Masahiro Asada

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Masahiro Asada

Professor

semiconductor devicesnano-devicesultrahigh-speed devicesterahertz devices

Research Projects

  • First 1-THz oscillation of room-temperature semiconductor electron devices (2010). Highest-frequency (1.98 THz) oscillation of room-temperature semiconductor electron devices (2017).

Topics

  • BBC News, “Milestone for wi-fi with ‘T-rays’ “, May 16, 2012.

  • Nikkei, “Detection of suspicious medicines by terahertz wave”, December 16, 2014.

  • Nikkei, “Wearable high-speed communication”, December 26, 2016.

  • Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, “Hundred-time sensitive detection of terahertz wave”, March 20, 2017.

1984 - 1986

Research Associate, Dept. Physical
Electronics, Tokyo Tech.
1986 - 1987

Researcher, Physics Institute,Univ. Stuttgart (Germany)
1988 - 1999

Associate Professor, Dept. EE, Tokyo Tech.
1999 - 2016

Professor, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Sci. & Eng., Tokyo Tech.(2007-2011 Director, Quantum Nano-Electronics Research Center, Tokyo Tech.)
2016 -

Professor, IIR, Tokyo Tech.
2003

JJAP Paper Award, Japan Society of Applied Physics
2004

Ichimura Prize in Science, New Technology Development Foundation
2006

JJAP Paper Award, Japan Society of Applied Physics
2007

Research Award, International Communication Foundation
2009

Fellow, Japan Society of Applied Physics
2011

Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
2012

Fellow, Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE), Japan
2015

Electronics Society Award, Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE), Japan
2018

Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
2016

Room-temperature oscillation of resonant tunneling diodes close to 2 THz and their functions for various applications, J. Infrared Millimeter and THz Waves, vol. 37, 1185, 2016.

Oscillation up to 1.92 THz in resonant tunneling diode by reduced conduction loss, Appl. Phys. Express, vol. 9, 024101, 2016.

Wireless data transmission of 34 Gbit/s at a 500-GHz range using resonant-tunnelling diode terahertz oscillator,　Electron. Lett. vol. 52, 1897, 2016.
2017

Frequency-tunable resonant-tunneling-diode terahertz oscillators applied to absorbance measurement, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. vol. 56, 058002, 2017.

Nonlinear optical detection of terahertz-wave radiation from resonant tunneling diodes, Opt. Express, vol. 25, 5389, 2017.