Achievements

Publications

  • May 15, 2024

    Chemical-substitution-driven giant anomalous Hall and Nernst effects in magnetic cubic Heusler compounds
    Guangzong Xing, Keisuke Masuda, Terumasa Tadano, and Yoshio Miura
    Acta Materialia 270, 119856 (2024)

  • Mar. 27, 2024

    Creation of flexible spin-caloritronic material with giant transverse thermoelectric conversion by nanostructure engineering
    Ravi Gautam, Takamasa Hirai, Abdulkareem Alasli, Hosei Nagano, Tadakatsu Ohkubo, Ken-ichi Uchida, and Hossein Sepehri-Amin
    Nature Communications 15, 2184 (2024)

  • Mar. 2024

    Phonon transport characteristics of α, β, and γ crystalline phases of magnesium hydride from first-principles-based anharmonic lattice dynamics
    Takuma Shiga, Hiroshi Fujihisa, Yuzo Shigesato, and Takashi Yagi
    Materials Today Communications 38, 108192 (2024)

  • Mar. 15, 2024

    Observation of nonvolatile magneto-thermal switching in superconductors
    Hiroto Arima, Md. Riad Kasem, Hossein Sepehri-Amin, Fuyuki Ando, Ken-ichi Uchida, Yuto Kinoshita, Masashi Tokunaga, and Yoshikazu Mizuguchi
    Communications Materials 5, 34 (2024)

  • Mar. 14, 2024

    Pressure-Induced Volumetric Negative Thermal Expansion in CoZr2 Superconductor
    Yuto Watanabe, Hiroto Arima, Saori Kawaguchi-Imada, Hirokazu Kadobayashi, Kenta Oka, Hidetomo Usui, Ryo Matsumoto, Yoshihiko Takano, Takeshi Kawahata, Chizuru Kawashima, Hiroki Takahashi, Aichi Yamashita, and Yoshikazu Mizuguchi
    Advanced Electronic Materials, 2300896 (2024)

  • Mar. 6, 2024

    Direct-Contact Seebeck-Driven Transverse Magneto-Thermoelectric Generation in Magnetic/Thermoelectric Bilayers
    Weinan Zhou, Taisuke Sasaki, Ken-ichi Uchida, and Yuya Sakuraba
    Advanced Science, 2308543 (2024)

  • Feb. 21, 2024

    Quantitative measurement of figure of merit for transverse thermoelectric conversion in Fe/Pt metallic multilayers
    Takumi Yamazaki, Takamasa Hirai, Takashi Yagi, Yuichiro Yamashita, Ken-ichi Uchida, Takeshi Seki, and Koki Takanashi
    Physical Review Applied 21, 024039 (2024)

  • Feb. 15, 2024

    Single crystal growth and physical properties of La, Co doped (Eu,Ca)FeAs2
    Sugali Pavan Kumar Naik, Sala Alberto, Kunimitsu Kataoka, Yoshito Gotoh, Tom Ichibha, Kenta Hongo, Ryo Maezono, Taichiro Nishio, and Hiraku Ogino
    Journal of Crystal Growth 628, 127547 (2024)

  • Feb. 12, 2024

    Extrinsic contribution to the anomalous Hall effect and Nernst effect in Fe3Co single-crystal thin films by Ir doping
    Ryo Toyama, Weinan Zhou, and Yuya Sakuraba
    Physical Review B 109, 054415 (2024)

  • Jan. 23, 2024

    Permanent-magnet-based transverse thermoelectric generator with high fill factor driven by anomalous Nernst effect
    Fuyuki Ando, Takamasa Hirai, and Ken-ichi Uchida
    APL Energy 2, 016103 (2024)

  • Jan. 19, 2024

    Hybrid Transverse Magneto-Thermoelectric Cooling in Artificially Tilted Multilayers
    Ken-ichi Uchida, Takamasa Hirai, Fuyuki Ando, and Hossein Sepehri-Amin
    Advanced Energy Materials 14, 2302375 (2024)

