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Hideo Hosono

Hideo Hosono is a physics topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Hideo Hosono rather than just read about it. In short: Hideo Hosono (細野秀雄, Hosono Hideo; born September 7, 1953) is a Japanese material scientist most known for the discovery of iron-based superconductors. Hosono, Hideki Shirakawa and Yoshinori Ohsumi are the three keynote speakers at the Institute of Integrated Research (IIR) founding lecture at the Institute of Science Tokyo.

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Reference excerpt

Hideo Hosono (細野秀雄, Hosono Hideo; born September 7, 1953) is a Japanese material scientist most known for the discovery of iron-based superconductors. Hosono, Hideki Shirakawa and Yoshinori Ohsumi are the three keynote speakers at the Institute of Integrated Research (IIR) founding lecture at the Institute of Science Tokyo.

Early life and education Hosono was born in September 1953 in Saitama Prefecture, Japan, one of the satellite cities of Tokyo. Dropped out of high school (National Institute of Technology, Tokyo College) in 1974, graduated from the Department of Industrial Chemistry of Tokyo Metropolitan University (TMU) in 1977, and obtained a doctorate in engineering from TMU in 1982.

Career and research Hosono is also a pioneer in developing transparent oxide semiconductors: he proposed a material design concept for a transparent amorphous oxide semiconductor (TAOS) with large electron mobility, demonstrated the excellent performance of TAOS thin-film transistors for next generation displays and successfully converted a cement constituent 12CaO·7Al2O3 into transparent semiconductor, metal, and eventually superconductors.

Awards and honors 2009 – Bernd T. Matthias Prize for Superconductivity 2009 – Medal of Honor (Purple Ribbon) 2012 – Nishina Memorial Prize 2013 – Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates 2015 – Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy 2016 – Japan Prize 2017 – Elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society 2018 – Materials Research Society's Von Hippel Award 2019 - Asian Scientist 100, Asian Scientist 2022 – Eduard Rhein Technology Award

Selected publications According to the Web of Science, Hideo Hosono has co-authored 5 articles with more than 1000 citations each (as of September 2019):

Kamihara, Y.; Watanabe, T.; Hirano, M.; Hosono, H. (2008). "Iron-Based Layered Superconductor La[O1−xFx]FeAs (x = 0.05–0.12) with Tc= 26 K". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 130 (11): 3296–7. doi:10.1021/ja800073m. PMID 18293989. Nomura, K.; Ohta, H.; Takagi, A.; Kamiya, T.; Hirano, M.; Hosono, H. (2004). "Room-temperature fabrication of transparent flexible thin-film transistors using amorphous oxide semiconductors". Nature. 432 (7016): 488–92. Bibcode:2004Natur.432..488N. doi:10.1038/nature03090. PMID 15565150. S2CID 4302869. Kawazoe, H.; Yasukawa, M.; Hyodo, H.; Kurita, M.; Yanagi, H.; Hosono, H. (1997). "P-type electrical conduction in transparent thin films of CuAlO2". Nature. 389 (6654): 939. Bibcode:1997Natur.389..939K. doi:10.1038/40087. S2CID 4405808. Nomura, K; Ohta, H; Ueda, K; Kamiya, T; Hirano, M; Hosono, H (2003). "Thin-film transistor fabricated in single-crystalline transparent oxide semiconductor". Science. 300 (5623): 1269–72. Bibcode:2003Sci...300.1269N. doi:10.1126/science.1083212. JSTOR 3834084. PMID 12764192. S2CID 20791905. Kamiya, Toshio; Nomura, Kenji; Hosono, Hideo (2016). "Present status of amorphous In–Ga–Zn–O thin-film transistors". Science and Technology of Advanced Materials. 11 (4) 044305. Bibcode:2010STAdM..11d4305K. doi:10.1088/1468-6996/11/4/044305. PMC 5090337. PMID 27877346.

References

External links Hideo Hosono (2014) "Impression-Inspired Materials Research", Vimeo Youtube.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Hideo Hosono

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Hideo Hosono ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Hideo Hosono

In research: Hideo Hosono appears in physics research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Hideo Hosono in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Hideo Hosono is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1953 births, Academic staff of Tokyo Institute of Technology, Foreign members of the Royal Society, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Hideo Hosono outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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