{"id":79,"date":"2024-09-09T00:57:16","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T00:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shimuralab.kinsta.cloud\/?page_id=79"},"modified":"2026-04-20T13:13:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T04:13:46","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/shimura-lab.w.waseda.jp\/","title":{"rendered":"News &amp; Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>2026\/04\/20<\/strong>\u00a0We took a lab photo.  <a href=\"https:\/\/shimura-lab.blogspot.com\/2026\/04\/we-took-lab-photo-on-20-april.html\">Brog<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2026\/04\/19<\/strong>\u00a0We held a welcome party at Sumibi-yaki Restaurant Makiba no Oka. <a href=\"https:\/\/shimura-lab.blogspot.com\/2026\/04\/welcomeparty19april2026.html\">Brog<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2026\/04\/17<\/strong> New three students have been assinged to Shimura Lab. : \u7533\u3000\u8212\u8431(Susan), \u8d99\u3000\u5ead\u65ed(Teikyoku), \u53f6\u3000\u6d0b\u627f (Youyoushou) <a href=\"https:\/\/shimura-lab.w.waseda.jp\/?page_id=24\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"24\">link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2026\/03\/15<\/strong> Joe gave his presentation at The 73rd JSAP Spring Meeting 2026 in Tokyo. <a href=\"https:\/\/pub.confit.atlas.jp\/en\/event\/jsap2026s\/presentation\/15p-W8E_307-10\">link<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/shimura-lab.blogspot.com\/2026\/03\/the-73th-jsap-spring-meeting-2026.html\">Brog<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2026\/01\/26<\/strong> Prof. Shimura gave a lecture to students from Taipei Tech (National Taipei University of Technology) who visited Japan under the Sakura Science Program. <a href=\"https:\/\/shimura-lab.blogspot.com\/2026\/02\/lecture-to-students-from-taipei-tech.html\">Brog<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2026\/01\/07<\/strong> &#8220;Optical mode competition in tensile-strained Ge microdisks fabricated by laser-induced liquid-phase crystallization&#8221;, Tianping LI,&nbsp;Liji Zhan,&nbsp;Yuta Hayakawa,&nbsp;Takuma Kobayashi,&nbsp;Heiji WATANABE&nbsp;and&nbsp;Takayoshi Shimura was accepted for the publication to Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. <a href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.35848\/1347-4065\/ae34b9\">link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2025\/12\/15<\/strong> We held our year-end party at Hana Shokudo (an authentic Sichuan restaurant). <a href=\"https:\/\/shimura-lab.blogspot.com\/2025\/12\/on-december-15th-we-held-our-year-end.html\">Brog<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/cDkB2D1tpw7nnqBy7\">\u306f\u306a\u98df\u5802\uff08\u672c\u683c\u56db\u5ddd\u6599\u7406\uff09<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2025\/11\/28<\/strong>  Lee and Kouuki gave presentations at ISIPS 2025. <a href=\"https:\/\/assoc-ics.w.waseda.jp\/2025\/Parallel_Session_C.html\">link<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/assoc-ics.w.waseda.jp\/2025\/Poster_Session.html\">link<\/a> Lee received the Session Best Presentation Award. Congratulations!! <a href=\"https:\/\/shimura-lab.blogspot.com\/2025\/11\/lee-and-kouuki-gave-presentations-at.html\">Brog<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2025\/11\/26<\/strong> &#8220;Backscattering X-ray imaging using a caustic network aperture&#8221;, Takayoshi Shimura, Naruki Tsuji, Kentaro KAJIWARA and Heiji WATANABE was accepted for the publication to Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.35848\/1347-4065\/ae2408\">link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2025\/11\/11<\/strong> Prof. Shimura delivered an invited talk at the 10th International Symposium on Control of Semiconductor Interfaces (ISCSI-X). <a href=\"https:\/\/tsys.jp\/iscsi\/2025\/program\/program.html#TuB1\">link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2025\/10\/29<\/strong> At the 13th SPring-8 Next-Generation Advanced Device Workshop \/ 114th SPring-8 Advanced Application Technology Workshop titled \u201cRevival of Advanced Semiconductor LSIs and Expectations for SPring-8,\u201d Prof. Shimura delivered an invited lecture entitled \u201cEvaluation of Semiconductor Wafers by High-Throughput X-ray Topography.