(Introducing two labs directed by Professor Taketoshi Hibiya)

Lab members

Director
Professor Taketoshi Hibiya

Members
Professor Shinichiro Haruyama, Associate professor Keio Shimazu, Jun Kato (doctoral course), Kenichi Seki (doctoral course), Yasuhiro Miyake (doctoral course), Shintaro Murakami (doctoral course), Hung-Chi Hsiao (doctoral course), Hideki Urabe (doctoral course), Eiichiro Moriya (doctoral course), Yutaka Yoshioka (master course), Sadao Suganuma (former executive director of Oki Engineering)

Lab meeting

This one word, “semiconductor”, means various things to various people. Semiconductors are closely tied to resources, material and property physics, production process, electronic components, LSI chips, embedded software, and digital equipment, each of which has been developed in depth and become highly segmented. In SDM, there were students who specialized in one of these areas but had no contact with other semiconductor products. This lab was established to facilitate collaboration on semiconductors for which the entire picture is not visible from one position, but can be captured from multiple viewpoints, such as management and engineering. People with different backgrounds, such as production engineering management, analog circuit design, System LSI design, testing equipment development, marketing, software development, and research on censors come together to present their ideas, get feedback, and fine-tune their applications.
We are mainly working on two research activities; analysis from a business viewpoint and development projects. Firstly, the semiconductor industry is one of the most important industries in Japan; semiconductor devices are considered to be “rice in industry.” This will continue to be very important in terms of business as well as technology. However, the US, Korea, China and Taiwan are cutting into Japan’s strong position. It is inevitable that we apply optimal strategies in this changing business environment. We analyze industry trends from various points of view. ”Foundry business” that handles ”high-mix low-volume production“ and ”outsourcing of production systems“ are keywords. Members of this lab have extensive semiconductor industry experience and are enthusiastic about their work.
Secondly, although discussions tend to concern business matters, manufacturing is also a popular topic especially among technology-oriented members. In 2010, we developed an application for mobile phones and entered it in the Mobile Application Contest hosted by Tokyo Institute of Technology. Having people from different industries develop the application revealed new points of view. Next year, we will create a MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems), device using a semiconductor micro-processing technology.
We welcome those of you who are interested in our lab. Please feel free to contact a member. Some members had no knowledge of semiconductor industry until they joined us.
(Yutaka Yoshioka-second year masters course）