Unisoku 2018
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株式会社ユニソク

設立

昭和 49 年 11 月

代表取締役社長
所在地
資本金
事業

取引銀行
社員数

沿

Message from CEO

COMPANY PROFILE

会社概要
宮武

優

大阪府枚方市春日野 2 丁目 4 番 3 号
5000 万走査型プローブ顕微鏡、高速分光

TRADE NAMECEOFOUNDATIONLOCATIONCAPITAL
BUSINESS「研究開発分野」にて事業

BANKS

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EMPLOYEES

京都銀行・三菱 UFJ 銀行・商工総合中央金庫

UNISOKU CO., LTD
Yutaka Miyatake
NOV. 1974
2-4-3 Kasugano, Hirakata, Osaka, Japan
50,000,000 JPY
Manufacturing and sales of our own UHV LT SPM andkinetic spectroscopy system, research and development
Bank of Kyoto, MUFG Bank, Ltd. ,The Shoko Chukin Bank46

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株式会社ユニオン測器を設立。旋光計、光散乱測定装置の販売を開始。資本金 2,500,000 円
商号を株式会社ユニソクと変更。ストップトフロー・レーザー分光システムを販売開始
増資・・・資本金 5,000,000 円
大気中で使用する走査型トンネル顕微鏡を完成、販売開始
超高真空 STM 装置を製品化、販売開始
増資・・・資本金 10,000,000 円
極低温超高真空 STM を製品化、販売開始
増資・・・資本金 25,000,000 円
事業拡大のため本社を移設
２K 強磁場環境極低温超高真空 STM 装置を製品化、販売開始（NEDO プロジェクトにて開発）
400mk 強磁場環境極低温 STM 装置を製品化、販売開始（NEDO プロジェクトにて開発）
2006 年ナノテク大賞 自社技術による走査型プローブ顕微鏡
枚方市より「ものづくり事業者表彰式」の優秀賞を受賞
JST 先端計測機器開発による 4 プローブ SPM 装置を製品化、販売開始
大阪府より「新技術開発功労者」で表彰 極低温走査型プローブ顕微鏡
株式会社ユニソクは株式会社東京インスツルメンツのグループ会社になる
Unisoku-TII Instruments 有限公司を北京に現地法人設立
増資・・・資本金 50,000,000 円
生産能力拡大のため第一工場完成
希釈冷凍方式 40mK 極低温強磁場 STM システムを製品化、販売開始
経済産業省「グローバルニッチトップ企業 100 選（電気電子部門）」に選定
第二工場完成で生産能力 2.5 倍、作業環境を改善
光化学協会技術賞受賞
JST 先端計測機器開発による高速過渡吸収分光装置 picoTAS の製品化
超低ヘリウムロス クライオスタットを自社開発、300 時間ヘリウム温度保持 新型低温 STM 装置

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役員紹介／ Executive introduction

お客様の探究心に応える計測を提供し、お客様の成果を通じて、科学技術の発展に貢献する
ユニソクは、お客様の 観たい”、” 知りたい”、” 突きとめたい” という探究心に応える計測機器を提供することを通じて、お客様による科学上の発見や創造に寄与していきたいと考えています。ユニソクの装置をお使いいただくお客様の成果を通し、科学技術の発展と、便利で豊かな社会の実現に貢献することを目指します。
ユニソクは、お客様の希求する計測を実現する装置を提供するため、自らの技術と知恵を結集し、徹底的に工夫をし、あくなき挑戦を続けます。そして、お客様の研究構想の実現を確かなものとするため、安心してお使いいただけるよ
う品質を高め、納期を守ることはもちろん、お客様に寄り添ったアフターサー
ビスで成果が出るようサポートします。

代表取締役社長

Management Philosophy

宮武優President and CEO Yutaka Miyatake

We contribute to the development of science and technology
through our customers researches by offering them ourmeasuring systems that respond to their inquisitive spirit

UNISOKU aims to contribute not only to the development of scienceand technology but also to convenient and affluent society, by responding
to our customers’ inquisitive spirit with desire to ‘Observe’,‘Know’and ‘Solve’ through our measuring system.
UNISOKU will keep on challenging ourselves to offer instrumentsthat our customers really need by being radically creative and combining
our technology and wisdom. We always strive to improve the qualityof our devices so that customers can use them in relief. We reasonably
meet the delivery due date. We offer considerate after-sales supports
so that our customers can get results.

経営方針
お客様・取引先・社員の満足と幸福の追求
ユニソクは自社の事業分野である、科学計測機器の開発・製造・販売に関係する業界全体の発展と繁栄を希求します。お客様には弊社の製品やサービスを通じて、取引先には技術連携や商務を通じて、社員には自身の仕事に対する顧客や取引先からの評価を通じて、満足と幸福を感じ、ともに発展出来る経営を目指します。

USM1200LL 発売開始

History
Nov.1974
Oct. 1981
Oct. 1985
Apr. 1986
Aug.1989
Oct. 1990
Oct. 1991
Oct. 1997
Oct. 1998
Aug.1999
Oct. 2002
Feb. 2006
Dec. 2006
Mar. 2007
Apr. 2007
Sep. 2010
Sep. 2011
Oct. 2011
Jun. 2012
Dec.2012
Mar.2014
Jul. 2016
Sep. 2016
Sep.2017
Dec.2017

経営理念

Estabishment of Union Sokiki Co.,Ltd. Started the sales of Polarimeters and Light Scattering Spectrometers.
Changed the trade name to UNISOKU. Started the sales of Stopped Flow and Laser Photolysis Systems.
Increased capital to 5,000,000 JPY.
Completed and started the sales of Scanning Tunneling Microscopes for use in the atmosphere.
Productized and started the sales of Ultra High Vacuum STM System.
Increased capital to 10,000,000 JPY.
Productized and started the sales of Ultra Low Temperature Ultra High Vacuum STM System.
Increased capital to 25,000,000 JPY.
Relocation of the head oﬃce ce due to business expansion.
Productized and started the sales of 2K High Magnetic Field Ultra Low Temperature Ultra High Vacuum STM System.
Productized and started the sales of 400mK High Magnetic Field Ultra Low Temperature High Vacuum STM System.
Received Nanotech 2006 “Evaluation and Measurement Award” for Scanning Probe Microscopes with UNISOKUʼ s own Technologies.
Received the Excellence Award in “Manufacturing Business Award Ceremony” from Hirakata City.
Productized and started the sales of 4 Probe SPM System by JST Development of Systems and Technology for Advanced Measurement and Analysis
Awarded as “Person of merit for new technology development” from Osaka Prefecture for Ultra Low Temperature SPM.
UNISOKU becomes a group company of Tokyo Instruments Inc.
Estabishment of UNISOKU-TII Instruments Co., Ltd. in Beijing, China, as an overseas aﬃ liate.
Increased capital to 50,000,000 JPY.
Completion of the ﬁ rst factory due to business expansion.
Productized and started the sales of Ultra Low Temperature High Magnetic Field STM System with Dilution Refrigerator.
Chosen as a “GLOBAL NICHE TOP 100” company from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan
Completion of the second factory expanded 2.5 time in productivity, improving working environment
Received the Japanese Photochemistry Association Award for Technical Development
Productized and launched the sales of Transient Absorption Spectrophotometer, picoTAS, by JST SENTAN
Developed Supper Low Helium Loss Cryostat, Started the sales of USM1200LL New STM System, which has 300 h holding time.

