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Fukutani Lab
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A lab that investigates how electrons and hydrogen move on solid surfaces.
AboutAbout the lab
Observing surfaces and hydrogen with precision.
The Fukutani Lab is a surface science and vacuum science lab that studies phenomena occurring at solid surfaces and interfaces.
Surfaces have lower dimensionality and symmetry than three-dimensional bulk, and show distinctive properties such as interface superconductivity, surface magnetism, and catalytic effects.
Solid surfaces play an especially important role in the production, storage, and sensing of hydrogen, a clean energy carrier.
Through work such as the development of spin-polarized hydrogen, the lab aims to uncover the mechanisms of spin conversion and molecule formation at surfaces.
Key terms
- Surface science
- A field that focuses on the outermost few atomic layers of a solid and studies the structures and reactions found there
- Proton
- The nucleus of a hydrogen atom. It consists of a single proton, and is what remains when the electron is removed from a hydrogen atom
- Spin polarization
- A state in which the spins (the intrinsic rotational direction) of electrons or nuclei are aligned in one direction rather than pointing randomly
ResearchResearch themes
The lab aims to understand the atomic structure and electronic states of surfaces and interfaces, and to elucidate and control surface dynamics in which electrons and nuclei move together. It is also exploring new physical properties that emerge when hydrogen is absorbed.
*Illustrative imageProton Motion and the Search for Superconductivity
The lab uses surfaces to control the movement of hydrogen nuclei (protons). It has observed "quantum diffusion," in which protons move by tunneling through barriers, and has discovered new conduction phenomena in metastable hydrides.
*Illustrative imageSpin Dynamics and Surface Magnetism
The lab studies the conversion of the nuclear spin of hydrogen molecules between the triplet and singlet states. It produces hydrogen with aligned spins (spin-polarized hydrogen) and uses it to observe surface magnetism.
MembersFaculty
The Fukutani Lab consists of faculty members, project researchers, secretaries, doctoral and master's students, senior researchers, and collaborators, research fellows, and cooperating researchers.As of 2026
- ProfessorKatsuyuki FukutaniPublications ↗
- Assistant ProfessorTakahiro OzawaPublications ↗
- Project Assistant ProfessorKristina KomanderPublications ↗
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Report an errorAbout the images
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: “Photoemission laboratory” Food95 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Proton Motion and the Search for Superconductivity: “Relativistic particle tunnelling” Phidus / CC0 (cropped)
- Spin Dynamics and Surface Magnetism: “Possible spin configurations of the hydrogen molecule” Rogerjin1 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Takahashi Lab): “OPA produced femtosecond UV laser beam” Abdullahkepceoglu / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Ideue Lab): “Graphen” AlexanderAlUS / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Hasegawa Lab): “Scanning tunneling microscope (STM) 250 nm by 250 nm image of one-atom-thick silver islands grown on palladium (111) surface” Ponor / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Kanazawa Lab): “Neel skyrmion coneplot” Forschungszentrum Jülich / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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