2019.03.26

5th CIES Technology Forum was held.

Date : March 24-26, 2019

Venue : Otemachi Sankei Plaza, Tokyo, Japan

2019.02.19

Press Release

Development of nonvolatile spintronics-based 50μW microcontroller unit operating at 200MHz

2019.02.19

Dr. Aleksandr KURENKOV received the Best Poster Award at 2nd Symposium for World Leading Research Centers -Materials Science and Spintronics -

2019.01.10

16th RIEC International Workshop on Spintronics was held.

Date : January 9-10, 2019

Venue : Laboratory for Nanoelectronics and Spintronics, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

2018.11.02

Press Release

CIES and Advantest Develop STT-MRAM Switching Current Measurement for Memory Test Systems

2018.10.09

Faculty Recruitment

RIEC is recruiting for a Professor.

Division : Spintronics, Information Devices Division

Closing date : November 30, 2018

2018.08.24

Professor Yasuo Ando received MSJ Achievement Award, and Associate Professor Shunsuke Fukami received MSJ Outstanding Research Award.

The Magnetics Society of Japan (MSJ)

*Japanese version only

2018.07.20

Mr. Kyota Watanabe at Spintronics Laboratory (Fukami Assoc. Prof. Lab.) received the Best Poster Award at ICM2018.

2018.07.04

Dr. Daisuke Suzuki and Prof. Takahiro Hanyu received Best Poster Award in The 3rd ImPACT International Symposium on Spintronic Memory, Circuit and Storage.

2018.05.02

Associate Professor Shunsuke Fukami received AUMS Young Researcher Award.

2018.04.01

Professor Tetsuo Endoh becomes the Director of CSIS.

2018.03.31

Professor Hideo Ohno, Director of CSIS, will become the 22nd President of Tohoku University on April 1, 2018.

2018.03.23

4th CIES Technology Forum was held.

Date : March 22-23, 2018

Venue : Station Conference Tokyo, Japan

2018.02.21

Tohoku/SG-Spin Workshop on Spintronics was held.

Date : February 20-21, 2018

Venue : Sendai International Center (Feb. 20), Laboratory for Nanoelectronics and Spintronics, Tohoku University (Feb. 21)

2018.02.20

Kick-off Symposium for World Leading Research Centers -Materials Science and Spintronics- was held.

Date : February 18-20, 2018

Venue : Sendai International Center, Sendai, Japan

2018.02.15

Press Release

Unprecedented single-digit-nanometer magnetic tunnel junction demonstrated

2017.12.14

15th RIEC International Workshop on Spintronics was held.

Date : December 13-14, 2017

Venue : Laboratory for Nanoelectronics and Spintronics, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

2017.11.20

Professor Tetsuo Endoh gave a keynote speech at the 2017 IWDTF.

Date : November 20, 2017

Venue : Todaiji Temple Cultural Center, Nara, Japan

2017.11.08

Professor Tetsuo Endoh gave an invited talk at the 2017 MMM Conference.

Date : November 8, 2017

Venue : The David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

2017.10.19

Professor Hideo Ohno, Director of CSIS, has been selected as the 22nd President of Tohoku University.

2017.09.25

The 3rd ImPACT International Symposium on Spintronic Memory, Circuit and Storage was held.

Date : September 23-25, 2017

Venue : Qatar Science Campus Hall, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

2017.09.20

Dr. Chaoliang ZHANG et al. received the "Best Poster Award" of the 2nd ImPACT International Symposium on Spintronic Memory, Circuit and Storage.

Poster Presentation Title : Spin-orbit torque induced magnetization switching in nano-scale Ta/CoFeB/MgO dots

Award Ceremony : September 25, 2017 ( The 3rd ImPACT International Symposium )

2017.09.19

Tohoku University collaborates with Keysight Technologies Inc. on STT-MRAM test solution for MTJ

2017.07.07

Professor Tetsuo Endoh has been named as a Research Professor at Tohoku University.

2017.06.12

Professor Tetsuo Endoh received 2017 National Invention Award “the 21st Century Encouragement of Invention Prize” on June 12, 2017.

2017.05.25

Professor Tetsuo Endoh received 2017 National Invention Award “the 21st Century Encouragement of Invention Prize”.

2017.05.02

Dr. Mathias BERSWEILER received the "Best Poster Award" at INTERMAG 2017.

Poster Presentation Title : An interfacial anisotropy and Gilbert damping constant of double (Co)FeB-MgO interface structure of MgO/(Co)FeB/MgO

2017.03.24

Professor Tetsuo Endoh received "President Special Award" in Tohoku University award ceremony.

2017.03.22

3rd CIES Technology Forum was held.

Date : March 21-22, 2017

Venue : Station Conference Tokyo, Japan

2017.02.22

Final Report Meeting of MEXT Project was held.

