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Matsuda Lab
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A lab that creates thin-film materials with electronic functions using low-temperature processes.
AboutAbout the lab
Creating materials at the atomic scale
The Matsuda Lab studies how to create functional materials for electronics and energy at the nano and atomic scales.
Using methods far from equilibrium, such as laser-based processes and self-assembly, it synthesizes thin films and nanomaterials at low temperatures.
Focusing on “creating materials and properties, observing and analyzing them, and thinking about the underlying principles,” the lab brings forth materials and processes never seen before.
Students and researchers from a wide range of fields, including materials, chemistry, physics, and electrical and electronic engineering, work together in the lab.
Key terms
- Epitaxial growth
- Growing a crystal on top of an underlying crystal while inheriting the underlying crystal's atomic arrangement.
- Self-assembly
- The spontaneous arrangement of atoms or molecules into an ordered structure.
- Energy harvesting
- Technology that collects energy found in our surroundings, such as light, heat, and vibration, and converts it into electricity.
NewsLab news
The lab held an in-person briefing and lab tour at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering lab information session
The lab took part online in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering lab information session
A master's student received the Best Award at the Autumn Symposium of the Ceramic Society of Japan
A master's student received an Excellence Award at the Autumn Symposium of the Ceramic Society of Japan
ResearchResearch themes
The lab creates materials and properties at the nano and atomic scales, observes and analyzes them, and considers the underlying principles. It aims to create electronic and energy functional materials and processes never seen before, and to discover and understand new phenomena and properties.
*Illustrative imageThin-Film Synthesis of Electronic Ceramics
Using nonequilibrium processes such as laser processing and self-assembly together with defect engineering, the lab synthesizes epitaxial thin films and nanomaterials at low temperatures, selecting only the targeted phase.
*Illustrative imageNew Materials with Giant Crystal Structures
Combining thin-film and nanomaterial synthesis techniques with processes such as topochemical reactions and uniaxial-compression crystallization, the lab creates new two-dimensional layered structures and structures with long one-dimensional chains, and controls their properties.
*Illustrative imageMolding Surfaces at the Atomic Level
Using single-crystal molds, the lab patterns the surfaces of glass and polymers at the atomic level and grows thin-film crystals on them. The aim is to create technology for making flexible devices.
*Illustrative imageMaterials That Harvest Environmental Energy
For energy harvesting technology, which “harvests” the energy found in our surroundings, the lab synthesizes thin films of new oxide crystals and amorphous semiconductors.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Matsuda Lab are faculty, research fellows, and master's students.As of 2026
- Associate ProfessorAkifumi MatsudaPublications ↗
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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: “Au sputtering light” GcG(jawp) / Public domain (cropped)
- Thin-Film Synthesis of Electronic Ceramics: “Diffracted Light Spectrum on Patterned Silicon Wafer” DrHughManning / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- New Materials with Giant Crystal Structures: “Graphite schist ( )” James St. John / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Molding Surfaces at the Atomic Level: “NbN on sapphire” 90lbNose / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Materials That Harvest Environmental Energy: “Solar panels on a roof” Pujanak / Public domain (cropped)
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