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jasri.jp\/iuss\/research_activity\/2025\/20251029.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.jasri.jp\/iuss\/research_activity\/2025\/20251029.html\">link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2025\/10\/18<\/strong> We held a welcome party for new members at Kushikatsu Sakaba Fumichan Oriyo Branch&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hotpepper.jp\/strJ004025742\/photo\/\">\u4e32\u30ab\u30c4\u9152\u5834\u3075\u307f\u3061\u3083\u3093\u6298\u5c3e\u5e97<\/a>.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/shimura-lab.blogspot.com\/2025\/10\/welcome-party-for-new-members-at.html\">Brog<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2025\/10\/06<\/strong> We took a lab photo. <a href=\"https:\/\/shimura-lab.blogspot.com\/2025\/10\/the-lab-photos-were-taken-on-october-6.html\">Brog<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2025\/10\/06<\/strong> New eight students have been assinged to Shimura Lab. : \u590f\u3000\u552f\u539f(Hanabi), \u738b\u3000\u4fca\u5ca9(Wang), \u8eca\u3000\u6052\u5b87 (Tim), \u674e\u3000\u61ff\u5eb7 (Iko), \u6881\u3000\u5609\u6021 (Liza), \u5289\u3000\u5c0a\u5b87 (Leo), \u7f85\u3000\u4e4b\u6797 (Hayashi), \u524d\u2f65 \u5b5d\u2f00\u90ce (Kou) <a href=\"https:\/\/shimura-lab.w.waseda.jp\/?page_id=24\">link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2025\/09\/15-18<\/strong> Lee gave both a short presentation and a poster presentation at the 2025 International Conference on Solid State Devices and Materials (SSDM) in Yokohama. <a href=\"https:\/\/pub.confit.atlas.jp\/en\/event\/ssdm2025\/presentation\/SO-PS-05-08\">link<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/shimura-lab.blogspot.com\/2025\/09\/2025-international-conference-on-solid.html\">Brog<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2025\/09\/07-10<\/strong> Prof. Shimura, Wen, Kouuki, and Ishimaru (Osaka Univ.) gave their presentations at The 86th JSAP Autumn Meeting 2025 in Nagoya. <a href=\"https:\/\/pub.confit.atlas.jp\/en\/event\/jsap2025a\/presentation\/9p-N302-1\">Prof. Shimura<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pub.confit.atlas.jp\/en\/event\/jsap2025a\/presentation\/9a-N206-3\">Wen<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pub.confit.atlas.jp\/en\/event\/jsap2025a\/presentation\/10p-N322-12\">Kouuki<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pub.confit.atlas.jp\/en\/event\/jsap2025a\/presentation\/8p-N401-3\">Ishimaru<\/a>  <a href=\"https:\/\/shimura-lab.blogspot.com\/2025\/09\/the-86th-jsap-autumn-meeting-2025-in.html\">Brog<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2025\/08\/25<\/strong> From August 19 to 21, 2025, approximately 30 students and faculty members from Tianjin University visited IPS and Prof. Shimura gave a lecture to them. <a href=\"https:\/\/shimura-lab.blogspot.com\/2025\/08\/lecture-to-students-from-tianjin.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/shimura-lab.blogspot.com\/2025\/08\/lecture-to-students-from-tianjin.html\">Brog<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2025\/06\/02<\/strong> Lee&#8217;s article, Inside the Shimura Lab, has been uploaded. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fsci\/gips\/news-en\/2025\/06\/02\/30479\/\">link(Eng.)