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

Site:<br />

RIKEN (Institute of Physical <strong>and</strong> Chemical Research)<br />

Frontier Materials Research<br />

Semiconductor Laboratory<br />

2-1 Hirosawa Wako-shi<br />

Saitama 315-01, Japan<br />

Fax: (81) 48-462 4659<br />

Date Visited: 22 July 1997<br />

WTEC:<br />

Host:<br />

E. Hu (report author)<br />

Dr. Aoyagi, Coordinator, Frontier Research Program; Chief,<br />

Semiconductor Laboratory<br />

Dr. Katsuhiko Fujita, Exotic Nano Materials Group<br />

Dr. Takashi Isoshima, Researcher, Biopolymer Physics Lab.<br />

Dr. Hideo Yabuki<br />

Yoshiro Miki, Director of the Frontier Research Program<br />

Division <strong>and</strong> the Brain <strong>Science</strong> Planning Office<br />

BACKGROUND<br />

The Frontier Research Program was set up within the Institute of<br />

Physical <strong>and</strong> Chemical Research (RIKEN) within the <strong>Science</strong> <strong>and</strong><br />

<strong>Technology</strong> Administration to be a more flexible program emphasizing<br />

• multidisciplinarity<br />

• flexibility, obtained by recruiting researchers with the proper expertise,<br />

working under one-year contracts that can be extended (average age of<br />

the researchers is 35)<br />

• international participation, with non-Japanese team leaders; 1/3 of the<br />

participants are from overseas<br />

• active recruitment of young researchers<br />

• external evaluation by world-class scientists<br />

• forum to create new ideas<br />

All programs have a fixed lifetime of eight years, extendible, with a midprogram<br />

review. The Frontier Materials Research program that the WTEC<br />

team visited was in Phase II of its activities.<br />

Within the Frontier Materials Research Program were three subareas:<br />

(1) the Laboratory for Nano-Electronics Materials (Sugano), (2) the<br />

Laboratory for Nano-Photonics Materials (Sasabe), <strong>and</strong> (3) The Laboratory

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