Department of Advanced Materials Science, The University of Tokyo

INTRODUCTION OF LABORATORY

N E W S

Apr 2025

Mr. Koyama, Mr. Togano, Ms. Ishigaki, Mr. Li, Mr. Kang, and Mr. Ou have joined our lab.

Nishida and Kasashima have found jobs, and Akita and Sengoku have moved on to other research labs.

Mar 2025

Assistant Professor Kito's paper on piezoelectric transitions in gyroid MOFs has been published in JACS.
It has been selected as the supplementary cover of the journal.
[ Press release ]

The 2025 Spring Meeting of the Physical Society of Japan was held (online), with Nishida, Eng, and Yamada giving presentations, and Assistant Professor Kito giving a commemorative lecture to commemorate his award.

Jan 2025

Kito and Nishida gave presentations at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Society and the Joint Symposium on Synchrotron Radiation Science.

Dec 2024

Graduate Aoyagi presented his graduation thesis research at the Topical Meeting "Exploring Cross-Correlation in Asymmetric Quantum Matter" and won the Excellent Poster Award.

Kito gave a research presentation by recipients of the NF Foundation's Research Encouragement Awards and received the 2024 Research and Development Encouragement Award for Excellence.

Nov 2024

Mr.Nishida won the Poster Award at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Crystallographic Society of Japan.

Oct 2024

Mr.Kito Kito-san received the 29th Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Society Encouragement Award.

Mr.Kito awarded the 13th (2024) NF Foundation Research and Development Encouragement Award.

Mr.Kito awarded the 19th (2025) Young Scientist Award (Area 8) of the Physical Society of Japan.

Mr.Manish joined our lab.

Sep 2024

Arima, Tokunaga, Kito, Nishida, and Toyama made presentations at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Physical Society of Japan.

A paper by our graduate student, Mr. Ikeda, demonstrating the principle of electrical cooling using multiferroics, was published in JPSJ.
It also won the JPSJ Papers of Editor's Choice award.

Aug 2024

An explanatory article on defective spinel compounds was published in the September 2024 issue of the monthly magazine Chemistry.

We have published research results on the magnetic properties and magnetotransport phenomena of rare-earth-gold-germanium semimetallic compounds. (Phys. Rev. B)

Jul 2024

A paper on "Magnetic thermal conductivity in honeycomb lattice antiferromagnets" by former staff member Kurumaji and graduate student Ueno has been published in Physical Review B.

Apr 2024

Mr.Ishiuchi,Mr.Bao,Ms.Yamada,Mr.Akita,Mr.Kasashima,and Mr.Sengoku joined our group.

Mr.Ueno,Mr.Koto,Mr.Aoyagi,and Mr.Suzuki left our group.

Mar 2024

Dr. Kito's paper on cluster rearrangement by chiral charge order in deficient spinel GaNb₄Se₈ has been published.
(S. Kitou et al., Chem. Mater.)
(Press release/GSFS　*Japanese)

Dr. Kito's paper on electron orbitals and short-range order of vanadium dioxide has been published.
(S. Kitou et al., Phys. Rev. B)

Jan 2024

Kito made a presentation at the 6th Solid State Chemistry Forum.

Kito and Nishida made a presentation at the 37th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Synchrotron Radiation and Synchrotron Radiation Science Joint Symposium.

Dec 2023

Arima gave a Plenary Talk at The 4th Asia-Oceania Conference on Neurtron Scattering.

Nov 2023

Kito made a presentation at the 17th Interdisciplinary Meeting of Condensed State Science.

Oct 2023

Kito made presentations at the 60 years of Synchrotron Radiation in Japan (JPSR60).

Sep 2023

Dr.Kito received the 12th SPRUC Young Scientist Award.
And he gave an award lecture at the SPring-8 Symposium 2023.

Arima,Kito,Ueno,and Koto made presentations at the 78th Annual Meeting of JPS.

Arima made presentation at the 23rd Annual Meeting of The Japanese Society for Neutron Science (JSNS2023).

Dr.Kurumaji moved to California Institute of Technology.