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fsci\/gips\/news\/2025\/06\/03\/30486\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fsci\/gips\/news\/2025\/06\/03\/30486\/\">link(Jpn.)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2025\/05\/23<\/strong> Prof. Shimura delivered a short pitch at the ODORIVA Sakaba event held on May 23. <a href=\"https:\/\/shimura-lab.blogspot.com\/2025\/05\/short-pitch-at-odoriva-sakaba.html\">Brog<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2025\/04\/21<\/strong> We took a lab photo.  <a href=\"https:\/\/shimura-lab.blogspot.com\/2025\/04\/the-lab-photos-were-taken-on-april-21st.html\">Brog<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2025\/04\/20<\/strong> We held a welcome party for new members at Yakiniku King.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/shimura-lab.blogspot.com\/2025\/04\/welcome-party-for-new-members-at.html\">Brog<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2025\/04\/09<\/strong> New four students have been assinged to Shimura Lab. :<br>\u9ec4\u3000\u5609\u7490(Koukaro), \u5f90\u3000\u63da(XU, Yang), \u51bc\u3000\u6893\u6cf0(XIAN, Zitai), \u5f35\u3000\u82b8\u7027(ZHANG, Yilong). <a href=\"https:\/\/shimura-lab.w.waseda.jp\/?page_id=24#Apr2025\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"24\">link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2025\/03\/17<\/strong> Prof. Shimura and Kouuki visited Rigaku for X-ray topography measurements and attended JSAP SPring meeting held at Noda Campus, Tokyo University of Science. <a href=\"https:\/\/shimura-lab.blogspot.com\/2025\/03\/visit-to-rigaku-and-jsap-spring-meeting.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/shimura-lab.blogspot.com\/2025\/03\/visit-to-rigaku-and-jsap-spring-meeting.html\">Brog<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2025\/03\/11<\/strong> Lee and Wen visited Osaka University with Prof. Shimura, where they learned how to operate the PL equipment and toured the ultra clean room facility (UCF). <a href=\"https:\/\/shimura-lab.blogspot.com\/2025\/03\/visit-to-osaka-univ.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/shimura-lab.blogspot.com\/2025\/03\/visit-to-osaka-univ.html\">Brog<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2025\/02\/28<\/strong> Prof. Shimura visited \u56fd\u7acb\u967d\u660e\u4ea4\u901a\u5927\u5b66\uff08National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University\uff09\u3001\u56fd\u7acb\u4e2d\u592e\u5927\u5b66\uff08National Central University\uff09\u3001\u56fd\u7acb\u53f0\u5317\u79d1\u6280\u5927\u5b66\uff08National Taipei University of Technology\uff09 in Taiwan from February 23 to 25 for student recruitment, together with Prof. Kakitsuka and Prof. Arakawa. <a href=\"https:\/\/shimura-lab.blogspot.com\/2025\/02\/visit-to-national-yang-ming-chiao-tung.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/shimura-lab.blogspot.com\/2025\/02\/visit-to-national-yang-ming-chiao-tung.html\">Blog<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2025\/02\/27<\/strong> \u65e9\u5ddd \u96c4\u5927 (Yuta HAYAKAWA) (M2) from Osaka University has completed his master&#8217;s thesis presentation on February 27th, and it has been well received.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2025\/01\/22<\/strong> We filmed a video introducing our laboratory on January 22nd. <a href=\"https:\/\/shimura-lab.blogspot.com\/2025\/01\/we-filmed-video-introducing-our.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/shimura-lab.blogspot.com\/2025\/01\/we-filmed-video-introducing-our.html\">Blog<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2024\/12\/21<\/strong> We had a Year-end-party at Nakashima Kushinosuke near Orio station. <a href=\"https:\/\/shimura-lab.blogspot.com\/2024\/12\/we-had-year-end-party-at-nakashima.html\">Blog<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2024\/12\/10<\/strong> Students celebrated Prof. Shimura&#8217;s birthday with song and cake. Happy birthday!! <a href=\"https:\/\/shimura-lab.blogspot.com\/2024\/12\/happy-birthday.