Yan Laboratory - Striving for the Highest Possible Added Value: State-of-the-Art Nanometer-Scale Machining Technology

From astronomical telescopes to home cameras, from aircraft to mobile devices, and from semiconductor devices to medical equipment, all optical, mechanical, and electronic products are manufactured using precision machining technologies.

The precision of machining has advanced from the micrometer to the sub-micrometer level, and more recently, toward the nanometer scale. It is believed that in the near future, manufacturing will reach the point of adding and subtracting individual atoms.

At the Yan Laboratory in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, we are researching ultra-precision machining technologies based on material removal, deformation, and property control at the nanoscale and atomic levels.

Our goal is to maximize the added value of industrial products by using precision nano-machining to draw out the full potential of materials and to create entirely new functions that surpass their inherent properties.