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institutes in Asia pacific Bulletin Institute of Physics at National Chiao Tung University CHENG-HUNG CHANG AND JIUNN-YUAN LIN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY Fig.

1 institutes in Asia pacific Bulletin Institute of Physics at National Chiao Tung University CHENG-HUNG CHANG AND JIUNN-YUAN LIN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY Fig. 1: The campus of NCTU. National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) is located in Hsinchu, the oldest city in northern Taiwan, which has a history that spans almost 400 years. It is a city surrounded by mountains and the ocean and is around 80 km south of the capital city Taipei. NCTU is seated in the densest area of science and technology in Taiwan, and is adjacent to science and research organizations such as Science Park Hsinchu, the National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center, the National Space Organization, the National Nano Device Laboratories, and the National Center for High-Performance Computing. This university acted as an incubator for the early development of computers, lasers, transistors, and integrated circuits in Taiwan and is presently making substantial contributions to the high-level technology community of Taiwan. In ratings issued by Quacquarelli Symonds, NCTU was ranked 29 in the Asian University Rankings and 202 in the World University Rankings of 2014/2015. The Institute of Physics The Institute of Physics (IOP) of NCTU was founded in 1993 to support the development of fundamental sciences in this originally technology-oriented school. Despite its relative youth as an institute and its small size (14 faculty members), IOP is energetic in education, research, and international collaborations. This has led to several innovation patents as well as scientific results, which have 40

APRIL 2015 vol. 25 no. 2 institutes in Asia pacific Fig. 2: IOP at Science Building III of NCTU. appeared in Science, Nature, and Physical Review Letters.

IOP is also devoted to intensive institutional collaborations with RIKEN of Japan and Germany s Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids.

2 APRIL 2015 vol. 25 no. 2 institutes in Asia pacific Fig. 2: IOP at Science Building III of NCTU. appeared in Science, Nature, and Physical Review Letters. Together with the faculty in the Department of Electrophysics, IOP significantly broadens the fundamental and applied physics research in NCTU. IOP is also devoted to intensive institutional collaborations with RIKEN of Japan and Germany s Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids. The research of IOP covers four directions: condensed matter physics (six faculty members), particle physics and cosmology (four faculty members), atomic and molecular physics (two faculty members), and biomedical physics (two faculty members), among which there are four experimental groups and six theoretical groups. The laboratories and research branches include the following: and electric transport of nanowires, the tunneling current of tunnel junctions, low temperature scanning tunneling microscopy (SPM), and the magnetic properties of nanowires and quantum dots. In the Quantum Matter Physics Laboratory of Jiunn-Yuan Lin, the discovery of new materials and the creation of new building blocks of high-t c superconductivity, together with topological insulators and superconductors, are the core areas of activity. For years, this lab has made significant contributions with respect to order parameter symmetry and the superconductivity mechanism of novel superconductors, such as MgB 2, MgCNi, Na xcoo 2 and FeSe. Studies on the magnetism in thin films of manganese oxides and cuprates have also been conducted. Low temperature and mesoscopic physics laboratory NCTU-RIKEN Joint Research Laboratory Organic semiconductor laboratory Quantum matter physics laboratory Cosmic rays laboratory Computational physics laboratory Soft condensed matter group Biophysics and statistical physics group High energy physics: lattice gauge theory group AMO physics group Cosmology group Condensed matter physics The Low Temperature and Mesoscopic Physics Laboratory of Juhn-Jong Lin focuses on the quantum transport of low dimensional metals and semiconductor structures, the measurement of phase coherence time, the thermal Fig. 3: Creation of monolayered CuO 2 in search for high-t c superconductivity and other novel properties. 41

in the semiconductor. Fig. 4: The fabrication of conjugated polymer-based electronic devices.

3 institutes in asia PaCiFiC BULLETIN Thin wet film is formed quickly by blade followed by rapid drying to avoid inter-layer dissolution. (Above) 30 cm automatic blade coater (Below) 120 cm coater under assembly The vertical current in the space-charge-limited transistor is controlled by the potential of the metallic nano-grid embedded in the semiconductor. Fig. 4: The fabrication of conjugated polymer-based electronic devices. The Organic Semiconductor Laboratory of Hsin-Fei Meng is focused on conjugated polymers-based physics as well as semiconductor devices. Conjugated polymers are a kind of organic semiconductor consisting of carbon chains. Because of their unique physical properties, they are regarded as promising new materials for producing LED, laser, transistor and electro-optical devices. The Soft Condensed Matter group of Ten-Ming Wu is focused on particle dynamics in liquids, undercooled liquids and the glass state. The aim is to explain the ultrafast laser spectroscopy of liquids, and inelastic neutron and x-ray scattering. Currently, our studies include liquid water and liquid metals. NCTU-RIKEN JOINT RESEARCH LABORATORY Established in April 2013, the NCTU-RIKEN Joint Laboratory represents the strengthening of a long-standing collaboration between the Institute of Physics and the Low Temperature Physics Laboratory of Prof. Kimitoshi Kono in RIKEN, Japan. With an investment from both partners, new low temperature experimental facilities have been constructed with the aim of investigating novel electron transport phenomena at ultra-low temperatures and high magnetic fields. Assistant Research Fellow David Rees, a former postdoctoral researcher in the RIKEN group, leads the experimental program of the laboratory. Research topics include the study of Wigner 42

APRIL 2015 vol. 25 no. 2 institutes in Asia pacific Fig. 5: David Rees leads the experimental program in the NCTU-RIKEN Joint Research Laboratory.

