“NANOARCHITECTONICS“ WITH THIN FILMS
Masakazu AONO
International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA),
National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS),
1-1 Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan.
AONO.Masakazu@nims.go.jp
Nanotechnology, which has achieved astonishing progress in the past ~30 years, has become
an indispensable pillar of materials science and technology research, and its importance will
remain unshaken in the years to come. However, we in our research center MANA believe
that conceptual innovation in nanotechnology is necessary in order to draw out the real value
of nanotechnology. MANA coined the term "nanoarchitectonics" to express this concept
concisely and is making effective use of the nanoarchitectonics concept in everyday
research.
In this presentation, the key principles of nanoarchitectonics are first discussed and then
several research results obtained in MANA on the basis of the nanoarchitectonics concept
are shown. Many of the results are related to thin films:
1) Nanosheet-based novel materials developments,
2) Macroscopic superconducting current at a semiconductor surface,
3) Zero-resistance edge current in 2D topological insulators,
4) Single-molecule-level rewritable (reversible) memory in a trilayer C60 film,
5) Single-molecule electronic device formed in a monomolecular layer,
6) Conductivity measurements of 1D and 2D nanomaterials by multiple-probe SPMs,
For more information about these, visit http://www.nims.go.jp/mana/ and see Research at
MANA.