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2016.11.2News
3rd CIES Technology Forum will be held in Station Conference Tokyo Sapia Tower on March 21-22, 2017. The program and registration site will be announced soon.

Date: March 21-22, 2017
Venue: Station Conference Tokyo Sapia Tower 5F

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2016.12.1News
Address from Prof. Tadashi Kinoshita
Until now I engaged in strategic plan activity as an associate professor of this center, but this time was promoted to a professor. I will continue to do our utmost to develop our center and industry as much as possible. I appreciate your continued guidance and encouragement in the future.
2016.11.29News
An article on Center for Innovative Integrated Electronic Systems (Director: Tetsuo Endoh), was appeared on the front-page of NIKKAN KOGYO SHIMBUN on November 29, 2016.
2016.11.28News
Shin Hosaka, Deputy Director-General, Industrial Science and Technology Policy and Environment Bureau, METI, visited Center for Innovative Integrated Electronic Systems (CIES) on November 22, 2016. Yoshinori Yajima, Executive Vice President for Industry- University Collaboration of Tohoku University, and Tetsuo Endoh, Director of CIES, explained the center’s activities and the facilities, and exchanged views and opinions.
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Tetsuo Endoh, Director of CIES, explained the center’s activities and facilities.

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Shin Hosaka, Deputy Director-General, Industrial Science and Technology Policy and Environment Bureau, METI (Center) listened to the explanation.

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(From left) Tetsuo Endoh, Director of CIES, Shin Hosaka, Deputy Director-General of METI, Takashi Watanabe, Director of METI, Yoshinori Yajima, Executive Vice President of Tohoku University

2016.11.22News
An article on director Tetsuo Endoh, Center for Innovative Integrated Electronic Systems (CIES), was appeared in NIKKEI Electronics, Issue December 2016.
       
2016.11.21News
Director, Tetsuo ENDOH, Center for Innovative Integrated Electronic Systems, will give a Plenary talk in Innovation Seminar held at TKP Garden City PREMIUN Sendai East Exit in Sendai, Japan.

Date: Dec. 20th (Tue), 2016 1:40 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
Venue:TKP Garden City PREMIUN Sendai East Exit (Sendai, Japan)
Title: Innovative Electronics Technology for IoT ~Importance of Open Innovation type Industry-Academia Regional Cooperation
Speaker: Tetsuo Endoh

Please refer to the following(Japanese) for more information.
2016.11.21News
Director, Tetsuo ENDOH, Center for Innovative Integrated Electronic Systems, will give a Plenary talk in SEMICON Japan 2016 held at Tokyo Big Sight in Tokyo, JAPAN.

Date: Dec. 16th (Fri), 2016 3:40 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
Venue:Tokyo Big Sight (Tokyo, Japan)
Title: STT-MRAM and CMOS/MTJ Hybrid NV-Logic for Future Low Power System
Speaker: Tetsuo Endoh

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2016.11.15News
Kazuo Kyuma, Member of Council for Science, Technology and Innovation (CSTI), visited Center for Innovative Integrated Electronic Systems (CIES) on November 11, 2016. Director Tetsuo Endoh explained the center’s activities, and exchanged views and opinions with the delegation. In addition, an exchange of views regarding CSTI ImPACT Project (PL: Prof. Hideo Ohno, PM: Prof. Masashi Sahasi), promoted in the center, was engaged.
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Kazuo Kyuma, Member of Council for Science, Technology and Innovation (CSTI) (left)
Tetsuo Endoh, Director of CIES (right)

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Along with delegation members of Kazuo Kyuma, Member of CSTI, after discussions.

2016.11.15News
Center for Innovative Integrated Electronic Systems (Director: Tetsuo Endoh) and IEEE EDS Japan Chapter (Chair: Masaaki Niwa) will hold IEEE EDS Distinguished Lecturer Seminar by Prof. Bin Yu (IEEE Fellow, State University of New York) on December 22, 2016.

Time & date: December 22, 2016, 15:00-17:00
Venue: Conference room #1 (3F), Center for Innovative Integrated Electronic Systems (CIES), Tohoku University

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2016.10.5News
Director, Tetsuo ENDOH, Center for Innovative Integrated Electronic Systems, gave a Plenary talk in MMM 2016 held at New Orleans in U.S.A.

Date: Nov. 2nd (Wed), 2016 6:40 p.m.-7:10 p.m.
Venue:New Orleans Marriott (New Orleans U.S.A)
Title: Nonvolatile Brain-Inspired VLSIs Based on CMOS/MTJ Hybrid Technology for Ultralow-Power Performance and Compact Chip
Speaker: Tetsuo Endoh

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2016.10.5News
Director, Tetsuo ENDOH, Center for Innovative Integrated Electronic Systems, gave a Plenary talk in EMN LasVegas Meetings held at Las Vegas in U.S.A.

