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Harnessing the rattling motion of oxygen ions to convert T-rays to visible light

“A team of researchers led by Hideo Hosono at Tokyo Tech has shown that terahertz rays can be converted to light visible to the human eye. The finding is a breakthrough for functional materials research and could lead to the …

Photopolymerization-triggered molecular motion for flexible liquid crystal display

“Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) and McGill University have developed a new dye-free photoalignment method that enables 2D patterns of liquid crystals in one step by guiding nonpolarized light temporally and spatially on the photopolymerization process. This …

Superconductivity found in thin films of titanium oxide

“Researchers from Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) have discovered superconductivity in thin films of titanium oxide (Ti4O7) and gamma-phase trititanium pentoxide (γ-Ti3O5). The achievement advances fundamental knowledge of nanomaterials that could one day be used in the development of …

Tokyo Tech supercomputer TSUBAME3.0 scheduled to start operating in summer 2017

“The Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) Global Scientific Information and Computing Center (GSIC) has started development and construction of TSUBAME3.01—the next-generation supercomputer that is scheduled to start operating in the summer of 2017. The theoretical performance of …