ForMemRS Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the judges of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematic ...

, is a Japanese

material scientist Material is a substance or mixture of substances that constitutes an object. Materials can be pure or impure, living or non-living matter. Materials can be classified on the basis of their physical and chemical properties, or on their geologi ...

most known for the discovery of

iron-based superconductors Iron-based superconductors (FeSC) are iron-containing chemical compounds whose superconducting properties were discovered in 2006. In 2008, led by recently discovered iron pnictide compounds (originally known as oxypnictides), they were in the firs ...

Career and research

Hosono is also a pioneer in developing transparent oxide semiconductors: he proposed a material design concept for a transparent amorphous oxide semiconductor (TAOS) with large electron mobility, demonstrated the excellent performance of TAOS

thin film transistors A thin-film transistor (TFT) is a special type of field-effect transistor (FET) where the transistor is thin relative to the plane of the device. TFTs are grown on a supporting (but non-conducting) substrate. A common substrate is glass, becaus ...

for next generation displays and successfully converted a cement constituent 12CaO·7Al2O3 into transparent

semiconductor A semiconductor is a material which has an electrical resistivity and conductivity, electrical conductivity value falling between that of a electrical conductor, conductor, such as copper, and an insulator (electricity), insulator, such as glas ...

, metal, and eventually

superconductors Superconductivity is a set of physical properties observed in certain materials where electrical resistance vanishes and magnetic flux fields are expelled from the material. Any material exhibiting these properties is a superconductor. Unlike ...

Awards and honors

* 2009 – Bernd T. Matthias Prize for Superconductivity * 2009 – Medal of Honor (Purple Ribbon) * 2012 –

Nishina Memorial Prize The is the oldest and most prestigious physics award in Japan. Information Since 1955, the Nishina Memorial Prize has been awarded annually by the Nishina Memorial Foundation. The Foundation was established to commemorate Yoshio Nishina, who w ...

* 2013 –

Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates Clarivate Citation Laureates formerly Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates is a list of candidates considered likely to win the Nobel Prize in their respective field. The candidates are so named based on the citation impact of their published resear ...

* 2015 –

Imperial Prize of the Japan Academy The is a prestigious honor conferred to two of the recipients of the Japan Academy Prize. Overviews It is awarded in two categories: humanities and natural sciences. The Emperor and Empress visit the awarding ceremony and present a vase to ...

* 2016 – Japan Prize * 2017 – Elected a

Foreign Member of the Royal Society Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the judges of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge, including mathematics ...

*2018 –

Materials Research Society The Materials Research Society (MRS) is a non-profit, professional organization for materials researchers, scientists and engineers. Established in 1973, MRS is a member-driven organization of approximately 14,000 materials researchers from academi ...

's Von Hippel Award *2023 – Eduard Rhein Technology AwardEduard Rhein Stiftung , For the invention of metal oxide thin film transistors for display applications
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Selected publications

According to the Web of Science, Hideo Hosono has co-authored 5 articles with more than 1000 citations each (as of September 2019): * * * * *

References

External links

*Hideo Hosono (2014) "Impression-Inspired Materials Research"
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hosono, Hideo 1953 births Living people Japanese physicists Academic staff of Tokyo Institute of Technology People from Saitama Prefecture Foreign Members of the Royal Society Tokyo Metropolitan University alumni