Issei Sasaki (M2), Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, received EMS Award

On 16th October 2026, Issei Sasaki (M2), Maeda Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems, received EMS Award at the 45th Electronic Materials Symposium (EMS).

EMS Award
The EMS Award is presented to young researchers who have given a particularly outstanding presentation at the Electronic Materials Symposium (EMS), or who have enlivened the symposium through active participation in discussions.

About awarded research
 Issei Sasaki, a second-year master’s student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Systems (Maeda Laboratory), received the EMS Award at the 45th Electronic Materials Symposium (EMS), held from October 14 to 16, 2026 at Mercure Kashihara in Nara, Japan, for his presentation entitled “AlN-Based Schottky Barrier Diodes for Low-Loss, High-Voltage, and Ultrawide Temperature-Range Operation.”

Authors: Issei Sasaki*, Masanobu Hiroki**, Kazuyuki Hirama**, Yoshitaka Taniyasu**, Takuya Maeda*
Affiliations: *The University of Tokyo, **NTT Basic Research Laboratories
Title: AlN-Based Schottky Barrier Diodes for Low-Loss, High-Voltage, and Ultrawide Temperature-Range Operation
Symposium website: https://ems.jpn.org/ems-award/
Maeda Laboratory website: https://sites.google.com/g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/maeda-lab/home 

Your impression & future plan
I am truly honored and delighted to receive this award. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Professor Maeda for the attentive guidance I receive on a daily basis, to our collaborators at NTT Basic Research Laboratories, and to everyone in the laboratory who has supported me in countless ways, both in research and beyond. Encouraged by this recognition, I will continue to approach each challenge earnestly throughout my doctoral studies, deepen my research further, and strive to contribute to the advancement of this field.