On behalf of the organizing committees of the 14th International Conference on Global Research and Education, Inter-Academia 2015, we are very pleased to publish the JJAP Conference Proceedings for readers who have interests in the Material Science and Technology, Micro- and Nano-technology, Biology and Biomaterial, Environmental Engineering, Optics and Electromagnetic Wave, and Informatics.
The Inter-Academia 2015 was held at Congress Center of Act City Hamamatsu from 28 to 30 September 2015. 13 years have already passed since the first Inter-Academia was held in 2002, in Bratislava, Slovakia. Through all the conferences over the years, we have been building strong relationships and extensive collaboration between 12 Universities in European countries and Japan. Nowadays, activities related to Inter-Academia, such as international joint research, double degree special program for doctoral course are the most important education and research activities. Furthermore, the Inter-Academia conference provides important opportunities for young researchers, as well as for graduate students to create a global scientific network and to discuss new ideas and developments in the science and technology on the wide range of research fields.
More than 140 faculty members, graduate students and post-doc researchers from Japan, Poland, Romania, Hungary, Belarus, Latvia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Slovakia, Russia, Lithuania, Malaysia, and Indonesia, participated in the conference in which 2 plenary talks, 44 contributed talks and 67 posters were presented.
Based on the research activities presented, the papers submitted to this conference were screened through the standard review process of the Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. The peer-reviewed 43 papers were published in this JJAP Conference Proceedings.
Lastly, we would like to express our gratitude to all reviewers and the organizing committee members for their contributions, and to Suzuki Foundation and Shizuoka University for their financial supports.
Masaaki Nagatsu
Conference chair of Inter-Academia 2015
Shizuoka University, Japan
