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Research Program
Outline
Measurement Group:
Capturing Self-Organization Systems
Theoretical Group:
Modeling Self-Organization Systems
  Creation Group:
Creating Functions
with Self-Organization Systems
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Research Program

Creation Group: Creating Functions with Self-Organization Systems

[Group members]

Group leader
Oshima Chuhei Division of Nano-Science and Nano-Engineering,
Graduate School of Science and Engineering
Sub-leader
Uesu Yoshiaki Division of Pure and Applied physics,
Graduate School of Science and Engineering
Terasaki Ichiro Division of Pure and Applied physics,
Graduate School of Science and Engineering
Katsufuji Takuro Division of Pure and Applied physics,
Graduate School of Science and Engineering
Matsuda Azusa Division of Pure and Applied physics,
Graduate School of Science and Engineering


Research goals

To realize self-organizing systems of space and biological organisms in a solid state and to create new functions.

Research themes (collaborating teaching staff in parentheses)

Oshima Chuhei *Evaluation of coherent electron beams from self-organized nanostructures and application to fundamental physics experiments (Ohba, Kurihara)
*Elucidation of phonon and electron structures by first-principles calculation and angle resolution electron spectrometry (Terasaki, Katsufuji)
Uesu Yoshiaki *Fluctuation of heterostructure and gigantic phase-response characteristics (Kadota, Katsufuji, Yamazaki, Terasaki)
*Three-dimensional imaging of inhomogeneous (domain) structures (Komatsu, Katsufuji)
*Self-organized membranes of pigment molecules and two-dimensional structural phase transitions (Tasaki)
Terasaki Ichiro *Understanding and controlling the essential inhomogeneous state of high-temperature superconductors and organic conductive materials (Katsufuji, Uesu, Tasaki, Maeda)
*Retrieval of novel thermoelectric effects using ratchet structures (Katsufuji, Tasaki, Kurihara)
Katsufuji Takuro *Gigantic external field response in inhomogeneous states (Uesu, Terasaki)
*Creation of self-organizing systems by thin films (Uesu)
*Physics of self-organization of electrons in a solid state (Kadota, Kurihara, Terasaki)
Matsuda Azusa *Direct measurement and control of inhomogeneous states in high-temperature superconductors and strongly correlated electron systems
(Terasaki, Katsufuji)
*Physics of self-organization systems on strongly correlated electron systems
(Kurihara, Tasaki, Terasaki)

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