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A01 (b) Frontier Research in Elemental Nanoanalysis

  • Y. Asakura, T. Higashi, H. Nishiyama, H. Kobayashi, M. Nakabayashi, N. Shibata, T. Minegishi, T. Hisatomi, M. Katayama, T. Yamadaa and K. Domen, Activation of a particulate Ta3N5 water-oxidation photoanode with a GaN hole-blocking layer. Sustainable Energy & Fuels 2, 73-78 (2018).
  • C. Chen, H. Li, T. Seki, D. Yin, G. Sanchez-Santolino, K. Inoue, N. Shibata and Y. Ikuhara, Direct Determination of Atomic Structure and Magnetic Coupling of Magnetite Twin Boundaries. Acs Nano 12, 2662-2668 (2018).
  • Y. Furushima, A. Nakamura, E. Tochigi, Y. Ikuhara, K. Toyoura and K. Matsunaga, <100> Dislocation at a {20} low-angle grain boundary in LiNbO3. Journal of Materials Science 53, 333-344 (2018).
  • Y. Furushima, Y. Arakawa, A. Nakamura, E. Tochigi and K. Matsunaga, Nonstoichiometric 012 dislocation in strontium titanate. Acta Materialia 135, 103-111 (2017).
  • P. Gao, R. Ishikawa, B. Feng, A. Kumamoto, N. Shibata and Y. Ikuhara, Atomic-scale structure relaxation, chemistry and charge distribution of dislocation cores in SrTiO3. Ultramicroscopy 184, 217-224 (2018).
  • P. Gao, A. Kumamoto, R. Ishikawa, N. Lugg, N. Shibata and Y. Ikuhara, Picometer-scale atom position analysis in annular bright-field STEM imaging. Ultramicroscopy 184, 177-187 (2018).
  • S. Kikuchi, H. Oda, S. Kiyohara and T. Mizoguchi, Bayesian optimization for efficient determination of metal oxide grain boundary structures. Physica B-Condensed Matter 532, 24-28 (2018).
  • S. Kiyohara and T. Mizoguchi, Effective search for stable segregation configurations at grain boundaries with data-mining techniques. Physica B-Condensed Matter 532, 9-14 (2018).
  • S. Kobayashi, K. Inoue, T. Kato, Y. Ikuhara and T. Yamamoto, Multiphase nanodomains in a strained BaTiO3 film on a GdScO3 substrate. Journal of Applied Physics 123, (2018).
  • J. Luo, Z. Zheng, A. Kumamoto, W. I. Unah, S. Yan, Y. H. Ikuhara, X. Xiang, X. Zu and W. Zhou, PEDOT coated iron phosphide nanorod arrays as high-performance supercapacitor negative electrodes. Chemical Communications 54, 794-797 (2018).
  • T. Matsumoto, Y.-G. So, Y. Kohno, Y. Ikuhara and N. Shibata, Stable Magnetic Skyrmion States at Room Temperature Confined to Corrals of Artificial Surface Pits Fabricated by a Focused Electron Beam. Nano Letters 18, 754-762 (2018).
  • T. Miyata and T. Mizoguchi, High-resolution mapping of molecules in an ionic liquid via scanning transmission electron microscopy. Microscopy 67, (2018).
  • S. Morishita, R. Ishikawa, Y. Kohno, H. Sawada, N. Shibata and Y. Ikuhara, Attainment of 40.5 pm spatial resolution using 300 kV scanning transmission electron microscope equipped with fifth-order aberration corrector. Microscopy 67, 46-50 (2018).
  • A. Nakamura, E. Tochigi, R. Nagahara, Y. Furushima, Y. Oshima, Y. Ikuhara, T. Yokoi and K. Matsunaga, Structure of the Basal Edge Dislocation in ZnO. Crystals 8, (2018).
