Emergent Materials Department

Director

Yoshinori Tokura

  • D.Eng.
  • Yoshinori Tokura
  • Brief resume
    1981
    D. Eng., University of Tokyo
    1986
    Associate Professor, University of Tokyo
    1994
    Professor, Department of Physics, University of Tokyo
    1995
    Professor, Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo
    2006
    Research Director, ERATO Tokura Multiferroics Project, Japan Science and Technology Agency (-current)
    2007
    Group Director, Cross-Correlated Materials Research Group, RIKEN (-current)
    2008
    AIST Fellow, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (-current)
    2010
    Director, Emergent Materials Department, RIKEN (-current)
    2010
    Group Director, Correlated Electron Research Group, RIKEN (-current)
    2010
    Director, Emergent Materials Department, RIKEN (-current)
    2012
    Group Director, Functional Emergent-matter Research Group, RIKEN (-current)

Outline

In modern materials science, our ability to create novel functions at the nanometer scale has been extended and enhanced by the introduction of new concepts for manipulating atoms and molecules and the development of micro- and nano-fabrication techniques. Our research objective is to better elucidate the principles involved in order to create innovative functions that may lead to new ways of looking at the fields of molecular devices and quantum computers. We will study combinations of three-functional components, electrons, atoms and molecules, aiming to create, align, observe and measure material functions at the nanometer scale.

Selected Publications

  1. H. J. Shin, S. Clair, Y. Kim, M. Kawai, Substrate-induced array of quantum dots in a single-walled carbon nanotube, Nature Nanotech. 2009, 4, 567.
  2. D. G. Rees, et al. Point-Contact Transport Properties of Strongly Correlated Electrons on Liquid Helium, Phys. Rev. Lett. 2011, 106, 026803.
  3. K. Suzuki, K. Hosokawa, M. Maeda, Controlling the number and positions of oligonucleotides on gold nanoparticle surfaces, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 31, 7518.
  4. Y. Tokura, N. Nagaosa, Orbital Physics in Transition-Metal Oxides, Science, 2000, 288, 462.
  5. M. Nakamura, et al. Magnetically Tunable Metal-Insulator Superlattices, Adv. Mater. 2010, 22, 500.
  6. S. Ishiwata, Y. Taguchi, H. Murakawa, Y. Onose, Y. Tokura, Low-magnetic-field control of electric polarization vector in a helimagnet, Science, 2008, 319, 1643.
  7. H. Ikegami, H. Akimoto, K. Kono, Nonlinear Transport of the Wigner Solid on Superfluid 4He in a Channel Geometry, Phys. Rev. Lett. 2009, 102, 046807.

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