Kou Li

Profile Information

Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Communication Engineering, Chuo University

Degree: Ph.D. (Engineering)(Mar, 2023, Tokyo Institute of Technology)

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8756-819X
J-GLOBAL ID: 202201012913370561
researchmap Member ID: R000037704

External link: https://sites.google.com/view/kou-li

Research Interests

Research Areas

Nanotechnology/Materials / Applied materials /
Natural sciences / Semiconductors, optical and atomic physics /
Manufacturing technology (mechanical, electrical/electronic, chemical engineering) / Electronic devices and equipment /
Manufacturing technology (mechanical, electrical/electronic, chemical engineering) / Electric/electronic material engineering /

Research History

Apr, 2023 - Present

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Communication Engineering, Chuo University

Education

Apr, 2020 - Mar, 2023

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Doctoral course, School of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Apr, 2018 - Mar, 2020

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Master course, School of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Apr, 2014 - Mar, 2018

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, School of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Major Awards

Jan, 2024

令和5年度コニカミノルタ画像科学奨励賞（優秀賞）, ミリ波–赤外光帯のオンサイト非破壊検査の実現に向けたカーボンナノチューブ積層型撮像パッチシートの創出, 公益財団法人コニカミノルタ画像技術振興財団

李恒
Oct, 2023

第20回飯島奨励賞, フラーレン・ナノチューブ・グラフェン学会

李恒
Jun, 2022

The 35th Advanced Technology Award（MEXT Award）, Sankei Shimbun

Kou Li
Mar, 2022

Young Scientist Poster Award（The 61st FNTG）, Chemically-enriched and integrated carbon nanotube photo-thermoelectric scanners for non-sampling, source and label-free chemical monitoring

Kou Li, Yukio Kawano
Oct, 2021

Student Best Poster Award（The 11th ICFPE）, All-printable and flexibly-designable broadband 360° photo-thermal imager, The International Conference on Flexible and Printed Electronics

Kou Li, Yukio Kawano
Oct, 2021

Poster Award（The 82nd JSAP Autumn Meeting 2021）, Sensitivity tuning of semiconducting carbon nanotube photo-imagers, The Japan Society of Applied Physics

Kou Li, Norika Takahashi, Yukio Kawano
Aug, 2021

Best Poster Award（The 18th Annual Meeting of the Thermoelectrics Society of Japan）, Flexible broadband camera with series photo-thermoelectric coupling, Thermoelectric Society of Japan

Kou Li, Yukio Kawano
Nov, 2020

Student Award（The 17th Thin Film Materials & Devices Meeting）, A highly sensitive and flexible photo-thermoelectric image sensor with 3D printed series π structures between single-walled carbon nanotube thin-film channels and Bi2Te3 composites, Thin Film Materials & Devices Meeteing

Kou Li, Yukio Kawano
Mar, 2020

Outstanding Master Student Award 2020, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Mar, 2020

Rakusuikai Prize 2020, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Mar, 2020

Master’s Program Representative 2020, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Nov, 2019

Student Travel Award（The 35th NIR Forum）, A portable 360o around-view photo-thermal camera for ubiquitous near infrared imaging inspection robots, Japan Council for Near Infrared Spectroscopy

Kou Li, Ryoichi Yuasa, Ryogo Utaki, Meiling Sun, Yu Tokumoto, Daichi Suzuki, Yukio Kawano
Nov, 2019

Student Presentation Award（Symposium on Frontier of Terahertz Science VI）, The Japan Society of Applied Physics

Kou Li, Ryoichi Yuasa, Ryogo Utaki, Meiling Sun, Yu Tokumoto, Yukio Kawano
Aug, 2019

Outstanding Presentation Award（11th MISW）, Multifunctional around-view monitoring robots for ubiquitous social safety-net system, MISW Committee

Kou Li, Ryoichi Yuasa, Ryogo Utaki, Meiling Sun, Yu Tokumoto, Yukio Kawano
Aug, 2018