Date : February 22, 2017 Program

Venue : Station Conference Tokyo, Japan

Registration Form  WORD  PDF

2016.11.19

14th RIEC International Workshop on Spintronics was held.

Date : November 17-19, 2016

Venue : Laboratory for Nanoelectronics and Spintronics, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

2016.11.02

Professor Tetsuo Endoh gave a plenary talk at the 2016 MMM Conference.

Date : November 2, 2016

Venue : New Orleans Marriott, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

2016.10.12

Professor Tetsuo Endoh gave a plenary talk at the EMN LasVegas Meetings.

Date : October 12, 2016

Venue : South Point Hotel, Casino & Spa, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

2016.09.30

The 2nd ImPACT International Symposium on Spintronic Memory, Circuit and Storage was held.

Date : September 30, 2016

Venue : Tsukuba International Congress Center, Ibaraki, Japan

2016.09.05

Professor Hideo Ohno gave an invited talk at the 40th Annual Conference on MAGNETICS in Japan.

Date : September 5, 2016

Venue : Natural Science and Technology Main Hall,Kakuma, Kanazawa University, Ishikawa, Japan

2016.09.05

Professor Tetsuo Endoh gave an invited talk at the 40th Annual Conference on MAGNETICS in Japan.

Date : September 5, 2016

Venue : Natural Science and Technology Main Hall,Kakuma, Kanazawa University, Ishikawa, Japan

2016.09.01

Professor Tetsuo Endoh gave a lecture at the 4th TIA Nanoelectronics and Nanotechnology Summer School.

Date : September 1, 2016

Venue : University Hall, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

2016.07.14

Material of lecture by Professor Hideo Ohno at IEEE Summer School 2016

2016.06.16

Press Release

Successful demonstration of nonvolatile memory sub-nanosecond operation spells good news for IoT

2016.03.22

Press Release

A new-structure magnetic memory device developed

2016.02.17

Press Release

New Physics and Application of Antiferromagnet Uncovered

2016.03.18

2nd CIES Technology Forum was held.

Date : March 17-18, 2016

Venue : IRIDeS, Aobayama New Campus, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

2016.03.28

Professor Tetsuo Endoh gave a plenary talk at the 2016 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit.

Date : March 28, 2016

Venue : Phoenix Convention Center, Arizona, USA

2015.12.15

Press Release

Physics for the mechanism of slow change in microscopic magnetic structures

2015.11.20

13th RIEC International Workshop on Spintronics (International Workshop : Spintronics) was held.

Date : November 18-20, 2015

Venue : Laboratory for Nanoelectronics and Spintronics, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

2015.07.27

Professor Tetsuo Endoh gave an invited presentation at the 203rd Topical Symposium of the Magnetic Society of Japan.

Date : July 25, 2015

Venue : College of Science and Technology, Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan

2015.07.03

Professor Tetsuo Endoh was introduced in Research Highlights on Tohoku University's website.

2015.06.22

The 1st [ImPACT] International Symposium on Spintronic Memory, Circuit and Storage was held.

Date : June 21-22, 2015

Venue : Tokyo International Exchange Center, Tokyo, Japan

2015.06.15

2015 Spintronics Workshop on LSI was held as a Satellite Workshop of 2015 Symposium on VLSI Technology.

Date : June 15, 2015

Venue : Rihga Royal Hotel Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan

2015.05.27

Professor Tetsuo Endoh gave an invited presentation at the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS).

Date : May 25, 2015

Venue : Cultural Centre of Belém (CCB), Lisbon, Portugal

2015.04.15

Professor Tetsuo Endoh was introduced in Research Highlights on Tohoku University's website.

2015.03.20

1st CIES Technology Forum was held.

Date : March 19-20, 2015

Venue : Otemachi Sankei Plaza 3F, Tokyo, Japan

2014.06.27

12th RIEC International Workshop on Spintronics was held.

Date : June 25-27, 2014

Venue : Laboratory for Nanoelectronics and Spintronics, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

2014.06.13 2014 Spintronics Workshop on LSI was held as a Satellite Workshop of 2014 Symposium on VLSI Technology.

Date : June 13, 2014

Venue : Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu

2014.05.12

Dr. Shunsuke Fukami received the Young Scientist Oral Presentation Award of the 2014 Spring Meeting of the Japan Society of Applied Physics.

2014.04.18

Dr. Shunsuke Fukami received the 2013 Funai Research Incentive Award.

2014.03.14

CSIS Symposium was held.

【DAYⅠ】March 13, 2014

International symposium on Spintronics for Integrated Circuit Applications and Beyond

【DAYⅡ】March 14, 2014

CSIS Research Review

Venue : Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan

2014.03.06

Professor Tetsuo Endoh gave a keynote lecture at the 2014 Tsukuba Nanotechnology Symposium.

