| Laboratory of Solid State Physical Chemistry | |
| Professor: Yasushi Hirose | |
| Assosiate Professor: Daichi Oka | |
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In our research group, functional inorganic solid-state materials are synthesized using thin film growth techniques such as pulsed laser deposition, sputtering, and mist chemical vapor deposition. These techniques have unique features beneficial for synthesizing a compound with metastable structure and/or chemical composition; crystal growth at low temperatures under non-equilibrium conditions, structural stabilization and application of biaxial stress through chemical bonding with substrates, control of stacking structures etc. After synthesizing a compound, its physical properties are investigated to understand mechanism of the function and finally utilized in thin film devices for electronics and energy conversion. The main targets are metal oxides and metal nitrides, as well as mixed-anion compounds such as oxypnictides, oxychalcogenides, and oxyhalides. Recent research topics are as follows: 1. Electronics applications of transparent oxides 2. Exploration of electronic functions of mixed-anionic compounds 3. Controlling atomic arrangement in inorganic crystal | |
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