Yutaka Wakayama
National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan
Biography
Yutaka Wakayama served at Asahi Glass Company, as a research engineer from 1989 to 1994. He was a research staff member at Tanaka Solid Junction Project, ERATO, JST from 1994 to 1998, and received his Ph. D degrees from University of Tsukuba in 1998. After working as a postdoctoral fellow at Max-Planck Institute for Microstructure Physic, Germany in 1998-1999, he joined National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in 1999. Now, he belongs to International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA) of NIMS. His current research interests are self- and directed-assemblies of molecules, functional organic field-effect transistors and molecular nanoelectronics.