura lab’s 1st year master student Mr. Takeda and Mr. Hosoya made a research presentation at the 10th Study Group Ferroic-ordering G in the japan society of applied physics held in Tokyo.
December 2019.
Prof. Yoshimura made a keynote lecture titled “Development of novel magnetic recording device driven by electric field using BiFeO3-based ferromagnetic and ferroelectric thin films” at 2019 Global Research Efforts on Energy and Nanomaterials (GREEN 2019) held in Taipei, Taiwan.
Prof. Yoshimura exhibited at the booth in Akita Industry-academia-government collaboration forum held at ALVE, Akita city.
November 2019
Prof. Yoshimura made a research presentation at the 64th Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (MMM2019) held in Las Vegas, the U.S.
October 2019
Prof. Yoshimura made a keynote lecture titled “Trial to application of BiFeO3-based multiferroic films to new magnetic memory devices” at International Conference on Science, Engineering & Technology (ICSET-2019) held at VIT University, India.
Prof. Yoshimura made an invited lecture titled “Attempt of application to memory or display devices in BiFeO3-based multiferroic films -Fabrication of high-qualified films, material research, and functional verification-” at the World Summit on Advances in Science, Engineering and Technology (Indiana Summit 2019) held at Indiana-Purdue University in Indianapolis, the U.S.
September, 2019
Prof. Yoshimura and Yoshimura lab’s 2nd year master student Mr. Yamamoto and 1st year master student Mr. Takeda made a research presentation at the 43th Annual conference on MAGNETICS in Japan held in Kyoto, Japan.
Yoshimura lab’s post doctoral fellow, M. Kuppan (2017.6-2019.8) got a job at TDK Corporation.
August, 2019
Prof. Yoshimura's lead inventor, "Electric Field Driven Magnetic Memory" has been registered as a patent (Patent No. 6573374).
June, 2019
Prof. Yoshimura had spent three months as “Adjunct Professor” at VIT University, India and had international activities.
Prof. Yoshimura made an invited lecture titled “Attempt of application to memory or display devices in BiFeO3-based multiferroic films -Fabrication of high-qualified films, material research, and functional verification-” at the Multi Media Storage Study Group in The Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers (ITE-MMS 2019) held at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan.
April, 2019
Prof. Yoshimura invited Prof. S. Kalainathan from VIT University in India who served as “guest professor” for two months.
Assoc. Prof. Yoshimura got promoted to Professor.
March,2019
Assoc. Prof. Yoshimura completed “Creation of innovative nanoelectronics through the fusion of materials, devices and systems” by SAKIGAKE JST Strategic Basic Research programs.
Research titled “Development of electric field driven ultra-low power consumption magnetic memory”
December 2018
Assoc. Prof. Yoshimura taught 15 classes with credits as a lecturer at Nagoya University.
Assoc. Prof. Yoshimura attended in the external judging committee on the renewal of ISO14001 as the chairman of the Communication WG Department, Environmental Management Committee, and contributed to obtain and renewal of "ISO 14001: 2015 / JIS Q 14001: 2015" of Akita University (24th January 2019).
Assoc. Prof. Yoshimura and Yoshimura lab’s 1st year master student Mr. Yamamoto made a research presentation at academic lecture in the Japan Society of Applied physics, Tohoku chapter held in Sendai, Japan.
Assoc. Prof. Yoshimura made a lecture at “Seminar for better environment and safety” hosted by Akita University.
November, 2018
Assoc. Prof. Yoshimura made a lecture titled “Development of ultra-low power consumption magnetic recording device -New recording method using new functional thin film material-” at the Heisei 30th Citizen course of Akita University Regional Creation Center "Research introduction of the Faculty of Engineering Science that creates the future of Akita and Japan" held at Akita college plaza.
October, 2018
Assoc. Prof. Yoshimura introduced Akita University to students interested in studying abroad in Japan at JAPAN HIGHER EDUCATION FAIR 2018 held at VIT University, India.
Yoshimura lab’s post doctoral fellow, M. Kuppan made a presentation titled ”Properties of magnetic Kerr effect of (Bi1-xLax)(Fe0.75Co0.25)O3 multiferroic thin films with perpendicular anisotropy fabricated by a pulsed DC reactive sputtering technique” and awarded most outstanding presentation at the International Workshop on Materials and Applications (IWMA 2018) held at VIT University, India.
Assoc. Professor Yoshimura made an invited lecture titled “High Functional Multiferroic Thin Films for Novel Magnetic Devices with System of Magnetization Reversal by Electric Field” at the International Workshop on Materials and Applications (IWMA 2018) held at VIT University, India.
September 2018
Yoshimura lab’s research paper titled “Fabrication of highly qualified (Bi1-xBax)FeO3 multiferroic thin films by using a pulsed DC reactive sputtering method and demonstration of magnetization reversal by electric field” was published in Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Selected Topics in Applied Physics.
August, 2018
Assoc. Prof. Yoshimura and Senior lecturer Yamada exhibited the booth at Innovation JAPAN 2018 -University trade fair & Business matching- held at Tokyo big sight.
July 2018
Assoc. Prof. Yoshimura made a visit to College of Science, National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan which concludes Memorandum of Understanding on Student Exchange with Graduate School of Engineering Science, Akita University.
Assoc. Prof. Yoshimura and Yoshimura lab’s Dr. M. Kuppan, post doctoral fellow made research presentations at the 21st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MAGNETISM (ICM2018) held in San Francisco, the U.S.
April 2018
Assoc. Prof. Yoshimura invited Prof. S. Kalainathan from VIT University, India to serve as a guest professor for two months.
Assoc. Prof. Yoshimura adopted by Hosou Bunka Foundation.
Research subject: "Control of magnetic Kerr effect by electric field application for spatial light modulators for 3-D display"
Research Center of Advanced Materials for Breakthrough Technology, Yoshimura lab and Yamada lab were established due to the reorganization.