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Oct	02	19	Sreenath Mylo Valappil-san newly added to our laboratory members. He is a JICA Friendship scholarship student from India Institute of Technology and is going to enter the doctor course of our department next April. He will study as a research student for half year until entering the doctor course.
Oct	01	19	On Sep 30, Sakai, Takuya-kun (M2), Yoshitake (AP), and Dr. Sakai of Kurume College visited Research Institute of Nanodevice and Bio Systems,Hiroshima University, and did electron lithography experiments. Owing to staffs of the institute, the experiments were successively completed.
Sep	25	19	The conferment ceremony of the year 2019 for September graduation was held today. Egiza-san received a doctorate in philosophy. he is going to work as a post-doctral researcher for a while before returning to his academic position in Egypt (lectuler of Kafrelsheikh University).
Sep	24	19	Yoshitake joined Japan Society of Applied Physics Autumn Meeting held at Hokkaido University on September 18-21, 2019, and gave oral and poster presentations and worked as a cheirman in a session there. This meeting gives many oppotunities to get new information and communicate with a variety kind of researchers. The nature of Hokkaido Uuniversity is so nice!
Sep	17	19	Abdelrahman-san (PD) and Egiza-san（D3） joined the 30th International Conference on Diamond and Carbon Materials held in Silvia, Spain on September , 2019, and had oral presentations. They seem to have enjoyed discussing with a variety of researchers there.
Aug	07	19	Shi-san (M1) belonging to Campus Asia Program will return to Shanghai Jiao Tong University from this. Simultaneously, Hamasaki-kun and Morita-kun (M1) will study at Shanghai Jiao Tong University from this until next January.
Aug	02	19	This afternoon, the doctor thesis defence of Egiza-san was held, he gave a great presentation on his doctor thesis research for three years. At present, we are carrying out JST A-STEP Project on nanodiamond hard coating, and it is strongly supported by Egiza-san's efforts.
Jul	24	19	Tanaka-ku (M2), Takuya Sakai-kun (M2), and Yoshitake (AP) joined the 5th Asia-Pacific Conference on Semiconducting Silicides and Related Materials, 2019 (APAC-Silicide 2019) held at Seagaia Convention Center, Miyazaki, Japan on July 20-23, 2019. Dr. Sakai of Kurume College, who is a coworker in our spintronics research, also joined. In addition to the conference, we could enjoy an excursion to Udo Shrine and Aoshima Island.
Jul	12	19	Today, we measured X-ray photoemission and near-edge X-ray absorption fine-structure spectra for nanodiamond films at beamline 12 of Kyushu Synchrotron Light Reaserch Center/Saga Light Source. They are kindly supported by Dr. Kobayashi of Saga-LS staff.
Jul	08	19	This evening, we opened a farewell party for Nicolas-san and welcome party for Promros-san at our laboratory. During the internship of Nicolas-san for three months, we could enjoy not only a research but also sports and drinking together. We are waiting for his coming again!
Jun	07	19	Temsawat, Pattanakul-kun, Inthasorn, Chawisa-san, Sookprasert, Thitiya-san (from left side in order) came to our lab from Dept. of Appl. Phys., King Mongkut's Inst. of Techn. Ladkrabang, Thailand. They have internships until July 31, 2019.
Jun	01	19	Today, our department opened an softball tournament annually. This year also, our lab joined together with Nakashima Lab and Fujita Lab. We were beaten by Nishida-Itakura Lab in the final, and resultantly we were a vice-champion.
May	24	19	This evening, lab members that like drinking joined a sparkling wine event at Tenjin, and they enjoyed drinking and talking under a lively atmosphere there. This became a good welcome party for Nicolas-san.
May	19	19	Ali-san (D1) and Egiza-san (D3) attended 13th New Diamond and Nano Carbons Conference held in Taiwan on May 12-17, 2009, and had oral and poster presentations there. They seem to have had valuable discussions. In addition, they were together with our lab graduates, Dr. Ohmagari of AIST and Dr. Katamune of Kyushu Institute of Technology.
May	18	19	Today the open campus was held, and many visitors, particularly families with children, came, owing to a collaboration with Ohnojo city. Our booth on diamond was always occupied by child visitors until the end of the open campus (5PM).
May	15	19	This Saturday (May 18), Chikushi campus is open for public. Our lab is going to open a booth on diamond at Room 310 of C-Cube building. We are willing to show our lab including experimental apparatuses for candidate students. The pamphlet of our department in Japanese was updated for the 2019.
