Maki Laboratory - Emergence of New Physical Properties and Development of Functional Devices through the Device Integration of Nanomaterials

"Emergence of New Physical Properties and Development of Functional Devices through the Device Integration of Nanomaterials"

Maki Laboratory, Department of Applied Physics and Physico-Informatics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio Gijuku University

At the Maki Laboratory, we focus on nanodevices as a technology to pioneer the future of devices, for which miniaturization will eventually reach its limits.

We are exploring new physical properties and developing functional devices that utilize them.

Among these, the Maki Laboratory has focused on carbon nanotubes as a key nanomaterial.

These carbon nanotubes are one-dimensional nanomaterials with a structure formed by rolling a sheet of graphite—the material used in pencil leads—into a cylinder. They have a diameter of about one nanometer and a length of several micrometers or more, and they possess the unique physical property of behaving as either a semiconductor or a metal depending on how the sheet is rolled.

By fabricating them into devices, carbon nanotubes with these properties are expected to have applications in a wide variety of fields.