The Best Young Scientist Poster Presentation Award（NPO 2018）, Carbon Nanotube Film Flexible Terahertz Detectors on Polymer Films with Series Electrodes for Sensitivity Enhancement, University of Eastern Finland

Kou Li, Daichi Suzuki, Yuki Ochiai, Yukio Kawano

Major Papers

Ready-to-transfer two-dimensional materials using tunable adhesive force tapes

Maki Nakatani, Satoru Fukamachi, Pablo Solís-Fernández, Satoshi Honda, Kenji Kawahara, Yuta Tsuji, Yosuke Sumiya, Mai Kuroki, Kou Li, Qiunan Liu …

Nature Electronics, Feb 9, 2024 Peer-reviewed
Ultraflexible Wireless Imager Integrated with Organic Circuits for Broadband Infrared Thermal Analysis

Rei Kawabata, Kou Li, Teppei Araki, Mihoko Akiyama, Kaho Sugimachi, Nozomi Matsuoka, Norika Takahashi, Daiki Sakai, Yuto Matsuzaki, Ryo Koshimizu …

Advanced Materials, 2309864, Jan 18, 2024 Peer-reviewed
Simple Non-Destructive and 3D Multi-Layer Visual Hull Reconstruction with an Ultrabroadband Carbon Nanotubes Photo-Imager

Kou Li, Yuya Kinoshita, Daiki Shikichi, Miki Kubota, Norika Takahashi, Qi Zhang, Ryo Koshimizu, Reiji Tadenuma, Minami Yamamoto, Leo Takai …

Advanced Optical Materials, 2302847, Dec 25, 2023 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
All-Screen-Coatable Photo-Thermoelectric Imagers for Physical and Thermal Durability Enhancement

Kou Li, Yuto Matsuzaki, Sota Takahara, Daiki Sakai, Yuto Aoshima, Norika Takahashi, Minami Yamamoto, Yukio Kawano

Advanced Materials Interfaces, 10(35) 2300528, Sep 22, 2023 Peer-reviewedLead authorCorresponding author
Broadband Photodetectors and Imagers in Stretchable Electronics Packaging

Teppei Araki, Kou Li, Daichi Suzuki, Takaaki Abe, Rei Kawabata, Takafumi Uemura, Shintaro Izumi, Shuichi Tsuruta, Nao Terasaki, Yukio Kawano …

Advanced Materials, 2304048, Jul 17, 2023 Peer-reviewedInvited
Recent Progress in Development of Carbon-Nanotube-Based Photo-Thermoelectric Sensors and Their Applications in Ubiquitous Non-Destructive Inspections

Kou Li, Yuya Kinoshita, Daiki Sakai, Yukio Kawano

Micromachines, 14(1) 61, Dec 26, 2022 Peer-reviewedInvitedLead author
Stretchable broadband photo-sensor sheets for nonsampling, source-free, and label-free chemical monitoring by simple deformable wrapping

Kou Li, Teppei Araki, Ryogo Utaki, Yu Tokumoto, Meiling Sun, Satsuki Yasui, Naoko Kurihira, Yuko Kasai, Daichi Suzuki, Ruben Marteijn …

Science Advances, 8(19) eabm4349, May 13, 2022 Peer-reviewedLead author
光熱起電力型フレキシブル広帯域撮像スキャナ

李恒

日本熱電学会誌, 18(2) 92-93, Jan, 2022 InvitedLead authorCorresponding author
Robot-assisted, source-camera-coupled multi-view broadband imagers for ubiquitous sensing platform

Kou Li, Ryoichi Yuasa, Ryogo Utaki, Meiling Sun, Yu Tokumoto, Daichi Suzuki, Yukio Kawano

Nature Communications, 12 3009, Dec, 2021 Peer-reviewedLead author
A Terahertz Video Camera Patch Sheet with an Adjustable Design based on Self-Aligned, 2D, Suspended Sensor Array Patterning

Daichi Suzuki, Kou Li, Koji Ishibashi, Yukio Kawano

Advanced Functional Materials, 31(14) 2008931, Apr, 2021 Peer-reviewed
Series Photothermoelectric Coupling Between Two Composite Materials for a Freely Attachable Broadband Imaging Sheet