現場第一・前向きに挑戦
新製品や改善のヒントはお客様の研究の現場にあると考えます。納品後の装置の稼働状況や、ご使用方法の把握を心がけ、お客様への訪問や連絡を積極的に行います。そして、現場を見て課題を知り、お客様のご要望を真摯に受け止め、問題解決や夢の実現に向け、果敢に挑戦します。

取組み
成長を目指す積極投資

過去 6 年間で、2 棟の新工場建設と、社員数 2 割増加を実現し、生産環境の改善を行いました。引き続き､雇用を促進し､生産力と顧客サポート力を増強するとともに、市場からのニーズが高まっている新製品開発への投資を積極的に行います。

生産性の向上

製品の品質向上を図る事で信頼性を高め、共通化できる部分はモジュール化を推進し、生産性の向上に努めています。また作業手順書、検査書による作業工程の均質化と、不具合報告書による課題の共有と改善に取り組み、より多くのお客様に満足してご使用いただける製品製造を心がけます。今後
は、製造現場の生産性だけでなく、お客様の成果のスピード UP を目指す上
で、お客様との連携を密にとり、製品に共通した課題の早期発見、製品の使いやすさに向けた改善に邁進してまいります。

グローバル連携
販売・製品開発・サポートでシナジーと利便性を生み出すため、親会社の東京インスツルメンツ社とドイツ・SPECS 社で作る SPECS-TII グループに参画
しています。また、自社ではまかなえない他メーカーの卓越した技術と組み合わせ、優れた製品を提供するため、海外を含めたメーカーとの OEM 提携の関係を積極的に受け入れています。

取締役

中川 達央

Director Tatsuo Nakagawa

取締役

水野 博之

Director Hiroyuki Mizuno

Management Policy‘Pursuing satisfaction and happiness of
our customers, business partners and employees’
UNISOKU aspires after the development and prosperity of our business andthe whole industry that relates to development, production, and sales of scientificinstruments. We pursue business that each of them feels satisfaction and happiness,and that brings prosperity, through our products and services for our customers,
through technical collaboration and commercial affairs for our business partners,
and through evaluation from customers and partners for our employees.

‘Hands-on approach’ , ‘Positive challenge’Hints for new products and improvements are at site of customers’ research.
We proactively visit and contact them after installation to see how the system
is working, and how it is used. By knowing the issues on-site, we take them
seriously, then we challenge boldly to find solution and how we can meetcustomers’ needs.

Endeavor‘Vigorous investment for future growth’
In past 6 years, we improved production environment by completing 2 newfactories and increasing employees by 20%. Besides buildup of productivity
and customer support with promotion of employment, we vigorously invest in
developing new products of which market needs has been growing.

‘Upgrading productivity’
To improve productivity, we promote modularization where possible, andupgrade the quality of products. For further customer satisfaction, we standardize
assembling process through assembling manuals and inspection notes and sharedefect reports / issues. Hereafter, we will work on not only productivity in factory
but also close communication with our users, which leads us to promote early
detection of common problems among our products, improves user-friendlinessand speeds their results consequently.

‘Global partnership’
We have joined SPECS-TII group which consists of our parent company Tokyo
Instruments Inc. and SPECS GmbH in Germany to increase synergy andconvenience by sales, product development and customer support. Also, to offer
even better products, we actively accept OEM supply-demand relationship bytechnical collaboration with other manufactures including foreign companies.
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Highlights

2017

Jul.
Sep.

The Mayor of Hirakata cityMar.

visited UNISOKU, and observed
our head oﬃce / factories as a

growing company in Hirakata.

Prototype of Ultra-low Helium Loss

Cryostat completed.

Achieved 0.5 l/day

Helium consumption rate, and 20 days holding

Jan.

time by an originally developed cryostat.

Presented RIPT method
at International Conference
Director Nakagawa made an oral and a poster
presentation about originally developed RIPT
method at ICP2017 (Strasbourg, France).

Apr.

Gave an awarded speech about

the RIPT method at Annual Meeting on

Photochemistry , awarded as

Published in Asahi Newspaper in the article

ʻThe Japanese Photochemistry

Kansai area.” as a globally active, small

Development 2016ʼ.

Association Award for Technical

UNISOKU appeared in “Latent power ofand medium company in Kansai.

Low Temperature UHV TERS system

May.

Introduced UNISOKU products(USM1400 TERS) won “Award for Excellence”

Nov.

in the 29th new technologies and products
award for small and medium

Establishment of SPECS-TII GmbHin AVS2017 (Tampa, US).

Dec.

enterprises.

Tokyo Instruments Inc., UNISOKUʼs parent company,

and SPECS GmbH in Germany have established a joint
holding company, SPECS-TII GmbH in Switzerland toJul.

enforce international business.

A German student,

Mr. Felix Kuester joined UNISOKU for

Sep.

internship for 8 months from July and

The new model ofcontributed to improve AFM techniques.

USM1200 using originallydeveloped Low Helium Loss Cryostat
was completed andﬁrstly delivered.

picoTAS on sale.

Innovative picosecond transient

Dealing of UNISOKU products started inJun.

using the RIPT method has been

Dr. Thomas Schulmeyer, CEO of SPECS-TII, Inc.

productized and oﬃcially on sale.

visited UNISOKU.

Lunch Break

新入社員紹介Highlights
2017

absorption spectrophotometerNorth America by SPECS-TII, Inc.

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NewFace !

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Four new members joined UNISOKU in 2017. Two of them are technical staﬀ. They
work for SPM division and experienced foreign business trip already. The other two
work at the oﬃce, as a secretary and accountant with their career backgrounds.

