The research focuses on high throughput and non-invasive laser-cell surgery. Selective disruption or inactivation of a cell and targeted molecular delivery by using ultrashort laser pulse will be presented which will contribute to future drug delivery, gene therapy, and regenerative medicine.

Proteins have unique three-dimensional structures and perform physiological functions. It is notable that abnormal protein conformations have been observed in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease. We attempt to reveal the mechanisms regulating protein structures and thereby, contribute to the development of a cure for the disease.

We seek to isolate bioactive substances from marine organism. We have carried out chemical synthesis and bioorganic studies on bioactive substances to elucidate their mode of action. Unique bioactive substances of marine origin are highly significant for drug candidate and probe for life science.

Secure routing and multi-hop communication are required in mobile ad-hoc networks. We investigate routing and media-access control schemes to reduce power consumption and to ensure high real-time network reliability and throughput.

The Yamanaka Laboratory has proposed an OpenFlow based Energy-Efficient network and implemented an original traffic engineering method in OpenFlow controller. We will describe the control system of our network and effect of power reducing in our network.

We recently developed a method to quickly and precisely determine the polarization direction of coherent terahertz electromagnetic waves and demonstrated a novel terahertz topography sensing system with unprecedented axial resolution. We would like to discuss potential applications using such an extremely precise terahertz polarization sensing system.

Optical microcavities are attractive because they allow optical wavelength filtering at ultranarrow bandwidth, which enables us to achieve ultranarrow linewidth laser light. Such light can be used for digital coherent optical communications and ultraprecise spectroscopy measurements. We will introduce a new method for fabricating a crystalline optical microcavity.

We study novel spin dynamics in nano-scaled magnets. Utilizing the ultrafine-patterning (EBL) technique and RF measurements, we seek the novel phenomena applicable to the data processing device.

Liquids can sustain their state, without rupturing, under tension owing to the cohesion between neighboring molecules; the extent of such cohesion can be defined as the tensile strength of liquids. We herein propose a microfluidic approach to measure the dynamic tensile strength of liquids with homogeneous nucleation of vapor bubbles.

We introduce several electrochemical applications of boron-doped diamond electrodes such as electrochemical sensors, waste water treatment, CO₂ reduction, novel organic synthesis.