Kou Li, Daichi Suzuki, Yukio Kawano

Advanced Photonics Research, 2(3) 2000095, Mar, 2021 Peer-reviewedLead author

Books and Other Publications

貼り付けるだけで水溶液濃度を計測できる光センサシートの開発（月刊配管技術）

李恒, 河野行雄 (Role: Contributor, 65巻 2号)

日本工業出版, Feb, 2023
インフラ内部の欠陥を全方位視野で可視化するユビキタスな電磁波撮像プラットフォームの開発と異常検知（機械学習・ディープラーニングによる“異常検知”技術と活用事例集）

木下祐哉, 酒井大揮, 李恒, 河野行雄 (Role: Contributor, 5章 2節)

技術情報協会, Dec, 2022
カーボンナノ材料のテラヘルツ検出・撮像デバイスへの応用（月刊MATERIAL STAGE）

酒井大揮, 木下祐哉, 李恒, 河野行雄 (Role: Contributor, 21巻 12号特集2「テラヘルツ波」を吸収，透過，反射するマテリアルのニーズと開発例)

技術情報協会, Nov, 2022
Photo-thermoelectric-type flexible terahertz scanner（Next Generation Thermoelectric Materials and Modules: the Dawn of Thermoelectric Conversion Technology）

Kou Li, Yukio Kawano (Role: Contributor, Chapter 3, Section 6)

CMC Publishing, Mar, 2020
Nanocarbon terahertz devices（New Technologies and Applications of Two-Dimensional Materials Expanding from Graphene）

Kou Li, Toshio Sugaya, Yukio Kawano (Role: Contributor, Chapter 2, Section 5)

NTS, Mar, 2020

Major Presentations

（Invited）A mechanically stretchable and optically broadband imager sheet

Kou Li, Teppei Araki, Tsuyoshi Sekitani, Yukio Kawano

8th International Workshop on Nanocarbon Photonics and Electronics, Aug 3, 2022 Invited
（Invited）Multifunctional and omnidirectional photo-thermal monitoring robots for ubiquitous safety-net platform

Kou Li, Yukio Kawano

14th Asia-Oceania Top University League on Engineering, Nov, 2019 Invited
（Keynote）Remote Selective Liquid Inspection with Carbon Nanotube Terahertz Imagers

Meiling Sun, Kou Li, Yu Tokumoto, Ryogo Utaki, Yukio Kawano

The 44th International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter and Terahertz Waves, Sep, 2019
（Keynote）Carbon Nanotube Film Terahertz Detectors with Multiple PN Junctions

Ryogo Utaki, Kou Li, Meiling Sun, Yu Tokumoto, Yukio Kawano

The 44th International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter and Terahertz Waves, Sep, 2019
（Keynote）Multi-view Terahertz Imagers with Flexible Carbon Nanotube Film Arrays

Kou Li, Ryoichi Yuasa, Ryogo Utaki, Meiling Sun, Yu Tokumoto, Daichi Suzuki, Yukio Kawano

The 44th International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter and Terahertz Waves, Sep, 2019

Professional Memberships

Major Research Projects

検査員視覚と調和する透明光熱電撮像ゴーグルの創製

戦略的創造研究推進事業, ACT-X リアル空間を強靭にするハードウェアの未来, 国立研究開発法人科学技術振興機構, Oct, 2023 - Mar, 2026
広帯域・全方位深部撮像が可能な自己放射・自走式のカーボンナノチューブ膜型ミリ波–赤外光内視鏡の創出

2023年度科学技術研究助成（若手）, 公益財団法人スズキ財団, Jan, 2024 - Mar, 2025
超高感度なハイブリッド構造・光熱起電力効果型イメージセンサの全印刷作製

第31回研究助成, 一般財団法人熱・電気エネルギー技術財団, Dec, 2023 - Mar, 2025
室温での超広帯域・高感度な長波長光センシングの実現に向けた一次元ナノ構造体による新しい熱型検出機構の解明