Date: Oct 12th (Wed), 2016 2:45 p.m.-3:10 p.m.
Venue:South Point Hotel, Casino & Spa.(Las Vegas U.S.A)
Title: STT-MRAM and MTJ/CMOS Hybrid NV-logic for Low Power Systems
Speaker: Tetsuo Endoh

Please refer to the following for more information.

2016.10.4News
JSPS-EPSRC Tohoku-Cambridge-CNRS Core to Core program Symposium "Two dimensional electronics/spintoronics devices (Coordinator: Tetsuo Endoh)" will be held in Tohoku University on November 16 – 17, 2016.

Time & date: November 16 – 17, 2016
Venue: Laboratory for Nanoelectronics and Spintronics, Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University

Please refer to the following for more information.

2016.9.21News
Taido Tanose, Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), visited Center for Innovative Integrated Electronic Systems (CIES) on September 21, 2016. Director Tetsuo Endoh introduced and explained the center’s activities, and exchanged views and opinions with the delegation.

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2016.9.14News
Center for Innovative Integrated Electronic Systems (Director: Tetsuo Endoh) and IEEE EDS Japan Chapter (Chair: Masaaki Niwa) held IEEE EDS Distinguished Lecturer Seminar (Prof. Ru Huang, Peking University) on September 23, 2016.

Time & date: September 23, 2016, 15:00-17:00
Venue: Conference room #1 (3F), Center for Innovative Integrated Electronic Systems (CIES),Tohoku University

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2016.9.8News
A proposal “World-Leading Open Innovation Platform of Fusion Technologies Bridged IT and Transportation System Areas” (Organizing institution: Tohoku University; Project leader: Director, Tetsuo Endoh, Center for Innovative Integrated Electronic Systems) was accepted for Program on Open Innovation Platform with Enterprises, Research Institute and Academia (OPERA) by JST.

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2016.8.30News
Director, Tetsuo Endoh, Center for Innovative Integrated Electronic Systems, gave an Invited talk in The 40th Annual Conference on Magnetics in Japan held at Kanazawa University, Kakuma Campus, Ishikawa JAPAN.

Date: Sep. 5th (Mon), 2016 17:00p.m.-17:30p.m.
Venue: Kanazawa University Natural Science and Technology Main Hall, Kakuma, Kanazawa (Ishikawa, JAPAN)
Title: Low Power NV-Working Memory and NV-Logic with Spintronics/CMOS Hybrid ULSI Technology
Speaker: Tetsuo Endoh

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2016.8.25News
Director, Tetsuo Endoh, Center for Innovative Integrated Electronic Systems,will give a lecture in The 4th TIA Nanoelectronics and Nanotechonology Summer School held at University of Tsukuba, University Hall, Advanced Industrial Science and Technology(AIST) West, Tsukuba JAPAN.

Date: Sep. 1st (Thu), 2016 11:10a.m.-12:40p.m.
Venue: University of Tsukuba, University Hall Meeting room 3 (Ibaraki, JAPAN)
Title: Memory and the material properties
Speaker: Tetsuo Endoh

Please refer to the following(Japanese)for more information.
2016.8.19Awards
Director, Tetsuo Endoh, Center for Innovative Integrated Electronic Systems, received the 14th Prime Minister's Award for its Contribution to Industry-Academia-Government Collaboration in 2016.

Cabinet Office announced today the recipient of Industry-Academia-Government Collaboration Awards for honoring noteworthy accomplishments among outstanding achievements in industry-academia-government cooperation. Tetsuo Endoh, Director of Center for Innovative Integrated Electronic Systems (CIES) and Professor of School of Engineering, Tohoku University was chosen to receive the 14th Prime Minister's Award for its Contribution to Industry-Academia-Government Collaboration.
2016.8.19News
Director, Tetsuo Endoh, Center for Innovative Integrated Electronic Systems, will give a Plenary talk in Multidisciplinary Research Group "Nanodevice Science Research Group" 3rd Meeting of Practical Spintronics Epoch-Making Initiatives held at the University of Tokyo Hongo Campus Faculty of Engineering Bldg.11 in Tokyo, JAPAN.

