Welcome to Jung-Soo Lee, graduate student, Tomohiro Kobayashi, Yutaro Noguchi and Tatsuya Yajima, undergrad. students!
Aprl.5, 2017
Two papers regarding tungsten oxides have been published in Applied Physics Express Vol.9 (article numbers: 075801 & 075802).
June 27, 2016
Our latest 2 papers regarding tungsten oxides appeared in Applied Physics Epress No. 9 in a row!
- Insulator to metal transition of WO3 epitaxial films induced by electrochemical Li-ion intercalaion
K. Yoshimatsu, T. Soma, & A. Ohtomo
Applied Physics Express, 9, 075802 (4 pages) (2016). - Epitaxial growth of hexagonal tungsten bronze CsxWO3 films in superconducting phase region exceeding bulk limit
T. Soma, K. Yoshimatsu, & A. Ohtomo
Applied Physics Express, 9, 075801 (3 pages) (2016).
3 new undergrad students joined us
April 4, 2016
A warm welcome to Hiroshi Kurihara, Akito Nishi and Jun Mizushiro.
Goodbye and thank you to Dr. Oshima
February 1, 2016
Dr. Oshima has been assigned as a project assistant professor at Saga University. We wish you the best of luck at Saga University!
Congratulations to Dr. Oshima on winning the 8th Inoue Science Research Award!
December 9, 2015
Dr. Oshima will be awarded the 8th Inoue Science Research Award for his outsntanding research on “Pioneering research on gallium-oxide-based semiconductor for future hetero-junction devices”.
☆ The 8th Inoue Science Research Award
Congratulations to Dr. Yoshimatsu and Tetsuya on winning the 39th JPAP’s Outstanding Achievement Presentation Awards!
November 18, 2015
Dr. Yoshimatsu’s presentation “Superconductivity of ɤ -Ti3O5 films” and Tetsuya Kudoh’s “Electric properties of ZnO graphoepitaxial films” have been selected by JPAP to receive the 39th Outstanding Achievement Presentation Award.
☆ the 39th JPAP’s Outstanding Achievement Presentation Awards
Prof. Ohtomo won Funai Prize for Science and Technology
April 13, 2013
Funai Prize for Science and Technology is a prize awarded by Funai Foundation for Information Technology (FFIT) to those (younger than 40) who contribute remarkable developments in the field of information science and technology.
Prize ceremony was held on April 13 2013 at Funai Tetsuro Auditorium in Katsura Campus of Kyoto University.
☆ FFIT
Welcome to Ohtomo lab: A new member joins us
April 8, 2013
Dr. Kohei Yoshimatsu has joined us as an assistant professor.
The following undergraduate students has joined too.
Mr. Kazuki Ohashi, Mr. Takayuki Suzuki, Mr. Keitaro Matsuyama, Mr. Ryo Wakabayashi, and Mr. Keisuke Watarai.
JSPS prize ceremony at The Japan Academy
February 4, 2013

JSPS prize ceremony has been held at the Japan Academy (Ueno, Tokyo) in the very presence of Her Imperial Highness Princess Akishino.
☆ The 9th JSPS Prize
☆ The 9th FY2012 JSPS Prize Awardees
Prof. Ohtomo won JSPS Prize
December 17, 2012
JSPS prize ceremony will be held in February 2013 at the Japan Academy.
☆ JSPS
★ FY2012 JSPS Prize Awardees
A new project has begun:
September 5, 2012
Tokyo Institute of Technology has been selected as the electronic materials devision of “MEXT Elements Strategy Initiative to Form Core Research Center”.
Under supervision of Prof. Hideo Hosono, we will carry on developing novel inorganic materials.
The research term is from August 1, 2012 till 2022.
Welcome to Ohtomo lab: New members join us
April 5, 2012
Two graduate students, Mr. Okabe and Mr. Nogami, and four undergraduate students, Mr. Kaminaga, Mr. Kudo, Mr. Takanaka and Ms. Niwa have just joined us.
Mr. Wei Liu, who has graduated from East China University of Science And Technology China, has also joined as a research student.
A new project has begun:
Research and Development Program for Innovative Energy and Efficiency Technology of the 2011 fiscal year (NEDO).
April 4, 2012
A new project of “Research and development of extremely-large-breakdown-voltage Ga2O3-based power devices” has approved to continue through intermediate evaluation of the half-year-term preliminary research in the last year.
This project is a corroborative work among Kyoto University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, National Institute of Information Communications Technology, Tamura Co. Ltd., and Koha Co. Ltd.
The research term is from July 15, 2011 to Feb 28, 2014.
Cheers: Celebrating the acceptance of the first memorial paper
November 24, 2011

Our first paper has been accepted for publication (expected to appear in 2012).
Mashiko (center) made a major contribution.