第36回松尾学術研究助成, 公益財団法人松尾学術振興財団, Dec, 2023 - Mar, 2025
医薬品製造過程での即時不良品検知に向けた広帯域多波長インライン撮像システムの創製

2023年度学術・研究助成, 公益財団法人住友電工グループ社会貢献基金, Oct, 2023 - Mar, 2025
光熱電検査素子の遠隔駆動に向けた体系的組成設計による応答・雑音トレードオフの打破

科学研究費助成事業, 研究活動スタート支援, 独立行政法人日本学術振興会, Aug, 2023 - Mar, 2025
質感を伴う検査に向けた光熱起電力効果によるサイバー・フィジカル一体な匠の眼の創製

2023年度研究助成, 一般財団法人鷹野学術振興財団, Jan, 2024 - Dec, 2024
光熱起電力効果型の非破壊検査及び計測技術の設計原理解明に向けたカーボンナノチューブの電気特性制御

第39回研究助成, 公益財団法人村田学術振興財団, Oct, 2023 - Sep, 2024

Social Activities

招待研究展示

Performer

nanotech実行委員会, nanotech 2023, Feb, 2023
Invited research exhibition

Performer

nanotech executive committee, nanotech 2022, Jan, 2022
Lab Visit for Toin Gakuen High School

Logistic support, Performer

Tokyo Institute of Technology, Dec, 2019
Research exhibition

Performer

Japan Science and Technology Agency, JST Fair 2018, Aug, 2018
Research exhibition

Performer

Japan Science and Technology Agency, Innovation Japan 2017, Sep, 2017

Major Media Coverage

前人未到のテラヘルツ波

学術変革領域研究(A)「2.5次元物質科学：社会変革に向けた物質科学のパラダイムシフト」, 漫画教材, 第3話, May, 2023 Internet
理系の歩き方

産経新聞社, 公式YouTubeチャンネルSankeiNews, Nov, 2022 TV or radio program
李恒さんが第35回独創性を拓く先端技術大賞の「文部科学大臣賞」を受賞

東京工業大学, 東工大ニュース, Oct, 2022 Internet
「初心忘れず研鑽」先端技術大賞受賞者ら喜び語る

産経新聞社, 産経新聞, Jul, 2022 Newspaper, magazine
先端技術大賞東工大工学院の李さんら表彰

産経新聞社, 産経新聞, Jul, 2022 Newspaper, magazine
研究紹介㊦インフラ検査に革命どんな形もカーボンナノチューブで「文部科学大臣賞」受賞

産経新聞, Jul, 2022 Newspaper, magazine
先端技術大賞受賞者決まる文部科学大臣賞に東工大・李さん

産経新聞社, 産経新聞, Jun, 2022 Newspaper, magazine
文部科学大臣賞に東工大・李恒さん「第35回独創性を拓く先端技術大賞」受賞者発表

産経新聞社, プレスリリース, Jun, 2022 Newspaper, magazine
柔らかく伸びる光センサシートを開発

中央大学, 研究支援室, +C特集, May, 2022 Internet
A flexible, in-pipe sensor sheet for the continuous monitoring of liquid quality

Chuo University・Tokyo Institute of Technology・Osaka University, Press release, May, 2022 Internet
New Nondestructive Broadband Imager Is the Next Step Towards Advanced Technology

Tokyo Institute of Technology・Chuo Unievrsity, Press release, Jun, 2021 Internet
Novel Flexible Terahertz Camera Can Inspect Objects with Diverse Shapes

Tokyo Institute of Technology・RIKEN, Press release, Feb, 2021 Internet
A Flexible Approach to Terahertz Imaging

OPTICA, Optics and Photonics News, Feb, 2021 Newspaper, magazine
シート状電磁波カメラ

TV Tokyo, World Business Satellite, Jan, 2021 TV or radio program
テラヘルツ波

TV Tokyo, News Morning Satellite, Oct, 2018 TV or radio program
指先につけるだけで非破壊検査が出来るデバイス

TBS, Mirai no Kigen, Aug, 2018 TV or radio program

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