Nanotechnology Companies, Research and Degree Programs in Japan

Nanobio & Medicine 3-D Matrix

A leading global peptide solutions company.

Products & Instruments Admatechs

Admatechs, established jointly by Toyota Motor Corporation and Shin-Etsu Chemical Corporation Limited, develops advanced materials. The company's R&D Division is developing several technologies based on VMC combustion technology, for example, coarse particle removal from spherical metal oxide particles, particle surface treatment, and high dispersion of particles.

Products & Instruments Advantest

Advantest Corporation is one of the world's leading automatic test equipment supplier to the semiconductor industry, and also produces electronic and optoelectronic instruments and systems.

Products & Instruments AGC

One of only three global suppliers of EUV lithography photomask blanks, integrating glass material synthesis, polishing and multilayer coating for advanced semiconductor manufacturing.

Products & Instruments Alnair Laboratories

Provides ultra-short pulse laser systems and solutions based on its unique carbon-nanotubes photonic technology.

Products & Instruments Ashizawa Finetech

Grinding and dispersion machines for nanoparticles.

Nanobio & Medicine Braizon Therapeutics

Develops the Brain Access drug delivery platform, using glucose-decorated polymer-micelle nanocapsules to carry therapeutics across the blood-brain barrier for central nervous system diseases.

Products & Instruments Canon

Maker of the FPA-1200NZ2C nanoimprint lithography system, which patterns semiconductor wafers down to a 14 nanometer linewidth by pressing a mask into resist.

Products & Instruments Crestec

EB lithography systems for nanofabrication.

Materials Daicel Corporation

Produces detonation-synthesized nanodiamonds under the DINNOVARE brand, including single-digit-nanometer fluorescent nanodiamonds used in lubricants, thermal stabilizers, and biosensing.

Products & Instruments DISCO

Provides precision dicing, grinding and polishing equipment and tooling used to cut and thin semiconductor wafers and electronic components to ultra-thin dimensions.

Materials DOWA Electronics Materials

Produces fine metal powders and silver nanoparticles using advanced powder-control technologies, along with compound semiconductor substrates and optoelectronic materials.

Products & Instruments Ebara

Through its precision machinery business, develops chemical mechanical planarization systems that polish semiconductor wafers to nanometer-scale flatness, along with dry vacuum pumps and gas abatement systems.

Products & Instruments Elionix Scientific Instruments

E-beam lithography systems.

Products & Instruments Enplas

Precision molding technology with nanometer precision.

Products & Instruments Fujifilm

The company's nanocubic technology allows the production of nanoscale ultra-thin coatings. In addition, nanoparticle technology is employed to create magnetic needle-shaped metal particles and plate-shaped barium-ferrite particles that are only a few tens of namometers in size, and a new high-molecular binder material and nano-dispersion technology are used to ensure uniform dispersion of the particles.

Materials Fuso Chemical

Manufactures colloidal silica nanoparticles.

Materials Graphene Platform

Supplies made-in-Japan CVD and epitaxial graphene, graphene dispersions and inks, and graphene-based polymer nanocomposites for research and industrial use.

Products & Instruments Hakuto

Manufactures nano-imprint and e-beam lithography systems.

Products & Instruments Hamamatsu Photonics

The company develops optical sensors, photodiodes, opto-semiconductor elements, high-power semiconductor lasers and conducts research in biophotonics.

Products & Instruments Hitachi High-Technologies

The company develops TEM, SEM, FIB and nanomechanical probing systems.

Products & Instruments Honjo Chemical Corporation

Manufactures electrode material for the next generation flat display's panel by using carbon nanotubes.

Products & Instruments HORIBA Jobin Yvon

A manufacturer of spectroscopic systems and metrology products, providing complete solutions for nanomaterials analysis, characterization and nanotechnology research.

Products & Instruments Hosokawa Micron Group

Hosokawa provides process solutions for powder and particle processing including the application, development and commercialization of ultra fine composite particles for nanotechnology.

Products & Instruments HOYA

A leading global supplier of photomask blanks for EUV and optical lithography, producing the multilayer-coated quartz substrates that carry circuit patterns onto silicon wafers.

Materials Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha

Produces titanium dioxide under the TIPAQUE brand, including ultrafine nano titanium dioxide, ultrafine zinc oxide, and electro-conductive nanomaterials.

Products & Instruments Jasco

Spectroscopy instruments for nanotechnology such as near-field photoluminescence spectrometers.

Products & Instruments JEOL

A global supplier of scientific instruments used for research and development in the fields of nanotechnology, life sciences, optical communication, forensics, and biotechnology.

Products & Instruments JSR

Supplies a comprehensive portfolio of semiconductor lithography materials, including photoresists from i-line to EUV and metal-oxide resists, along with multilayer and atomic-layer process materials.

Products & Instruments Kokusai Electric

Specializes in semiconductor deposition equipment, including batch ALD and CVD systems that form nanoscale thin films on wafers, along with thermal processing and film-treatment equipment.

Services KRI, Inc.