  • M. Nakayama, S. Kajiyama, A. Kumamoto, T. Nishimura, Y. Ikuhara, M. Yamato and T. Kato, Stimuli-responsive hydroxyapatite liquid crystal with macroscopically controllable ordering and magneto-optical functions. Nature Communications 9, (2018).
  • E. Tochigi, A. Nakamura, N. Shibata and Y. Ikuhara, Dislocation Structures in Low-Angle Grain Boundaries of α-Al2O3. Crystals 8, (2018).
  • K. Yoshida, K. Toyoura, K. Matsunaga, A. Nakahira, H. Kurata, Y. H. Ikuhara and Y. Sasaki, Structural analyses of sodium cations embedded within zeolitic nanocavities. Microporous and Mesoporous Materials 259, 195-202 (2018).
  • K. Yamaguchi, S. Takeuchi, T. Tohei, N. Ikarashi, and A. Sakai, Analysis of Ti valence States in resistive switching regions of a rutile TiO2-x four-terminal memristive devices. Japanese Journal of Applied Physics 57, 06KB02 (2018).
  • T. Hamachi, S. Takeuchi, T. Tohei, M. Imanishi, M. Imade, Y. Mori, and A. Sakai, Leakage current analysis for dislocations in Na flux GaN bulk single crystals by conductive atomic force microscopy. Journal of Applied Physics 123, 161417 (2018).
  • K. Shida, S. Takeuchi, T. Tohei, H. Miyake, K. Hiramatsu, K. Sumitani, Y. Imai, S. Kimura, and A. Sakai, Microstructural analysis in the depth direction of a heteroepitaxial AlN thick film grown on a trench-patterned template by nanobeam X-ray diffraction. Journal of Applied Physics 123, 161563 (2018).
  • M. Abe, H. Iba, K. Suzuki, H. Minamishima, M. Hirayama, K. Tamura, J. i. Mizuki, T. Saito, Y. Ikuhara and R. Kanno, Study on the deterioration mechanism of layered rock-salt electrodes using epitaxial thin films Li(Ni, Co, Mn)O2 and their Zr-O surface modified electrodes. Journal of Power Sources 345, 108-119 (2017).
  • S. Anada, K. Yamamoto, H. Sasaki, N. Shibata, Y. Hori, K. Kinugawa, A. Imamura and T. Hirayama, Precise measurement of electric potential, field, and charge density profiles across a biased GaAs p-n tunnel junction by in situ phase-shifting electron holography. Journal of Applied Physics 122, (2017).
  • H. Anzai, M. Suzuki, K. Nagashima, M. Kanai, Z. Zhu, Y. He, M. Boudot, G. Zhang, T. Takahashi, K. Kanemoto, T. Seki, N. Shibata and T. Yanagida, True Vapor-Liquid-Solid Process Suppresses Unintentional Carrier Doping of Single Crystalline Metal Oxide Nanowires. Nano Letters 17, 4698-4705 (2017).
  • J. J. Bean, M. Saito, S. Fukami, H. Sato, S. Ikeda, H. Ohno, Y. Ikuhara and K. P. McKenna, Atomic structure and electronic properties of MgO grain boundaries in tunnelling magnetoresistive devices. Scientific Reports 7, (2017).
  • H. G. Brown, R. Ishikawa, G. Sanchez-Santolino, N. R. Lugg, Y. Ikuhara, L. J. Allen and N. Shibata, A new method to detect and correct sample tilt in scanning transmission electron microscopy bright-field imaging. Ultramicroscopy 173, 76-83 (2017).
  • H. G. Brown, N. Shibata, H. Sasaki, T. C. Petersen, D. M. Paganin, M. J. Morgan and S. D. Findlay, Measuring nanometre-scale electric fields in scanning transmission electron microscopy using segmented detectors. Ultramicroscopy 182, 169-178 (2017).
  • C. Chen, D. Yin, K. Inoue, F. Lichtenberg, X. Ma, Y. Ikuhara and J. G. Bednorz, Atomic-Scale Origin of the Quasi-One-Dimensional Metallic Conductivity in Strontium Niobates with Perovskite-Related Layered Structures. Acs Nano 11, 12519-12525 (2017).
