RIKEN SPring-8 Center Imaging System Development Team
Team Leader: Yukio Takahashi (D.Eng.)
Research Summary

The imaging system development team is developing novel imaging systems using high-brilliant X-rays. The imaging systems are applied to a variety of practical materials, and will serve as a basis for visualizing material structures on a wide spatio-temporal scale.
Main Research Fields
- Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering
Related Research Fields
- Engineering
- Chemistry
- Informatics
- Quantum beam science
- Material engineering
- Nano/Micro science
Keywords
- X-ray Imaging
- Coherent Diffraction Imaging
- Ptychography
- Materials Science
Selected Publications
- 1.
Uematsu, H., Ishiguro, N., Abe, M., Takazawa, S., Kang, J., Hosono, E., Nguyen, N. D., Dam, H. C., Okubo, M, and Takahashi, Y.:
"Visualization of Structural Heterogeneities in Particles of Lithium Nickel Manganese Oxide Cathode Materials by Ptychographic X-ray Absorption Fine Structure"
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 12, 5781–5788 (2021). - 2.
Takazawa, S., Kang, J., Abe, M., Uematsu, H., Ishiguro, N., and Takahashi, Y.:
"Demonstration of single-frame coherent X-ray diffraction imaging using triangular aperture: Towards dynamic nanoimaging of extended objects"
Optics Express 29, 14394-14402 (2021). - 3.
Ishiguro, N., Higashino, T., Hirose, M., and Takahashi, Y.:
"Nanoscale Visualization of Phase Transition in Melting of Sn-Bi Particles by In situ Hard X-ray Ptychographic Coherent Diffraction Imaging"
Microscopy and Microanalysis 26, 878-885 (2020). - 4.
Hirose, M., Shimomura, K., Higashino, T., Ishiguro, N., and Takahashi, Y.:
"Nanoscale determination of interatomic distance by ptychography-EXAFS method using advanced Kirkpatrick-Baez mirror focusing optics"
Journal of Synchrotron Radiation 27, 455-461 (2020). - 5.
Hirose, M., Higashino, T., Ishiguro, N., and Takahashi, Y.:
"Multibeam ptychography with synchrotron hard X-rays"
Optics Express 28, 1216-1224 (2020). - 6.
Hirose, M., Ishiguro, N., Shimomura, K., Nguyen, D.-N., Matsui, H., Dam, H. C., Tada, M., and Takahashi, Y.:
"Oxygen-diffusion-driven oxidation behavior and tracking areas visualized by X-ray spectro-ptychography with unsupervised learning"
Communications Chemistry 2, 50 (2019). - 7.
Shimomura, K., Hirose, M., Higashino, T., and Takahashi, Y.:
"Three-dimensional iterative multislice reconstruction for ptychographic X-ray computed tomography"
Optics Express 26, 31199-31208 (2018). - 8.
Hirose, M., Ishiguro, N., Shimomura, K., Burdet, N., Matsui, H., Tada, M., and Takahashi, Y.:
"Visualization of Heterogeneous Oxygen Storage Behavior in Platinum-Supported Cerium-Zirconium Oxide Three-Way Catalyst particles by Hard X-ray Spectro-Ptychography"
Angewandte Chemie International Edition 130, 1490-1495 (2018). - 9.
Shimomura, K., Hirose, M., and Takahashi, Y.:
"Multislice imaging of integrated circuits by precession X-ray ptychography"
Acta Crystallographica Section A 74, 66-70 (2018). - 10.
Hirose, M., Shimomura, K., Burdet, N., and Takahashi, Y.:
"Use of Kramers-Kronig relation in phase retrieval calculation in X-ray spectro-ptychography"
Optics Express 25, 8593-8603 (2017).
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Lab Members
Principal investigator
- Yukio Takahashi
- Team Leader
Contact Information
1-1-1 Kouto, Sayo-cho
Sayo-gun, Hyogo
679-5148 Japan
Email: yukio [at] spring8.or.jp