RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science Emergent Phenomena Observation Technology Research Team
Team Leader: Seigo Tarucha (D.Eng.)
Research Summary
Electron holography is a leading-edge technology utilizing the interference effects of electron waves and is capable of observing electromagnetic fields on the nanometer scale. By measuring electromagnetic field changes in and around specimens under the application of electric and/or magnetic fields, correspondences to their electric and magnetic properties are studied. Furthermore, visualization of collective motions of secondary electrons due to electron movement is realized by measuring perturbed electric fields. Improvement of resolution and precision of these observation technologies will enable us to clarify mechanisms of emergent matter phenomena in many-body systems with multiple degrees of freedom.
Main Research Fields
- Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering
Related Research Fields
- Engineering
Keywords
- Electron Holography
- Electromagnetic Field
Selected Publications
- 1.D. Shindo, T. Tanigaki and H. S. Park:
"Advanced Electron Holography Applied to Electromagnetic Field Study in Materials Science"
Advanced Materials 29,1602216 (2017). - 2.M. Nakamura, F. Kagawa, T. Tanigaki, H. S. Park, T. Matsuda, D. Shindo, Y. Tokura and M. Kawasaki:
"Spontaneous Polarization and Bulk Photovoltaic Effect Driven by Polar Discontinuity in LaFeO3/SrTiO3 Heterojunctions"
Physical Review Letters 116, 156801 (2016). - 3.K. Shibata, J. Iwasaki, N. Kanazawa, S. Aizawa, T. Tanigaki, M. Shirai, T. Nakajima, M. Kubota, M. Kawasaki, H. S. Park, D. Shindo, N. Nagaosa and Y. Tokura
"Large anisotropic deformation of skyrmions in strained crystal"
Nature Nanotechnology 10, 589-593 (2015). - 4.T. Tanigaki, Y. Takahashi, T. Shimakura, T. Akashi, R. Tsuneta, A. Sugawara and D. Shindo:
"Three-Dimensional Observation of Magnetic Vortex Cores in Stacked Ferromagnetic Discs"
Nano Letters 15, 1309-1314 (2015). - 5.T. Tanigaki, K. Shibata, N. Kanazawa, X. Yu, Y. Onose, H. S. Park, D. Shindo and Y. Tokura:
"Real-Space Observation of Short-Period Cubic Lattice of Skyrmions in MnGe"
Nano Letters 15, 5438-5442 (2015). - 6.H. S. Park, Z. Yu, S. Aizawa, T. Tanigaki, T. Akashi, Y. Takahashi, T. Matsuda, N. Kanazawa, Y. Onose, D. Shindo, A. Tonomura and Y. Tokura:
"Observation of the magnetic flux and three-dimensional structure of skyrmion lattices by electron holography"
Nature Nanotechnology 9, 337-342 (2014) - 7.Y. Murakami, K. Niitsu, T. Tanigaki, R. Kainuma, H. S. Park and D. Shindo:
"Magnetization amplified by structural disorder within nanometre-scale interface region"
Nature Communications 5, 4133 (2014) - 8.D. Shindo, S. Aizawa, Z. Akase, T. Tanigaki, Y. Murakami and H. S. Park
"Electron holographic visualization of collective motion of electrons through electric field variation"
Microscopy and Microanalysis 20(04), 1015-1021 (2014) - 9.T. Tanigaki, K. Sato, Z.Akase, S. Aizawa, H. S. Park, T. Matsuda, Y. Murakami, D. Shindo and H. Kawase:
"Split-illumination electron holography for improved evaluation of electrostatic potential associated with electrophotography"
Applied Physics Letters 104, 131601 (2014) - 10.T. Tanigaki, S. Aizawa, H. S. Park, T. Matsuda, K. Harada and D. Shindo:
"Advanced split-illumination electron holography without Fresnel fringes"
Ultramicroscopy 137, 7-11 (2014)
Recent Research Results
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Sep. 12, 2014
Magnetism intensified by defects -
May 30, 2014
The shape of spins to come -
May 23, 2014
Split beams reveal the fine print
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Lab Members
Principal investigator
- Seigo Tarucha
- Team Leader
Core members
- Ken Harada
- Senior Scientist
- Yoh Iwasaki
- Technical Scientist
- Yasukazu Murakami
- Visiting Scientist
- Zentaro Akase
- Visiting Scientist
- Koudai Niitsu
- Visiting Scientist
- Keiko Shimada
- Technical Staff I
Contact Information
Center for Exploratory Research, Hitachi, Ltd.
Akanuma 2520,
Hatoyama-machi, Hiki-gun,
Saitama 350-0395, Japan
Tel: +81-(0)49-296-7240
Fax: +81-(0)49-296-7247
Email: tarucha [at] riken.jp