  • Jan. 8, 2024

    Bipolarity of large anomalous Nernst effect in Weyl magnet-based alloy films
    Shun Noguchi, Kohei Fujiwara, Yuki Yanagi, Michi-To Suzuki, Takamasa Hirai, Takeshi Seki, Ken-ichi Uchida, and Atsushi Tsukazaki
    Nature Physics 20, 254 (2024)

  • Dec. 26, 2023

    Low-temperature chiral crystal structure and superconductivity in (Pt0.2Ir0.8)3Zr5
    Yuto Watanabe, Hiroto Arima, Aichi Yamashita, Akira Miura, Chikako Moriyoshi, Yosuke Goto, Chul-Ho Lee, Ryuji Higashinaka, Hidetomo Usui, Shogo Kawaguchi, Kazuhisa Hoshi, and Yoshikazu Mizuguchi
    Journal of the American Chemical Society 146, 773(2023)

  • Dec. 18, 2023

    Observation of superconductivity and enhanced upper critical field of η-carbide-type oxide Zr4Pd2O
    Yuto Watanabe, Akira Miura, Chikako Moriyoshi, Aichi Yamashita, and Yoshikazu Mizuguchi
    Scientific Reports 13, 22458 (2023)

  • Dec. 8, 2023

    Magnetic field hysteresis of thermal conductivity in type-I and typy-II superconductors
    Hiroto Arima, Miku Yoshida, and Yoshikazu Mizuguchi
    Journal of the Physical Society of Japan 93, 015001 (2023)

  • Dec. 7, 2023

    Anomalous field-temperature phase diagram of superconductivity in Sn-Pb solder
    Takumi Murakami, Hiroto Arima, and Yoshikazu Mizuguchi
    AIP Advances 13, 125008 (2023)

  • Dec. 1, 2023

    Role of on-site Coulomb interactions in the half-metallic Weyl ferromagnet candidate thin-film Co2FeSi
    Kazuki Sumida, Yuichi Fujita, Weinan Zhou, Keisuke Masuda, Ikuto Kawasaki, Shin-ichi Fujimori, Akio Kimura, and Yuya Sakuraba
    Physical Review B 108, 241101 (2023)

  • Nov. 17, 2023

    Observation of the Anisotropic Magneto-Thomson Effect
    Rajkumar Modak, Takamasa Hirai, Seiji Mitani, and Ken-ichi Uchida
    Physical Review Letters 131, 206701 (2023)

  • Sep. 14, 2023

    Anomalous Nernst thermoelectric generation in multilayer-laminated coiled magnetic wires
    Ken-ichi Uchida, Tetsuya Kuwabara, Toru Tanji, Makoto Fujimoto, Ren Nagasawa, and Ryo Iguchi
    Applied Physics Express 16, 093001 (2023)

  • Sep. 5, 2023

    Nonvolatile Magneto-Thermal Switching in MgB2
    Hiroto Arima and Yoshikazu Mizuguchi
    Journal of the Physical Society of Japan 92, 103702 (2023)

  • Aug. 14, 2023

    Large magneto-thermal-switching ratio in superconducting Pb wires
    Miku Yoshida, Hiroto Arima, Aichi Yamashita, Ken-ichi Uchida, and Yoshikazu Mizuguchi
    Journal of Applied Physics 134, 065102 (2023)

  • July 27, 2023

    Elastocaloric effect of shape memory polymers in elastic response regime
    Takamasa Hirai, Koichiro Uto, Mitsuhiro Ebara, and Ken-ichi Uchida
    Journal of Physics: Energy 5, 034011 (2023)

  • June 28, 2023

    Direct Electrical Probing of Anomalous Nernst Conductivity
    Weinan Zhou, Asuka Miura, Yuya Sakuraba, and Ken-ichi Uchida
    Physical Review Applied 19, 064079 (2023)

  • June 5, 2023

    Uniaxial Negative Thermal Expansion in a Tetragonal V3S-Type Superconductor IrZr3
    Yoshikazu Mizuguchi and Aichi Yamashita
    Journal of the Physical Society of Japan 92, 074601 (2023)

