Hideo Hosono keynote speaker
- Creation of Novel Functional Materials
- Frontier Opened from Transparent Oxide Research: From Material Design to Application
- Manipulating Electrons Well to Elicit the Potential of Materials
Dr. Hosono is a Japanese material scientist most known for the discovery of iron-based superconductors.
Professor Hosono is renowned for his work on the creation of novel functional materials. Some of Hideo’s noteworthy achievements include the design of transparent oxide semiconductors such as indium gallium zinc oxide (IGZO) and their thin-film-transistor (TFT) applications for state-of-the-art displays (OLED TVs are driven by IGZO-TFTs), creation of room-temperature stable electrides and their application to catalysts for ammonia synthesis, and discovery of high-Tc iron-based superconductors.
Hideo is an honorary and professor of Tokyo Institute of Technology and a group leader and distinguished fellow at the International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA) of the National Institute for Materials Science. He received a PhD in Applied Chemistry from Tokyo Metropolitan University in 1982, and became a professor of Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1999 via the Nagoya Institute of Technology and Institute for Molecular Science at Okazaki.
He is a recipient of various honors including the Japan Prize, von Hippel Prize (MRS), J. McGroddy Prize (APS), Jan Raychman Prize (SID), Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy, Thomson Reuter Citation Laureate and a foreign fellow of the Royal Society.
