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Journal Publications


  1. Rika Numano, Akihiro Goryu, Yoshihiro Kubota, Hirohito Sawahata, Shota Yamagiwa, Minako Matsuo, Tadahiro Iimura, Hajime Tei, Makoto Ishida and Takeshi Kawano, "Nanoscale-tipped Wire Array Injections Transfer DNA Directly into Brain Cells ex vivo and in vivo," FEBS Open Bio, in press. pdf Open access
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  2. Koji Yamashita, Hirohito Sawahata, Shota Yamagiwa, Shohei Yokoyama, Rika Numano, Kowa Koida and Takeshi Kawano, "A Floating 5 μm-diameter Needle Electrode on the Tissue for Damage-reduced Chronic Neuronal Recording in Mice," Lab on a Chip, Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 747-756, January 2022. pdf SI

  3. Yuto Kita, Shuhei Tsuruhara, Hiroshi Kubo, Hirohito Sawahata, Shota Yamagiwa, Koji Yamashita, Shinnosuke Idogawa, Yu Seikoba, Xian Long Angela Leong, Rika Numano, Kowa Koida and Takeshi Kawano, "Three-micrometer-diameter Needle Electrode with an Amplifier for Extracellular in vivo Recordings," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, Vol. 118, No. 16, e2008233118, April 2021. pdf SI
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  4. Shinnosuke Idogawa, Koji Yamashita, Rioki Sanda, Rika Numano, Kowa Koida and Takeshi Kawano, "A Lightweight, Wireless Bluetooth-low-energy Neuronal Recording System for Mice," Sensors and Actuators B, Vol. 331, 129423, March 2021. pdf SI
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  5. Shinnosuke Idogawa, Koji Yamashita, Yoshihiro Kubota, Hirohito Sawahata, Rioki Sanda, Shota Yamagiwa, Rika Numano, Kowa Koida and Takeshi Kawano, "Coaxial Microneedle-electrode for Multichannel and Local-differential Recordings of Neuronal Activity," Sensors and Actuators B, Vol. 320, 128442, October 2020. pdf SI
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  6. Koji Yamashita, Hirohito Sawahata, Shota Yamagiwa, Yusuke Morikawa, Rika Numano, Kowa Koida and Takeshi Kawano, "Flexible Parylene-thread Bioprobe and the Sewing Method for in vivo Neuronal Recordings," Sensors and Actuators B, Vol. 316, 127835, August 2020. pdf SI

  7. Yusuke Morikawa, Shota Yamagiwa, Hirohito Sawahata, Rika Numano, Kowa Koida and Takeshi Kawano, "Donut-shaped Stretchable Kirigami: Enabling Electronics to Integrate with the Deformable Muscle," Advanced Healthcare Materials,Vol. 8, No. 23, 1900939, December 2019. pdf SI
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  8. Toru Harigai, Yu Miyamoto, Masafumi Yamano, Tsuyoshi Tanimoto, Yoshiyuki Suda, Hirofumi Takikawa, Takeshi Kawano, Mamiko Nishiuchi, Hironao Sakaki, Kiminori Kondo, Satoru Kaneko, Shinsuke Kunitsugu, "Self-supporting Tetrahedral Amorphous Carbon Films Consisting of Multilayered Structure Prepared using Filtered Arc Deposition," Thin Solid Films, Vol. 675, pp. 123-127, April 2019. pdf

  9. Taiki Yasui, Shota Yamagiwa, Hirohito Sawahata, Shinnosuke Idogawa, Yoshihiro Kubota, Yuto Kita, Koji Yamashita, Rika Numano, Kowa Koida and Takeshi Kawano, "A Magnetically Assembled High-Aspect-Ratio Needle Electrode for Recording Neuronal Activity," Advanced Healthcare Materials, Vol. 8, No. 5, 1801081, March 2019. pdf SI

  10. Taiki Yasui, Shota Yamagiwa, Hiroshi Kubo, Shinnosuke Idogawa, Yoshihiro Kubota, and Takeshi Kawano, "Two-step Poly-Si Through-silicon via for High-temperature Process of Bioprobe," IEEJ Transactions on Sensors and Micromachines,Vol. 138, No. 12, pp. 533-538, December 2018. PDF

