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Synchrotron Radiation Applied Engineering Lab
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A lab that generates synchrotron radiation and uses it to study the electronic states of materials.

AboutAbout the lab
From accelerators that generate light to the electronic states of materials.
The Takashima-Ito Lab studies the generation and use of synchrotron radiation, a powerful light for investigating materials.
The lab develops compact electron accelerators that generate the light, as well as the beamlines and measurement instruments used to apply it in experiments.
Using photoelectron spectroscopy with synchrotron radiation, the lab also investigates the electronic states inside a wide variety of materials.
Key terms
- Synchrotron radiation
- Intense, bright light emitted when a magnet bends the path of electrons accelerated to nearly the speed of light
- Beamline
- Equipment that guides light generated by an accelerator to the place where experiments are carried out. It consists of optical systems and measurement instruments
- Photoelectron spectroscopy
- A method that shines light on a material and analyzes the electrons emitted from it to learn about the electronic states inside the material
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Synchrotron radiation is highly effective for investigating the microscopic structure and state of materials. The lab develops and studies compact electron accelerators that generate this light, along with the beamlines and measurement instruments for using it. With this light, the lab also clarifies the electronic states of a wide variety of materials.
*Illustrative imageDevelopment of compact synchrotron light sources
The lab develops and studies the components that make up a compact accelerator generating high-brightness X-rays, including the electromagnets that bend the electron beam, the ultra-high-vacuum pipes the electrons travel through, and the radio-frequency cavities that accelerate them.
*Illustrative imageDevelopment of beamlines and measurement instruments
To use the generated synchrotron radiation in experiments, the lab develops and studies beamlines, which consist of optical systems and other components, as well as measurement instruments.
*Illustrative imageClarifying the electronic states of materials
Mainly through photoelectron spectroscopy using synchrotron radiation, the lab investigates the states that electrons are in within a wide variety of materials.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Takashima-Ito Lab are faculty members and master's and undergraduate students.
- ProfessorYoshifumi Takashima
- Associate ProfessorTakahiro Ito
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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: “02 Fermilab - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory - American particle accelerator Fermilab near Chicago Illinois” Marek Ślusarczyk (Tupungato) Photo portfolio / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Development of compact synchrotron light sources: “Aust.-Synchrotron,-Storage-Ring-Magnets” jjron / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Development of beamlines and measurement instruments: “Macromolecular-Crystallography-beamline” Macromolecular crystallography group at SSRL / Public domain (cropped)
- Clarifying the electronic states of materials: “Surface science vacuum chamber” Stian Martinsen from Horten, Norway / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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