  • May 26, 2023

    Designing composition ratio of magnetic alloy multilayer for transverse thermoelectric conversion by Bayesian optimization
    Naoki Chiba, Keisuke Masuda, Ken-ichi Uchida, and Yoshio Miura
    APL Machine Learning 1, 026114 (2023)

  • May 12, 2023

    Comparison of the in-plane coercive field and anomalous Nernst effect between a co-sputtered Sm–Co amorphous film and Sm/Co multilayer amorphous films with various layer thicknesses
    Rajkumar Modak, Weinan Zhou, Yuya Sakuraba, and Ken-ichi Uchida
    Applied Physics Express 16, 053003 (2023)

  • Apr. 24, 2023

    Highly sensitive lock-in thermoreflectance temperature measurement using thermochromic liquid crystal
    Atsushi Takahagi, Ryo Iguchi, Hosei Nagano, and Ken-ichi Uchida
    Applied Physics Letters 122, 172401 (2023)

  • Mar. 27, 2023

    Magneto-thermal-switching properties of superconducting Nb
    Miku Yoshida, Md. Riad Kasem, Aichi Yamashita, Ken-ichi Uchida, and Yoshikazu Mizuguchi
    Applied Physics Express 16, 033002 (2022)

  • Feb. 15, 2023

    Glassy atomic vibrations and blurry electronic structures created by local structural disorders in high-entropy metal telluride superconductors
    Yoshikazu Mizuguchi, Hidetomo Usui, Rei Kurita, Kyohei Takae, Md Riad Kasem, Ryo Matsumoto, Kazuki Yamane, Yoshihiko Takano, Yuki Nakahira, Aichi Yamashita, Yosuke Goto, Akira Miura, and Chikako Moriyoshi
    Materials Today Physics 32, 101019 (2022)

  • Feb. 6, 2023

    Seebeck-driven transverse thermoelectric generation in magnetic hybrid bulk materials
    Weinan Zhou, Asuka Miura, Takamasa Hirai, Yuya Sakuraba, and Ken-ichi Uchida
    Applied Physics Letters 122, 062402 (2022)

  • Jan. 27, 2023

    Uniaxial Negative Thermal Expansion in an Orthorhombic Superconductor CoZr3
    Hiroto Arima, Tatsuki Inui, Aichi Yamashita, Akira Miura, Hiroaki Itou, Chikako Moriyoshi, Hiroshi Fujihisa, and Yoshikazu Mizuguchi
    Journal of the Physical Society of Japan 92, 024602 (2022)

Press Release

Invited Talks

  • Ken-ichi Uchida

    Hybrid transverse magneto-thermoelectric cooling in artificially tilted multilayers
    87th Annual Conference of the DPG and DPG Spring Meeting, Germany, Mar. 2024

  • 水口佳一

    Sn-Pbハンダの超伝導転移を利用した極低温ヒートスイッチの可能性
    日本熱物性学会 研究分科会「宇宙に関わる熱物性と制御」第3回研究会, 2024年3月

  • 内田健一

    日本の論文の国際的注目度を 高めるために何をすべきか 自身の経験・世界の研究者との情報交換に基づく提言
    科学技術振興機構 緊急シンポジウム ~激論 なぜ、我が国の論文の注目度は下がりつつあるのか、我々は何をすべきか?~, 2024年3月

  • Fuyuki Ando, Takamasa Hirai, Hossein Sepehri-Amin, and Ken-ichi Uchida

    Transverse Thermoelectric Generation Using Permanent Magnets
    Advanced Materials Research Grand Meeting MRM2023/IUMRS-ICA2023, Kyoto, Dec. 2023

  • Ken-ichi Uchida

    Hybrid Transverse Magneto-Thermoelectric Cooling in Artificially Tilted Multilayers
    ISSP Regular Workshop: How high can we raise thermoelectric performance?, Kashiwa, Dec. 2023

