Suda Lab

AboutAbout the lab

Designing electronic properties at will

The Suda Lab creates new condensed matter using chemical methods and studies its electronic properties.
Using organic and inorganic synthetic chemistry, electrochemistry, and photochemistry, the lab aims to establish a new chemistry of material properties in which electronic properties such as conductivity, magnetism, and catalytic activity can be designed at will.
With state-of-the-art device fabrication techniques and precise measurements of physical properties, the lab clarifies the origins of electronic properties.
With applications in electronics and spintronics in mind, the lab also works on turning materials into functional materials and devices.

ResearchResearch themes

The lab aims to establish a chemistry of material properties that creates new condensed matter through diverse chemical methods, intentionally controls factors such as symmetry and dimensionality within the material, and thereby designs electronic properties such as conductivity, magnetism, and topological properties. Current work covers spintronics using chiral molecules, chiral superlattices, and superconducting devices based on organic materials.

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Chiral Molecular Spintronics↗

The lab develops new organic spintronic devices using the chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect, in which the spins of electrons become aligned after passing through chiral molecules. Using chiral molecular motors that respond to heat and light, it has reported devices that can be controlled by heat or light.

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Chiral van der Waals Superlattices↗

The lab proposes a method of creating condensed matter with chiral structures by electrochemically inserting molecules between the layers of layered materials (van der Waals layered materials). It has achieved nearly perfect spin selectivity in a chiral metallic material.

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Superconducting Devices Based on Organic Mott Insulators↗

A material that becomes an insulator because of strong repulsion between electrons is called a Mott insulator. The lab is developing new superconducting devices using crystals of organic Mott insulators, and has succeeded in developing a photo-superconducting transistor that switches between insulating and superconducting states with light.

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