Keynote
From consuming electronics to sustainable electronics
Friday, September 26
Professor Hiroshi Amano
Director, Center for Integrated Research of Future Electronics, Nagoya University
Professor, Institute of Materials and Systems for Sustainability, Nagoya University
Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics 2014
Professor Hiroshi Amano received Doctor of Engineering from Nagoya University. Currently he is a Director, Center for Integrated Research of Future Electronics, and a Professor, Institute of Materials and Systems for Sustainability, Nagoya University. He shared the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics with Prof. Isamu Akasaki and Prof. Shuji Nakamura "for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes which has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources". He is currently developing technologies for the fabrication of high-efficiency power semiconductor development and new energy-saving devices at Nagoya University.