Category: science

  • Wireless TeleMedicine – Technology Trends (presentation at the Zurich Stock Exchange)

    Presentation by Gerhard Fasol at First Tuesday Zurich (5 May 2004, 15:15 – 21:30, Swiss Stock Exchange, Zurich, Switzerland)

  • Tokyo Institute of Technology: Creating a Mission Statement and Suggestions for its Realization

    Creating a Mission Statement for a Top Ranking Japanese Engineering University and Suggestions for its Realization

    Tokyo Institute of Technology: “International Symposium on Building Global Excellence in Engineering Education”

    I was invited to give a keynote at a 2 day Symposium held by Tokyo Institute of Technology about the future of excellence in engineering education, certainly stimulated by the increasing international competition in engineering education, to which also Japanese Universities are of course inescapably exposed.

    The keynote speakers at the Symposium included the Chairmen of Electrical or Mechanical Engineering Faculties of several world leading Universities including ETH Zurich, Georgia Tech, The National University of Singapore, the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Chairmen of German Engineering Faculties and similar leaders from around the world, and also included several Japanese industry leaders, such as Mr Mochida of Fujitsu Research Laboratories.

    Tokyo Institute of Technology: “International Symposium on Building Global Excellence in Engineering Education”
    Japanese program: 工学系教育における国際競争力の構築

    Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, Wednesday, September 3rd, 2003: 11:50-12:35

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  • R&D in Japan, interview for Chemical and Engineering News

    Contributed to an article “Unleashing R&D in Japan” by Jean-François Tremblay for the Chemical & Engineering News (Volume 80, Number 49, pp 13-15, December 9, 2002)

    Fasol mentions that there is excellent science in Japan, for example Shuji Nakamura’s invention and development of blue and white GaN based LEDs and Lasers (see: Nakamura and Fasol: the Blue Laser Diode).

    Fasol also mentions the necessary transition from “old Japan” to “new Japan”. “Old Japan” is run by a tightly knit group of older men, without space for women or foreigners. Shuji Nakamura escaped this “Old Japan” for Santa Barbara in California.

    Fasol also mentions that Japan has excellent human resources, and foreign companies can today take advantage of opportunities in Japan, which did not exist, or were unaccessible for foreign companies 50 years ago.

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  • Trends, Opportunities and Change in Japan’s High-Tech World

    Gerhard Fasol gave a talk at the French Embassy in Tokyo on Tuesday, September 28, 1999 at 18:30pm.

    Topic: “Trends, Opportunities and Change in Japan’s High-Tech World” (in French language)

    Purpose: Executive Education for management of French Subsidiaries in Japan

    Participants: Executives of French subsidiary companies in Japan

  • Physics in our global market place

    Gerhard Fasol gave an invited plenary talk at the 11th General Conference of the European Physical Society EPS-11 on Thursday, September 9th, 1999, 11:50am – 12:30pm (40 minutes).

    Topic: “Physics in our global marketplace”

  • “Recent Development in Blue Laser and Nanoscale Materials” (Princeton University)

    Gerhard Fasol gave a talk at the Department of Electrical Engineering of Princeton University, on Monday April, 4, 1998, at 4:00pm.

    Title: “Recent Development in Blue Laser and Nanoscale Materials”

  • Magnetic and metallic nanowires (National ACS Meeting, Device Applications of Nanoscale Materials Symposium)

    Gerhard Fasol was one of the invited speakers of the “Device Applications of Nanoscale Materials Symposium” at the 1998 National ACS Meeting in Dallas, Texas, which was organized by John St. John of Texas Christian University.

    Gerhard Fasol’s talk: “Selective Electrodeposition of Magnetic and Metallic Nanowires: A New Approach to a Fundamental Technology”

    Symposium purpose:
    The two main purposes of this symposium are (1) to demonstrate current, innovative applications of chemistry in the nanometer size regime for use in optoelectronics and (2) to identify potential areas for partnerships between industry and academia where research in nanoscale chemistry can be applied to emerging technologies. It is hoped that this symposium will benefit chemists working in nanotechnology by providing a forum for discussing applications with leading industries.