  • B. Feng, N. R. Lugg, A. Kumamoto, Y. Ikuhara and N. Shibata, Direct Observation of Oxygen Vacancy Distribution across Yttria-Stabilized Zirconia Grain Boundaries. Acs Nano 11, 11376-11382 (2017).
  • S. D. Findlay, R. Huang, R. Ishikawa, N. Shibata and Y. Ikuhara, Direct visualization of lithium via annular bright field scanning transmission electron microscopy: a review. Microscopy 66, 3-14 (2017).
  • P. Gao, R. Ishikawa, E. Tochigi, A. Kumamoto, N. Shibata and Y. Ikuhara, Atomic-Scale Tracking of a Phase Transition from Spinel to Rocksalt in Lithium Manganese Oxide. Chemistry of Materials 29, 1006-1013 (2017).
  • P. Gao, Z. Zhang, M. Li, R. Ishikawa, B. Feng, H.-J. Liu, Y.-L. Huang, N. Shibata, X. Ma, S. Chen, J. Zhang, K. Liu, E.-G. Wang, D. Yu, L. Liao, Y.-H. Chu and Y. Ikuhara, Possible absence of critical thickness and size effect in ultrathin perovskite ferroelectric films. Nature Communications 8, (2017).
  • Y. Goto, T. Minegishi, Y. Kageshima, T. Higashi, H. Kaneko, Y. Kuang, M. Nakabayashi, N. Shibata, H. Ishihara, T. Hayashi, A. Kudo, T. Yamada and K. Domen, A particulate (ZnSe)0.85(CuIn0.7Ga0.3Se2)0.15 photocathode modified with CdS and ZnS for sunlight-driven overall water splitting. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 5, 21242-21248 (2017).
  • J. Hoemke, E. Tochigi, T. Tohei, H. Yoshida, N. Shibata, Y. Ikuhara and Y. Sakka, Inversion domain boundaries in Mn and Al dual-doped ZnO: Atomic structure and electronic properties. Journal of the American Ceramic Society 100, 4252-4262 (2017).
  • X. Hu, C. A. J. Fisher, S. Kobayashi, Y. H. Ikuhara, Y. Fujiwara, K. Hoshikawa, H. Moriwake, K. Kohama, H. Iba and Y. Ikuhara, Atomic scale imaging of structural changes in solid electrolyte lanthanum lithium niobate upon annealing. Acta Materialia 127, 211-219 (2017).
  • X. Hu, S. Kobayashi, Y. H. Ikuhara, C. A. J. Fisher, Y. Fujiwara, K. Hoshikawa, H. Moriwake, K. Kohama, H. Iba and Y. Ikuhara, Atomic scale imaging of structural variations in La(1-x)/3LixNbO3 (0 ≦ x ≦ 0.13) solid electrolytes. Acta Materialia 123, 167-176 (2017).
  • H. Ikeno and T. Mizoguchi, Basics and applications of ELNES calculations. Microscopy 66, 305-327 (2017).
  • Y. H. Ikuhara, X. Gao, C. A. J. Fisher, A. Kuwabara, H. Moriwake, K. Kohama, H. Iba and Y. Ikuhara, Atomic level changes during capacity fade in highly oriented thin films of cathode material LiCoPO4. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 5, 9329-9338 (2017).
  • K. Inoue, B. Feng, N. Shibata, M. Kotani and Y. Ikuhara, Structure of <110>-tilt boundaries in cubic zirconia. Journal of Materials Science 52, 4278-4287 (2017).
  • R. Ishikawa, Y. Shimbo, I. Sugiyama, N. R. Lugg, N. Shibata and Y. Ikuhara, Room-temperature dilute ferromagnetic dislocations in Sr1-xMnxTiO3-&delta;. Physical Review B 96, (2017).
