Project Activities Concerning Nanotechnology and Materials

Table 2. Researchers Participating in NEDO's Nanotechnology and Materials ProjectsName Date of Birth Affiliation Title E-Mail URL Personal ProfileShuji AbeNanotechnologyResearch Institute (NRI),National Institute ofAdvanced IndustrialScience and Technology(AIST)Dr. s.abe@aist.go.jp http://www.aist.go.jpExpertise: Condensed matter and molecular physics theory. Researchtopics in the past includes the optical response of amorphoussemiconductors, the nonlinear optical response of conducting polymers,the mechanism of excitation transfer in biological molecular aggregates.Currently a Deputy Director of the Nanotechnology Research Institute,the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology,and also a team leader in the NEDO Synthetic Nano-Function MaterialsProject (SYNAF).Representative papers Journal vol. No. page yearNovel mechanism of photoinduced reversiblephase transitions in molecule-basedmagnetsPhys. Rev. Lett. 86 348 2001Theory of Rapid Excitation-Energy Transferfrom B800 to Optically-Forbidden ExcitonStates of B850 in the Antenna System LH2of Photosynthetic Purple BacteriaJ. Phys. Chem. B 103 6096 1999Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy onOne-Dimensional Excitons in SiliconPolymer, PolysilaneExcitons and Nonlinear Optical Spectra inConjugated PolymersExciton versus Interband Absorption inPeierls InsulatorsPhys. Rev. Lett. 69 668 1992Phys. Rev. B 45 9432 1992J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 58 62 1989Interband Absorption Spectra of DisorderedSemiconductors in the Coherent PotentialApproximationJ. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 50 2185 198131