Shunpei Yamazaki, Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.,
Kanagawa, JAPAN
Dr. Shunpei Yamazaki is an authority on semiconductors, memory
devices, and liquid crystal displays. Listed on over 4,000 US
utility patents, Dr. Yamazaki was named in the Guinness Book of
World Records as holding the most patents in the world; hailed the
most prolific inventor in history by USA Today (in 2005). His most
notable work is on the thin-film transistor -- a significant
discovery being a crystalline structure in Indium gallium zinc
oxide (IGZO) material, which he discovered "by chance" in 2009.
Today Dr. Yamazaki is President of the Semiconductor Energy
Laboratory (SEL), where he and his team pioneered the unique
development of ultra-low-power devices using CAAC-IGZO technology.
A joint venture with the Sharp Corporation manufacturing
smartphones using crystalline oxide semiconductors (IGZO) is a
global first. In 2015 Dr. Yamazaki received the SID (Society for
Information Display) Special Recognition Award for "discovering
CAAC-IGZO semiconductors, leading its practical application, and
paving the way to next-generation displays." His paper on CAAC-IGZO
ranked in the top 15 most downloaded papers of Wiley Electrical
Engineering and Communications Technology journals, 2014. Dr.
Yamazaki is also an IEEE Life Fellow.
Noboru Kimizuka, Kimizuka Institute for Natural Philosophy,
Poland
Noboru Kimizuka: director of Kimizuka Institute for Natural
Philosophy in Poland and adviser of Semiconductor Energy
Laboratory, Co., Ltd. He received a Doctor of Science degree from
Tokyo Institute of Technology. He joined in the National Institute
for Research in Inorganic Materials (NIRIM) of Science and
Technology Agency in 1967 (The institute later became the National
Institute for Materials Science.) In 1985, he synthesized
crystalline IGZO for the first time in the world at NIRIM. Since
then, he devoted himself for developing homologous IGZO for about
ten years. After he left NIRIM, he served as a researcher and a
visiting professor, teaching young people at universities in the
U.S., Britain, Mexico, Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan. He is a
member of the Chemical Society of Japan, the Ceramic Society of
Japan, the Physical Society of Japan, and American Ceramic Society.
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