Date: Aug.19th (Fri), 2016 4:00 p.m.-4:40 p.m.
Venue: the University of Tokyo Hongo Campus Faculty of Engineering Bldg.11(Tokyo, JAPAN)
Title: STT-MRAM and MTJ/CMOS Hybrid NV-Logic for Ultra Low Power Systems
Speaker: Tetsuo Endoh

Please refer to the following for more information.
URL: http://www.spring8.or.jp/ext/ja/spruc/meeting/spintronics_1608.html
2016.8.1News
Address from Professor Koichi NISHIOKA

I had been engaged in technology development of magnetic recording heads in a HDD manufacturing company. I have joined the Center for Innovative Integrated Electronic Systems (CIES), Tohoku University as a professor. I am really thankful for having a chance to do R&D job of spintronics devices such as STT-MRAM. I would like to contribute to the material technologies in the spintronics devices.
  
2016.7.19News
2016 Spintronics Workshop on LSI will be held as a Satellite Workshop of 2016 Symposium on VLSI Technology. We look forward to your participation.
Time & Date: 19:00, June 13, 2016
Venue: Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Please refer to the following for more information.
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2016.7.6News
Director, Tetsuo Endoh, Center for Innovative Integrated Electronic Systems, will give a Plenary talk in 165th Committee on Ultra Integrated Silicon Systems held at Institute of Industrial Science, the University of Tokyo in Tokyo, JAPAN.

Date: Jul. 22nd (Fri), 2016 3:20 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
Venue: Institute of Industrial Science, the University of > Tokyo(Tokyo, JAPAN)
Title:Industry-Academic Collaboration Activity in CIES Consortium
Speaker: Tetsuo Endoh
Please refer to the following for more information.
https://www.jsps.go.jp/english/e-soc/list/165.html
2016.7.5News
Kick-off seminar “Two dimensional electronics/spintronics devices” of EPSRC-JSPS Core-to-Core Program will be held in Cambridge University on June 18, 2016.

Date: July 18, 2016
Venue: William Gates Building, West Cambridge Site, Cambridge University
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2016.6.29News
Director, Tetsuo ENDOH, Center for Innovative Integrated Electronic Systems, will give a Plenary talk in SEMICON WEST 2016 held at Moscone Center in San Francisco, U.S.A.

Date: Jul. 13th (Wed), 2016 10:45 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Venue:Moscone Center (San Francisco)
Title: High Performance STT-MRAM and 3D NAND Memory with Spintronics and Vertical MOSFET Technology
Speaker: Tetsuo Endoh

Please refer to the following for more information.
URL: http://www.semiconwest.org/
     
2016.6.23News
CIES will make a presentation at SEMICON West 2016 on July 12 - 14, 2016 in San Francisco, CA, USA.

Date: July 12 - 14, 2016
Venue: MOSCONE CENTER, San Francisco, CA, USA
Booth number: R3 in INNOVATION VILLAGE
Please refer to the following for more information.
 
2016.6.1News
Address from Dr. Hirofumi INOUE

I joined the CIES as a research staff member on June 1st, 2016 from a HDD manufacturing company. I'd like to contribute to the R&D of STT-MRAM at CIES by making use of the previous experience of structural analysis and evaluation of HDD.
2016.5.24News
Director, Tetsuo ENDOH, Center for Innovative Integrated Electronic Systems, will give a Plenary talk in 39th CEMS Colloquium held at Okochi-Hall, Riken in Saitama, JAPAN.

Date: May. 25th (Wed), 2016 5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
Venue: Okochi-Hall, Riken(Saitama-Pref. JAPAN)
Title: Novel Trend of Semiconductor Memories by Three-Dimensional Structural Technology and Spintronics Technology
Speaker: Tetsuo Endoh
Please refer to the following for more information.
URL: https://www.cems.riken.jp/jp/
2016.5.17Press release
Press release “New technology reduces 30% chip area of STT-MRAM while increasing memory bit yield by 70%”

URL: http://www.tohoku.ac.jp/en/press/reduces_30_chip_area_of_stt_mram.html
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2016.4.14News
2016 Spintronics Workshop on LSI will be held as a Satellite Workshop of 2016 Symposium on VLSI Technology. We look forward to your participation.
Time & Date: 19:00, June 13, 2016
Venue: Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Please refer to the following for more information.
2016.4.1News
Hiroki KOIKE and Seiji UENOHARA were appointed in CIES on April 1, 2016.

Address from Associate Professor Hiroki KOIKE
I was formerly engaged in the research and development (R&D) as a researcher in the Center for Spintronics Integrated Systems (CSIS), Tohoku University, and I have been appointed as an associate professor of the Center for Innovative Integrated Electronic Systems (CIES), Tohoku University. In CIES, I'm aiming for world best R&D results especially in the area of the emerging device's application to integrated circuits. Thank you for your continued support and encouragement.

Address from Dr. Seiji UENOHARA
I received a doctor’s degree in this March, and have started working at CIES in this April. I’m going to design high performance circuits using most advanced devices developed at CIES.
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