3rd-year doctoral student Mitsuru Ohtake (Nimoto Laboratory) was presented with the Best Poster Award at an international academic conference held on Jeju Island in Korea. Ohtake majors in electrical, electronic and communication engineering while studying in the Doctoral Program of the Graduate School of Science and Engineering.

From a total of 363 posters presented at the conference, 6 outstanding posters were selected for Best Poster Awards.

[International Conference Name]

International Conference of Asian Union of Magnetics Society 2010(ICAUMS2010)

[Location]

Jeju Island, Korea

[Period]

December 5th to 8th, 2010

[Title of Award-Winning Research]

Preparation of Metastable bcc Permalloy Epitaxial Thin Films on GaAs Single-Crystal Substrates

[Research Contents]

World's first report on the formation of a permalloy epitaxial thin film with a crystal structure (metastable bcc structure) which does not exist in the natural world.

[Cooperating Researchers]

Professor Masaaki Futamoto (Faculty of Science and Engineering)
Osamu Yabuhara (2nd-year doctoral student in the Graduate School of Science and Engineering)
Junpei Higuchi (1st-year doctoral student in the Graduate School of Science and Engineering)
Professor Fumiyoshi Kirino (Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School, Faculty of Fine Arts)

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• ICAUMS2010