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Innovative upgrade of the cryostat on USM1200 series

New Products and New information■ 330h holding time with 10litters Liquid Helium.
・Lower running cost than Cryocooler■ 170h holding time with 14litters Liquid N2・1week continuous STM measurement.
■ Quiet and stable enviroment for STM
・Temperature stability is < 50mk/week
・No mechanical viblation from Cryostat■ Variable temperature function by mechanical heat switch.
・5K~50K. Less counter heating because of the isolation by the heat switch.

*1Optics Lett. 41, 1498 (2016)
Highlighted in Science 352, 669 (2016),
and Nature Photonics 10, 285 (2016)

picoTAS is an innovative transient absorption
spectrophotometer based on originally developed
RIPT method, of which ﬁrst report*¹ was highlighted
in Science and Nature Photonics.

What is the diﬀerence between
picoTAS and conventional
techniques?

picoTAS

Conventional nanosecond
Flash Photolysis

fs

ps

ns

Pump and Probe Method

応用物理 86, 775 (2017)
分光研究 66, 207 (2017)

picoTASμs

STM performance is properly stable because of high temperature stability and quiet cryostat

dI/dV spectrascopy on HOPG

mss

Nanosecond Flash Photolysis method

Gap Time Region

ﬂuorescence

TA signals covered by ﬂuorescence

Accurate TA signals without ﬂuorescence

Comparison of Time Resolution（10-90% Rise Time）

picoTAS-ps model

picoTAS-ns model

Temperature stability andlong holding time in prototype cryostat

Typical Data fornanosecond Flash Photolysis

Observation of the fast (<10 ps ) ISC of palladium porphyrin

Figure Courtesy of Dr. T. Suenobu, Osaka Univ.

This products wasdeveloped by collaboration
with Nihon University,
Osaka University, Meijo University
supported by SENTAN, JST.

Updated information of new RF ﬁlter for USM1300
A: RF ﬁlter on piezo and bias line

Progress of UNISOKU AFM using
q-Plus sensor technology
UNISOKU made a license contract with prof. Giessibl in 2015 on q-Plus AFM
sensor technology. UNISOKU has worked to improve AFM using q-plus
technology. Recently, we can oﬀer the demonstration of atomic resolution in
the site acceptance test, and we realized atomic imaging in high magnetic
ﬁeld and 400mK as well.

These are very eﬀective to get 2K below on electron temperature. ＊We deliver these ﬁlters as standard equipment.

（improving of sensing）

Typical SC-gap on Pb using the ﬁlters

・Increase of Q-facter by welldesigned structure.

Information of the updated SPM accessories
EBT-100

Tip heating power supply
・Remote dial box for ﬁlament control
・Protection is enriched thanprevious modelAPS-100

DC power supply
・Remote dial box for control the power・USB interface for PC connection

・loss crosstalk current
measurement by the individual
wireing of Tif.
・low noise signal wiring

EBM-100(AFM operation inHigh Magnetic ﬁeld within 1K)

B: RF ﬁlters on temperature sensors.

Recently. UNISOKU found that RF noize which come through unreachable cable to STM,
would aﬀect on electron temperature.

sample EB heating power supply
・Remote dial box for ﬁlament control
・Protection is enriched than previous
model
・Limit setting of the emission current
to avoid overheat
・Analog external control mode.

・Multi electrodes probe holder
・Actual proven in 8T and 400mK(*Possible to perform temperature feedback
control by combination with SPC-MTC. )Si(111) AFM image

5* This data was provided by Dr. Alan Fang in Stanford
university, Prof. Aron Kapitulnik.

NaCl atomic image

SPC-MTC

Heater power control unit

・Two output channel to control external heater power supply
・Two input channels for monitor the reference signals
・Closed feedback loop mode・USB interface for PC connection and the easy control software
・Programmable temperature setting

Inproved

RF ﬁlters for the temperature sensor
on Cryostat

KBr atomic image

Frequency shipft -6.5Hz

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Introduction of Laboratory :Prof. Lin He

Introduction of Laboratory :Beijing Normal University

Prof. Sander Otte, Delft Univ. of Technology
General introduction to our group

In our group we try to improve atom manipulation techniques and use this technology tobuild and study extended atomic structures. We look for emergent behavior such as bandformation, phase transitions or other collective phenomena that arise when a structure isscaled from a few to many atoms.

I began to establish my lab in Beijing Normal University since 2009. In
the past few years, my group has focused on realizing emergent phenomena
in graphene. By using symmetry breaking of lattice, high magnetic fields,
and electronic field to tune the electronic properties of graphene, my grouprealized many new and novel quantum states.

A particular class of systems that has our interest are spin chains composed of individual
magnetic atoms. In these structures, we can observe and study the dispersion of collective
spin excitations such as magnons.

Introduction of study utilizing UNISOKU system
Many interesting emergent phenomena, as shown in the right picture,
have been realized in my group and studied carefully by using STM.
For example, we demonstrated that atomic defect can induce local
magnetic moments in graphene, we realized room-temperature
ferromagnetic semiconducting state in graphene, and direct imaged
topological edges states in AB-BA domain wall of graphene bilayer.

Figures Courtesy of Prof. Lin He

UNISOKU
Introduction of Laboratory :Prof. Zhenchao Dong in University of Science and Technology of China

In a recent paper we have studied
arrays built from individual atomic
vacancies on a chlorine-terminatedCu(100) surface. It is one of the mostextended systematic studies ofatomically crafted artificial materials
to date. In particular, we found thatby adjusting the density of vacancies,
the effective mass of the resulting
quasiparticle bands can be tuned.

Prof. Li Gao, California State University Northridge(left to right): Harutiun Chinkezian,
Carlos Chichiri , Himanshu Phirke, Li Gao

The research in our group focuses on probing the structural, electronic, magnetic, and chemical
properties of low-dimensional materials at the single atom or molecule level by using scanningtunneling microscopy and spectroscopy (STM/STS).
Our research aims to gain new atomic-scale insights into the synthesis and propertiesof emerging materials for electronics and energy applications.
More specifically, we are currently interested in the following topics: (1) magnetic andspin-related phenomena in low-dimensional materials; (2) preparation and characterization of
two-dimensional materials; and (3) chemical reactions of adsorbates on surfaces.
Our lab was established in 2012. The primary instrument in our lab is a Unisoku ultrahighvacuum (UHV) low temperature STM system (USM1500S) in the basement of Eucalyptus Hall
at CSU Northridge.
An UHV X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) system will also be installed in the lab in2018.
Our team is composed of the Principal Investigator Dr. Li Gao, graduates, undergraduates, andvisiting scholars.

