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Masayoshi Esashi

Masayoshi Esashi

D-Index & Metrics

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
72
Citations
21025
World Ranking
805
National Ranking
17

Materials Science

D-Index
72
Citations
20793
World Ranking
4003
National Ranking
176

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal “For pioneering contributions to micro- electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), and their uses in automobiles, cellular phones, industrial equipment, and medical devices.”

Overview

Masayoshi Esashi is a researcher affiliated with Tohoku University in Japan, specializing in engineering and physics with a focus on micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) and related technologies. Their work spans several subfields including electrical and electronic engineering, atomic and molecular physics, biomedical engineering, materials chemistry, and bioengineering.

Esashi's research interests are centered around mechanical and optical resonators, advanced MEMS and NEMS technologies, and acoustic wave resonator technologies. They have also contributed to topics related to photonic and optical devices, force microscopy techniques and applications, semiconductor materials and devices, and silicon nanostructures and photoluminescence.

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing
  • Microsystems & Nanoengineering
  • Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
  • Sensors and Materials
  • Microsystem Technologies

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Masayoshi Esashi include:

  • "Internal resonance in coupled oscillators - Part I: A double amplification mass sensing scheme without Duffing nonlinearity," 2021, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing
  • "Synchronous identification and successive detection of multiple traces with tunable coupling oscillators," 2021, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing
  • "Internal resonance in coupled oscillators - Part II: A synchronous sensing scheme for both mass perturbation and driving force with duffing nonlinearity," 2021, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing
  • "MEMS development focusing on collaboration using common facilities: a retrospective view and future directions," 2021, Microsystems & Nanoengineering
  • "Development of a massively parallel electron beam write (MPEBW) system: aiming for the digital fabrication of integrated circuits," 2022, Japanese Journal of Applied Physics

The scientist has collaborated frequently with researchers such as Cao Xia, Dong F. Wang, Takahito Ono, Toshihiro Itoh, and Jie Song.

In 2016, Masayoshi Esashi received the IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal for contributions to the field of MEMS and their applications in automobiles, cellular phones, industrial equipment, and medical devices.

Best Publications

  • Microflow devices and systems

    Shuchi Shoji;Masayoshi Esashi

  • Future of Active Catheters

    Geunbae Lim;Kitae Park;M. Sugihara;Kazuyuki Minami

  • Ultrathin single-crystalline-silicon cantilever resonators: Fabrication technology and significant specimen size effect on Young’s modulus

    Xinxin Li;Takahito Ono;Yuelin Wang;Masayoshi Esashi

  • Wafer level packaging of MEMS

    Masayoshi Esashi

  • Energy dissipation in submicrometer thick single-crystal silicon cantilevers

    Jinling Yang;T. Ono;M. Esashi

  • Vacuum packaging for microsensors by glass-silicon anodic bonding

    H. Henmi;S. Shoji;Y. Shoji;K. Yoshimi

  • Deep reactive ion etching of Pyrex glass using SF6 plasma

    Xinghua Li;Takashi Abe;Masayoshi Esashi

  • Thermal radiation from two-dimensionally confined modes in microcavities

    S. Maruyama;T. Kashiwa;H. Yugami;M. Esashi

  • Integrated Micro Multi Ion Sensor Using Field Effect of Semiconductor

    Masayoshi Esashi;Tadayuki Matsuo

  • Ultra-miniature fiber-optic pressure sensor using white light interferometry

    Kentaro Totsu;Yoichi Haga;Masayoshi Esashi

  • Normally close microvalve and micropump fabricated on a silicon wafer

    M. Esashi;S. Shoji;A. Nakano

  • Surface effects and high quality factors in ultrathin single-crystal silicon cantilevers

    Jinling Yang;Takahito Ono;Masayoshi Esashi

  • Mass sensing of adsorbed molecules in sub-picogram sample with ultrathin silicon resonator

    Takahito Ono;Xinxin Li;Hidetoshi Miyashita;Masayoshi Esashi

  • ISFET's using inorganic gate thin films

    H. Abe;M. Esashi;T. Matsuo

  • Electrostatically Levitated Ring-Shaped Rotational-Gyro/Accelerometer

    Takao Murakoshi;Yasuo Endo;Keisuke Fukatsu;Sigeru Nakamura

  • Normally closed microvalve and mircopump fabricated on a silicon wafer

    Masayoshi Esashi;Shuichi Shoji;Akira Nakano

  • Mechanical behavior of ultrathin microcantilever

    Jinling Yang;Takahito Ono;Masayoshi Esashi

  • Micropump and sample-injector for integrated chemical analyzing systems

    Shuichi Shoji;Shigeru Nakagawa;Masayoshi Esashi

  • Micro-discharge and electric breakdown in a micro-gap

    Takahito Ono;Dong Youn Sim;Masayoshi Esashi

  • Silicon micromachined two-dimensional galvano optical scanner

    N. Asada;H. Matsuki;K. Minami;M. Esashi

  • One-chip multichannel quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) fabricated by Deep RIE

    Takashi Abe;Masayoshi Esashi

  • Silicon Micromachining

    M. Esashi

Frequent Co-Authors

Takahito Ono
Takahito Ono Tohoku University
Ken-ya Hashimoto
Ken-ya Hashimoto University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Jing-Feng Li
Jing-Feng Li Tsinghua University
Nobuyoshi Koshida
Nobuyoshi Koshida Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Akihisa Inoue
Akihisa Inoue Josai International University
Akihiro Makino
Akihiro Makino Tohoku University
Michio Kadota
Michio Kadota Tohoku University
Toshiyuki Takagi
Toshiyuki Takagi Tohoku University
Mingwei Chen
Mingwei Chen Southern University of Science and Technology

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