  • Yuya Sakuraba

    Electronic band tuning in Heusler alloy-based Weyl semimetal for new sensing applications
    International Conference on Magnetic Materials and Applications(ICMAGMA-2023), India, Dec. 2023

  • 桜庭裕弥

    熱電とスピントロニクス 磁性材料を活用した新しい熱電応用と今後の展望
    スピントロニクス入門セミナー, 2023年11月

  • Yuichro Yamashita

    Material database and measurement informatics for thermophysical property
    The 7th Asian Materials Data Symposium, Korea, Oct. 2023

  • Hossein Sepehri-Amin

    Research on high-performance permanent magnet materials without using rare elements
    The Japan Institute of Metals and Materials (JIMM) 2023 Fall Meeting, Toyama, Sep. 2023

  • Hossein Sepehri-Amin, Taisuke Sasaki, Tadakatsu Ohkubo, and Kazuhiro Hono

    Correlative (S)TEM/APT analysis of magnetic materials for green energy conversions
    Atom Probe Tomography & Microscopy 2023, Belgium, Sep. 2023

  • 桜庭裕弥

    異常ネルンスト効果を用いた超低熱抵抗熱流センサの開発
    第244回研究会/第7回磁気センサ専門研究会, 2023年9月

  • Takamasa Hirai

    Active and selective temperature control using mechanical strain
    第47回日本磁気学会学術講演会, 2023年9月

  • 井口亮

    ロックインサーモグラフィ法を用いた誘電体熱現象探索
    日本物理学会 第78回年次大会, 2023年9月

  • 内田健一

    スピン波・スピン流を用いた新たなスピンデバイスに関する技術「スピン自由度を活用した熱エネルギー制御」
    電気学会 令和5年A部門大会, 2023年9月

  • 八木貴志

    薄膜・界面における熱物性の計測と評価
    日本伝熱学会産学交流委員会主催セミナー, 2023年9月

  • 内田健一

    スピンカロリトロニクスによる熱電変換・熱制御
    日本セラミックス協会 第36回秋季シンポジウム, 2023年9月

  • Hossein Sepehri-Amin, Xin Tang, Jiasheng Zhang, Anton Bolyachkin, Tadakatsu Ohkubo, and Kazuhiro Hono

    Development of High-Performance Permanent Magnets without Reliance on Scarce Elements
    The 6th International Conference of Asian Union of Magnetics Societies (IcAUMS2023), Indonesia, Aug. 2023

  • Hossein Sepehri-Amin, Xin Tang, Jiasheng Zhang, Anton Bolyachkin, Tadakatsu Ohkubo, and Kazuhiro Hono

    Development of high performance permanent magnets; elements criticality, new demands, and extrinsic magnetic properties
    13th Joint European Magnetic Symposia (JEMS), Spain, Aug. 2023

  • Aichi Yamashita

    Development and Overview of High-Entropy Functional Materials
    The 8th Japan-Korea International Symposium on Materials Science and Technology (JKMST2023) , Kochi, Aug. 2023

  • Ken-ichi Uchida

    Spin Caloritronics: from Fundamentals to Applications
    The 4th International Workshop on Advanced Materials and Devices 2023, Vietnam, Aug. 2023

  • 山下愛智

    ハイエントロピー型REBa2Cu3O7-d薄膜の超伝導特性
    第243回研究会/第72回化合物新磁性専門研究会, 2023年7月

  • Ken-ichi Uchida

    Spintronic Thermal Switching
    11th International Symposium on Metallic Multilayers, Korea, July 2023

  • Ken-ichi Uchida

    Spintronic Thermal Switching
    10th US-Japan Joint Seminar on Nanoscale Transport Phenomena, SanDiego, USA, July 2023

  • Aichi Yamashita

    Analysis of isothermal crystallization of High-entropy-type thermoelectric materials
    Symposium and Workshop on “Advanced Thermodynamics and Metastability", Hokkaido, June 2023

