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We outline Nikon’s basic technologies, R&D organizations and industry-academia R&D alliances, introducing the people who work together to support Nikon today and into the future.
Opto-electronics and precision form the very core of Nikon’s technologies. At the Core Technology Center, we focus on research and development of basic technologies, specifically in the areas of optics, precision measurement and manufacturing, image processing, materials, and software and systems.
Research themes in this category focus on image formation, optical measurement and optical simulation technologies — all drawing on optics theory as a primary tool. Our unique theoretical approach delivers groundbreaking optics technologies.
These key Nikon technologies enable the development of technologies for interference measurement, aspheric surface measurement, 3D measurement, microscale measurement, shape formation, polishing, grinding, microfabrication and film formation. This work is carried out in synch with other advances in materials, optics and system technologies.
Taking advantage of our optics technologies and the sophisticated applications derived from them, we’re able to continue developing image processing techniques that are unique to Nikon, including key digital camera technologies such as imaging processing advances that enhance image quality, as well as industrial-use image measurement and image recognition technologies.
In this field, Nikon is developing exclusive, innovative materials that play a vital role in the creation of new optics technologies, while carrying out extensive research and development into materials.
Our engineers in this category focus on research and development into software and system technologies related to optics, materials and precision processing. These operations are supported by various simulation technologies that help to enhance product quality and shorten the time required for product development. As this process grows increasingly sophisticated, our analyses are further refined, enabling significant progress in the advancement of software and system technologies.
Our Core Technology Center, which oversees the development of basic technologies, and the R&D groups of the Precision Equipment, Imaging and Instruments Companies, which are in charge of developing the products in each of these categories, are jointly thrusting Nikon R&D forward by leaps and bounds. We shall continue these close collaborations in order to develop highly reliable technologies.
Nikon Research Corporation of America, a U.S.A.-based R&D subsidiary, is engaged in research and development for IC-related equipment. Nikon and Essilor International Joint Research Center, established by Nikon Corporation and Essilor International, France, conducts R&D and surveys on mid-/long-term perspectives in fields pertaining to materials, optics and eyeglasses.
Nikon has introduced a system that grants fellowships to engineers who demonstrate world-class expertise and knowledge. We seek to promote cutting-edge R&D that leads the industry with specialists who are widely recognized both within Nikon and far beyond.
Nikon has formed an R&D alliance with the University of Tokyo — Nikon Chair of Optical Engineering, Institute of Industrial Science — aimed at nurturing next-generation engineers who will lead the optics industry. And at eight locations throughout the world — in Asia including Japan, the U.S.A., and Europe — we have opened Nikon Imaging Centers, which use advanced Nikon microscopes in the study and education of imaging technology.
At Nikon, there are pioneers dedicated to their research and development in laboratories or business fields who are striving to open up a new world of technologies. These researchers work day in and day out to apply the technologies they develop for the benefit of people and societies around the world. In this section, we hear the voices of our researchers as they recount their passions, dreams and various facets of their work.
