Yoshitada Isono / 磯野 吉正(いその よしただ)

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kobe University
Professor, Ph.D.(Engineering)
Address: 1-1, Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe, 657-8501, JAPAN
  TEL: +81-78-803-6145
FAX: +81-78-803-6155
  E-mail: isono"@"mech.kobe-u.ac.jp
Web page: http://www.research.kobe-u.ac.jp/eng-isonolab/
http://www.eng.kobe-u.ac.jp/department/mechanical.html

Professional career

1991-1993 <Industry> Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, LTD. (Industrial Machine Division)
1993-1999 Assistant Professor
in Department of Mechanical Engineering at Ritsumeikan University, Japan.
 [Research Fields]
 • Precision Machining
 • Molecular Dynamics and First Principal Calculations for Precision Machining
 Mechanical Characterizations of Thin Films
1999-2004 Associate Professor
in Department of Mechanical Engineering at Ritsumeikan University, Japan.
 [Research Fields]  
 • Experimental Micro/Nano Mechanics for MEMS
 • Probe Nanolithography
 • R & D of MEMS Devices
1999–2000 Visiting Scholar
in Department of Mechanical Engineering at Ohio State University, U. S. A.
2003
September
Visiting Scholar
in the Institut für Mikrosystemtechnik, Albert-Ludwigs Universitat Freiburg, Germany
2004–2007 Professor and Director
of the Micro/Nano Mechanics Laboratory, Department of Micro System Technology at Ritsumeikan University, Japan.
 [Research Fields]  
 • Experimental Micro/Nano Mechanics for MEMS
 • Probe Nanolithography
 • R & D of MEMS Devices
2005 Chairman of Research Division,
Faculty of Science and Engineering at Ritsumeikan University, Japan.
2008- Professor and Director
of Intelligent Artifacts and Manufacturing Systems Laboratory,
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering
at Kobe University, Japan.
 [Research Fields]
 • Multiphysics Characterizations of Semi-conductive Nanowires
 • VLS Synthesis of Nanowires
 • Experimental Micro/Nano Mechanics for MEMS
 • R&D of MEMS Devices
2011-2012 Visiting Researcher in Institute for Solid State Electronics,
TU Wien (Vienna University of Technology), Austria.
 [Research]
Synthesis and Strain Engineering of Semi-conductive Nanowires
2017-2018 Vice director of Medical Device Fabrication Engineering Center (MeDFEC),
Kobe University
2019 April- Vice Dean of Graduate School of Engineering at Kobe University, Japan.


Current research field

icon Multiphysics Characterizations of Semi-conductive Nanowires
icon
VLS Synthesis of Nanowires
icon Experimental Micro/Nano Mechanics for MEMS
icon R&D of MEMS Devices

Academic society

icon The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
icon The Society of Material Science, Japan
icon The Japan Society for Precision Engineering
icon The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan
icon The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)