  • 平井孝昌

    スピントロニクス材料におけるナノスケール熱伝導計測と制御
    ナノスケールソフト磁性体の創製とデバイス応用調査専門委員会 第3回ナノ磁性研究会, 2023年6月

  • 平井孝昌

    スピントロニクス材料におけるナノスケール熱伝導計測
    第1回光・熱・電気と磁気の相互作用の活用技術調査専門委員会 研究会, 2023年6月

  • 内田健一

    磁気を用いた新しい熱エネルギー制御技術
    キヤノン財団第2回講演会 「こんなことができるんだ!物質の力で切りひらく未来」(オンライン開催), 2023年6月

  • Jiachen Zhang, Takamasa Hirai, Pukun Tan, Ryo Iguchi, Fuhua Zhang, Xianzhe Chen, Cheng Song, Dazhi Hou, and Ken-ichi Uchida

    Lock-in Thermography for Non-Destructive Phase Boundary Resolving in Metallic Materials
    SPIN CALORITRONICS XII, Tsukuba, May 2023

  • Ryo Iguchi

    Thermoelectric response in dielectric material
    SPIN CALORITRONICS XII, Tsukuba, May 2023

  • Yuya Sakuraba

    Development of novel heat flux sensor using anomalous Nernst effect
    SPIN CALORITRONICS XII, Tsukuba, May 2023

  • Ken-ichi Uchida

    Lock-in thermography as a tool for investigating caloric effects
    The 2023 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit, San Francisco, USA, Apr. 2023

  • 内田健一

    スピンカロリトロニクス
    第24回エネルギー・環境材料研究拠点 (GREEN) シンポジウムー世界を先導する熱電発電・熱制御技術ー, 2023年3月

  • 八木貴志

    パルス光加熱サーモリフレクタンス法でみる薄膜と界面の熱物性
    第24回エネルギー・環境材料研究拠点 (GREEN) シンポジウムー世界を先導する熱電発電・熱制御技術ー, 2023年3月

  • 桜庭裕弥

    超低熱抵抗・フレキシブル熱流センサの開発
    第24回エネルギー・環境材料研究拠点 (GREEN) シンポジウムー世界を先導する熱電発電・熱制御技術ー, 2023年3月

  • Ken-ichi Uchida

    Progress in transverse thermoelectric conversion using spin caloritronics
    2022 MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, USA, Dec. 2022

  • Ken-ichi Uchida

    Transverse Magneto-Thermoelectric Conversion
    The 7th International Conference on Electronic Materials and Nanotechnology for Green Environment (ENGE2022), Korea, Nov. 2022

Awards

  • Mar. 2024

    The Tsukuba Encouragement Prize 2023 (Young Researchers) (Ken-ichi Uchida)

  • Dec. 2023

    Best poster presentation award from International Conference on Magnetic Materials and Applications (ICMAGMA-2023)(Rajesh Kumar Roul)

  • Dec. 2023

    日本伝熱学会東海支部講演会若手優秀講演賞(The Anh Nguyen)

  • Nov. 2023

    2023年応用物理学会秋季学術講演会 第19回英語講演奨励賞(今村拓未)

  • Sep. 2023

    "Best Presentation Award" from the Thermoelectrics Society of Japan (Fuyuki Ando)

  • Sep. 2023

    "The JIM Murakami Young Researcher Award" from The Japan Institute of Metals and Materials (Hossein Sepehri-Amin)

  • May 2023

    The Young Scientists’ Award 2023, Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology(Hossein Sepehri-Amin)

  • May 2023

    The 44th Honda Memorial Research Encouragement Award from Honda Memorial Foundation (Yoshikazu Mizuguchi)

  • May 2023

    The 44th Honda Memorial Research Encouragement Award from Honda Memorial Foundation (Ken-ichi Uchida)

  • Apr. 2023

    The title of "Leading Researcher" from Tokyo Metropolitan University (Yoshikazu Mizuguchi)

  • Mar. 2023

    The Tsukuba Encouragement Prize 2022 (Young Researchers) (Hossein Sepehri-Amin)