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Norimatsu Lab
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The lab is a crystal growth lab that creates and studies new materials such as graphene at the atomic level.
AboutAbout the lab
Creating and studying new materials at the atomic level.
The Norimatsu Lab studies the crystal growth of new low-dimensional materials and the clarification of their structures and electronic states at the atomic level.
By heating SiC crystals at high temperatures, the lab makes thin carbon-based materials such as graphene and carbon nanotubes.
The atomic arrangements and electronic states of the resulting materials are examined in detail using electron microscopes and other instruments.
Key terms
- Low-dimensional materials
- Thin materials, such as sheets, that are only one or two atoms thick
- Crystal growth
- The process of gradually growing a solid whose atoms are arranged in a regular pattern into a larger one
- Electron microscope
- A device that uses an electron beam to magnify very small objects down to the atomic level
NewsLab news
Paper from the lab published in Small Methods
Review article by Professor Norimatsu published in Journal of the Crystallographic Society of Japan
Student receives the Young Scientist Presentation Award at the Japan Society of Applied Physics meeting
Paper on graphene growth on SiC published in Applied Physics Letters
Paper on WSe2 growth on graphene published in Nano Letters
ResearchResearch themes
The lab works on the crystal growth of low-dimensional materials, control of structure at the atomic level, and clarification of new electronic states and physical properties. Using SiC crystals as the starting material, it makes new carbon materials with its own original methods.
*Illustrative imageClarifying the structure and properties of graphene
The lab uses its own method of making graphene from the carbon atoms left on the surface when SiC is heated at high temperatures. The atomic arrangement and electronic states of the resulting graphene are examined in detail with microscopes and other instruments.
*Illustrative imageFabricating carbon nanotubes
SiC crystals are heated in a vacuum, and carbon nanotubes are made from the carbon atoms extracted from the surface. The lab investigates how they form and studies ways to control their structure and properties.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Norimatsu Lab consist of faculty and master's and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorWataru Norimatsu
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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: “Graphene-epitaxial” Nathan Guisinger, EMMD Group, Argonne National Laboratory / Public domain (cropped)
- Clarifying the structure and properties of graphene: “Silicon carbide crystals” JayCubby / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Fabricating carbon nanotubes: “Carbon Nanotube Measurements ( )” National Institute of Standards and Technology / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Watanabe Lab): “Multicrystalline silicon wafer with thin film iridescence” Radiotrefoil / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Uchino Lab): “Cold atoms experiment 04” Tomasz Kawalec / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Kawanishi Lab): “Antenna of Airport Surveillance Radar” FBuHL09 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Kawamura Lab): “Artificial Neural Network with Chip” mikemacmarketing / photo on flickr / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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