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Advanced Inorganic Materials Chemistry Lab
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A lab that creates thin films and crystals of transition metal oxides at the atomic level and explores their physical properties.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring new properties and functions of solids and crystals
The Advanced Inorganic Materials Chemistry Lab pursues research in solid-state chemistry, focusing on inorganic solids such as transition metal oxides.
The lab creates epitaxial thin films and bulk samples with structures controlled at the atomic level, and works on developing their physical properties.
The lab is developing materials such as two-dimensional ferroelectrics and hydrogen-absorbing oxides.
On the lab's website, it is introduced under the name “Kan Lab.”
Key terms
- Epitaxial thin film
- A thin film made by stacking atoms so that they align with the atomic arrangement of the underlying crystal
- Two-dimensional material
- A material only about an atomic layer thick, like graphene, which is a single layer of carbon atoms
- Ferroelectric
- A material that has an intrinsic electrical polarization (spontaneous polarization) whose direction can be reversed
NewsLab news
Professor Kan and colleagues' paper published in Advanced Functional Materials
Professor Kan and colleagues' paper published in Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
Press release on research results from real-time observation of polarization switching in fluorite-type ferroelectrics
Assistant Professor Kobayashi and colleagues' paper published in Nano Letters
The lab was established
ResearchResearch themes
Solids and crystals, formed by the condensation of atoms, can exhibit properties and functions that were previously unimaginable. The lab turns inorganic solids such as transition metal oxides into thin films and bulk samples with structures controlled at the atomic level, and works on developing their physical properties.
*Illustrative imageTwo-dimensional materials made by peeling off thin films
From a thin film in which a sacrificial layer and a functional oxide are stacked, only the sacrificial layer is removed by etching, and the lab uses this approach to fabricate two-dimensional materials. It succeeded in fabricating membrane crystals of hafnium zirconium dioxide a few nanometers thick, and also found that they have spontaneous polarization in the out-of-plane direction at room temperature.
*Illustrative imageDevelopment of hydrogen-absorbing ceramics
Holding that the development and academic understanding of hydrogen-containing ceramics are essential, the lab uses epitaxial thin films and heterostructures to develop hydrogen-absorbing oxides and elucidate their mechanisms. It has discovered new phenomena such as “interfacial hydrogen accumulation.”
*Illustrative imageControlling crystal orientation with light
The lab irradiates thin films with crystalline anisotropy with linearly polarized pulsed laser light to control their crystal orientation. It demonstrated control of the anisotropic crystal axis in tellurium, a one-dimensional van der Waals material, and also showed that designing the spatial distribution makes it function as an optical element (metasurface).
MembersFaculty
The members of Kan Lab consist of faculty, administrative assistants, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, and special research students.As of 2026
- ProfessorDaisuke Kan
- Assistant ProfessorYuta Kobayashi
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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: “Dr Thaddeus (Tadj) Asel focuses on the growth of oxide semiconductor materials such as Gallium Oxide to address the need for smaller and higher power electronics (8380286)” U.S. Air Force AFRL by Keith C Lewis / Public domain (cropped)
- Two-dimensional materials made by peeling off thin films: “Pulsed Laser Deposition in Action” Adam Andersen Læssøe / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Development of hydrogen-absorbing ceramics: “Metal Hydride Storage Canisters” Anjujo / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Controlling crystal orientation with light: “The inner optical setup of a femtosecond Titanium-Sapphire Pulsed laser” Aksy88 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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