Sub-nanometer resolved TERS imaging over single molecule(Nature 498, 82 (2013))

Sub-nanometer control of the coherent interaction
between a single molecule and a plasmonic nanocavity(Nat. commun., 8, 15225 (2017))
Figures Courtesy of Prof. Zhenchao Dong

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Figures Courtesy of Prof. Sander Otte

Introduction of Laboratory :• Single-molecule optoelectronics by STM• Electrically driven single-molecule single-photon sources• Single-molecule Raman scattering• Single-molecule plasmonics/Nano-photonics• Nanocale chemical identification of bio-molecules on surfaces• Plasmon-exciton coupling and energy transfer at the nanoscale

Electrically driven single-photon emission from single molecule and molecular array(Nat. commun., 8, 580 (2017))

J. Girovsky et al., SciPost Physics 2, 020 (2017)

User’ s Page

Research of Interests:

Visualizing coherent intermolecular dipole-dipole interaction in real space(Nature 531, 623 (2016))

Left: STM image (~8 nm wide) of a checkerboard lattice crafted from individual
Cl vacancies in a Cl/Cu (100) surface layer. Right: corresponding dz/dV
spectroscopy map measured at 2.97 volts, showing standing quasiparticle modes.

By using our USM1500S system, we recently investigated the synthesis of nitrogen (N) doped graphene on Ru(0001) from the N-containing sole
precursor azafullerene (C59NH). High quality N-doped single layer graphene has been obtained.
We found for the first time that the concentration of N-related defects on the N-graphene/Ru surface is tunable by adjusting the dosage of sole precursor
and the number of growth cycles.
STM and XPS measurements indicate that there are two primary types of N-related defects and pyridinic N is the predominant bonding configuration of
N atom in the obtained graphene layer.
Our findings indicate that the synthesis from heteroatom-containing sole precursors is a very promising approach for the preparation of heteroatom-doped
graphene materials with controlled doping properties.
Related results have recently been published on Nano Letters 17, 2887 (2017).
This research is a collaboration with Prof. Simon Garrett’s group at CSU
Northridge, Prof. Liangbing Gan’s group at Peking University, and Prof. Hong-Jun Gao’s group at Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Figure: STM images of synthesized N-doped graphene on Ru(0001).
Scanning parameters: (a) 3 V, 5 pA; (b) 500 mV, 50 pA; (c) 1 V, 50 pA; (d) 10 mV, 5 nA. Images (c) and (d) are of the same region.
Scale bars: (a) 20 nm; (b) 3 nm; (c) 0.6 nm; (d) 0.6 nm.

Figures Courtesy of Prof. Li Gao

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Citation: Nature Communications 8, 659 (2017)

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Citation: Nature Communications, 8, 14839 (2017)

K. Sakakibara et al., Prof. Inamo’s group, synthesized new dyad systems based on a zinc(II)porphyrin complex and a 2,2′-bipyridine moiety linked by amide bridges having various bridging
groups and the photochemical behavior was investigated using fluorescence spectroscopy anda nanosecond time-resolved absorption technique. The singlet excited state of the porphyrin
complex was found to be partially quenched by Cu2+ in methanol, and a photoinduced electrontransfer (PIET) from the excited state of the porphyrin moiety to the Cu(II)-bipyridine moiety
was observed. The relatively long lifetime of the charge-separated (CS) state was ascribed tothe slow electron-transfer reaction of the Cu(II)/Cu(I) couple bound to the bipyridine moiety.
The lifetime of the CS state of dyads becomes longer with the increase of the distance between
the porphyrin and bipyridine moieties, and these findings are discussed using an empiricalformula for the relationship between the reactivity and molecular structure of dyads. With somecompounds they synthesized, PIET from T1 of porphyrin was too fast to be observed using
conventional nanosecond transient absorption techniques, so they have recently performed
sub-nanosecond transient absorption experiments based on a RIPT method developed by Unisoku,
and are preparing a new manuscript.

Synthesis and characterization of high-valent terminal metal-oxo complexes of late transition
metals, such as Co, Ni and Cu, have remained a long-standing challenge. B Wang et al.
in Prof. Wonwoo Nam’ s Group in Ewha Womans University, Korea, successfully synthesized
photocatalytically a mononuclear non-haem [(13-TMC)CoIV(O)]2+ in the presence of aphotosensitizer, a sacrificial electron acceptor and water as an oxygen source. By international
collaborating, they characterized the intermediate by various spectroscopic techniques.
In particular, the resonance Raman experiments of the intermediate, performed by the lateProf. Takeshi Ogura in Hyogo University, Japan., reveals a diatomic Co-O vibration bandat 770 cm-1, which provides the conclusive evidence for the presence of a terminal Co-O
bond, In reactivity studies, in which Unisoku’s Cryostat for spectrophotometers, USP-203,
played a crucial role, the intermediate was shown to be a competent oxidant in an intermetal
oxygen atom transfer, C-H bond activation and olefin epoxidation reactions. These results
strongly support the intermediacy of CoIV- O species in oxidation of organic substrates aswell as in the catalytic oxidation of water that evolves molecular oxygen.

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Prof. Sebastian Loth group have created an atomic spin sensor consisting of three Fe atoms
nearby the nano-antiferromagnets and shown that it can detect the magnetic state switching
via a surface-mediated interaction indirectly. The trimer sensor can detect it at up to a 3-nm
distance with distance-dependence and achieves an energy resolution of 10 µeV, surpassing
the thermal limit of conventional scanning probe spectroscopy. Both the sensor and theantiferromagnets are assembled at 0.5 K on a monolayer Cu2N surface and the spin-polarizedtips were prepared by picking up few Fe atoms to the apex of the PtIr tip.

Synthesis and Characterization ofa Non-Haem CoIV–O Complex Succeeded

Citation: Dalton Trans., 46, 12645 (2017)

Citation: Science Advances (May 26, 2017) doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1603137

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Prof. Ying-Shuang Fu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and co-researchersreported the experimental evidence of the topological states at the step edge of WTe2.
Topological states emerge at the boundary of solids that are guaranteed to exist by the nontrivial
topology of the bulk bands. As protected by time-reversal symmetry, the topological states
can conduct electrons without dissipation even in the presence of nonmagnetic disorders.
Recently, theory predicts a topological edge state on single layer transition metal dichalcogenides
with 1T’ structure, which is tantalizing for constructing practical topological devices. By
investigating a cleaved WTe2 surface (Fig. A), they observed a one-dimensional electronic
state residing at the step edge of WTe2 (Fig. B), which exhibits remarkable robustness againstedge imperfections (Fig. C). First principles calculations rigorously verify the edge state has
a topological origin, and its topological nature is unaffected by the presence of the substrate(Fig. D). The study supports the existence of topological edge states in 1T’-WTe2, which mayenvision in-depth study of its topological physics and device applications.

Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Simple Dyads

Indirect atomic spin sensing

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the tip and the spin relaxation time is measured.
(B) Spin-polarized STM images. 6.6 × 6.6 nm2, 5mV, 50 pA.
(C) Pump-probe spectra and time traces. Pump:8 mV/80 ns, Probe:3 mV/100 ns. 0.25 T, 0.5 K.

Figures Courtesy of Prof. Ying-Shuang Fu

Nanoscale Dehydrogenation Observed by Ultra high vacuum- Low temperature Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

Figures Courtesy of Dr. B. Wang and Prof. Wonwoo Num

UNISOKU products!
Measurement of the diamagnetic property
using two-coil probe

Stripes, a new ground state of nematicity in FeSe films.

Citation: J. Phys. Chem. C 2017, 121, 18162−18168.
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Citation: Review of Scientific Instruments 88, 073902 (2017).

Citation: Nature Physics 10.1038/NPHYS4186 (2017).

Prof. Yuji Kuwahara, Osaka University, and co-workers measured TERS spectra of selfassembled monolayer (SAM) of 2,13-bis(aldehyde)-[7]thiaheterohelicene (TH-aldehyde)
molecules on the Au substrate at 79 K and found the evidence that the dehydrogenation of themolecule occurred at the TERS tip top. In TERS spectra of the SAM, a new peak whichcannot be observed in far-field Raman spectra appeared at around 2000 cm-1 as shown in
Fig.1. From DFT calculations, the Raman peak is assigned to the peak of carbon-carbon triple
bond that is generated by dehydrogenation of the side benzene ring of TH-aldehyde molecularlocated at the closest position to the tip as shown in Fig.2. These results suggest that thedehydrogenation of TH-aldehyde occurred by the Ag tip which acts as both local heat source
and catalyst.

Prof. Canhua Liu and Prof. Jin-Feng Jia’s research group at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
developed a two-coil mutual inductance probe for diamagnetism measurement of asuperconductor. The two-coil probe can be installed on a unique piezo scanning tube withfour electrodes, which was invented by the same research group in cooperation with Unisoku.
Fig. (a) is a schematic illustration of a transmission-type probe. Performance of the probe
was demonstrated by measuring a NbN thin film grown on a Nb-doped SrTiO3(III) substrate.
As shown in Fig. (b), they observed a significant change in the output voltage from the pickup
coil at 11 K, which indicates the superconducting transition of the NbN thin film.
Remarkable feature of the developed system is the capability of in situ exchange of a two-coilprobe, an STM tip and a 4-point probe, which enables the in situ measurements of surface
morphology, electronic structure, transport property and diamagnetic response of a sample
film to be performed within a single chamber, and thus largely raises the reliability of data
analysis.

In 2012, the discovery of interfacial superconductivity with Tc exceeding the record Tc =55 K of bulk iron-based superconductors in 1UC-FeSe/ SrTiO3(001) generated a new frontierin high-temperature superconductivity. FeSe/STO system attracted many scientists working
on it not only due to the enhancement of superconductivity, but also because of its novel
Fermi surface topology, extreme two-dimensionality, and the possibility of phonon-enhanced
electron pairing. For FeSe films thicker than 1 UC, however, the electronic structure ismarkedly different, with a drastically suppressed superconductivity and strong nematicity
appearing. The physics driving this extraordinary dichotomy of superconducting behavior
is far from clear.To solve the puzzles in multilayers FeSe films on STO, Prof. Wei Li atTsinghua University uses a low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy bought from
Unisoku to study the charge order in FeSe. He finds a stripe-type charge ordering instability
that develops beneath the nematic state. The charge ordering is visible and pinned in thevicinity of impurities. And as it emerges in the strong limit of nematicity, it suggests that amagnetic fluctuation with a rather small wavevector may be competing with the ordinary
collinear antiferromagnetic ordering in multilayer films. The existence of stripes in ironbased superconductors, which resemble the stripe order in cuprates, not only suggests thatelectronic anisotropy and correlation are playing an important role, but also provides a platform
for probing the complex interactions between nematicity, charge ordering, magnetism andsuperconductivity in high-temperature superconductors.

Citation: Nature Communications 8, 15961 (2017)
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The ways electronic states change in quasicrystals, which possess long-range order but lack
periodicity, remains unsolved. Prof. Gomes’ group assembled a synthetic quasicrystal on thesurface of Cu(III) that is composed of 460 carbon monoxide (CO) molecules and investigatedthe electronic states of this quasicrystal with scanning tunneling microscopy. This quasicrystal
is tiled by an arrangement of only two kinds of rhombi, which is known as the Penrose tiling.
A CO molecule, dark spots in the STM image (Fig.1), was placed in the center of each rhombus
to form electronic sites at the vertices. The Penrose tiling formed eight structurally different
sites, and conductance spectra at vertices of those sites showed different electronic states (Fig. 2)even though this quasicrystal was made from only CO molecules. This approach of quasicrystal
assembling and STM measurement could help solve other puzzles in the understanding of
quasicrystals.

(Left) UV spectral changes observed upon photoirradiation of a starting CoII complex witha photosentisizer and an electron acceptor at -25 °C. (Right) Resonance Raman spectra of theintermediate-16O (blue) and -18O (red). Black line shows the difference between the two spectra.

Figures Courtesy of Prof. M. Inamo

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Observation of electronic behavior in quasicrystals by
scanning tunneling microscopy(Left) Reaction Scheme(Right) Transient absorption spectrum observed at 1 μs after a laser irradiation
for the methanol solution of [Zn(TPP-NHCO-CH2-bpy)] (2) in the presence of Cu2+ (red line)

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the Penrose tiling composed of rhombi with side length 1.6 nm and vertices angles 72°/108°(blue) and 36°/144° (green).
Fig.2 Normalized differential conductance map at bias voltage V = 0 mV.
Figures Courtesy of Dr. K. Gones . University of Nortre Dane.

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Fig 1. Experimental TERS spectrum of TH-aldehyde, SERS spectrum of TH-aldehyde
powder, and calculated Raman spectra of various pristine compounds shown as (i) ~ (iv).
Fig 2. Illustration of the image of dehydrogenation of a molecule on a TERS tip
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voltage from the pickup coil measured on a NbN thin film.

MBE film and C₂ domains of FeSe. (a) Crystal structure of FeSe. (b) STM topographic image ofa FeSe film (150nm × 150 nm, bias voltageV= ｰ 50 mV, tunnelling current It =100 pA). The mazelike patterns are C₂ domain walls between two neighbouring nematic domains perpendicular toeach other. (c) Stripes induced by impurities (70 nm × 70 nm, 60 mV, 10 pA).