Date : March 6, 2014

Venue : Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan

2014.02.13

Professor Tetsuo Endoh gave an invited talk at the SEMICON Korea 2014.

Date : Feb.12, 2014

Venue : COEX, Korea

2014.02.12

Press Release

Spintronics research center has demonstrated a series of ultra-low power spintronics-based large-scale integrated circuits

Spintronics technology extends battery life for wireless sensors by up to 10 times

2013.12.10

Press Release

Demonstration of CoFeB-MgO magnetic tunnel junctions with high thermal stability and low power consumption

Demonstration of 20-nm magnetic domain wall motion memory

2013.09.27

The article by Mr. Shun Kanai, a member of Ohno group, was chosen "Editor's Choice 2012" of Applied Physics Letters.

2013.08.21

CSIS Academic Lecture was held.

Date : August 21, 2013

Venue : Laboratory for Nanoelectronics and Spintronics, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

2013.06.10

Press Release

Tohoku University Develops World's First Nonvolatile Memory Applicable to L3 Cache

Spintronics-based logic LSI for text search by Tohoku University and NEC reduces power consumption to 1% or less of conventional systems

2013.06.10

2013 Spintronics Workshop on LSI was held as a Satellite Workshop of 2013 Symposium on VLSI Technology.

Date : June 10, 2013

Venue : Rihga Royal Hotel Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan

2013.02.19

Press Release

Automatic design flow of nonvolatile logic-in-memory integrated circuits with spintronics devices established

2013.02.01

The 3rd CSIS International Symposium on Spintronics-based VLSIs was held.(Flier)

Date : January 31-February 1, 2013 Agenda

Venue : Laboratory for Nanoelectronics and Spintronics, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan  Registration Form  WORD  PDF

Poster Session : January 31. We welcome poster submissions. See Flier for more information.  Sample Abstract  WORD  PDF

2012.12.11

Professor Hideo Ohno has been elected "Fellow of American Physical Society".

2012.12.08

Professor Tetsuo Endoh gave a talk at the International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) 2012.

Date : December 8, 2012

Venue : Hilton San Francisco Union Square, CA, USA

2012.12.05

Professor Tetsuo Endoh gave an invited talk at the SEMICON Japan 2012.

Date : December 5, 2012

Venue : International Conference Hall, Makuhari Messe, Japan

2012.11.26

Professor Hideo Ohno et al. received the "DPS 2011 Best Paper Award".

2012.11.16

Professor Tetsuo Endoh made presentations at the New Non-Volatile Memory Workshop 2012.

Date : November 16, 2012

Venue : Chutung Campus ITRI, Hsinchu, TAIWAN

2012.09.25

Professor Tetsuo Endoh et al. received the "2012 SSDM Paper Award".

2012.08.17

Professor Tetsuo Endoh received the "6th Fellow Award of Japan Society of Applied Physics".

2012.08.17

Professor Tetsuo Endoh assumed an "International Collaboration Fellow" of the Sendai city.

2012.08.03

Professor Hideo Ohno gave a plenary speech at the 31st International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors(ICPS 2012).

Date : August 3, 2012

Venue : ETH Zurich, SWITZERLAND

2012.07.23

Professor Hideo Ohno gave a plenary speech at the 4th Worldwide Universities Network International Conference on Spintronics(WUN-SPIN 2012).

Date : July 23, 2012

Venue : The University of Sydney, AUSTRALIA

2012.07.12

Professor Hideo Ohno gave an invited talk at the 19th International Conference on Magnetism with Strongly Correlated Electron Systems(ICM2012 with SCES).

Date : July 12, 2012

Venue : Bexco, Busan, KOREA

2012.07.09

Professor Tetsuo Endoh gave an invited talk at the 19th International Conference on Magnetism with Strongly Correlated Electron Systems(ICM2012 with SCES).

Date : July 9, 2012

Venue : Bexco, Busan, KOREA

2012.06.20

Professor Tetsuo Endoh gave an invited talk at 14th Leti (Laboratoire d'électronique des technologies de l'information)Annual Review.

Date : June 20, 2012

Venue : MINATECH Campus, Grenoble, FRANCE

2012.06.11

CSIS held a press conference regarding the papers which will be presented at the 2012 IEEE VLSI Symposia.

Standby-Power-Free Large-Scale Integrated Circuits using Nonvolatile Spintronics Devices - Now with high speed, density, and reliability –

1. The World's First Fast Access Embedded Memory that Stores Data without using Power

2. The World's Smallest Cell Implementation for a High-Density Standby-Power-Free TCAM in Combination with Silicon/Magnetic Devices

3. Groundbreaking New Technology for Improving the Reliability of Spintronics Logic Integrated Circuits

4. The World's First 3-D Reconfigurable Spin Logic Chip with Spintronics Technology

5. First demonstration of highly reliable spintronics devices

2012.06.13

Professor Tetsuo Endoh gave an invited talk at the 2012 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits.

