Beamtime at the I4 beamline, MAX-lab, Sweden (TH and KS)

Co-organized the workshop “Exotic physical properties caused by interactions”@Tokyo,

Japan

New article published:

H.W. Yeom et al., Transforming a surface state of a topological insulator by a Bi capping layer, Phys. Rev. B 90 235401 (2014).

Beamtime at the APE beamline, Elettra, Italy (YY and KS)

Stay at Rennes University, France to obtain new skills for surface physics research (TK, JN, and MI)

New article published:

S.D. Stolwijk et al., Thin line of a Rashba-type spin texture: Unoccupied surface resonance of Tl/Si(111) along Gamma-M, Phys. Rev. B 90 161109(R) (2014).

RS, NJ, TF, and KS attended the CtC workshop on “Organic Electronics of Highly Correlated Molecular Systems”@Otaru, Japan.

Co-organized the workshop “Exotic electronic transport”@Hotel Mikazuki, Chiba, Japan

RS attended the 5th International Meeting on Spin in Organic Semiconductors

(spinOS2014)@Himeji, Japan

S.D. Stolwijk et al., Thin line of a Rashba-type spin texture: Unoccupied surface resonance of Tl/Si(111) along Gamma-M, was accepted in Phys. Rev. B (Rapid Communication).

A new member, TH, in our group. Welcome!

RS attended the 8th Annual meeting of Japan Society for Molecular Science@Hiroshima Univ., Japan

K. Sakamoto et al., Symmetry induced peculiar Rashba effect on thallium adsorbed Si(111) surfaces, was accepted in the special issue on Rashba effect of J. Electron Spectrosc. Relat. Phenom.

Group trip to Karuizawa

RS attended the 23th Symposium of Organic Crystal@Toho Univ., Japan

TH, YZ, and KS attended the JPS fall meeting@Chubu Univ., Japan

KS attended the ECOSS30 conference@Antalya, Turkey

Beamtime at SAGA Light Source, Japan (CI and KS)

New article published:

S.Vela et al., The key role of vibrational entropy in the phase transitions of dithiazolyl-based 

bistable magnetic materials, Nature Communications 5:4411  doi:10.1038/ncomms5411

(2014).

RS and RK attended the ICMM-2014 conference@St. Petersburg, Russia

KS gave a seminar at the Philipps-Universitat Marburg, Germany

Beamtime at the I4 beamline, MAX-lab, Sweden (KS)

Beamtime at SAGA Light Source, Japan (RS, JN, and KS)

New article published:

M. Suga et al., Recent progress in scanning electron microscopy for the characterization of fine structural details of nano materials, Prog. Solid State Chem. 42, 1 (2014).

Two new members, TK and MI, in our group. Welcome!

Prof. J. Nogami (Toronto Univ., Canada) gave a wonderful seminar about science and technology from nanometer scale to meter scale

The beginning of a new fiscal year!! Five new members in our group, welcome!

RS gave a talk at the 94th Annual Meeting of CSJ@Nagoya Univ., Japan

KS gave an invited talk at the 69th Annual Meeting of JPS@Tokai Univ. Japan

KS gave an invited talk at the “3rd Workshop for Ligh/Quantum Beam Science Promotion”@Tohoku Univ. Japan

New article published:

K. Takauji et al., Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Properties and Electro-absorption Spectra of an Organic Biradical [Naphtho[2,1‑d:6,5‑d’]bis([1,2,3]dithiazole)], J. Phys. Chem. C, 118,

4303-4308 (2014).

New article published:

K. Awaga et al., Electron-Transfer Processes in Highly-Correlated Electron Systems of Thiazyl Radicals, Bull, Chem. Soc. Jpn. 87, 234-249 (2014).

Defense of BSc theses (RE, JN, and YY)

Defense of MSc theses (HI and KM)

New article published:

S.Suga et al., Spin-polarized angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy of the so-predicted Kondo topological insulator SmB6, J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 83, 014705 (2014).

Beamtime at HiSOR, Japan (HI, RE, and KS)

KS gave an invited talk at the 27th annual meeting of JSSRR, JSR2014