Figures Courtesy of Prof. Canhua Liu

Figures Courtesy of Prof. Li Wei in Tsinghua Univ.

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SPM User´s Published※We have collected published papers of customers for bibliography.

“Topological states in engineered atomic lattices”,
Drost, R. and Liljeroth, P., et al. Nature Physics 13, 668-671 (2017)

Paper List in 2017

We appreciate your understanding in case we miss your papers due to our imperfect contact.
"Synthesis of Multilayer Silicene on Si (111)√3×√3‒Ag",
Irene Paola De Padova, Haifeng Feng, Jincheng Zhuang, Yi Du, et al.

“Building Complex Kondo Impurities by Manipulating Entangled Spin Chains”,
Deung-Jang Choi, and Sebastian Loth, et al. Nano Lett. 2017, 17, 6203−6209"“Dynamical Negative Diﬀerential Resistance in Antiferromagnetically Coupled Few-Atom Spin Chains”,
Steﬀen Rolf-Pissarczyk, and Sebastian Loth, Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 217201 (2017）"Cooperative Electron-Phonon Coupling and Buckled Structure in Germanene on Au(111)",J. C. Zhuang, S. X. Dou, Y. Du, et al. ACS Nano 11, 3553 (2017). (IF 13.334)“Nonlocally sensing the magnetic states of nanoscale antiferromagnets with an atomic spin sensor”,
Shichao Yan, Sebastian Loth, et al. Science Advances 3, e1603137 (2017)"Silicene: A Promising Anode for Lithium Ion Batteries",
J. C. Zhuang, S. X. Dou, Y. Du, et al. Adv. Mater. (accepted, 2017, DOI: 10.1002/adma.201606716). (IF 18.96) 2017

“Imaging quasiperiodic electronic states in a synthetic Penrose tiling”
Collins L. C.,Gomes K. K., et al. Nature Communications 8, 15961 (2017)“Structural Variation in Surface-Supported Synthesis by Adjusting the Stoichiometric Ratio of the Reactants”,
Zhongmiao Gong, Qing Li and Lifeng Chi, et al. ACS Nano 2016, 10, 4228−4235" 2017

“Surface Landau levels and spin states in bismuth (111) ultrathin ﬁlms”,
Hongjian Du, Bing Wang & J.G. Hou, et al. Nature Communications 7:10814 (2016)“Growth of Quasi-Free-Standing Single-Layer Blue Phosphorus on Tellurium Monolayer Functionalized
Chengding Gu, Wei Chen, et al. ACS Nano 2017, 11, 4943−4949

Au(111)” ,“Phosphorus Nanostripe Arrays on Cu(110): A Case Study to Understand the Substrate Eﬀect on the Phosphorus thin Film Growth”,
Jia Lin Zhang, and Wei Chen, et al. Adv. Mater. Interfaces 1601167 (2017)“Controlled Growth of 1D MoSe Nanoribbons with Spatially Modulated Edge States”,
Fang Cheng, and Kian Ping Loh, et al. Nano Lett. 17, 1116−1120 (2017)“Interference evidence for Rashba-type spin splitting on a semimetallic WTe₂ surface”,
Qing Li, Lifeng Chi, and Minghu Pan, et al. Phys. Rev. B 94, 115419 (2016)"Poor electronic screening in lightly doped Mott insulators observed with scanning tunneling microscopy”
I Battisti, MP Allan, et al. Phys. Rev. B 95, 235141, Editorsʼ suggestion (2017)"Universality of pseudo gap and emergent order in lightly doped Mott insulators”
I. Battisti & K.M. Bastiaans, M.P. Allan, et al. Nature Physics 13, DOI:10.1038/NPHYS3894 (2017)"An atom manipulation method to substitute individual adsorbate atoms into Si(111)-(7x7) substrate at room temperature",
A. Yurtsever, M. Abe, S. Morita, and Y. Sugimoto, et al. Appl. Phys. Lett. Vol.111, 233102 (2017)“Observation of topological states residing at step edges of WTe₂”,
Lang Peng, Ying-Shuang Fu, et al. Nature Communications 8: 659, (2017)"Role of lateral forces on atom manipulation process on Si(111)-(7x7) surface in dynamic force microscopy",
A. Yurtsever, M. Abe, S. Morita, and Y. Sugimoto, et al. Phys. Rev. B Vol.96, pp.155412/1-(2017)“Ultrathin β-tellurium layers grown on highly oriented pyrolytic graphite by molecular-beam epitaxy”,
Jinglei Chen, Maohai Xie, et al. Nanoscale 2017, 9, 15945“One-dimensional phosphorus chain and two-dimensional blue phosphorene grown on Au(111) by molecular-beam epitaxy”,
Jin-Peng Xu, and Maohai Xie, et al. Phys. Rev. Materials 1, 061002(R) (2017)"“Development of in situ two-coil mutual inductance technique in a multifunctional scanning tunneling microscope” ,Ming-Chao Duan, Canhua Liu and Jin-Feng Jia, et al. Review of Scientiﬁc Instruments 88, 073902 (2017)“Stripes developed at the strong limit of nematicity in FeSe ﬁlm”,
Z.-X.Shen and Qi-KunXue, et al. Nature Physics VOL13 957-961 (2017)“Inter-atomic Spin Coupling in Manganese Clusters Registered on Graphene” ,J. D. Ren, H. M. Guo, and H. J. Gao, et al. Phy. Rev. Lett. 119, 176806 (2017)“Local electronic properties of individual Pt atoms adsorbed on TiO₂(110) studied with Kelvin probe force microscopy and ﬁrst-principles simulations”,
Ayhan Yurtsever, Masayuki Abe, Seizo Morita, Yoshiaki Sugimoto and Ruben Perez Nanoscale Vol.9, pp.5812‒5821 (2017)“Nanoscale Dehydrogenation Observed by Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy”,
S. Chaunchaiyakul, A. Saito, Y. Kuwahara, et al. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 121, no.7(2017)18162-18168"Investigation of tunneling current and local contact potential diﬀerence on the TiO ₂ ( 110 ) surface by AFM / KPFM at 78K",
Yan Jun Li, Yoshitaka Naitoh, Yasuhiro Sugawara, et al. Nanotechnology 28 ( 2017 ) 105704 ( 6pp )"Heterodyne technique in photoinduced force microscopy with photothermal eﬀect",
Y. Naitoh, Y. J. Li, and Y. Sugawara, et al. Appl. Phys. Lett. 110, 123102 (2017); doi: 10.1063/1.4978755

