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Chief Scientist Laboratories Surface and Interface Science Laboratory

Chief Scientist: Yousoo Kim (D.Eng.)

Research Summary

Yousoo Kim(D.Eng.)

Our research focuses on describing details of the energy transport and conversion at the solid surfaces and interfaces in the nanoscale regime. In order to understand their basic mechanism at a single molecule/atom level, we carry out combined study of density functional theory calculation and scanning probe microscopy/spectroscopy on the well-defined solid surfaces under ultra-high vacuum condition. Part of our research is directed toward investigation of single-molecule chemistry on various solid surfaces. Another important part of our research focuses on self-assembled organic thin films aiming at understanding their microscopic structure and controlling their electronic properties. In addition, we also investigate energy conversion between electrons and photons of the nanometer scale materials.

Main Research Fields

  • Chemistry

Related Research Fields

  • Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering
  • Engineering
  • Surface science
  • Physical chemistry
  • Condensed matter physics

Keywords

  • Surface
  • Interface
  • Scanning probe microscope
  • Single-molecule spectroscopy
  • nanotechnology

Selected Publications

  • 1.H. Imada, K. Miwa, M. Imai-Imada, S. Kawahara, K. Kimura, and Y. Kim.:
    "Single molecule investigation of energy dynamics in a coupled plasmon-exciton system"
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 119 (2017) 013901, 1-6.
  • 2.E. Kazuma, J. Jung, H. Ueba, M. Trenary, and Y. Kim.:
    "Direct pathway to molecular photodissociation on metal surfaces using visible light"
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 139 (2017) 3115-3121.
  • 3.H. J. Yang, M. Trenary, M. Kawai, and Y. Kim.:
    "Single-Molecule Dynamics in the Presence of Strong Intermolecular Interactions"
    J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 7 (2016) 4369-4373.
  • 4.H. Imada, K. Miwa, M. Imai-Imada, S. Kawahara, K. Kimura, and Y. Kim.:
    "Real-space investigation of energy transfer in heterogeneous molecular dimers"
    Nature 538 (2016) 364-367
  • 5.K. Miwa, H. Imada, S. Kawahara, and Y. Kim.:
    "Effects of molecule-insulator interaction on geometric property of a single phthalocyanine molecule adsorbed on an ultrathin NaCl film"
    Phys. Rev. B 93 (2016) 165419, 1-8.
  • 6.J.-H. Kim, J. Jung, Y. S. Yang, J.-C. Ribierre, C. Adachi, M. Kawai, T. Fukushima, and Y. Kim.:
    "Seamless growth of a supramolecular carpet"
    Nature Commun. 7 (2016) 10653, 1-9.
  • 7.H. W. Kim, S. Takemoto, E. Minamitani, T. Okada, T. Takami, K. Motobayashi, M. Trenary, M. Kawai, N. Kobayashi, and Y. Kim.:
    "Electron confinement in graphene nanoislands with free-electron-like energy dispersion"
    J. Phys. Chem. C 120 (2016) 345-349.
  • 8.H. Lim, J. Jung, R. S. Ruoff, and Y. Kim.:
    "Structurally Driven One-dimensional Electron Confinement in Sub-5-nm Graphene Nanowrinkles"
    Nature Commun. 6 (2015) 8601, 1-6.
  • 9.E. Kazuma, M. Han, J. Jung, J. Oh, T. Seki, and Y. Kim.:
    "Elucidation of isomerization pathways of a single azobenzene derivative using an STM"
    J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 6 (2015) 4239-4243.
  • 10.T. Minato, S. Kajita, C.-L. Pang, N. Asao, Y. Yamamoto, T. Nakayama, M. Kawai, and Y. Kim.:
    "Tunneling desorption of atomic hydrogen on the surface of titanium dioxide"
    ACS Nano 9 (2015) 6837-6842

Recent Research Results

Annual research report

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Lab Members

Principal investigator

Yousoo Kim
Chief Scientist

Core members

Norihiko Hayazawa
Senior Research Scientist
Yasuyuki Yokota
Senior Research Scientist
Tohru Takarada
Senior Research Scientist
Masae Horinouchi
Senior Research Scientist
Hiroshi Imada
Senior Scientist
Emiko Kazuma
Research Scientist
Shunji Yamamoto
Research Scientist
Reizo Kato
Research Scientist
Seung Ran Lee
Research Scientist
Raymond Albert Wong
Special Postdoctoral Researcher
Misun Hong
Special Postdoctoral Researcher
Kensuke Kimura
Special Postdoctoral Researcher
Qianchun Weng
Special Postdoctoral Researcher
Miyabi Imai
Postdoctoral Researcher
Rafael Jaculbia
Visiting Researcher
Minhui Lee
Junior Research Associate
Takuya Miyazaki
Junior Research Associate
Yuzu Kobayashi
Junior Research Associate
Inhae Zoh
International Program Associate
Hiroko Yoshino
Technical Staff I
Yoshiko Shimizu
Technical Staff II
Chikako Kuramochi
Assistant
Yuki Hasegawa
Research Part-time Worker I
Yumi Kuramitsu
Administrative Part-time Worker I

Contact Information

S304 Chemistry and Materials Physics Building,
2-1 Hirosawa,
Wako, Saitama
351-0198, Japan
Tel: +81-(0)48-467-4073
Fax: +81-(0)48-467-1945
Email: ykim [at] riken.jp

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