Mitsuo USAMI

Biography: Mitsuo Usami received the B.S. degree in electronics engineering of the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1971. He joined the computer and semiconductor division of Hitachi in 1971 and engaged in development of bipolar high-speed logic LSIs for the large scaled mainframe computers for 16 years. He invented magnetic-card-like ultra thin IC cards in 1993 at the Central Research Laboratory of Hitachi. His recent works are oriented for many application devices using thinned silicon chips such as ultra-small RFIDs. He received the Ph.D degree from Kyushu University in 1992.

Research activities: Ultra small RFIDs