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Dec	17	14	Harasaki-kun (internship student from Kurume National College of Technology), Egiza-san (M1), Naragino-kun (D2), Tominaga-san (RA), and Yoshitake (AP) measured XRD and X-ray photoemission spectra at beamline 15 and 12 of the Saga Light Source on Dec 16 and 17, 2014.
Dec	15	14	Takahara-kun (M2), Naragino-kun (D2), Topminaga-san (RA), and Yoshitake (AP) attended Pacific Rim Symposium on Surfaces, Coatings and Interfaces (PacSurf 2014) held at Hapuna Beach Prince Hotel, the Big Island of Hawaii on Dec. 7-11, 2014. We met Dr. Promros at the conference. We had dreamy days there. We could release daily stresses and charge energies.
Dec	06	14	Abdelrahman-san (D1) attended 2014 MRS Fall Meeting (Nov. 30 - December 5, 2014, Boston, Massachusetts) and had oral and poster presentations. He seems to have learned a lot from discussions with specialists on diamond.
Oct	28	14	Hard X-ray photoemission spectroscopic measurements were examined for nanocrystalline diamond films under the direction of Dr. Ikenaga at the beamline 47XU of Spring 8 on Oct 25-27, 2014. Together with Prof. Sugiyama, Dr. Kamitani, and Dr. Hanada of Research Center for Synchrotron Light Applications, Kyushu University, Takeichi-kun (M1), Katamune-kun (D2), Tominaga-san (RA), and Yoshitake (AP) joined from our lab. Thanks to the support of Dr. Ikenaga and Prof. Sigiyama, the measurements could successively be made.
Oct	14	14	We are greatly honored that Naragino-kun (D2) was selected as a JSPS Young Research Fellow (DC2)! His daily efforts were rewarded.
Oct	13	14	The internship of Harasaki-kun belonging to Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Kurume national College of Technology started from today. He experience a research on nanodiamond coating under the direction of Naragino-kun and Egiza-san for three months. On the other hand, Tarek-san returned from an internship at Sun Edison Company. He seems to learn a lot through works at the company.
Oct	15	14	JSPS Japan-France Workshop on Diamond Power Devices (sponsor: NIMS, cosponsors: Green Asia (GA) Program, Kyushu University and Research and Education Center for Advanced Energy Materials, Devices, and Systems, Kyushu University) was held at Nishijin Plaza of Kyushu University, Fukuoka, and Kuju Joint Training Center, Oita on Octorber 6-10, 2014. We strongly contributed to the steering of the workshop as a host. The workshop consisted of sophisticated presentations and we could learn a lot. Particularly, we could gain a valuable experience in the steering of the workshop.
Oct	01	14	Takeichi-kun (M1) was enrolled in the GA Program and Egiza-san entered G30 master's course today. The page of lab members was updated for the 2nd semester of 2014.
Aug	28	14	Today, Dr. Promros, Dalin Prajakkan-san, and Phongsaphak Sittimard-kun completed the internship and left for Thailand. Iwasaki-kun from Miyakonojo National College of Technology reported the results of his internship research and then we opened a farewell tea party in the evening. The laboratory will become silent temporality. Next month, Katamune-kun (D2) and Ishibashi-kun (M1) is going to return from internships at NIMS and Mitsubishi Electric. Corp. on Sep 1 and 8. respectively.
Aug	27	14	The 15th IUMRS-ICA (International Union of Materials Research Societies, International Conference in Asia) was held in Fukuoka University on Aug. 24-28, 2014. DC and foreign students attended and had oral and poster presentations. To our happiness, Dr. Ohmagari, who graduated from DC last year and works for AIST at present, received Young Scientist Award Bronze for his oral presentation on his DC research. He was awarded in the banquet of the conference.
Aug	18	14	Iwasaki-kun, who is a student of Miyakonojo National College of Technology, came to our lab to do his internship for two weeks. He is going to experience a research on nanodiamond under the direction of Gima-kun (D1) and Abdelrahman-san (D1). This evening we held a BBQ party in our campus together with Honjo Lab. We could spent a joyful time without facing sudden rain.
Aug	12	14	Today, Mr. Izumi, who graduated from MC three years ago, dropped by our lab on the way to his parent's home from Shiga prefecture. We celebrated his marriage at first. We were so glad to hear his active daily life in public and private. He looked so happy to meet Dr. Promros who had progresses the research on semiconducting iron disilicides together in their students.
Aug	03	14	Dr. Promros, who graduated from DC two years ago and at present works for King Mongkut's Inst. of Tech. Ladkrabang as a lecturer, came to our lab to do a collaborative research financially supported by JICA, together with his bachelor students, Ms. Dalin Prajakkan and Mr. Phongsaphak Sittimard. Simultaneously with their coming, T. Hanada-kun (D1) came back after completing an internship at UBE Technical Center (Asia) in Thailand for two months.
