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256 Appendix D. Site Reports—Japan<br />

Site:<br />

Joint Research Center for Atom <strong>Technology</strong> (JRCAT)<br />

Angstrom <strong>Technology</strong> Partnership (ATP)<br />

c/o National Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary<br />

Research<br />

1-1-4 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan<br />

Tel: (81) 298-54 2570; Fax: (81) 298-54 2575<br />

Date Visited: 22 July 1997<br />

WTEC:<br />

Host:<br />

R.W. Siegel (report author), D.M. Cox, H. Goronkin,<br />

J. Mendel, H. Morishita, M.C. Roco<br />

Dr. Eiichi Maruyama, Executive Director <strong>and</strong> General<br />

Director of Research Center<br />

E-mail: maruyama@jrcat.or.jp<br />

BACKGROUND<br />

Tuesday morning 9:30 to 12:00 noon of 22 July was spent in Tsukuba<br />

visiting the Joint Research Center for Atom <strong>Technology</strong> (JRCAT), an<br />

organization founded in February of 1993 through a joint contract between<br />

the National Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Research (NAIR) <strong>and</strong><br />

the Angstrom <strong>Technology</strong> Partnership (ATP). These latter organizations<br />

were created by the Agency of Industrial <strong>Science</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Technology</strong> (AIST) of<br />

the Ministry of International Trade <strong>and</strong> Industry (MITI). The central focus<br />

of JRCAT is the Atom <strong>Technology</strong> Project, a ten-year effort begun by AIST<br />

in fiscal year 1992 as one of its Industrial <strong>Science</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Technology</strong> Frontier<br />

Programs under the official title, Research <strong>and</strong> Development of Ultimate<br />

Manipulation of Atoms <strong>and</strong> Molecules. AIST’s total ten-year budget for this<br />

project is about ¥25 billion (~ $250 million), which flows mostly (~ 90%)<br />

through the New Energy <strong>and</strong> Industrial <strong>Technology</strong> Development<br />

Organization (NEDO) <strong>and</strong> hence ATP, with the balance (~ 10%) flowing<br />

directly through NAIR. The distinct advantage of this imbalance for JRCAT<br />

is that the NAIR funds are hard (national) monies that cannot be used for<br />

hiring people, while the ATP funds are soft (invested) monies that can be<br />

used very flexibly. The Atom <strong>Technology</strong> Project is envisioned as<br />

comprised of overlapping efforts in atom manipulation, nanoscale selforganization,<br />

<strong>and</strong> critical-state phase control based on in situ dynamic<br />

measurement <strong>and</strong> control complemented by ab initio calculation.<br />

The WTEC panel visit was hosted by Dr. Eiichi Maruyama, Executive<br />

Director of ATP <strong>and</strong> the Atom <strong>Technology</strong> Project Leader, who presented a

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