{"id":2098,"date":"2026-06-30T10:40:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T01:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kosaka-lab.ynu.ac.jp\/en\/?p=2098"},"modified":"2026-06-30T10:40:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T01:40:41","slug":"20260630","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kosaka-lab.ynu.ac.jp\/en\/news2026\/20260630\/","title":{"rendered":"QIC Project &#8220;Development of Diamond Photonic Crystal Quantum Sensors&#8221; Selected for NEDO Frontier Development Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yokohama National University has been selected for the NEDO Leading Research Program \/ Frontier Development Program under the newly established Quantum Sensing field.<\/p>\n<p>Our adopted project, &#8220;Development of Diamond Photonic Crystal Quantum Sensors,&#8221; is led by Professor Hideo Kosaka, Director of QIC. The project is carried out in collaboration with Toyohashi University of Technology, The University of Tokyo, the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), and the National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST).<\/p>\n<p>The Frontier Development Program is a national initiative that promotes research and commercialization in emerging fields with the potential to create new industries beyond 2040.<\/p>\n<p>Our project aims to develop diamond photonic crystal quantum sensors capable of highly sensitive, high-resolution measurements of electrical current, magnetic fields, temperature, and other physical quantities, as well as high-throughput quantum imaging.<br \/>\n&nbsp;By advancing Diamond-on-Insulator (DOI) technology for the stable and cost-effective production of quantum-grade diamond, together with photonic integration, chiplet technologies, and precision measurement techniques, the research seeks to establish key technologies for future industrial applications.<br \/>\nIn addition to applications such as non-destructive semiconductor inspection, the project also aims to establish a quantum technology platform that can contribute to future advances in quantum computing and quantum communication, building on QIC&#8217;s expertise in quantum repeater research.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2099\" style=\"width: 397px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2099\" class=\"wp-image-2099 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/kosaka-lab.ynu.ac.jp\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/5ff5557a36808ed6941e7610fb6dc3a4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"387\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kosaka-lab.ynu.ac.jp\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/5ff5557a36808ed6941e7610fb6dc3a4.png 387w, https:\/\/kosaka-lab.ynu.ac.jp\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/5ff5557a36808ed6941e7610fb6dc3a4-300x164.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 387px) 100vw, 387px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2099\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Conceptual illustration of the research (created based on an AI-generated image)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yokohama National University has been selected for the NEDO Leading Research Program \/ Frontier Development Program under the newly established Quantum Sensing field. Our adopted project, &#8220;Development of Diamond Photonic Crystal Quantum Sensors,&#8221; is led by Professor Hideo Kosaka, Director of QIC. The project is carried out in collaboration with Toyohashi University of Technology, The University of Tokyo, the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), and the National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST). The Frontier Development Program is a national initiative that promotes research and commercialization in emerging fields with the potential to create new industries beyond 2040. Our project aims to develop diamond photonic crystal quantum sensors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"news_cat":[43],"class_list":["post-2098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news2026","news_cat-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosaka-lab.ynu.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosaka-lab.ynu.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosaka-lab.ynu.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosaka-lab.ynu.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosaka-lab.ynu.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2098"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kosaka-lab.ynu.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2102,"href":"https:\/\/kosaka-lab.ynu.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098\/revisions\/2102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosaka-lab.ynu.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosaka-lab.ynu.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosaka-lab.ynu.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosaka-lab.ynu.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2098"},{"taxonomy":"news_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosaka-lab.ynu.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_cat?post=2098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}