Research Topics

Peeling off single-crystalline thermoelectric oxide films

Nematodes joy ride across electric voltages

Solid-state thermal transistor demonstrated —An effective, stable solid-state electrochemical transistor has been developed, heralding a new era in thermal management technology.—

Clarification of the origin of high electron mobility for ultra-high-definition display materials —A big step toward realizing ultra-high mobility transparent oxide thin film transistors exceeding 100 cm²/Vs—

Practical thermoelectric material that shows stable performance at high temperatures in air is discovered — Oxide thermoelectric material with good reproducibility and high performance at a practical level —

Turn an insulator into a high-temperature superconductor with a single electric switch! — A big step forward in the development of all-solid-state superconducting devices that do not use electrolytes —

A discovery that defied common wisdom! A single-crystal that is less likely to transfer heat than a polycrystalline — Guidelines for designing low thermal conductivity materials —

Record-high room temperature thermoelectric figure of merit for metal oxides — Great expectations for the realization of stable and practical thermoelectric conversion materials —

(example2)Reversible changes in the orientation of gold nanorod arrays on polymer brushes

Transparent Transistor that Transmits Deep Ultraviolet — Novel Biosensor —

Caught a glimpse of the operation mechanism of advanced memory device!

Electron sandwich doubles thermoelectric performance

Thermoelectric energy conversion using blue LED material —New design guideline toward high performance thermoelectric material—

Discovery of a new physical phenomenon “inverse tunnel magnetocapacitance (iTMC)” —Laboratory of Nanostructured Functional Materials—

Building trust, not hate: When people know each other, cooperation is more likely than conflict

Single Molecule Chemo-mechanics of the Rotary Motor Protein F1-ATPase: A Nano-scale Key-and-Unlock Mechanism

Development of all-solid-state thin-film device for on-demand control both of IR transmittance and conductivity at room temperature —Progress toward the realization of smart window—

Successfully developed a novel method to extract molecular states and their network from noisy single molecule time series data

Associate Professor Li Chun Biu at RIES, Hokkaido University was awarded with a scientific research grant from an internationally renowned organization and is the only awardee in the field of mathematical science in the country.

DNA, the blueprint of life, is stored “in a rather random fashion”

Dynamic Disorder in Single Enzyme Experiments

Observation of the promotion of an optical generation process in a semiconductor by injecting Cooper pairs

New strategy for dynamically generating a central chirality

Optical quantum circuit combining switches working at the single-photon level!

Development of a fluorescent photoswitching molecule that can non-destructively read out information recorded on a single molecule