Richard M Fulrath Award

Hiroshi Sato is section head of Technology & Intellectual Property HQ at TDK Corporation, Japan. He has been working on co-fired all solid state lithium ion battery using multilayer technology for 15 years. He received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Engineering and Resource Science from Akita University in 2004 and 2012 respectively. He has started…

Tomoaki Yamada is associate professor of Energy Engineering at the Nagoya University, Japan, and a visiting associate professor of the Materials Research Center for Element Strategy at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. His research group specializes in functional dielectric, piezoelectric and ferroelectric thin films and nanostructures, especially with a focus on their bottom-up growth design and…

Takeshi Kobayashi is working as team leader of Sensing System Research Center (SSRC) in National Institute of Advance Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), which locates in Tsukuba, Japan. He received his B.S. and M.S. degree in Materials Science from The University of Tokyo. He also received Ph.D degree in Materials Science from The University of…

Shinichiro Kawada is senior manager of the Development Section 1 of Development Department 1 of sensor product division at Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd., Japan. He works to research and develop piezoelectric ceramics including lead zirconate titanate-based ceramics and lead free piezoelectric ceramics. Piezoelectric ceramic components have been widely used in various electronic equipment as piezoelectric…

Naoya Shibata is a Professor in the Institute of Engineering Innovation, The University of Tokyo. He received a PhD in Materials Science in 2003 at the University of Tokyo. As a JSPS Research Fellow, he spent 2003-2004 in the STEM group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He joined the Institute of Engineering Innovation at the…

Mark D. Waugh is Senior Strategic Marketing Manager, Healthcare for Murata Electronics North America, Inc. in Smyrna, GA Mark is a challenge-driven, innovative leader with over 20 years of diverse global experience.  His roles have included strategic marketing, product management, and process engineering in demanding, highly competitive consumer technology environments. His leadership skills, coupled with…

Yosuke Takahashi is deputy general manager of Research and Development Center at Noritake Co., Limited, Japan. He graduated from Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Tokyo University of Science, in 1999. He received Master’s degree of Pure and Applied Chemistry from Tokyo University of Science in 2001 and joined Noritake Co., Limited in the same…

Yoshiki Iwazaki is a Research Group Leader at Analysis Group, Research and Development Laboratory, Taiyo Yuden Co., Ltd., Japan. He is also a Research Advisor of the Research Center for Functional Materials, National Institute for Materials Science. He received an M.S. in Physics from the University of Tsukuba and a Ph.D. in Physics from The…

Tomoyuki Nakamura is a senior manager of the Technology Development Group of the Capacitor Division in Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Japan.  He graduated from the Department of Applied Chemistry Engineering, Nagoya University, in 1994. He received the Master’s degree of engineering from the Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, in 1996. He joined Murata in…