Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, UTokyo

28/04/2022

Living on the Edge! RCAST, UTokyo models light at the interface of crystals

Researchers at RCAST, the University of Tokyo show how to construct a one-way waveguide for light based on the topological properties of magnetized photonic crystals, which may help lead to optical logic gates and faster optical communication

Scientists from the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo used numerical calculations to predict the optical properties of topological photonic crystals in a magnetic field. They showed that under certain circumstances, the light could be transmitted in one d...

30/08/2021

[Today16:00~]International Webinar “How to Deal with Fake News and Disinformation: Latest Lessons from Israel and Japan”

How to Deal with Fake News and Disinformation: Latest Lessons from Israel and Japan The rapid spread of “fake news” and large-scale disinformation campaigns has become a major challenge for many countries. For instance, many countries have attempted to cope with fake news regarding the COVID-19,...

28/06/2021

Project Research Associate Satoru Okajima and Prof. Hisashi Nakamura demonstrated a new methodology to diagnose a new three-dimensional analytical methodology that can quantify the way individual cyclones and anticyclones impact broader weather systems.

01/04/2021

Researchers successfully developed a small autonomous bio-hybrid drone with a mounted silkmoth antenna for odor source localization. The drone had a simple sensor enclosure that could recognize, in real-time, odorant concentration differences in a pseudo-open environment (outside a wind tunnel) and the directionality of the odor plume (stream). The drone flied to the odor source via a combination of spins and forward movements, by recognizing the odorant concentrations and their directions.

Researchers from the University of Tokyo successfully developed a small autonomous bio-hybrid drone with a mounted silkmoth antenna for odor source localization. The drone had a simple sensor enclosure that could recognize, in real-time, odorant concentration differences in a pseudo-open environment...

24/02/2021

[Event] University of Cambridge–The University of Tokyo: Workshop on Advanced Materials for Energy
Date: March 3, 2021 17:30 - 19:30
Venue: Online (Zoom Webinar)
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As a part of this year’s University of Cambridge–The University of Tokyo joint events, an online workshop on "Advanced Materials for Energy” will be held on Wednesday, March 3, 2021. Advanced materials are the fundamentals of high-efficiency, low-consumption as well as low-cost generation/stor...

15/02/2021

RCAST established the Advanced Art Design Laboratory (Social Cooperation Research Departments) on January 1, 2021 in cooperation with its 9 cooperation companies.

Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo (the “RCAST”) established the Advanced Art Design Laboratory (Social Cooperation Research Departments) on January 1, 2021 in cooperation with its cooperation companies.

08/02/2021

Associate Professor Shinichiro Kumagaya attributes several turning points since he was a child that set him on his current research path.

03/02/2021

We have created a video, putting together wonderful musicians performance and moving images of our campus and hope you will enjoy it aurally and visually.

UTokyo Komaba Research Campus Open House held in June every year was canceled for 2020 due to concerns over the spread of the COVID-19. Instead of the on-campus event, we have established “Virtual RCAST Open Campus,” a website of the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology (RCAST), w...

15/09/2020

The University of Tokyo, Osaka University, RIKEN, Ube Industries, Ltd., Shimizu Corporation, Chiyoda Corporation, and Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. have jointly applied to the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) for their project entitled "Moonshot Research and Development Program / Realization of sustainable resource circulation to recover the global environment by 2050".

Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo Ube Industries, Ltd. SHIMIZU CORPORATION Chiyoda Corporation Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.

12/06/2020

The Optical Society (OSA) Board of Directors has elected Associate Professor Sze Y. Set to the society’s 2020 Fellows Class. This honor is in recognition for “The invention of carbon nanotube mode-locked lasers and nano-carbon photonics, and pioneering contributions to the commercialization of technologies related to ultrafast optics.”

The Optical Society (OSA) Board of Directors has elected RCAST Associate Professor Sze Y. Set to the society’s 2020 Fellows Class. This honor is in recognition for “The invention of carbon nanotube mode-locked lasers and nano-carbon photonics, and pioneering contributions to the commercializatio...

11/06/2020

Photonic crystals: “even thin is functional”

Scientists from the University of Tokyo, the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo, the Kyoto Institute of Technology and the University of Twente discovered that even very thin 3D photonic band gap crystals are powerful devices to strongly control the flow of light.

Photonic crystals are the nanostructures that can manipulate photons by means of an energy gap, similar to how the semiconductors in computer chips manipulate electronic current. It was always thought that photonic crystals should be thick and bulky to be functional. Scientists from the University o...

06/06/2020

https://www.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/news/release/20200602.html

CRISPR–Cas9 has sparked a revolution in the field of genome editing. In the CRISPR-Cas9 system, a guide RNA (gRNA) recruits Cas9 to a target genomic region. Cas9 then produces a double-stranded DNA break (DSB) at the target region. This promotes either gene deletion or transgene insertion through ...