  • Ishizuka, M. Oka, T. Seki, N. Shibata and K. Ishizuka, Boundary-artifact-free determination of potential distribution from differential phase contrast signals. Microscopy 66, 397-405 (2017).
  • M. Iwase, M. Nakabayashi, N. Shibata, C. Izawa, M. Katayama, T. Yamada, Y. Inoue, K. Domen and T. Watanabe, Molten salt flux synthesis of La5Ti2CuS5O7 towards elongated single crystallites. Japanese Journal of Applied Physics 56, (2017).
  • T. Jia, H. Kimura, Z. Cheng, H. Zhao, Y.-H. Kim, M. Osada, T. Matsumoto, N. Shibata and Y. Ikuhara, Mechanical force involved multiple fields switching of both local ferroelectric and magnetic domain in a Bi5Ti3FeO15 thin film. Npg Asia Materials 9, (2017).
  • H. Jinnai, T. Higuchi, X. Zhuge, A. Kumamoto, K. J. Batenburg and Y. Ikuhara, Three-Dimensional Visualization and Characterization of Polymeric Self-Assemblies by Transmission Electron Microtomography. Accounts of Chemical Research 50, 1293-1302 (2017).
  • S. Katayama, T. Katase, T. Tohei, B. Feng, Y. Ikuhara and H. Ohta, Reactive Solid-Phase Epitaxy and Electrical Conductivity of Layered Sodium Manganese Oxide Films. Crystal Growth & Design 17, 1849-1853 (2017).
  • H. Katsukura, T. Miyata, M. Shirai, H. Matsumoto and T. Mizoguchi, Estimation of the molecular vibration of gases using electron microscopy. Scientific Reports 7, (2017).
  • H. Katsukura, T. Miyata, K. Tomita and T. Mizoguchi, Effect of the van der Waals interaction on the electron energy-loss near edge structure theoretical calculation. Ultramicroscopy 178, 88-95 (2017).
  • D.-w. Kim, H. Shiiba, N. Zettsu, T. Yamada, T. Kimijima, G. Sanchez-Santolino, R. Ishikawa, Y. Ikuhara and K. Teshima, Full picture discovery for mixed-fluorine anion effects on high-voltage spinel lithium nickel manganese oxide cathodes. Npg Asia Materials 9, (2017).
  • S. Kobayashi, C. A. J. Fisher, A. Kuwabara, Y. Ukyo and Y. Ikuhara, Quantitative analysis of Li distributions in battery material Li1-xFePO4 using Fe M-2,M-3-edge and valence electron energy loss spectra. Microscopy 66, 254-260 (2017).
  • Y. Kuang, Q. Jia, G. Ma, T. Hisatomi, T. Minegishi, H. Nishiyama, M. Nakabayashi, N. Shibata, T. Yamada, A. Kudo and K. Domen, Ultrastable low-bias water splitting photoanodes via photocorrosion inhibition and in situ catalyst regeneration. Nature Energy 2, (2017).
  • Y. Kuromitsu, Y. Nagatomo, K. Akiyama, N. Shibata and Y. Ikuhara, Direct-bonded aluminum on aluminum nitride substrates by transient liquid phase bonding. Journal of the Ceramic Society of Japan 125, 165-167 (2017).
  • J. Liu, T. Hisatomi, D. H. K. Murthy, M. Zhong, M. Nakabayashi, T. Higashi, Y. Suzuki, H. Matsuzaki, K. Seki, A. Furube, N. Shibata, M. Katayama, T. Minegishi and K. Domen, Enhancement of Charge Separation and Hydrogen Evolution on Particulate La5Ti2CuS5O7 Photocathodes by Surface Modification. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 8, 375-379 (2017).
  • X. Liu, Z. Yu, R. Ishikawa, L. Chen, X. Liu, X. Yin, Y. Ikuhara and R. Riedel, Single-source-precursor derived RGO/CNTs-SiCN ceramic nanocomposite with ultra-high electromagnetic shielding effectiveness. Acta Materialia 130, 83-93 (2017).
