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  • 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

  • Kubo lab welcomes prospective candidates as Ph. D. course students.

    Prospective candidates who want to join Kubo lab must first be enrolled or accepted into TUAT Ph. D. program. For more details, see here.

    Please feel free to contact Wakana Kubo (w-kubo(at)cc.tuat.ac.jp) to discuss how to join Kubo lab.

     

  • 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!!

  • Mr Tamehiro had an oral presentation at Laser conference

    Mr Tamehiro had an oral presentation at Laser conference.

    “Photo-thermoelectric conversion using thin film absorber”

  • Mr Tamehiro, Mr Hamada, and Ms Yamamoto had presentations at OPJ conference

    Mr Tamehiro, Mr Hamada, and Ms Yamamoto had presentations at OPJ conference

    Mr Tamehiro,  Oral presentation　”Optical Wireless Powering with Thermoelectric Device”

    Mr Hamada, Oral presentation “Design and Evaluation of Thermal Metamaterials for Improving Thermoelectric Conversion Efficiency”

    Ms Yamamoto, Poster presentation, “Non-Hermitian Metamaterial Absorber”