Focus 1 — Information Limits of ultrafast and ultrahigh-density recording and quantum information processing technology
Our approach
We aim to help create a society that can safely handle a large quantity of information using nanotechnology.
Achievements
- Akiyoshi Ito
- High-density recording
NEDO R&D Projects on the Application of Industrial Technologies (from 1998 to 2002)
Leader of "Magnetic domain response three-dimensional optical storage technology" (approx.1.3 billion yen) - Arata Tsukamoto
- Photoinduced ultrafast magnetization reversal
JST PRESTO (approx. 40 million yen, 2007 to 2010) - Shuichiro Inoue
- Quantum information processing
Contract research from National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (2004 to 2008)
Grant-in-Aid for Science Research in a Priority Area (2005 to 2008) - Takeshi Kuwamoto
- Quantum information processing
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists A (2006 to 2007)
Our achievements and research plan (1) Ultrafast recording
- Tsukamoto, Ito, et al.
- Phys. Rev. Lett. 2007;
To 2011: Systematic explication of photoinduced ultrafast magnetization reversal for the explication of the ultrashort dynamic characteristic of magnetization reversal
To 2013: Establishment of an ultrafast spin control system
Past achievements and research plan (2) Quantum information processing