    Press Conference participants:

    • James R. Von Ehr II, Zyvex LLC;
    • Howard E. Katz, Bell Laboratories-Lucent Technologies;
    • Jie Han, NASA Ames Research Laboratory;
    • Gerhard Fasol, Eurotechnology Japan K. K.;

    Technical program

    • 8:00 am: Marye Anne Fox , University of Texas, Austin; Imaging With Chromophore-Modified Self Assembled Monolayers
    • 8:40 am: Howard E. Katz, Bell Laboratories-Lucent Technologies; Chemical Structure, film Morphology, and Deposition Process Optimization of Organic Transistor Semiconductors
    • 9:20 am: James R. Von Ehr II, Zyvex LLC; Building a Molecular Nanotechnology Industry
    • 10:00 am: William Hinsburg, IBM Research Division; Resist Requirements for Sub-100 nm Microlithography
    • 10:30 am: Gerhard Fasol, Eurotechnology Japan K. K.; Selective Electrodeposition of Magnetic and Metallic Nanowires: A New Approach to a Fundamental Technology
    • 11:10 am: Alan J. Heeger, IPOS, UCSB, and UNIAX Corp.,.; Polymer Light Emitting Electrochemical Cells: A Device Application of Nanscale Chemistry
    • 11:50 am: Jie Han, NASA Ames Research Laboratory; Exploring Carbon Nanotubes for Nanoscale Devices
    • 2:00 pm: Richard Brotzman, Nanophase Technologies Corporation; Nanoscale Materials for Optoelectronics
    • 2:30 pm: Louis Brus, Columbia University; Spectroscopy and “Blinking” of Single Semiconductor Nanocrystals at Room Temperature
    • 3:10 pm: Jeffery L. Coffer, Texas Christian University; Nanophase Silicon as an Optoelectronic / Biocompatible Material
    • 4:00 pm: James M. Tour, University of South Carolina; Molecular Scale Electronics
    • 4:40 pm: Tapesh Yadav, Nanomaterials Research Corporation; Device Applications of Nanoscale Materials

    For Gerhard Fasol’s related publications see:

    • Gerhard Fasol: “Nanowires: Small is Beautiful” SCIENCE, 280, p. 545-546 (24 April 1998)
    • Gerhard Fasol and Katharina Runge: “Selective Electrodeposition of nanometer scale magnetic wires” Applied Physics Letters, 70, p. 2467-2468 (5 May 1997)
    • G. Fasol, “Spontaneous Spin Polarization in Quantum Wires”, Proc. 22nd International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors (ICPS), edited by D. J. Lockwood, (World Scientific, Singapore, 1995), p. 1739-1742.
    • G. Fasol and H. Sakaki, “Spontaneous Spin Polarization due to Electron- Electron Interaction in Quantum Wires”, in “Nanostructures and Quantum Effects”, edited by H. Sakaki and H. Noge, [Proceedings of the JRDC Int. Symposium on Nanostructures and Quantum Effects, 17—18 Nov. 1993, Tsukuba (Japan)], Springer-Verlag, Berlin, p. 121-130 (1994).
    • G. Fasol and H. Sakaki, “Spontaneous Spin Polarization in Quantum Wires”, Philosophical Magazine, 70, 601-616 (1994).
    • G. Fasol and H. Sakaki, “Prediction of Spin-Polarization Effects in Quantum Wire Transport”, Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 33, 879-886 (1994).
    • G. Fasol, Y. Nagamune, J. Motohisa und H. Sakaki, “Determination of Quantum Wire Potential and Hot Electron Spectroscopy Using Point Contacts”, Surface Science, 305, 620-623 (1994).
    • G. Fasol, “Calculation of Electron Coherence Lengths for Quantum Wires”, in: 21st International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors, ed. by Ping Jiang and Hou-Zhi Zheng, World Scientific, (Singapore, 1992), p. 1411.
    • G. Fasol and H. Sakaki, “Electron-electron Scattering in Quantum Wires and its Possible Suppression due to Spin Effects”, Physical Review Letters, 70, 3643-3646 (1993).
    • G. Fasol and H. Sakaki, “Spontaneous Spin-Polarization of Ballistic Electrons in Single Mode Quantum Wires Due to Spin Splitting”, Applied Physics Letters, 62, 2230-2232 (1993).
    • G. Fasol and H. Sakaki, “Electron-Electron Scattering in Quantum Wells and Wires”, Proceedings of the 19th Int. Symposium on Gallium Arsenide and Related Compounds, (Karuizawa 1992), Institute of Physics Conference Series No. 129, p. 311 (1992).
    • G. Fasol, “Absence of Low Temperature Saturation of Electron–Electron Scattering in a Single Mode Quantum Wire”, Applied Physics Letters, 61, 831-833 (1992)
    • G. Fasol, “Electron Dephasing Due to Coulomb Interaction”, Applied Physics Letters 59, 2430-2432 (1991)

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