Subatomic-scale force vector mapping above a Ge(001) dimer using bimodal atomic force microscopy,
Yoshitaka Naitoh, Yan Jun Li and Yasuhiro Sugawara, et al. Nature Physics 13, 663‒667 (2017)“Epitaxial Growth and Air-Stability of Monolayer Antimonene on PdTe₂.”
X. Wu, Y. Shao, H. J. Gao, et al. Adv. Mater. 29, 1605407 (2017)“Interaction of Stark-shifted image potential states with quantum well states in ultrathin Ag(111) islands on Si(111)-√3x√3-B substrates”,
Kishu Sugawara, Shiro Yamazaki, Kan Nakatsuji, and Hiroyuki Hirayama Phys. Rev. B 96, 075444-Published 30 August 2017

“Evidence for Ultralow-Energy Vibrations in Large Organic Molecules.”H. Chen, H.-J. Gao, Nano Lett. 17, 4929-4933 (2017)“Experimental veriﬁcation of the rotational type of chiral spin spiral structure by spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy”,
Masahiro Haze, Yasuo Yoshida, Yukio Hasegawa, et al. Scientiﬁc Report 7, 13269 (2017)“Steering On-Surface Reactions by a Self-Assembly Approach”,
Qiwei Chen, Kai Wu, et al. Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 56,5026‒5030 (2017)“Role of the substrate in the formation of chiral magnetic structures driven by the interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions”,
Masahiro Haze, Yasuo Yoshida, Yukio Hasegawa, et al. Phys. Rev. B 95, 060415(R) (2017)“Steering Surface Reaction Dynamics with a Self-Assembly Strategy: Ullmann Coupling on Metal Surfaces”,
Xiong Zhou, and Kai Wu, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 56,12852‒12856 (2017)“Guided Molecular Assembly on a Locally Reactive 2D Material"
Yasuo Yoshida, Yukio Hasegawa, Cyrus F. Hirjibehhedin, et al. Advanced Materials 1703929 (2017)“On-Surface Synthesis and Characterization of Honeycombene Oligophenylene Macrocycles”,
Min Chen, Jian Shang, Yongfeng Wang, Kai Wu, and J. Michael Gottfried, et al. ACS Nano 11, 134−143 (2017)“Atomic-scale visualization of surface-assisted orbital order",Yasuo Yoshida, Yukio Hasegawa, et al. Science Advances 3, eaao0362 (2017)“Steering Surface Reaction at Speciﬁc Sites with Self-Assembly Strategy”
Xiong Zhou, Kai Wu, et al. ACS Nano 11, 9397−9404 ( 2017)“On-surface synthesis approach to preparing one-dimensional organometallic and poly-p-phenylene chains”,
Xiong Zhou, Kai Wu, et al. Mater. Chem. Front., 2017, 1, 119"Superconductivity in thallium double atomic layer and transition into an insulating phase intermediated by a quantum metal state",
S. Ichinokura, and S. Hasegawa, et al. 2D Materials 4, 025020 (Feb, 2017)“Construction of Sierpiński Triangles up to the Fifth Order”,
Chao Li, Yongfeng Wang, et al. Journal of American Chemical Society 139 (39), pp 13749‒13753 (2017)"Quasiparticle interference on cubic perovskite oxide surfaces"
Yoshinori Okada, Ryota Shimizu, Susumu Shiraki, and Taro Hitosugi“Atomically Abrupt Topological p−n Junction”,
Sung Hwan Kim, Han Woong Yeom, ACS Nano 11, 9671-9677 (2017)“Full-gap superconductivity in spin-polarized surface states of topological semimetal β-PdBi₂”,
K. Iwaya, T. Hanaguri, and T. Sasagawa, et al. Nature Communications 8, 976 (2017)“Eﬀect of Surface Morphology and Magnetic Impurities on the Electronic Structure in Cobalt-Doped BaFe₂As₂ Superconductors”,
Qiang Zou, Zhiming Wu, Junyong Kang, and Zheng Gai, et al. Nano Lett. 2017, 17, 1642−1647“Spin-orbit scattering visualized in quasiparticle interference”,
Y. Kohsaka, T. Hanaguri, et al. Phys. Rev. B 95, 115307 (2017)"Scanning tunneling spectroscopy of superconductivity on surfaces of LiTi2O4(111) thin ﬁlms", Yoshinori Okada, Ryota Shimizu, Susumu Shiraki, Satoshi Watanabe, and Taro Hitosugi, Nature Communications 8, 15975 (2017)“On the shuttling mechanism of a chlorine atom in a chloroaluminum phthalocyanine based molecular switch”,
Huanjun Song, Kai Wu, et al. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2017, 19, 22401

Phys. Rev. Lett., 119, 086801 (2017)“Near-free-standing epitaxial graphene on rough SiC substrate by ﬂash annealing at high temperature”,
Tingwei Hu, Dayan Ma, Fei Ma, Kewei Xu, et al. Carbon 120 219-225 (2017)“Controlled Modiﬁcation of Superconductivity in Epitaxial Atomic Layer? Organic Molecule Heterostructures”,
Shunsuke Yoshizawa, Tomonobu Nakayama, and Takashi Uchihashi, et al. Nano Lett. 17, 2287(2017)“Switching chiral solitons for algebraic operation of topological quarternary digits”,
Tae-Hwan Kim, HanWoong Yeom, et al. Nature Physics 6 FEBRUARY 2017|DOI:10.1038/NPHYS4026 (2017)“Orbital-dependent quasiparticle scattering interference in 3R-NbS₂”
T. Machida, T. Hanaguri, and Y. Iwasa, et al. Phys. Rev. B 96, 075206 (2017)

Representatives of UNISOKU Products

About the foundation of SPECS-TII GmbH
FundedUNISOKU, and SPECS GmbH, in Germany,
Tokyo Instruments, inc. have established a joint holding company,

SPECS-TII GmbHSPECS-TII. GmbH, in Switzerland. In North
America, SPECS-TII GmbH established SPECS

ZurichUNISOKU Co.,Ltd.

SPECS Zurich GmbH

-TII. Inc., Former SPECS Inc., which was owned by
SPECS as American corporation. In China,
SPECS and TII united each company which
they owned in China and established SPECS-TII

Share holder

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Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd. In Russia, a newcompany SPECS TII RUS is now going to beestablished. SPECS and TII group is fortifying

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J. Phys. Chem. C (accepted, 2017, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b09286). (IF 4.509). 2017

"Role of Atomic Interaction in Electronic Hybridization in Two-Dimensional Ag₂Ge Nanosheets",
Y. Liu, J. C. Zhuang, Y. Du, et al. J. Phys. Chem. C 121, 16754 (2017). (IF 4.509)

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12Memories of the former CEO Suruga
Sep. Mr. Suruga is inaugurated as the president of UNISOKU.
UNISOKU joins TII group.
Active business management by stable capital.

