Kanto Gakuin University
Special Honorary Professor

Materials and Surface Engineering Research Institute, Kanto Gakuin University
Special Advisor

Prof. Hideo Honma

Born in Toyama Prefecture in 1942. Completed master's program in Industrial Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kanto Gakuin University in 1968. From the same year, he worked as an assistant and full-time lecturer, and in 1982, he was awarded a doctorate in engineering at Osaka Prefecture University, and then became a professor at Kanto Gakuin University's Faculty of Engineering. He energetically researched the field of surface treatment, particularly plating, and was the first in the world to commercialize a method of plating plastics, and subsequently made a major contribution to the development of electronics packaging technology. He has also been actively involved in industry-academia collaborative research, and his achievements have been highly acclaimed with academic awards and paper awards from major related academic societies both domestically and internationally. His major awards include the Surface Technology Association Paper Award, Association Award, Electronics Packaging Society Special Award, International Surface Treatment Simon Wernick Award, American Electrochemistry Research Award, Industry-Academia-Government Collaboration Special Award, and the Kanagawa Prefecture Cultural Award. Since 2002 he has been Director of the Surface Engineering Research Institute, and since 2012 Director of the Materials and Surface Engineering Research Institute. He is currently a Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Institute Advisor.

Our university has achieved many achievements ranging from research and development centered on plating to industrialization. Plating is an important elemental technology both now and in the future, as it is said to be old and new technology. We always roaring that it is low-tech if it does not have high-tech plating. Starting with plastic plating, we will give many examples and explain plating for printed circuit boards, glass, ceramics, various plastics, MEMS, and semiconductor-related plating.

Kanto Gakuin University
Surface and Materials Engineering Research Institute
Special Adviser and Research Fellow

Prof. Osamu Takai

In 1976, he completed the doctoral course in Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo, specializing in metal engineering, and received PhD. After working at the University of Tokyo and Kanto Gakuin University, he became a professor at Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University in 1992, served as director of the Eco Topia Science Institute, and retired in 2012. He has been a professor at Kanto Gakuin University since 2012, and is currently a special advisor and research fellow at the Surface and Materials Research Institute, Kanto Gakuin University. His areas of expertise include materials engineering, thin film engineering, surface engineering, plasma engineering, biomimetic engineering, and advanced science and engineering of water.

Currently, there are many products around us that use dry process surface treatment. However, it is often difficult to notice that surface treatment has been applied. Dry process surface treatment technology such as vacuum evaporation, ion plating, sputtering, CVD, ion nitriding, plasma carburization, and plasma etching can be widely used to create functional thin films, highly functional surfaces through surface modification, nano/micro patterning, etc. In this lecture, we will introduce the latest trends in dry process surface treatment technology, focusing on the preparation methods of various functional thin films and surfaces.