Bernd T. Matthias Prize for superconductivity materials
Hideo HosonoTokyo Institute of Technology
Citation:
"For his 2008 discovery of LaO1-xFxFeAs that has heralded in the era of Fe-pnictides for the search for and the unraveling of high temperature superconductivity."
Hideo Hosono received his Ph.D. in Applied Chemistry from Tokyo Metropolitan University in 1982. After working as assistant and associate professors at the material science department at Nagoya Institute of Technology and an associate professor at National Institute for Molecular Science and Tokyo Institute of Technology, he became a full professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1999.
He has been concentrated on cultivation of electro-active functions in transparent oxides which are main ingredients for traditional ceramics like a glass, cement and porcelain by successfully utilizing specific electronic and nanostructures embedded. His representative achievements are material designing of transparent amorphous oxide semiconductors (TAOS) with high electron mobility and performance demonstration of TAOS-TFTs as a backplane to drive next generation flat panel displays such as OLED and large-sized frame-frequency doubled LCD panels, and conversion of a typical insulator (a cement constitution) 12CaO·7Al2O3 with a band gap of ~7eV to a transparent conductor, a metal, and eventually a superconductor. He discovered Iron and Nickel-oxypnictide superconductors in the course of material exploration of magnetic semiconductors, a subject extended from material exploration of transparent p-type oxide semiconductors with improved performance for device applications.
Hosono was a recipient of Otto-Schott Research Award (1991), W.H.Zachariasen Award (1995), SPIE Best Paper Award (2002), and SID Special Recognition Award (2009) in addition to several domestic awards. He published ~ 650 SCI journal papers and ~150 patents.
Selection Committee Chair: Paul C. W. Chu
