b'T H O U G H T L E A D E R S H I PSCOA Automotive Group EmployeeContributes Scientific Research towardsAdvancement of SemiconductorsY u Grant Suzuki, a Director in SCOAs Automotive Manufacturing Unit inDetroit, Michigan is the first SC employee to be published in a peerreview journal on physics. He joined Sumitomo Corporation (SC) in its Dsseldorf office, in 2006, shifting his career from a researcher in the field of applied physics to business and moving to SCOA in March 2018. While Suzuki has successfully pursued and developed a career as a business professional within SCOA, he has kept up with his diligent research as a physicist, and was published in the Japanese Journal of Applied Physics this past August.The study, titled, Growth of Cu phthalocyanine thin filmsDecades in the MakingBreakthroughs inon Sb passivated vicinal Si (111) with molecular columnsSemiconductor Research parallel to the surface (2020), investigates bringing In 2000, the Nobel Prize for chemistry went to three organic materials onto inorganic semiconductors. scientistsAlan J. Heeger, Alan G. MacDiarmid and Suzuki began investigating novel semiconductor Hideki Shirakawawho proved polymers and plastics hybrid devices back in 2003, in order to better can become electrically conductive, imitating a metal. understand their real-life applications. In the years leading up this finding, the scientificcommunity had made substantial contributions to organic-inorganic hybrid semiconductor devices industrial applications. However, this breakthrough discovery accelerated interest in the production of organic-inorganic semiconductors. The mechanism behind creating a hybrid semiconduc-tor device includes combining atoms from organic and inorganic matter. Due to the finite numbers of elements on the periodic table (118), inorganic semi-conductors properties are also limited. On the other hand, organic material can exert infinite chemically -engineered properties, which can then be used to develop hybrid products beyond the periodic table.In the early 2000s, Suzukis research led him to aGerman university conducting groundbreaking research in the semiconductor field. He joined a team of scientists, contributing to the physics behind these systems, who helped lead his investigation of novel organic-inorganic semiconductors.The study conducted over the course of four years necessitated a substantial amount of experimental trials and data collection. Several universities worked in tandem to support the publicationincluding pro-fessors from the physics department at the Chemnitz University of Technology in Germany, the Interna-Above,Organic carbon-based circuit synthesizing to a polymer tional Christian University in Japan, and a scientist 12 visions Fall 2020'