Date : June 13, 2012

Venue : Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu

2012.05.11

Professor Tetsuo Endoh made a presentation at the International Magnetics Conference 2012 (INTERMAG 2012).

Date : May 11, 2012

Venue : Vancouver Convention Center, CANADA

2012.05.09

Professor Hideo Ohno received the "IEEE David Sarnoff Award 2012".

2012.06.02

The 9th RIEC International Workshop on Spintronics was held.

Date : May 31-June 2, 2012

Venue : Laboratory for Nanoelectronics and Spintronics, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

2012.03.15

Professor Hideo Ohno received the JSAP Outstanding Achievement Award.

For details, please visit the following website (Japanese).

the JSAP web site

2012.06.11 2012 Spintronics Workshop on LSI was held as a Satellite Workshop of 2012 Symposium on VLSI Technology.
Date : June 11, 2012
Venue : Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu
Registration Form  WORD  PDF

2012.02.03

The 2nd CSIS International Symposium on Spintronics-based VLSIs was held.(Flier)

Date : February2-3,2012 Agenda

Venue : Laboratory for Nanoelectronics and Spintronics, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan  Registration Form  WORD  PDF

Poster Session : February 2. We welcome poster submissions. See Flier for more information.  Sample Abstract  WORD  PDF

2011.11.04

Professor Hideo Ohno made a presentation at 2nd Berkeley Symposium on Energy Efficient Electronic Systems.

Date : November 4, 2011

Venue : UC Berkeley, California, USA

2011.09.21

Prof. Ohno has been awarded The 2011 "Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates" ―Researchers likely to be in contention for Nobel honors.

For details, please visit the following website.

Thomson Reuters' web site

2011.10.27

Professor Hideo Ohno made a presentation at  Tohoku University 4th International Symposium.

Date : October 27, 2011

Venue : Otemachi Sankei Plaza 4F Hall, Tokyo, Japan

2011.08.17

Professor Hideo Ohno made a presentation at SPINTECH6.

Date : August 1, 2011

Venue : Shimane Prefectural Convention Center "Kunibiki Messe", Shimane, Japan

2011.06.17

Professor Tetsuo Endoh made a presentation at the CMOS Emerging Technologies Meeting 2011.

Date : June 17, 2011

Venue : Hilton Whistler Resort and Spa, CANADA

2011.06.22

Professor Tetsuo Endoh gave a talk at 7th Annual SEMATECH Symposium Japan.

Date : June 22, 2011

Venue : Tokyo Conference Center Shinagawa, JAPAN

2011.05.18

Professor Tetsuo Endoh made a poster presentation at 7th International Nanotechnology Conference on Communication and Cooperation ( INC7).

Date : May 18, 2011

Venue : College of Nanoscale Science & Engineering, Albany, USA

2011.04.26 Message from the Director about the Great East Japan Earthquake
2011.04.26 Six papers were presented in INTERMAG 2011(April 25-29, 2011 Taipei, Taiwan).
2011.06.13

2011 Spintronics Workshop on LSI was held as a Satellite Workshop of 2011 Symposium on VLSI Technology.

Date : June 13, 2011

Venue : Rihga Royal Hotel Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan

2011.03.11 About the Great East Japan Earthquake
2011.02.18

Professor Tetsuo Endoh gave a talk at 9th International Symposium on Nanotechnology.

Date : February 18, 2011

Venue : Conference Tower Reception Hall A,B, Tokyo Big Sight, Japan

2011.02.16

Professor Hideo Ohno made a presentation at the FIRST Outreach Program.

Date : February 16, 2011

Venue : International Conference Room (7F) and Reception Hall (1F), Conference Tower, Tokyo Bigsight, Japan

2011.02.04

The 1st CSIS International Symposium on Spintronics-based VLSIs was held. (Flier)

Date : February 3-4, 2011 Agenda

Venue : Laboratory for Nanoelectronics and Spintronics, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
Poster Session : February 3. We welcome poster submissions. See Flier for more information.

2010.11.30 Program Q&A was posted.
2010.11.24

A tutorial talk titled "Magnetic tunnel junction for integrated circuits:Scaling and beyond" was given by Professor Hideo Ohno at the 55th Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (MMM2010, 14-18 November 2010, Atlanta, Georgia, USA).

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2010.10.27 The lists of Journal Papers and Conference Papers were updated. See Publications.
2010.09.09 Professor Ohno's research in an article about Tohoku University appeared in the Sept. 3 issue of the journal Science.
2010.07.12

NEWS : Development of a High-Performance Perpendicular Magnetic TMR Device for Logic Integrated Circuits

Press Release

2010.05.24 CSIS (Center for Spintronics Integrated Systems) website updated
2010.03.31 CSIS (Center for Spintronics Integrated Systems) website launched