We are recruiting motivated students with an interest in nanoscience and a passion for pioneering a new field, regardless of experience. If you are interested in pursuing a Ph.D. in our group, please contact us. For more information, please see here. We are recruiting postdocs as well (JSPS Postdoctoral fellowships is an option).

Research Interest

Electrons in materials can exhibit unexpected properties that significantly impact society. This impact extends beyond fundamental science and includes next-generation devices. The materials system we focus on are low-dimensional quantum materials, including various 2D materials and their heterostructures. Our group aims to explore novel phenomena by combining materials preparations, device fabrications, and advanced spectroscopic techniques. You can find more information here.

News

2025-3

We have participated in the 72nd Spring Meeting of the Japan Society of Applied Physics and the 68th Fullerenes-Nanotubes-Graphene general symposium. From our group, Mr. Urano and Dr. Ozawa made a presentation.

2025-2-15

Kitaura gave an invited talk in The 1st Open Symposium of Research on Innovative Area A (SReP).

2025-12-16

Kitaura gave a lecture at the luncheon seminar of Research on Innovative Areas A (SReP).

2024-12-07

Kitaura gave an invited talk in 18th High-Tech Research Center Symposium. Prof. Suigai, thank you for inviting me.

2024-11-15

Kitaura gave an invited talk in MNC 2024 held in Kyoto Brighton Hotel. It was my first time to attend a session on Quantum Nanomaterials, but I learned a lot from some of the relevant presentations. Thank you to the organisers for inviting me.

2024-10-25

Kitaura gave an invited talk in 14th A3 Symposium of Emerging Materials held in Jincheng, China. Due to flight connection problems, we had to arrive at the venue at around 3am, but we were greatly inspired by the high level of presentations.

2024-9-26

Time Digital Converter has been delivered! Up to 18 channels can be used for photon counting, TCSPC and many other applications.

2024-9-17-18

Kitaura gave an invited talk in one of the symposia of JSAP （Two-dimensional Materials and their Integrated Circuit/electronic device applications）. Also, Kitaura hosted a JSAP-Optica Joint Symposium as one of the organizers. Thank you to Prof. Takamura and Prof. Teramoto for inviting me. Thank you also to Nan Fang-san, Nagashio-san and Shimazaki-san for their excellent talks.

2024-9-1-3

Kitaura and Urano(D1) have attended 67th FNTG symposium held in Kochi University of Technology.

2024-8-26

A welcome party for Ryunosuke Matsumura was held at Taj Mahal, a South Indian restaurant near NIMS.

2024-8-19

Mr. Ryunosuke Matsumura (Nagashima Laboratory, Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University) has started his stay under the NIMS Collaborative Center Promotion System. We expect that this will lead to interesting research by utilizing the expertise of both laboratories. Welcome to the 2D Quantum Materials Group!

2024-8-1

Dr. Fariha, a postdoctoral researcher, has just joined our group. Welcome to 2D Quantum Materials Group! Her experience on quantum transport of graphene should be a great addition to our group.

2024-7-5

We had a welcome party for Mr. Shudhanshu Nayak at Tsukuba Brewery. He has been working on perovskite materials using pump-probe spectroscopy in India, and will use this experience to carry out various spectroscopic experiments on heterostructures using perovskite systems at NIMS.

2024-7-4

Zhang's paper has been accepted for publication in Crystal growth and design. The paper is about the crystal growth of two-dimensional materials using MOCVD method and performs visualization of the gas flow using fluid simulation in addition to experiments.

2024-6-18

Mr. Shudhanshu Nayak from Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad has arrived in Japan. He will be working with us for one year under the International Cooperative Graduate School Program. Welcome to 2D Quantum Materials Group!

2024-6-14,15

Kozawa participated in the 7th 2.5D Materials Science Conference held at Kyoto University Uji Campus on June 14 and 15, and gave an oral and a poster presentation and chaired a session. It was a good opportunity to start collaborative research.

2024-6-15

We submitted a paper of Mr. Zhang (D3). This paper is on the application of Bayesian optimization to crystal growth of 2D materials, and this is a collaboration with Dr. Tamura (NIMS).

2024-5-30

Kitaura gave an invited talk at Frontiers of Emergent Quantum Phenomena: Superconducting Junctions, Edge Conduction, and Enions held at the Institute for Basic Physics, Kyoto University. Thank you very much to Dr. Hashizaka for the invitation.

2024-5-27

Amelie Deshazer from the University of Wisconsin-Madison has started a 3-month summer internship as part of the IRTE program. Welcome to the Two-dimensional Quantum Materials Group!

2024-5-7

Oviya from Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has started a 3-month summer internship under the NIMS Internship program. Welcome to the 2D Quantum Materials Group!

2024-4-26

Kitaura gave an invited talk at Tokyo Metropolitan University as 2024 Nanoscience Seminar @ TMU. Thank you Miyata-san for kind invitation.

2024-4-23

Dr. Sihan Zhao (Zhejiang University), one of our alumni, visited NIMS. In addition to scientific discussions on our latest achievements, we had many conversations after a long time. It is likely that we will be able to start new collaborative research in the future.

2024-4-12

Professor. G. Eda from the National University of Singapore paid us a visit. He introduced the latest topics at the seminar and we had a great discussion, and he also had a chance to discuss with our students individually. Thank you very much, Eda-san!

2024-4-5

Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A), in which Kitaura is participating as a original member, has just started! As a physical chemistry group, we will work on exploring the physical properties of new materials and pioneering new quantum light sources using the SReP concept.

2024-4-5

Zhang's paper has been submitted. The paper is about crystal growth in two-dimensional materials and applies hydrodynamic simulations in addition to experiments.

2024-4-1

We submitted a paper of Dr. Zhang, a postdoctoral fellow. The paper is on photovoltaics in strained 2D semiconductors.

2024-3-7

Mr. Xue (D3) gave an oral presentation at the APS March Meeting 2024 on the observation of Rydberg states of excitons by gated modulation reflection spectroscopy.

2024-3-7

Mr. Zhang (D3) gave an oral presentationat the 66th FNTG Symposium on the application of Bayesian optimization to crystal growth of two-dimensional materials. Postdoctoral fellow Zhang also gave a poster presentation on bulk photovoltaics.

2024-3-4

A cryostat (CryoAdvance 50) for microspectroscopy has been installed. We will assemble the optical system as soon as possible and use it for various spectroscopic experiments at cryogenic temperatures.

Photo of CryoAdvance50 installed on optical table

2024-2-21

The results of joint research with Dr. Iwasaki (the Quantum Bit Materials Group) have been accepted by JJAP. The results are related to the detection of near infrared light using graphene FET devices.

2024-2-19

WPI-MANA introduction video is now available on youtube. Mr. Okuda (M2) from our research group appears in the video.

2024-2-6

Dr. C. V. Ruben, who was a postdoctoral fellow in our group (now at IMaSS, Nagoya University), has just published a paper on the modulation of optical properties by TMD-molecule interactions.

2024-1-30

Prof. Eda from the National University of Singapore (NUS) visited us and we had a useful discussion about research on 2D systems.

2024-1-17

After attending a lecture by Professor Manish Chhowalla of Cambridge University, we took him on a lab tour and had discussion. Thank you for visiting us!

2023-12-26

Kitaura attended and gave a lecture at 学術変革領域 領域会議 of "2.5D Materials Science" held at Nagoya University.

2023-12-18

A Ti:sapphire ultrashort pulse laser (Mai Tai HP) has been delivered. It will be used for SHG microscopy in addition to various time-resolved spectroscopy in the future.

Photo of Mai Tai HP installed on optical table

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