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Kawasaki Lab
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The lab creates new quantum properties in oxide thin films built up one atomic layer at a time.
AboutAbout the lab
Building new materials, one atomic layer at a time.
The Kawasaki Lab studies how to precisely fabricate metal oxide thin films at the atomic level to create new properties and functions.
Metal oxides possess a variety of giant physical properties, and the lab proposes "oxide electronics" to put them to use.
Using a laser to instantly vaporize oxides, the lab stacks atoms layer by layer on a substrate to build a variety of artificial nanostructures.
The lab works on quantum properties and their functionalization in systems such as zinc oxide thin films, topological materials, and magnetic skyrmions.
Key terms
- Oxide electronics
- A field that seeks to use the diverse electrical, magnetic, and optical properties of metal oxides in electronic devices.
- Topological materials
- Materials in which the topology of the electronic energy states (band structure) gives rise to unusual electronic states, for example at the surface.
- Skyrmion
- A small, particle-like structure in a magnetic material in which spins are arranged in a twisting, vortex-like pattern.
NewsLab news
Prof. Kawasaki receives the Hokoku Prize from the Hattori Hokokai Foundation
A lab staff member receives the Nippon Broadcasting Prize at the Advanced Technology Awards
A student receives the Presentation Award for Young Researchers from the Japan Society of Applied Physics
A student receives the Best Poster Award at QSTEP
ResearchResearch themes
The lab aims to grow metal oxide thin films with precision at the level of atomic layers, creating artificial new materials that give rise to new properties and functions. It studies the quantum properties that emerge in ultra-high-quality thin films and how to turn them into functions.
*Illustrative imageClean Zinc Oxide Thin Films and Interfaces
The lab has advanced techniques for making zinc oxide thin films in which impurities and defects are reduced to the extreme. When electrons are confined in two dimensions within such a film, highly mobile electrons arise, and unusual quantum phenomena have been observed.
*Illustrative imageTopological Phases in Oxides
The lab works on realizing topological materials, in which the topology of the band structure gives rise to unusual electronic phases, in oxide thin films and interfaces, with the aim of engineering applications.
*Illustrative imageExploring Magnetic Skyrmions
The lab creates skyrmions, which have a special topology in the arrangement of their spins, in high-quality oxide thin films and interfaces. It seeks to reveal spin structures and properties that are unprecedented or have been overlooked until now.
*Illustrative imageOxide Thin Films with New Functions
The lab fabricates high-quality thin films of oxides for which techniques to make well-crystallized films have not yet been established. Thin films can also yield single crystals with crystal structures or compositions that are unstable in thermal equilibrium and cannot be made as bulk single crystals.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Kawasaki Lab include faculty, visiting researchers, project specialists, and master's and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorMasashi KawasakiPublications ↗
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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: “PLD Plume” H.Perowne / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Clean Zinc Oxide Thin Films and Interfaces: “Zinc oxide crystal ( )” Oak Ridge National Laboratory / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Topological Phases in Oxides: “Img 8960x5600” Osadchy and Avron / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Exploring Magnetic Skyrmions: “Neel skyrmion coneplot” Forschungszentrum Jülich / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Oxide Thin Films with New Functions: “Camada epitaxial” Bárbara Souza Damasceno / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (関研究室): “Neel skyrmion coneplot” Forschungszentrum Jülich / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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- Related lab (金澤研究室): “Neel skyrmion coneplot” Forschungszentrum Jülich / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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