  11. Yoriko Ando, Hirohito Sawahata, Takeshi Kawano, Kowa Koida and Rika Numano, "Fiber Bundle Endomicroscopy with Multi-illumination for Three-dimensional Reflectance Image Reconstruction," Journal of Biomedical Optics, Vol. 23, No. 2, 020502, February 2018. pdf

  12. Yusuke Morikawa*, Shota Yamagiwa*, Hirohito Sawahata*, Rika Numano, Kowa Koida, Makoto Ishida and Takeshi Kawano, "Ultrastretchable Kirigami Bioprobes," Advanced Healthcare Materials, Vol. 7, No. 3, 1701100, February 2018. pdf SI
    (*These authors contributed equally to this work)
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  13. Yoshihiro Kubota, Shota Yamagiwa, Hirohito Sawahata, Shinnosuke Idogawa, Shuhei Tsuruhara, Rika Numano, Kowa Koida, Makoto Ishida and Takeshi Kawano, "Long Nanoneedle-electrode Devices for Extracellular and Intracellular Recording in vivo," Sensors and Actuators B, Vol. 258, pp. 1287-1294, April 2018. pdf SI

  14. Hirohito Sawahata, Shota Yamagiwa, Airi Moriya, Dong Sheng Teo, Hideo Oi, Yoriko Ando, Rika Numano, Makoto Ishida, Kowa Koida and Takeshi Kawano, "Single 5 μm Diameter Needle-electrode Block Modules for Unit Recordings in vivo," Scientific Reports, Vol. 6, 35806, September 2016. pdf SI
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  15. Yu Miyamoto, Yuma Fujii, Masafumi Yamano, Toru Harigai, Yoshiyuki Suda, Hirofumi Takikawa, Takeshi Kawano, Mamiko Nishiuchi, Hironao Sakaki and Kiminori Kondo, "Preparation of Self-supporting Au Thin Films on Perforated Substrate by Releasing from Water-soluble Sacrificial Layer," Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 55, No. 7S2, 07LE05, June 2016. pdf

  16. Yoshihiro Kubota, Hideo Oi, Hirohito Sawahata, Akihiro Goryu, Yoriko Ando, Rika Numano, Makoto Ishida and Takeshi Kawano, "Nanoscale-tipped High-aspect-ratio Vertical Microneedle Electrodes for Intracellular Recordings," Small, Vol. 12, pp. 2846-2853, June 2016. pdf
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  17. Yoriko Ando, Kowa Koida, Hirohito Sawahata, Takashi Sakurai, Mitsuo Natsume, Takeshi Kawano and Rika Numano, "Reflectance Imaging by Fiber Bundle Endoscope: Vertical Reconstruction by Multipositional Illumination," AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1709, 020009, February 2016. pdf

  18. M. A. Matin, Akihito Ikedo, Takeshi Kawano, Kazuaki Sawada and Makoto Ishida, "Microscale Temperature Sensing using Novel Reliable Silicon Vertical Microprobe Array: Computation and Experiment," Microelectronics Reliability, Vol. 55, No. 12, pp. 2689-2697, December 2015. pdf

  19. Kenji Okabe, Horagodage Prabhath Jeewan, Shota Yamagiwa, Takeshi Kawano, Makoto Ishida and Ippei Akita, "Co-Design Method and Wafer-Level Packaging Technique of Thin-Film Flexible Antenna and Silicon CMOS Rectifier Chips for Wireless-Powered Neural Interface Systems," Sensors, Vol. 15, No. 12, pp. 31821-31832, December 2015. pdf
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  20. Satoshi Yagi, Shota Yamagiwa, Yoshihiro Kubota, Hirohito Sawahata, Rika Numano, Tatsuya Imashioya, Hideo Oi, Makoto Ishida and Takeshi Kawano, "Dissolvable Base Scaffolds allow Tissue Penetration of High-aspect-ratio Flexible Microneedles," Advanced Healthcare Materials, Vol. 4, pp. 1949-1955, September 2015. pdf
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  21. Shota Yamagiwa, Makoto Ishida and Takeshi Kawano, "Flexible Parylene-film Optical Waveguide Arrays," Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 107, 083502, August 2015. pdf SI and Movie