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/shimura-lab.blogspot.com\/2024\/12\/happy-birthday.html\">link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2024\/11\/30<\/strong> Prof. Shimura attended the 2024 Amada Foundation Grant Ceremony held at AMADA FORUM. <a href=\"https:\/\/shimura-lab.blogspot.com\/2024\/12\/prof-shimura-attended-2024-amada.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.blogger.com\/blog\/post\/edit\/5149919570047941051\/6762764583670001931\">Blog<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2024\/11\/04<\/strong> \u65e9\u5ddd\u3000\u96c4\u5927(Yuta HAYAKAWA) (M2) and \u77f3\u4e38\u3000\u8ce2\u6607(Kensho ISHIMARU) (M1) gave poster presentations at the 1st Industry-Academia Collaboration Workshop on Semiconductor Crystal Technology held from October 31st (Thurs) to November 1st (Fri). <a href=\"https:\/\/jsap-sangaku-cryst.mystrikingly.com\/workshop\">link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2024\/10\/28<\/strong> We had a welcome party on 26 Oct. at Shirakiya near Orio station. <a href=\"https:\/\/shimura-lab.blogspot.com\/2024\/10\/had-welcome-party-on-26-oct-at.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/shimura-lab.blogspot.com\/2024\/10\/had-welcome-party-on-26-oct-at.html\">Blog<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2024\/10\/21<\/strong> We took a Lab. photo with a statue of Okuma Shigenobu.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/shimura-lab.blogspot.com\/2024\/10\/we-took-lab.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/shimura-lab.blogspot.com\/2024\/10\/we-took-lab.html\">Brog<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2024\/10\/18<\/strong> An undergraduate student has been assigned to Shimura Lab. : \u524d\u7530\u3000\u5b5d\u4e00\u90ce(Kohichiro Maeda) <a href=\"https:\/\/shimura-lab.w.waseda.jp\/?page_id=24\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"24\">link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2024\/10\/10<\/strong> Another student has been assigned to Shimura Lab. : \u6d2a\u3000\u667a\u8ce2(HONG, Zhixian) <a href=\"https:\/\/shimura-lab.w.waseda.jp\/?page_id=24\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"24\">link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2024\/10\/02 <\/strong>We have started Shimura-Lab. Blog. <a href=\"https:\/\/shimura-lab.blogspot.com\/\">Blog<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2024\/10\/02<\/strong> New five students have been assinged to Shimura Lab. :<br>\u9ec4\u3000\u5b87\u6689(HUANG, Yuhui), \u8a79\u3000\u793c\u973d(ZHAN, Liji), \u5468\u3000\u92ed(ZHOU, Rui), \u5f35\u3000\u5bb6\u99ff(ZHANG, Jiajun), \u674e\u3000\u5929\u5e73(LI, Tianping). <a href=\"https:\/\/shimura-lab.w.waseda.jp\/?page_id=24\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"24\">link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2024\/09\/22<\/strong> Kensho Ishimaru (M1) from Osaka University gave an oral presentation at the 85th JSAP Autumn Meeting 2024, held on September 16-20. <a href=\"https:\/\/pub.confit.atlas.jp\/en\/event\/jsap2024a\/presentation\/19a-B5-5\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/pub.confit.atlas.jp\/en\/event\/jsap2024a\/presentation\/19a-B5-5\">link<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/adelaboratory.blogspot.com\/2024\/09\/8591520.html\">Blog<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2024\/09\/09<\/strong> Although it is still under construction, we have launched our website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2026\/04\/20\u00a0We took a lab photo. Brog 2026\/04\/19\u00a0We held a welcome party at Sumibi-yaki Restaurant Makiba no Oka. 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