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Surface Materials Science Lab
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A lab that examines solid surfaces at the atomic level and creates new two-dimensional thin films.
AboutAbout the lab
Investigating solid surfaces from the atomic level
The Surface Materials Science Lab studies solid surfaces from the atomic level.
Its main targets are metal and semiconductor surfaces, on which it fabricates and characterizes new two-dimensional thin films.
The lab belongs to the Materials Course of the Department of Interdisciplinary Engineering at the undergraduate level, and to the Materials Science and Engineering Major of the Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Sciences at the graduate level.
Key terms
- Two-dimensional monolayer film
- An extremely thin film made of a single layer of atoms. It is expected to be a next-generation material.
- Borophene
- A two-dimensional thin film made of boron atoms.
- Magnetic anisotropy
- A property in which how easily a material is magnetized depends on direction. When it is large, the material tends to be a hard magnetic material.
NewsLab news
A student received the Student Presentation Encouragement Award at the Kyushu Branch Academic Meeting of the Japan Society of Vacuum and Surface Science
A student received the Presentation Encouragement Award (Student Category) at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Vacuum and Surface Science
A student received the Student Presentation Encouragement Award at the 2024 Kyushu Branch Academic Meeting of the Japan Society of Vacuum and Surface Science
ResearchResearch themes
The Surface Materials Science Lab studies solid surfaces from the atomic level, mainly working on fabricating and characterizing new two-dimensional thin films on metal and semiconductor surfaces. Its research themes are two-dimensional monolayer films, magnetic thin films, and oxide surfaces.
*Illustrative imageTwo-Dimensional Monolayer Films
The lab aims to fabricate borophene, made of boron, and determine its atomic structure and electronic states. Boron thin films are expected to show a range of properties from insulator to metal if their crystal structure is controlled.
*Illustrative imageMagnetic Thin Films
When magnets are made thinner and smaller, their properties change greatly. Iron is a soft magnetic material with small magnetic anisotropy, but as a thin film it becomes a hard magnetic material with large magnetic anisotropy. The lab mainly studies monolayer magnetic thin films of iron (Fe) and cobalt (Co).
*Illustrative imageReactivity of Oxide Surfaces
The lab controls the lattice distortion and oxygen content of monolayer iron oxide films at the atomic level and investigates how chemical reactivity such as CO oxidation changes. It has also begun research on efficiently adsorbing CO2 onto CaO thin films.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Surface Materials Science Lab consist of faculty members and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.
- Associate ProfessorTakeshi Nakagawa
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Scanning Tunnelling Microscope made by W.A. Technology of Cambridge in )” Science Museum London / Science and Society Picture Library / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Two-Dimensional Monolayer Films: “Graphen” AlexanderAlUS / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Magnetic Thin Films: “Princip naprašování” Vítězslav Lamač / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Reactivity of Oxide Surfaces: “Nitrous-oxide-3D-elpot” Michael Gongshun / Public domain (cropped)
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