| Year | Achievement | Publication List Reference No. |
|---|---|---|
| 1968 | Demonstrated the possibility of holography with an electron beam | (1) |
| 1978 | Put electron holography to practical use by developing a "coherent" field-emission electron microscope | (2) |
| 1980 | Invented a method of directly observing microscopic magnetic lines of force as electron phase contours. | (3) |
| 1980-83 | Produced evidence for the Aharonov-Bohm effect using transparent toroidal magnets | (4) |
| 1985 | Developed a method to measure electron phase shifts as precisely as 1/50 of 2π . | (5) |
| 1986 | Established the physical reality of gauge fields by producing definitive evidence for the Aharonov-Bohm effect using toroidal magnets covered with superconductors. | (6)(r1)(b1) |
| 1989 | Directly observed the magnetic lines of individual vortices penetrating superconductors. | (7)(r2) |
| Demonstrated single-electron build-up of an interference pattern. | (8) | |
| 1992 | Developed a technique for dynamically observing vortices in superconductors. | (9)(b2)(b4) |
| 1993 | Determined the regions in magnetic field and temperature where vortices in high-Tc superconductors can exist statically. | (10) |
| 1996 | Found "intermittent vortex rivers" near pinning centers. | (11) |
| 1996 | Elucidated the microscopic mechanism of the peak effect in critical current in superconductors | (12) |
| 1997 | Determined the vortex-vortex pair potential from the dynamic observation of thermally activated vortex hopping. | (13)(14) |
| 1999 | Found two different movements of vortices in high-Tc superconductors above and below 25K. | (15) |
| 2000 | Developed 1MV field-emission electron microscope having the brightest electron beam and the highest lattice resolution. | (16) |
| 2001 | Observed the different arrangements of vortex lines trapped and untrapped along tilted columnar defects inside high-Tc superconductors with the 1MV electron microscope | (17) |
| 2002 | Found the oscillation of a row of vortices reflecting the layered structure of high-Tc superconductors | (18) |
| 2002 | Found the formation mechanism of chain vortices in high- Tc superconductors at tilted magnetic fields | (19) |
