Year-end party!!

Visit of former students, Y. Zhang and T. Tsuyama.

Dr. R. Arafune (NIMS) gave a seminar about very-low photoelectron spectroscopy

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

M. Yamamoto et al., Self-assembled honeycomb lattice in the monolayer of cyclic thiazyl diradical BDTDA (=4,4’-bis(1,2,3,5-dithiadiazolyl)) on Cu(111) with a zero-bias tunneling spectra anomaly, was accepted at Scientific Reports.

KS gave an invited talk at the ICFSI-15 conference@Hiroshima, Japan

Beamtime at the APE beamlines, Elettra, Italy (MIand KS)

Beamtime at the I4 and I3 beamlines, MAX-lab, Sweden (JN, HO, and KS)

NJ, HO, and KS attended the CtC workshop on “Organic Electronics of Highly Correlated Molecular Systems”@Moscow, Russia

Discussion with Prof. Jun Nogami@Toronto Univ., Canada

KS attended the ICESS-2015 conference@Stony Brook, USA

KS gave in invited talk at the 28th annual MAX IV user meeting (UM15)

KS organized a symposium at the JPS fall meeting@Kansai Univ., Japan

Group trip to Nikko

KS attended the ECOSS31 conference@Barcelona, Spain

New article published:

E.Annese et al., FePc/Metal Interfaces Driven by the Electronic States of Different

Low-Dimensional Ag Structures Formed on Si(111), J. Phys. Chem. C, 119, 20065 (2015).

New article published:

R.Suizu et al., Spatially inhomogeneous, stepwise phase transitions in a thiazyl diradical:

a structural mismatch induced by lattice transformation, J. Mater. Chem. C 3, 7968 (2015).

RS attended “the 22nd International Conference on the Chemistry of the Organic Solid State (ICCOSS2015)”@Niigata, Japan

New article published:

A.Mizuno et al., Discovery of the K4 Structure Formed by a Triangular Radical Anion,

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 137, 7612 (2015).

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

KS gave a seminar at JAIST, Japan

New article published:

S.D.Stolwijk et al., Spin texture with a twist in momentum space for Tl/Si(111),

Phys. Rev. B 91, 245420 (2015).

KS gave a seminar at Uppsala University, Sweden

KS gave a seminar at the Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, Sweden

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

Dr. Pavel Kocan (Charles University in Prague) gave a talk about his recent research results on metal adsorbed silicon surfaces

New article published:

K.Sakamoto et al., Symmetry induced peculiar Rashba effect on thallium adsorbed Si(111) surfaces, J. Electron Spectrosc. Relat. Phenom. 201, 88 (2015).

New article published:

C.Seibel et al., The Rashba-split surface state of Sb2Te3(0001) and its interaction with bulk states, J. Electron Spectrosc. Relat. Phenom. 201, 110 (2015).

Prof. S.Suga (Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics, Germany and Osaka Univ. Japan) gave a wonderful seminar about the newly developed photoelectron analyzer in Halle

Start of a new academic year!!

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

Graduation ceremony of Chiba university for the rgraduate students!

Congratulations, TH and YZ!!

Graduation ceremony of Chiba university for the undergraduate students!

Congratulations, CI, MI, HO, YO, KY, and TL!!

CI got the “Excellent presentation prize” for the thesis

Six new members in our group! Welcome, XG, TS, YS, DH, NM, and SL.

Prof. A.Ishii (Tottori Univ., Japan) gave a wonderful seminar about a mathematical model

for hit phenomena as stochastic process of human interactions

Mr. T.Aoki (Semiconductor Energy Laboratory) gave a seminar about LSI applications

using oxide semiconductors

New article published:

C.Seibel et al., Connection of a topological surface state with the bulk continuum in Sb2Te3(0001), Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 066802 (2015).

Defense of BSc theses (MI, TL, HO, KY, YO, and CI)

Defense of MSc theses (TH and YZ)

KS attended the 28th annual meeting of JSSRR, JSR2015.

C.Seibel et al., Connection of a topological surface state with the bulk continuum in Sb2Te3(0001), was accepted at Phys. Rev. Lett.