Jul	22	14	International conference and summer school on advanced silicide technology 2014 was held at Tokyo University of Science, Katsushika Campus in Tokyo on July 19-21, 2014. Tarek-san (M1), takahara-kun (M2), Asai-kun (M2), Sakai-kun (D2), and Yoshitake (AP) attended and had presentations. We learned a lot and were motivated by other researches.
Jul	01	14	Naragino-kun (D2) and Dr. Tominaga (RA) attended an annual meeting of chemistry and related societies in Kyushu and had poster presentations. To our happiness, Naragino-kun got an award for young researchers.
May	31	14	Today, our department opened a annual softball tournament. Although we expected that we are eliminated in the preliminary league, we advanced to a final game. In the final game, we had a seesaw game with Nishida&Fujino lab and finally we lost in a walk-off. We did our best under the burning sun. In the evening, we opened a drinking party at a Izakaya near a campus.
May	25	14	Japan-France Workshop on Diamond Devices is going to be held in Kuju Joint Training Center for National Universities in Kyushu Area on 6-10 October, 2014. Kyushu University Kuju Training Center is a candidate for staying. Together with Prof. Dr. S. Koizumi, who is a chief researcher of senior of Wide Bandgap Materials Group of NIMS and the main manager of the workshop, we visited the centers in advance and checked what we should do from this.
May	21	14	After weekly meeting, we opened a welcome and farewell party for Dr. Promros. Dr. Promros got a grant for collaboration with us from JICA. In August, he is going to come again together with his two students next time.
May	19	14	Several members that like beers very much joined a beer festival named "Belgian Beer Weekend" "held in Fukuoka Tenjin, to give a welcome to Dr. Promros. We could spend a joyful time drinking amazingly delicious beers.
May	09	14	Mr. Mohri, who graduated from a master's course seven years ago, visited our lab. We could talk about a variety of matters and were very glad to know that he actively and successively works in his company.
May	08	14	This Saturday, an open campus is going to be held. We will open a booth entitled "Fabrication of diamond from charcoal". http://www.tj.kyushu-u.ac.jp/archive/open-campus/2014/2014pamphlet.pdf For candidate students for entrance examinations, we will show apparatuses and explain our researches. We are waiting for your coming at Room 505 of C-Cube.
May	02	14	yesterday, Dr. Promros, who graduated from the doctoral course of our department two years ago and works for King Mongkut's Inst. of Tech. Ladkrabang as a lecturer at present, came to our lab to do a collaboration research financially supported by JICA. He is going to stay until the end of this month. Today, Mr. Sonoda, who graduated from a master course tow years ago and works for Nippon Steel Corp. and Sumitomo Metal Indus. at present, dropped by the laboratory on the way to his parent's home. I was very glad that he looked so happy and highly motivated to achieve success in his company.
Apr	08	14	Today, an entrance ceremony was held, and 7 new students entered our lab. The numbers of DC, MC, and research students are 3, 3, and 1, respectively. For the DC students, they came from Aswan University in Egypt and the same lab (2). The MC students are from Sasebo National College of Technology, Kumamoto National College of Technology, and Ariake National College of Technology. The research student came from Kafrelsheikh University in Egypt and is going to enter the MC this autumn. Both Egyptian students are financially supported by the scholarship of Egyptian Government.
Apr	05	14	Yesterday, we opened a send off & welcome party at Asahi Beer Garden in Hakata in the evening. We celebrated the job-hunting success of Ms. Masuda who had worked for our lab as a technical staff until last March. In addition, we welcomed three new students, Mr. Ishibashi, Mr. Baba, and Mr. Takeichi, and new technical staff, Ms. Miyakawa. Owing to joining of Prof. Miyoshi and graduates working in Fukuoka, we could communicate with different-generation members.
Mar	25	14	Today, a conferment ceremony was held. In the evening, we opened a party to celebrate the graduates, together with Honjo Lab. We appreciated their much efforts and celebrate their graduations.
Mar	14	14	We opened a send off party for Dr. Shaban, who was going to return to Aswan University this week. Since he is a graduate from our lab and understand the research of our laboratory, we could effectively progress the research. We will keep a collaboration research with him from this, and will have a opportunity to meet again in the near future.
Mar	09	14	We went to Usa and Kunisaki areas in Ooita prefecture on March 7-8, 2014 as an annual lab travel. We could enjoy sightseeing owing to fine days. We stayed at a nice hotel having natural hot spring and could refresh mentally and physically.
Feb	03	14	Mr. Nomoto, who graduated from MC, visited our lab together with his pregnant wife before his leaving for Australia this month. He was selected as a scholarship doctoral course student of New South Wells University and is going to study advanced solar cells. Since Dr. Shaban and Dr. K. Hanada, who spent the same time in their students, were together today, I remembered the laboratory atmosphere of several years ago.
Jan	14	14	Naragino-kun (D1) and Dr. Tominaga (RA) attended an annual meeting of the Japanese Society for Synchrotron radiation Research held at Hiroshima Congress Center on 10-13 Jan 2014. They seem to have had discussions and communications with excellent researchers belonging to other organizations.

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