Layout of Daya Bay Experiment e-print: hep-ex/0701029 Particle Physics and Cosmology Members in C.-J.

In particular, they focus on computations in theories that will have an impact on physics at the Large Hadron Collider.

4 APRIL 2015 vol. 25 no. 2 institutes in Asia pacific Fig. 5: David Rees leads the experimental program in the NCTU-RIKEN Joint Research Laboratory. crystallization in strongly correlated electron systems on liquid helium films and superconducting single electron devices as ultra-sensitive charge detectors. Layout of Daya Bay Experiment e-print: hep-ex/ Particle Physics and Cosmology Members in C.-J. David Lin s Lattice Field Theory group have been working on non-perturbative features in quantum field theory. In particular, they focus on computations in theories that will have an impact on physics at the Large Hadron Collider. These include QCD hadronic matrix elements, the study of the Higgs potential in the presence of new physics beyond the Standard Model, the scaling properties of the Yukawa coupling, and the search for infrared fixed points in exotic gauge theories coupled to fermions. The research of G.-L. Lin and his group focuses on dark matter (DM) phenomenology and reactor neutrino experiment. In the area of DM phenomenology, they have been interested in probing the properties of low-mass DM (few GeV to few tens of GeV) by studying the neutrino signature resulting from DM annihilation in the galactic halo and the Earth s core. They have argued that the recently completed IceCube DeepCore detector is the ideal facility for probing the thermally averaged DM annihilation cross section and the scattering cross section between DM and nucleons. Lin and his collaborators also studied the effect of DM self-interaction through the neutrino signature arising from DM annihilation in the Sun. They pointed out that the developing IceCube- PINGU detector could be used to probe such an effect. NCTU student working at the experimental site Fig. 6: Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment. In the area of reactor neutrino experiments, Lin and his group members joined the Daya Bay reactor neutrino experiment in The Data Bay collaboration published the discovery of electron anti-neutrino oscillation governed by the mixing angle θ13 in March For this remarkable result, the NCTU group made significant contributions in Data Acquisition Systems. The NCTU group also contributed to physics analysis for the Daya Bay collaboration, particularly in the measurement of the mixing angle θ13 from delayed neutron capture on hydrogen. Currently the NCTU group continues the ongoing effort to help provide Daya Bay s physics analysis. Furthermore this group also joins the newly established JUNO collaboration, which is situated in Southern China and aims at uncovering neutrino mass ordering. 43

institutes in Asia pacific Bulletin The cosmology group of W.F. Kao is working on the evolution of the early universe.

method in momentum space, applications to general wave problems, light interaction with graphene, and Adomian s decomposition method and its applications to physics problems.

molecules. In order to discuss the quantum dynamics of large molecular systems, he collaborates with theoretical chemists in NCTU.

5 institutes in Asia pacific Bulletin The cosmology group of W.F. Kao is working on the evolution of the early universe. Atomic and molecular physics The group of Tsin-Fu Jiang is focused on atom/molecule excitations and dynamics under intense, ultrashort laser pulses, the conservation element solution element (CESE) method in momentum space, applications to general wave problems, light interaction with graphene, and Adomian s decomposition method and its applications to physics problems. The group of Yoshiaki Teranishi works on proposing new measurements utilizing the idea of quantum control, and the development of a general theory for freezing the coherent dynamics in atoms and molecules. In order to discuss the quantum dynamics of large molecular systems, he collaborates with theoretical chemists in NCTU. He also works on developing new molecular dynamics simulation codes including quantum mechanical effects such as nonadiabatic transitions and tunneling effects. Biophysics Fig. 7: Phase diagram of hypersensitivity pain caused by defects of ion channel densities [New J. Phys (2013)]. The biophysics group of Cheng-Hung Chang is studying the dynamical and statistical properties of molecular and cellular biological systems, including the measurement uncertainty of biological receptors, the stability of biochemical networks under extrinsic noises, the entropic force and stochastic thermodynamics of proteins and biological polymers, the efficiency of free energy transduction into mechanical work in biological motors, and the bifurcations on the neural signal under ion channel defect. Cheng-Hung Chang is an associate professor at the Institute of Physics of National Chiao Tung University. After receiving his PhD from the Clausthal University of Technology in Germany, he worked at the Technical University of Berlin, the National Center for Theoretical Sciences in Taiwan, and visited Lund University in Sweden, the University of Tokyo, and Kyoto University. His research fields are quantum chaos, spintronics, statistical thermodynamics, biophysics and soft matter. Jiunn-Yuan Lin is Professor and Director of Institute of Physics at National Chiao Tung University (NCTU). He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Stony Brook University. After working at National Sun Yat-Sen University in Taiwan as a research associate, he joined the faculty of NCTU in His current research focuses on the discovery, creation, and understanding of novel quantum matter. 44

Name; Kazuyuki Sakamoto Birth; December 5, 1966 (Kyoto, Japan) Sex; male Family; wife and 2 children Citizenship; Japan

April 1, 2015 Curriculum Vitae Name; Kazuyuki Sakamoto Birth; December 5, 1966 (Kyoto, Japan) Sex; male Family; wife and 2 children Citizenship; Japan Job Status; Professor, Department of Nanomaterials