University of Tokyo

The University of Tokyo is a public research university in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1877 as the nation’s first modern university by the merger of several pre-westernisation era institutions, its direct precursors include the Tenmongata, founded in 1684, and the Shōheizaka Institute.

A long-sought aperiodic pattern composed of Smith hat shapes

One Tile Shape Makes a Chip Care Which Way Light Spins

Physicists in Japan etched 372,100 holes into a silicon chip following the Smith hat tiling, then found that left-handed and right-handed circularly polarized light scatter off it differently, an asymmetry conventional quasicrystals cannot produce.