Nanoscience Development and Support Team
Team Head
Hikota Akimoto

- Brief resume
- 1988
- Research Associate, University of Tokyo
- 1990
- Ph.D., Osaka City University
- 1996
- Visiting Scientist, Leiden University, Netherlands
- 1998
- Post Doctoral Associate, University of Florida, USA
- 2001
- Senior Post Doctoral Associate, University of Massachusetts, USA
- 2003
- Development Researcher, Nanoscience Development and Support Team, RIKEN
- 2008
- Team Head, Nanoscience Development and Support Team, RIKEN (-current)
Outline
Our mission is to develop novel technologies with a wide range of applications in nanoscience and nanotechnology. We support nanometer-scale fabrication and the characterization of specimens. We are also responsible for the operation of the facilities in the Nano-Science Laboratory, and the education of the users. We are collaborating with researchers at RIKEN for investigation of fundamental nanoscale phenomena. We have developed novel technologies related to nanoscience and nanotechnology and have been developing the technologies required in the research of nano-science in ultralow temperatures and high magnetic fields.
Recent Research Topic

- Fig. 1: Nanoscience Joint Laboratory
Selected Publications
- S. M. Huang, et al. Spin Bottleneck in Resonant Tunneling through Double Quantum Dots with Different Zeeman Splittings, Phys. Rev. Lett. 2010, 104, 136801.
- H. Ikegami, H. Akimoto, K. Kono, Melting of a quasi-one-dimensional Wigner crystal: Electrons on superfluid He-4 in a narrow channel, Phys. Rev. B 2010, 82, 201104.
- 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.
- H. Nakamura, et al. Tuning of Metal–Insulator Transition of Quasi-Two-Dimensional Electrons at Parylene/SrTiO3 Interface by Electric Field, J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 2009, 78, 083713.
- S. M. Huang, et al. Spin transport from doublet state to triplet state in vertical quantum dots, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 2008, 47, 3257.
- D. Konstantinov, H. Isshiki, H. Akimoto, K. Kono, Microwave-absorption-induced heating of surface state electrons on liquid 3He, J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 2008, 77, 034705.
- Y. Shimizu, H. Akimoto, H. Tsujii, A. Tajima, R. Kato, Mott Transition in a Valence-Bond Solid Insulator with a Triangular Lattice, Phys. Rev. Lett. 2007, 99, 256403.
- H. Akimoto, et al. Giant viscosity enhancement in a spin-polarized fermi liquid, Phys. Rev. Lett. 2007, 99, 095301.
- SM. Huang, TC. Lee, H. Akimoto, K. Kono, J. J. Lin, Observation of strong electron dephasing in highly disordered Cu93Ge4Au3 thin films, Phys. Rev. Lett. 2007, 99, 046601.
- D. Konstantinov, et al. Microwave-resonance-induced resistivity: Evidence of ultrahot surface-state electrons on liquid He3, Phys. Rev. Lett. 2007, 98, 235302.
Core Members
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| Hikota Akimoto |
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| Ryoji Itoh |
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| Kei-ichi Yanagisawa |
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