  22. Shota Yamagiwa, Akifumi Fujishiro, Hirohito Sawahata, Rika Numano, Makoto Ishida and Takeshi Kawano, "Layer-by-layer Assembled Nanorough Iridium-oxide/platinum-black for Low-voltage Microscale Electrode Neurostimulation," Sensors and Actuators B, Vol. 206, pp. 205-211, January 2015. pdf

  23. Akifumi Fujishiro, Hidekazu Kaneko, Takahiro Kawashima, Makoto Ishida and Takeshi Kawano, "In vivo Neuronal Action Potential Recordings via Three-dimensional Microscale Needle-electrode Arrays," Scientific Reports, Vol. 4, No. 4868, May 2014. pdf SI

  24. Masahiro Sakata, Tomohiko Nakamura, Tomoyuki Matsuo, Akihiro Goryu, Makoto Ishida and Takeshi Kawano, "Vertically Integrated Metal-clad/Silicon Dioxide-shell Microtube Arrays for High-spatial-resolution Light Stimuli in Saline," Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 104, 164101, April 2014. pdf

  25. Akifumi Fujishiro, Sou Takahashi, Kazuaki Sawada, Makoto Ishida and Takeshi Kawano, "Flexible Neural Electrode Arrays with Switch-matrix based on a Planar Silicon Process," IEEE Electron Device Letters, Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 253-255, February 2014. pdf

  26. Akihiro Goryu, Rika Numano, Akihito Ikedo, Makoto Ishida and Takeshi Kawano, "Nanoscale Tipped Microwire Arrays Enhance Electrical Trap and Depth Injection of Nanoparticles," Nanotechnology, Vol. 23, No. 41, 415301, September 2012. pdf SI

  27. Takeshi Kawano, Chung Yeung Cho and Liwei Lin, "An Overhanging Carbon Nanotube/parylene Core-shell Nanoprobe Electrode," Sensors and Actuators A, Vol. 187, pp. 79-83, November 2012. pdf

  28. Akihiro Okugawa, Kotaro Mayumi, Akihito Ikedo, Makoto Ishida and Takeshi Kawano, "Heterogeneously Integrated Vapor-liquid-solid Grown Silicon probes/(111) and Silicon MOSFETs/(100)," IEEE Electron Device Letters, Vol. 32, No. 5, pp. 683-685, May 2011. pdf

  29. Akihito Ikedo, Makoto Ishida and Takeshi Kawano, "Out-of-plane High-density Piezoresistive Silicon Microwire/p-n Diode Array for Force and Temperature Sensitive Artificial Whisker Sensors," Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, Vol. 21, No. 3, 035007, March 2011. pdf SI

  30. Tetsuhiro Harimoto, Kuniharu Takei, Takeshi Kawano, Akito Ishihara, Takahiro Kawashima, Hidekazu Kaneko, Makoto Ishida and Shiro Usui, "Enlarged Gold-tipped Silicon Microprobe Arrays and Signal Compensation for Multi-site Electroretinogram Recordings in the Isolated Carp Retina," Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Vol. 26, No. 5, pp. 2368-2375, January 2011. pdf SI

  31. Akihiro Goryu, Akihito Ikedo, Makoto Ishida and Takeshi Kawano, "Nanoscale Sharpening Tips of Vapor-liquid-solid Grown Silicon Microwire Arrays," Nanotechnology, Vol. 21, No. 12, 125302, March 2010. pdf

  32. Takeshi Kawano, Tetsuhiro Harimoto, Akito Ishihara, Kuniharu Takei, Takahiro Kawashima, Shiro Usui and Makoto Ishida, "Electrical Interfacing between Neurons and Electronics via Vertically-integrated Sub-4 Micron-diameter Silicon Probe Arrays Fabricated by Vapor-liquid-solid Growth," Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Vol. 25, No. 7, pp. 1809-1815, March 2010. pdf

  33. Kuniharu Takei, Takeshi Kawano, Takahiro Kawashima, Kazuaki Sawada, Hidekazu Kaneko and Makoto Ishida, "Microtube-based Electrode Arrays for Low Invasive Extracellular Recording with a High Signal-to-noise Ratio," Biomedical Microdevices, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 41-48, February 2010. pdf

