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Low-Temperature Physics and Engineering Lab
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A lab that explores new aspects of superconductivity through the surfaces and interfaces of materials.
AboutAbout the lab
New material functions from surfaces and interfaces.
The Kashiwaya Lab studies the properties of superconductors and topological materials through their surfaces and junctions.
At an interface, where two materials meet, electronic states can appear that differ from those inside either material.
The lab grows crystals from scratch, fabricates them into tiny junctions, and even builds its own measurement equipment, aiming to observe phenomena that have not yet been discovered.
The lab collaborates with the theoretical Tanaka-Kawaguchi Lab, so students can also work on both experiment and theory.
Key terms
- Superconductivity
- A phenomenon in which electrical resistance drops to zero. It occurs when electrons form pairs.
- Topological material
- A material in which the wave nature of electrons has a "twist," so that special electronic states always appear at its surface.
- Interface
- The boundary where two materials meet. Properties different from those inside either material can appear there.
- Unconventional superconductivity
- Superconductivity in which electrons pair up differently from in ordinary superconductors. Much about it remains a mystery.
NewsLab news
A master's student received the Outstanding Presentation Award at the Department of Applied Physics master's thesis review session
The lab held an open lab event
A student received a Poster Award at the Tokai Regional Academic Lecture Meeting of the Japan Society of Applied Physics Nagoya University Student Chapter
A master's student received the Outstanding Presentation Award at a master's thesis review session
ResearchResearch themes
The lab investigates the electronic properties that appear at the surfaces of materials and at junctions joining two materials, and conducts research on functional devices based on these findings. It focuses especially on topological materials and on pioneering unconventional superconductivity.
*Illustrative imageSuperconductivity research using junctions
Using superconducting junctions that connect a superconductor to another material, the lab determines whether the superconductivity is unconventional. The research searches for new electron pairing states and determines their symmetry.
*Illustrative imageTopological quantum properties
By combining topological materials with superconductors, the lab searches for Majorana fermions, particles that are their own antiparticles. It aims to create and control Majorana fermions and to link them to a new type of quantum computer.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Kashiwaya Lab consist of faculty, secretaries, and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorSatoshi Kashiwaya
- Associate ProfessorHiroshi Ito
- LecturerHaruka Taniguchi
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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: “Levitating HTS BSCCO piece (Meissner effect) - 2” Winiar / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Superconductivity research using junctions: “Magnet 4” Peter Nussbaumer / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Topological quantum properties: “The Beauty of Quantum Computers” Steve Jurvetson / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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