Aug 2023

Dr.Kito's paper on ligand holes of strontium iron oxide SrFeO₃ was published in Advanced Science.
(press release)

Kurumaji gave a lecture on the intensive seminar at the 68th Summer School for Young Teachers in Solid Matter Physics (Shiga Prefecture, Online).

Arima made presentation at International Conference on Quantum Liquid Crystals 2023 (QLC2023).

Jul 2023

Dr.Kitou's paper has been published by Physical Review B .
(S. kitou et al., Phys. Rev. B)

Arima,Kurumaji,and Kitou made presentations at International Conference on Strongly Correlated Electron Systems (SCES 2023,Korea).

May 2023

Dr.Kurumaji's paper on the symmetry of the In-plane Hall effect has been published by Physical Review Research.
Title:Symmetry-based requirement for the measurement of electrical and thermal Hall conductivity under an in-plane magnetic field
(T. Kurumaji, Phys. Rev. Research)　

Apr 2023

Dr.Kito joined our laboratory.

Mr.Watanabe,Mr.Ikeda,Mr.Ishizaki,Mr.Kimura,Mr.Iijima,and Mr.Ikehara left our group.

Mr.Aoyagi,Mr.Suzuki,and Mr.Toyama joined our group.

Mar 2023

Kurumaji,Watanabe, Ishizaki, and Ueno made presentations at the March meeting of JPS 2023 (online)

We have obtained high-quality single crystals of a series of rare-earth intermetallics RAuGe (R = Y, Gd-Tm, and Lu), and revealed a systematic evolution of the crystal structure correlated with magnetic anisotropy.
Title:Single crystal growths and magnetic properties of hexagonal polar semimetals RAuGe (R = Y, Gd-Tm, and Lu)　(T. Kurumaji et al., J. Alloys Compd.)

Dr.Watanabe's paper on Ba2CoGe2O7 has been published by Nature Communications.
Title:Double dome structure of the Bose-Einstein condensation in diluted S=3/2 quantum magnets　（Y. Watanabe et al., Nat. Commun.）

A press release was also issued.

Feb 2023

Mr.Watanabe's paper on Ba2FeSi2O7 was selected as JPSJ's Hot Topics.
Title:Hidden Magnetoelectric Phase Transition by Emergent Staggered Magnetic Field(doi.org/10.7566/JPSHT.3.005)

Jan 2023

Mr.Watanabe's paper has been published.
Title:Magnetic-Field-Induced Antiferromagnetic?Antiferromagnetic Phase Transition in Quasi-Two-Dimensional Multiferroic Material Ba2FeSi2O7(Y. Watanabe et al., J. Phys. Soc. Jpn.)

Oct 2022

Mr.Yan joined our group.

Sep 2022

Kurumaji,and Kimura made presentations at the Autumn Meeting of the Physical Society of Japan Meeting (Tokyo Institute of Technology).

Dr. Kurumaji's paper has been published.
Title: Anisotropic magnetotransport properties coupled with spiral spin modulation in a magnetic semimetal EuZnGe (T. Kurumaji et al., Phys. Rev. Mater.)

Mr.Watanabe made a presentation at tan international conference (SCES 2022 Amsterdam), and then conducted joint research in Cologne, Germany.

Jun 2022

Dr. Gen's paper has been published.
Title:Enhancement of giant magnetoelectric effect in Ni-doped CaBaCo4O7(Phys. Rev. B)

May 2022

Dr. Gen's paper has been published.
Title: Nematicity and fractional magnetization plateaus induced by spin-lattice coupling in the classical kagome-lattice Heisenberg antiferromagnet(Phys. Rev. B)

Apr 2022

Mr.Iijima,Mr.Ikehara,and Mr.Nishida joined our group.

Mr.Koto joined our group.

Dr.Gen moved to RIKEN. Mr.Umimoto,Mr.Sato,Mr.Yoshida, Mr.Yanagida,Mr.Anan,and Mr.Ide left our group.

Mar 2022

Kurumaji,Watanabe,Yanagida,and Ikeda made presentations at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Physical Society of Japan Meeting (online).

Mr. Sato has succeeded in the observation of antiferromagnetic domain walls with millisecond resolution.
(T.Sato et al.,Phys. Rev. B)