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Spintronics Lab
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The lab fabricates semiconductor materials that make use of electron spin and evaluates their physical properties.
AboutAbout the lab
Creating new semiconductors that use electron spin.
The Spintronics Lab aims to realize spintronics, a new kind of electronics that uses electron spin.
Conventional electronics has used only the electric charge of electrons, but it is expected that using spin as well will make more highly functional devices possible.
The lab makes dilute magnetic semiconductors, which are semiconductors mixed with a small amount of magnetic atoms, by methods such as molecular beam epitaxy, and investigates their properties.
Research is mainly experimental, proceeding from sample fabrication to measurement, analysis, and reporting at the lab seminar.
Key terms
- Spin
- One of the properties of an electron. Because of spin, an electron behaves as a microscopic magnet
- Dilute magnetic semiconductor
- A material made by mixing a small amount of magnetic atoms into a semiconductor crystal. It has the properties of both a semiconductor and a magnetic material
- Quantum dot
- A structure that confines electrons in a very small region. Quantum-mechanical properties appear, such as discrete energy levels
- Topological insulator
- A group of materials that are electrical insulators in the interior but have metallic electronic states on the surface that conduct electricity
ResearchResearch themes
The lab aims to contribute to the realization of spintronics by clarifying phenomena and physical properties related to electron spin in solids. It develops new materials that control the direction of spin and lead to device functions, and it elucidates the underlying phenomena.
*Illustrative imageSearching for new magnetic semiconductor materials
The lab searches for new magnetic semiconductors, which are semiconductors mixed with magnetic elements to give them magnet-like properties, that become ferromagnetic at higher temperatures. It also aims to elucidate the mechanism behind the ferromagnetism.
*Illustrative imageSingle spins in quantum dots
The lab makes samples in which just one magnetic atom is placed in a quantum dot, and investigates the interaction between electrons and the spin of that single atom. It aims to develop methods for manipulating spin.
*Illustrative imageThin films of topological insulators
The lab fabricates thin films of topological insulators and investigates the behavior of electrons on their surfaces. It aims to apply the spin-aligned electrons on the surface to spintronic devices.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Kuroda Lab consist of faculty members, visiting researchers, and master's program and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorShinji Kuroda
- Assistant ProfessorKen Kanazawa
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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: “Molecular-beam epitaxy system at LAAS 0509” Guillaume Paumier (user:guillom) / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Searching for new magnetic semiconductor materials: “Molecular-beam epitaxy 412 RIBER system at LAAS-CNRS” QGravelier / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Single spins in quantum dots: “Quantum Dots with emission maxima in a 10-nm step are being produced at PlasmaChem in a kg scale” Antipoff / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Thin films of topological insulators: “Sample holder in ultrahigh vacuum chamber for angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy” Ponor / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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- Related lab (電子スピン共鳴分光): “Electron spin resonance spectroscopy” Bill Branson (Photographer) / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (環境半導体・磁性体): “Molecular-beam epitaxy system at LAAS 0516” Guillaume Paumier (user:guillom) / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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