Watanabe Laboratory,Department of Materials Engineering,School of Engineering,The University of Tokyo

Reseach Summary

We have investigated the nature of various materials using the computational methods such as ab initio calculation based on density functional theory, molecular dynamics and tight-binding method. We challenge to clarify many fundamental problems in nanotechnology --- for example, atomic structures and electronic states under strong electric field, electronic properties of semiconductor devices, molecular electronics, scanning probe microscopes, phase transition of structure of metal/semiconductor surfaces, deposition processes in thin-film growth, and so on.