Japan's first comprehensive contract research institute holding advanced function covering both contract research and consulting.

Products & Instruments Kuraray

The company produces a nanocomposite barrier film for food packaging.

Products & Instruments Lasertec

The global leader in inspection and metrology systems for EUV and DUV photomasks and mask blanks, detecting nanoscale defects critical to leading-edge chip manufacturing.

Nanobio & Medicine NANO MRNA Co., Ltd.

Applies the manufacturing technology of ultrafine particles termed 'micellar nanoparticles' to use them as carriers for drugs, such as anticancer agents.

Products & Instruments Nanophoton

Develops research instruments with nanotechnology and photonics such as a laser-scanning Raman microscope.

Products & Instruments Nara

A specialist in powder processing - drying, milling, particle design.

Products & Instruments NF Corporation

The company develops high-precision negative feedback control technology. The proprietary technology of NF is used in a wide array of applications - from automobiles, digital appliances, and other high-tech electronic devices to fuel cells, solar power, and other clean energy technologies, as well as nanotechnology and even satellite, rocket, and other aerospace technologies.

Products & Instruments Nikon

Nikon has developed a technology to form a coating with very low refractive index even in the vacuum UV region, and greatly improved the angular performance of antireflection coating. This ultra-low refractive index coating is called Nanoparticle Coating because the size of the particles that compose this coating ranges from a few nanometers to just more than 10 nanometers.

Materials Nippon Shokubai

In 2017 the company announced a successful mass production test of Graphene Oxide based materials. It subsequently has provided graphene oxide based materials as samples for application development.

Products & Instruments Nissan Chemical Industries

The foundation of Nissan Chemical Industries inorganic materials operations is its nanoparticle control technology. Beyond its core businesses and technological areas of organic materials, inorganic materials and electronics materials, the company also manufactures electroconductive nano-sized special polymers.

Products & Instruments NuFlare Technology

The company develops state-of-the-art electron beam mask writers, mask inspection systems and epitaxial growth systems for the manufacture of semiconductor devices.

Materials Resonac

Produces VGCF vapor-grown carbon nanofibers and multi-walled carbon nanotubes used as conductive additives in lithium-ion batteries, along with semiconductor and electronic materials.

Products & Instruments Rigaku

A leader in the fields of X-ray spectrometry, X-ray diffraction, X-ray optics, as well as small molecule and protein crystallography.

Materials Sakai Chemical Industry

Manufactures ultrafine inorganic nanoparticles, including FINEX-series nano zinc oxide around 20 nm, ultrafine titanium dioxide, and barium titanate for cosmetics, electronics, and ceramics.

Products & Instruments Samco

SAMCO, Inc. is a process equipment company that develops and manufactures a wide variety of unique deposition, etching, and surface treatment systems academic facilities and for a worldwide network of major industrial customers in the compound semiconductor, optoelectronics, MEMS and other industries.

Products & Instruments Shin-Etsu Chemical

The world leading producer of semiconductor silicon wafers, also supplying photoresists, photomask blanks and spin-on hardmask materials used across the nanofabrication process.

Materials Tanaka Precious Metals

Produces precious-metal nanoparticles, gold nanoshells and sub-nanometer metal clusters, along with nanoparticle catalysts for fuel cells and conductive materials for electronics.

Materials Tayca Corporation

Manufactures MT-series micro titanium dioxide with particle sizes of 10 to 50 nm for ultraviolet shielding, along with conductive polymers and piezoelectric materials.

Products & Instruments Tokyo Electron

A leading maker of semiconductor production equipment spanning deposition, etch, cleaning, thermal processing and lithography coating systems for ultra-fine device patterning.

Products & Instruments Tokyo Ohka Kogyo

A market-leading photoresist manufacturer supplying lithography materials from i-line to EUV for the production of cutting-edge semiconductor circuits at the nanometer scale.

Products & Instruments Tokyo Seimitsu - Accretech

The company develops businesses in two key areas: semiconductor manufacturing equipment and precision measuring systems.

Products & Instruments Topcon

TOPCON supplies semiconductor inspection equipment, FPD equipment, and electron beam instruments used in industries such as semiconductor and FPD. TOPCON also supplies optical engines for projectors and optical device for new-generation DVDs.

Products & Instruments Toray Industries

Toray develops advanced nanotech materials such as carbon nanotubes, fibers, laminated film and nano-alloy polymers.

Products & Instruments ULVAC

Develops and manufactures vacuum-based thin-film deposition, sputtering and etching systems used in the production of semiconductors, displays and other nanoscale electronic devices.

Products & Instruments Unisoku

Unisoku creates optical instruments and surface analysis systems such as scanning probe microscope systems.

Materials Zeon

Produces ZEONANO single-walled carbon nanotubes manufactured by the super-growth method, offering high aspect ratio, high purity and large specific surface area for energy and electronics applications.

Materials Zeon Corporation

In late 2015, Zeon Corporation completed and begun operation of the world's first mass production plant for carbon nanotubes using the Super-growth method developed by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology.

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