An Essential Quality of a Researcher Is Persistence. Believe What You Are Doing Will Go Well

摘要

The annual power consumption of datacenters in Japan accounted for 1% of Japan’s total power consumption in 2015. As the speed and capacity of data processing and transmission increases, power consumption is steadily increasing, and reducing that consumption is becoming a serious issue. To address this issue, Dr. Shinji Matsuo, a senior distinguished researcher at NTT Device Technology Laboratories and NTT Basic Research Laboratories, is researching and developing innovative technologies for high-density integration of compound semiconductors on silicon substrates to enable photonics-electronics converged integrated circuits. We interviewed him about the progress of his research and his attitude as a researcher.