Dec. 5S activities (workplace organization method) start.

2010

Improvement of working environment, productivity, and mind

2011

Sep. 2013
Jun. Commercialization of the world’ s first 40 mK high magnetic field STM along with Cryogenic Ltd, U.K.

Jun. Completion of our first factory
Inspection for every single system before shipment is upgraded.
Development of new 400 mK-SPM system with technical collaboration with Janis Research.

2013

2012

Sep. Company trip to Malaysia for 40th anniversary of UNISOKU
Nov. “Development of UHV-LT TERS imaging system” is adapted as A-STEP by
JST (Japan Science and Technology Agency)

Dec. 40th anniversary gift to our customers in Japan

Feb. Nanoscore in Germany becomes our general agent in Europe.
Mar. Chosen as one of “Global Niche Top 100” companies from Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry in Japan.
Jun. 40th anniversary gift to our customers in China.

2015

Sep. 2010
Mr. Suruga was formally inaugurated as President.
Right : UNISOKU founder, former President Nagamura

2014

Jul. 2016
The 2nd factory has been completed

人に好かれる人は『謙虚』 運のいい人・運を呼ぶ人
Shoji Suruga

Oct. Renewed our logo. “Mutual Satisfaction” is added.
Nov. JT-STM business is transferred from SPECS.

Jun. Expansion of UNISOKU’ s exportation is published in Nikkei Newspaper.
Provided year-end bonus to every employee.

Jul. Completion of our second factory. Improved productivity even more with broad space.

2016

Sep. President Suruga, CEO of TII, is awarded the special prize of “The 14th Courageous Management Awards.”

Jan. Published in Asahi Newspaper in the article “Latent power of Kansai area.”Mar. Prototype of picoTAS is completed.
TII group and SPECS establish a joint venture “SPECS-TII GmbH” in Switzerland.

Apr. Awarded the excellence prize of “The 29th new technologies and products award for small and medium enterprises”.
Jun. Provided year-end bonus to every employee.

13Mar. 2014
UNISOKU was chosen as one of"Global Niche Top companies 100"by Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.

The person beloved is "modesty", has good fortune, and carries the luck.

May. Published in electronical version of Nikkei Newspaper as hidden “technique” in Japan, world No.1 share.

2017

UNISOKU 40th Anniversary company trip in Malaysia.

去る 2017 年

10 月 21 日

当時、弊社代表取締役 駿河 正次 氏が永眠いたしました。
ここにあらためて故人への生前のご厚諠に深く御礼申し上げます。

In October 21st 2017,
President Shoji Suruga passed away.
We deeply appreciate your care andsupport during his lifetime.
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日本 刀
Japaneseswords

日本刀についてJapanese swords

日本刀は刀身、拵 ( こしらえ / 日本刀の外装部分 ) ともに日本の伝統技術の粋を極め、現代では美術品として高く評価されています。
西洋剣は刃がまっすぐで両刃、刀身は厚くて突くことや叩き切ることを重視しています。
対して日本刀は湾曲して片刃、刀身は薄くて柔軟性があり切れ味を重視しています。

Japanese swords including its knife and outward design are valued
as modern art for reaching the very top of Japanese traditional
technique. Western swords are featured by its straight knife, thickdouble edge and sword blade, which is purposed push or chop.
On the other hand, Japanese swords are featured by curve and thinand flexible single edge, which is to stress sharpness.

日本刀の刀身は「折れず曲がらずよく切れる」ことを追求するため、硬軟 2 種類の鉄を組み合わせ打ち延ばして成形された後に硬度を高めるための焼入れが行われます。この時に日本刀独特の反りと刃文が生まれます。
正宗、村正、宗近などは刀そのものではなく刀工の名前にあたり、今でいうブランドやメーカー名といったところでしょうか。
形状の美しさや切れ味の良さだけではなく、日本刀に秘められた由緒や逸話の神秘性が日本刀の美術品としての人気の理由にあるようです。

堺観光 ( 刃物、古墳、千利休 ) について

Masamune, Muramasa, Munechika are not the name of Japaneseswords themselves but rather the name of craftsman, like brands
or makers nowadays. Not only beauty of shape or sharpness but
those are popular for having hidden histories, side stories or
mythology.

Sight-seeing at Sakai-city (Knives, ancient tomb and Sennnorikyu)
Sakai-city is located on approximately 40km away from UNISOKU.
There is traditional industrial art, called Sakaiuchihamono, andits roots stretch back to era of antient tomb period, 5th century.
It has excellent technology for forging and sharpening, which is
known for sword between middle of Heian era to the end of Heian(901-1180), gun for the warring states of period (1543-1590) andbirth place of knife for chopping tobacco leaves during Tenshōera (Momoyama period) (1573-1592). In Genroku Era within the
middle of Edo era (1668-1704), Debabocho (thick knife for cutting
fish or meat) was developed by black smiths, and there have been
almost all the variety of Japanese knives since then. Sakaiuchihamono
is valued well by professionals, and many chefs love them. Also,in Sakai city, there is the biggest Japanese ancient imperial graves(Nintoku-tenno-ryo Kofun) and tea-ceremony room or former
residence place in connection to the founder of tea ceremony,Sennnorikyu.

写真はイメージです。

Where is Sakai?

UNISOKU
Kansai
Airport

Sakai

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写真はイメージです。

大(阪ユニソクから約 40 キロの距離にある堺市には堺打刃物といわれる伝統工芸があり、そのルーツは 5 世紀の古墳造営の時期にまで遡ります。鍛造と研ぎの技術に優れ、
平安時代中期から後期 (901-1180) には刀、戦国時代(1543-1590) には鉄砲、
天正年間 (1573-1592) には煙草包丁の産地としても知られてきました。江戸時代中期の元禄時代 (1668-1704) には出刃包丁などの包丁が鍛冶職人によって開発され、現在の和包丁の種類がほぼ出揃いました。堺打刃物はプロの評価も高く、愛用する料理人も多いようです。また、堺市には日本最大の前方後円墳(仁徳天皇陵古墳)に代表される古墳群があるほか、茶道の開祖である千利休縁の茶室や屋敷跡などが観光名所として知られています。

Japanese swords pursue not to crack nor to bend but to be sharp.
Therefore, hard and soft, two kinds of irons are forged together,
then to increase hardness, those are quenched in fire. At this time,
Japanese sword originals, curvature and pattern of sword were born.