@@The Research Institute for Instrumentation Frontier (RIIF) was inaugurated on April 1, 2004 as one of new research institutes under the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST).
The mission of RIIF is to develop innovative instrumentation tools for understanding and analyzing various phenomena new to science and to explore brand-new knowledge on the basis of findings obtained through the application of instrumentation and characterization technologies. |
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 Director
Masataka OHKUBO, Dr.Eng. |
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The concept of gopening the frontiers of instrumentation technologyh, underlying the designation of RIIF involves two-front challenges: challenge into untrodden field of instrumentation, i.e., development of innovative instrumentation tools, and challenge to peripheral instrumentation technology for knowledge exploitation through the application of instrumentation tools to industry and academia.
It goes without saying that technologies of instrumentation and characterization constitute the very foundation of R&D efforts for every area of industrial science and technology, and moreover, it may be claimed that instrumentation and characterization serve as motive force for the promotion of new industries as is evident from the fact that the development of a series of new breeds of microscopy caused the emergence of innovative R&D and industrial areas, such as nanotechnology, genetic modification and analysis, biotechnology, and so on.
Additionally, in recognition of the significance of exploiting the instrumentation and characterization frontier, new administrative moves have been embarked on in the Japanese Government: (1) Development Program for Advanced Measuring and Analyzing Technologies and Instruments, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), 2004, and (2) Integrated Promotion of R&D Efforts, Establishment of Intellectual Properties and Standardization, General Council of Science and Technology, June 2003.
Under such circumstances, the RIIF aims at the development of advanced measuring instruments to meet the trans-disciplinary measurement needs, and at the exploitation of technology and knowledge leading to industrial standardization based on instrumentation and characterization, as well as to creation of new metrological standards.
R&D works on the instrumentation and characterization by no means constitute by themselves a self-consistent world, and its significance becomes visible only if the results are spread to actual systems. In recognition of these situations, all the staff members of the RIIF are strongly motivated to provide active contributions to the R&D organizations and industries, both domestic and overseas in respects to instrumentation and characterization. The RIIF would like to urgently welcome requests for research collaborations and to sincerely solicit comments and advices. |
