Invited Speaker – Professor, Yasuo Cho

Institution:

Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

Current Positions:

Professor

Biographical details
Yasuo Cho graduated from the Electrical Engineering Department at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, in 1980. In 1985 he became a research associate in the Research Institute of Electrical Communication at To-hoku University. In 1990, he received an associate professorship from Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi, Japan. He then became an associate professor in 1997 and a full professor in 2001 at the Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University. During this time, his main research interests included nonlinear phenomena in ferroelectric materials and their applications, research on the scanning nonlinear dielectric microscope, and research on using the nonlinear dielectric microscope in next-generation ultrahigh-density ferroelectric data storage (SNDM ferro-electric probe memory).