May	02	19	Our lab opened an almuni party near Hakata station during GW, precisely in the evening on May 2. Graduates from 20 years ago to recent years joined, and the party became a good opptunity to form fridenly relationships among different generations.
Apr	12	19	Nicolas-san (M1) came from Grenoble Alps University, France, to do an internship research on nanodiamond. The period is from April 12 to July 10, 2019. At present, Eslam-san (D1) is doing an internship at Néel Institut, France, under Prof. Julian PERNOT of Grenoble Alps University/Néel Institut.
Apr	08	19	This evening, our lab opened a welcome party for new students at Asahi Beer Garden located in Hakata. We spent a joyful time having and drinking. We wish to be challenging this year because we initiate researches and setup apparatuses newly this year.
Apr	06	19	This year, 6 students newly came to our lab. Concretely, Isono-kun (B4) is a B4 student of Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, School of Engineering. As new master course students, Hamasaki-kun and Morita-kun came from Kumamoto College, National Institute of Technology, and Ohue-kun came from Department of electronics, Yamaguchi University. In addition, as a Campus Asia (CA) Program student, Shi-san came from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. She will study for a half year. To enter the doctoral course of our department from this October, Sittimart-san came from King Mongkut's Inst. of Techn. Ladkrabang, Thailand, and study as a research student for a half year. He is a scholarship student of JICA Seed-Net PhD Japan Program.
Mar	20	19	The conferment ceremony of the year 2018 was held. Takeichi-kun received a doctorate in engineering, and Ishimoto-kun and Uchida-kun received master's degree.in engineering,. Lee-kun graduated from the undergraduate school of engineering. To our happiness, Ishimoto-kun received ASEM Award from our department. After the ceremony, we opened a celebration dinner party for the graduates, together with Honjo-Sakaguchi Lab and Hata Lab.
Mar	15	19	On March 13-15, X-ray photoemission spectroscopic measurements were made for ultrananocrystalline diamond films at the beamline 12 of Kyushu Synchrotron Light Research Center/Saga Light Source. Tanaka-kun (M1), Hoshino-kun (M1), Ali-san (D1), Egiza-san (D3), Takeichi-kun (D3), and Yoshitake joined. We could measure as planed, owing to a support of Dr. Kobayashi of the line staff.
Mar	08	19	Prof. Honjo of the same group gave the very last lecture at Chikushi Hall this afternoon. Then, a celebration party was held at the third floor of C-Cube. From our laboratory also, emeritus prof. Miyoshi and graduates got together and celebrated his retirement.
Mar	06	19	We made a day-trip to Miyajima, Hiroshima Prefecture on Mar 6. Since we used bullet trains for transport, we had sufficient time for staying in Miyajima. We could enjoy sightseeing, drinking, eating, and shopping together!
Mar	01	19	To our happiness, Ali-san (D1) received an presentation award from JSAP Kyushu Chapter for his oral presentation entitled "Pulsed-Bias Effects on Mechanical Properties of Ultrananocrystalline Diamond Films Deposited on Cemented Carbide Substrates by Coaxial Arc Plasma" at the annual conference held last December. His daily efforts were rewarded.
Feb	27	19	Dr. Abdelrahman (PD) returned from North Carolina State University. He worked as a visiting scientist at Prof. Narayan's group in Department of Material science and Engineering, North Carolina State University for three months. He seems to have learned a lot concerning the way of progessing researches in US and Q-carbon. We deeply appreciate the acceptance with much kindness of Prof. Narayan and lab members.
Feb	05	19	The doctor thesis defense of Takeichi-kun (D3) was held this morning. He gave a great presentation on his research for five years as a Green Asia Program student. He is going to work for OSG Corp. Ltd as a researcher from April.
Feb	01	19	Yoshitake attended Nano Tech 2019 held at Big Sight on Jan 30-Feb and introduced our research on nanodiamond coating at Kyushu Synchrotron Research Center/Saga-LS booth. He could know needs of companies concerning our researches. He appreciated the kind cooperation of Kyushu Synchrotron Research Center/Saga-LS members.
Jan	25	19	We opened a new year party at Asahi Beer Garden in Hakata this evening. We could enjoy drinking fresh beers and eating delicious grilled meats, together with internship students and Dr. Promors from KMIT. From this, we will do our best in the bachelor, master, and doctor theses defenses.
Jan	10	19	Dr. Hanashima had an opportunity to drop by Fukuoka, so we had a meeting on an collaboration research from this. We could have fruitful discussions having fresh raw fishes and butterflies at a Japanese food restaurant located near Hakata Station. Dr. Sakai of Kurume College, NIT also joined.

Department of Applied Science for Electronics and Materials, Kyushu University