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13/11/2025   Two students will present their results in Conference of Technical Committee on Electron Devices (ED), IEICE (Nov. 20-21, 2025, Kagoshima, Japan) [in Japanese].
13/11/2025   One invited talk related to wafer-bonding based GaN-on-diamond HEMTs will be given in 14th IEEE CPMT Symposium Japan (ICSJ2025) (Nov. 12-14, 2025, Kyoto, Japan).
01/10/2025   Member list updated.
30/09/2025   Dr. Jianbo Liang, associate professor, retires on Sep. 30. He is going to be a visiting associate professor to our group since Oct. 1.
30/08/2025   Two students will present their results in 2025 International Conference on Solid State Devices and Materials (SSDM 2025) (Sept. 15-18, 2025, Yokohama, Japan).
23/07/2025   One invited talk in English (Korea-Japan Applied Physics Symposium "quantum materials & devices and advanced semiconductors") as well as two authored and one co-authored presentations in Japanese in ordinary sessions will be given in The 86th JSAP Autumn Meeting 2025 (Sept. 7-10, Nagoya and Online, Japan).
04/06/2025   Two authored papers will be presented in The 15th International Conference on Nitride Semiconductors (ICNS 15) (July 6-11, 2025, Malmö, Sweden).
30/05/2025   English version and Chinese version of the press release of fabrication of GaN HEMTs on a 2-inch polycrystalline diamond substrate are available.
01/04/2025   Member list updated.

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Our research group was kicked out in Graduate School of Engineering of Osaka City University in Oct. 2011 for proposing and demonstrating concepts of novel semiconductor devices with higher efficiency and output power, lower loss, and more tolerance against harsh environment as essential parts for achieving "Sustainable Development Goals" (SDGs) and realizing greener society. We have been working on solar cells composed of mechanically-stacked subcells, or hybrid tandem solar cells, widegap semiconductor/narrow gap semicoductor heterojunctions, so-called "X-on-diamond" structures for lowering thermal resistance of devices, thick-metal-film based lower-loss interconnects and higher-Q passive components for monolithic integration, and solar cells with luminescent down-shifting materials. We are proceeding on research by developing and integrating all aspects of relevant technologies (semiconductor device fabrication, characterization,and so on) in combination with fundamental sciences such as physics and electronics. We have belonged to Graduate School of Engineering of Osaka Metropolitan University since April 2022.

We announce with sincere gratitude that we receive supports from a large number of institutes and companies. In particular we thank to JSPS-Kakenhi, Feasibility Study Program and "Development of high performance and reliable PV modules to reduce levelized cost of energy" Project of New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) as well as Adaptable and Seamless Technology Transfer Program through Target Driven R&D (A-STEP) and Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST) Program of Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) for their financial supports.


N. Shigekawa