23 February 2010: Kozuka was awarded the Dean's prize for his PhD work, and Kim was awarded the Shoji Tanaka prize (master's thesis prize), respectively.

8 December 2009: Mr. Hans Boschker, a student of Univ. of Twente, visits our lab (about 3 months).

19 November 2009: Kozuka won the prize for the best presentations in JSAP 2009 autumn conference.

2 August 2009: Members of Hwang lab on a short vacation in the resort island of Izu-Oshima.Photos!

28 July 2009: Dr. Xie (from Yanshan Univ.) joined our group as a new Post-Doc.

8 July 2009: Prof. Hwang's ceremonial lecture of the Japan IBM science prize is available on the IBM website.

6 May 2009: Prof. Hwang was introduced in the News article "Enter the Oxides" in Nature.

22 April 2009: We welcomed our new members (two B4 students).

20 February 2009: Higuchi and Hidaka won the Shoji Tanaka prize (master's thesis prize) and the bachelor's thesis prize in the department of applied physics respectively.

17 February 2009: Higuchi won the excellent presentation prize in the department of advanced materials science.