* This project is implemented as ACCEL in the JST-MIRAI R&D Program.

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Research Director

Takao Someya

(Professor, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo)

1997　Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering, The University of Tokyo
1997　Research Associate, The University of Tokyo
1998　Lecturer, The University of Tokyo
2001　Visiting Scholar, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
2001　Visiting Scientist, Nanocenter, Columbia University
2002　Associate Professor, The University of Tokyo
2009　Professor, The University of Tokyo
2009　Global Scholar, Princeton University
2015　Chief Scientist, RIKEN

Program Manager

Yorishige Matsuba

(ACCEL Program Manager, Japan Science and Technology Agency)

1979　M.S. in Chemical Engineering, Okayama University
Researcher, Harima Chemicals, Inc.
1990　Ph.D. in System Engineering, Okayama University
2003　Visiting Professor, Osaka University
2004　Visiting Professor, University of Hyogo
2005　Executive Officer & Director, Harima Chemicals, Inc.
2016　Project Researcher, The University of Tokyo
2017　ACCEL Program Manager, JST

Outline of R&D Project

Someya Project Team has been improving their large area flexible electronic skin (E-skin) through several projects. With CREST, they realized a sensor which combines large area, multipoint, multimodal¹⁾ and stretchability simultaneously.
With ERATO, the team established the technology of stretchable electronics by fabricating organic transistor on top of 1 micrometer (µm) ultrathin polymer-based substrate. Via the sensor directly adhered to the skin, they performed actual bio-sensing (Direct Contact E-skin). Furthermore, they successfully measured blood oxygen saturation indirectly by implementing organic photodetector and OLED on 1µm ultrathin substrate (Optical E-skin).
With ACCEL, the project team are keen to merge and to enhance, the technologies developed through CREST, and ERATO, into one sheet that allows easy bio-monitoring just by applying to the skin. “A Conformal Bioimager” will help us obtain safe, secure and comfortable society.

1) multimodal sensor
a sensor that allows monitoring of multiple biological information.