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  • Ms. Ayaha Yamamoto(M1) and Shu Watanabe (B4) had a presentation at JSAP 2025 Fall meeting.

    M1山本さん、B4 渡邉君が第86回応用物理学会秋期大会で発表します。

    9/7 [7p-N203-14]Design of Unidirectional Non-Hermitian Multilayer Structures in the Near-Infrared Region

    〇Ayaha Yamamoto1, Wakana Kubo1 (1.Tokyo Univ. of Agri. and Tech.), Oral presentation, English

    9/10 [10a-P01-28]メタマテリアルの熱輻射吸収過程の可視化

    〇(B)渡邉 周1、久保 若奈1 (1.農工大工) Poster presentation, Japanese

     

     

  • Mr. Enkhbold Tsogt (B4) and Mr. Ganbat Batorgil (B4)had poster presentations at A3 Metamaterial Forum@Korea

    Mr. Enkhbold Tsogt (B4) and Mr. Ganbat Batorgil (B4)had poster presentations at A3 Metamaterial Forum@Korea

    Enkhbold Tsogt (B4) and Wakana KUBO*, “Application of Nonradiative Cooling to Electronic Device Thermal Management”, 10th A3 Metamaterial Forum, Daejeon, Korea, 2025.7.10 (Poster presentation, English)

    Ganbat Batorgil (B4), Ayaha Yamamoto, Wakana KUBO*, “Design of Unidirectional Non-Hermitian Structure in the Near-Infrared Region”, 10th A3 Metamaterial Forum, Daejeon, Korea, 2025.7.10 (Poster presentation, English)

  • Four of our students joined an international exchange program in China.

    6/30 Ms. Yamamoto (M1), Ms. Ueno (M1), Mr. Kaseda (B4), and Mr. Watanabe (B4) participated in the international exchange program in China and stayed there from June 30 to July 10.

  • Kenta Hamada (M2 student) has received the 2024 Best Research Award for Master's Thesis in the Department of EECS!!

    Kenta Hamada (M2) has received the 2024 Best Research Award for Master’s Thesis in the Department of EECS!

    Congratulations!!

    Although the department structure changed this year with the launch of the new program, the Kubo Laboratory has continued its tradition of excellence, producing award recipients for six years—since the time of the former Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

    Award Recipients:

    • 2024 – Kenta Hamada
    • 2023 – Naoya Kawamura
    • 2022 – Takuya Asakura
    • 2021 – Kazuyasu Horikawa
    • 2020 – Kaito Miwa
    • 2019 – Tomohisa Isegawa

  • Akana Ueno (B4) and Shu Watanabe (B3) gave poster and oral presentations at JSAP conference.

    Akana Ueno (B4) and Shu Watanabe (B3) gave poster and oral presentations, respectively, at the 72nd Annual Spring Meeting of the Japan Society of Applied Physics, held in Noda City, Chiba Prefecture.

    Kurenai Ueno (B4) – Poster Presentation
    [16a-P07-16] Development of a Thin-Film Absorber Thermophotovoltaic Device for Optical Wireless Power Transfer

    Shu Watanabe (B3) – Oral Presentation
    [15p-K506-19] Visualization of Thermal Radiation Absorption Processes in Metamaterials

  • The paper written by Mr. Saito and Ms. Yamamoto has been accepted for publication in Discover Nano!

    The paper written by Mr. Saito and Ms. Yamamoto has been accepted for publication in Discover Nano! Conglatulations!

    This is an international collaboration paper with Prof. Tanaka @RIKEN and Prof. Yu-Jung Lu@Acadmia Sinica.

    S. Saito, A. Yamamoto, Yu-Jung Lu, T. Tanaka, and W. Kubo*, “Artificial thermal flow control on mono-leg thermoelectric device”, Discover Nano, 20, 44 (2025). [Link] 

  • Ms Ueno had a poster presentation at OWPT conference

    Ms Ueno had a poster presentation at OWPT conference.

    “Photo-thermoelectric conversion using thin film absorber”

  • The paper written by Mr Kenta Hamada (master 2) has been accepted in Scientific Report.

    The paper written by Mr Kenta Hamada (master 2) has been accepted in Scientific Report.

    K. Hamada, Hui-Hsin Hsiao, and  W. Kubo*, “Comparison of Algorithms using Deep Reinforcement Learning for Optimization of Hyperbolic Metamaterials”, Sci. Rep., 14, 31842 (2024) .[Link]

    Congratulations!!