  34. Akihito Ikedo, Takahiro Kawashima, Takeshi Kawano and Makoto Ishida, "Vertically Aligned Silicon Microwire Arrays of Various Lengths by Repeated Selective Vapor-Liquid-Solid Growth of n-type Silicon/n-type Silicon," Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 95, 033502, July 2009. pdf
    35. [Also selected as cover page article pdf]

  35. Kuniharu Takei, Takahiro Kawashima, Takeshi Kawano, Hidekazu Kaneko, Kazuaki Sawada and Makoto Ishida, "Out-of-plane Microtube Arrays for Drug Delivery - Liquid Flow Properties and an Application to the Nerve Block Test -," Biomedical Microdevices, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 539-545, June 2009. pdf

  36. Kuniharu Takei, Takahiro Kawashima, Takeshi Kawano, Hidekuni Takao, Kazuaki Sawada and Makoto Ishida, "Integration of Out-of-plane Silicon Dioxide Microtubes, Silicon Microprobes, and On-chip NMOSFETs by Selective Vapor-Liquid-Solid Growth," Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, Vol. 18, No. 3, 035033, March 2008. pdf
    37. [Also selected for 2008 Highlights Collection (JMM)]
    [Also selected for the February 2008 issue of IOP Select]

  37. Takeshi Kawano, Heather Chiamori, Marcel Suter, Zhou Qin, Brian Sosnowchik and Liwei Lin, "An Electrothermal Carbon Nanotube Gas Sensor," Nano Letters, Vol. 7, No. 12, pp. 3686-3690, December 2007. pdf SI

  38. Takeshi Kawano, Dane Christensen, Supin Chen, Chung Yeung Cho and Liwei Lin, "Formation and Characterization of Silicon/Carbon Nanotube/Silicon Heterojunctions by Local Synthesis and Assembly," Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 89, 163510, October 2006. pdf
    39. [Also selected for the October 30, 2006 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology]

  39. Md. Shofiqul Islam, Hiroshi Ishino, Takeshi Kawano, Hidekuni Takao, Kazuaki Sawada and Makoto Ishida, "Realization of In Situ Doped n-Type and p-Type Si-Microprobe Array by Selective Vapor-Liquid-Solid (VLS) Growth Method," Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 44, No. 4B, pp. 2161-2165, April 2005. pdf

  40. Takeshi Kawano, Yoshiko Kato, Ryoji Tani, Hidekuni Takao, Kazuaki Sawada and Makoto Ishida, "Selective Vapor-Liquid-Solid Epitaxial Growth of Micro-Si Probe Electrode Arrays with On-chip MOSFETs on Si (111) Substrates," IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, Vol. 51, No. 3, pp. 415-420, March 2004. pdf

  41. Makoto Ishida, Takeshi Kawano, Masato Futagawa, Yuji Arai, Hidekuni Takao and Kazuaki Sawada, "A Si Nano-micro-wire Array on a Si (111) Substrate and Field Emission Device Applications," Superlattices and Microstructures, Vol. 34, No. 3-6, pp. 567-575, September-December 2003. pdf

  42. Yoshiko Kato, Takeshi Kawano, Yoshiaki Ito, Hidekuni Takao, Kazuaki Sawada and Makoto Ishida, "Signal Conditioning CMOS Circuits Integrated on Si (111) for Image-Recording Sensor of Neural Activity," IEEJ Transactions on Sensors and Micromachines, Vol. 123, No. 9, pp. 363-367, September 2003. pdf

  43. Takeshi Kawano, Hidekuni Takao, Kazuaki Sawada and Makoto Ishida, "Multichannel 5 x 5-Site 3-Dimensional Si Micro-Probe Electrode Array for Neural Activity Recording," Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 42 part 1, No. 4B, pp. 2473-2477, April 2003. pdf

  44. Takeshi Kawano, Yoshiko Kato, Masato Futagawa, Ryoji Tani, Hidekuni Takao, Kazuaki Sawada and Makoto Ishida, "Fabrication and Properties of Ultra Small Si Wire Arrays with Circuits by Vapor-Liquid-Solid Growth," Sensors and Actuators A, Vol. 97-98, pp. 709-715, April 2002. pdf

 

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