  • X. Liu, Z. Yu, R. Ishikawa, L. Chen, X. Yin, Y. Ikuhara and R. Riedel, Single-source-precursor synthesis and electromagnetic properties of novel RGO-SiCN ceramic nanocomposites. Journal of Materials Chemistry C 5, 7950-7960 (2017).
  • T. Miyata and T. Mizoguchi, Fabrication of thin TEM sample of ionic liquid for high-resolution ELNES measurements. Ultramicroscopy 178, 81-87 (2017).
  • T. Miyata, F. Uesugi and T. Mizoguchi, Real-space analysis of diffusion behavior and activation energy of individual monatomic ions in a liquid. Science Advances 3, (2017).
  • T. Mizoguchi, T. Miyata and W. Olovsson, Excitonic, vibrational, and van der Waals interactions in electron energy loss spectroscopy. Ultramicroscopy 180, 93-103 (2017).
  • H. Moriwake, A. Kuwabara, C. A. J. Fisher and Y. Ikuhara, Why is sodium-intercalated graphite unstable?. Rsc Advances 7, 36550-36554 (2017).
  • A. Nakamura, K. Matsunaga, E. Tochigi, N. Shibata, Y. Ikuhara and K. P. D. Lagerlof, Another origin of yield drop behavior in sapphire deformed via basal slip: Recombination of climb-dissociated partial dislocations. Scripta Materialia 138, 109-113 (2017).
  • Y. Nezu, Y.-Q. Zhang, C. Chen, Y. Ikuhara and H. Ohta, Solid-phase epitaxial film growth and optical properties of a ferroelectric oxide, Sr2Nb2O7. Journal of Applied Physics 122, (2017).
  • N. Nishiyama, R. Ishikawa, H. Ohfuji, H. Marquardt, A. Kurnosov, T. Taniguchi, B.-N. Kim, H. Yoshida, A. Masuno, J. Bednarcik, E. Kulik, Y. Ikuhara, F. Wakai and T. Irifune, Transparent polycrystalline cubic silicon nitride. Scientific Reports 7, (2017).
  • H. Oda, S. Kiyohara, K. Tsuda and T. Mizoguchi, Transfer Learning to Accelerate Interface Structure Searches. Journal of the Physical Society of Japan 86, (2017).
  • K. Ohki, T. Nagaishi, T. Kato, D. Yokoe, T. Hirayama, Y. Ikuhara, T. Ueno, K. Yamagishi, T. Takao, R. Piao, H. Maeda and Y. Yanagisawa, Fabrication, microstructure and persistent current measurement of an intermediate grown superconducting (iGS) joint between REBCO-coated conductors. Superconductor Science & Technology 30, (2017).
  • V. Sanchela, T. Onozato, B. Feng, Y. Ikuhara and H. Ohta, Thermopower modulation clarification of the intrinsic effective mass in transparent oxide semiconductor BaSnO3. Physical Review Materials 1, (2017).
  • S. Sasano, R. Ishikawa, I. Sugiyama, T. Higashi, T. Kimura, Y. H. Ikuhara, N. Shibata and Y. Ikuhara, Relative Li-ion mobility mapping in Li0.33La0.56TiO3 polycrystalline by electron backscatter diffraction and electrochemical strain microscopy. Applied Physics Express 10, (2017).
  • T. Seki, G. Sanchez-Santolino, R. Ishikawa, S. D. Findlay, Y. Ikuhara and N. Shibata, Quantitative electric field mapping in thin specimens using a segmented detector: Revisiting the transfer function for differential phase contrast. Ultramicroscopy 182, 258-263 (2017).
  • N. Shibata, S. D. Findlay, T. Matsumoto, Y. Kohno, T. Seki, G. Sanchez-Santolino and Y. Ikuhara, Direct Visualization of Local Electromagnetic Field Structures by Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy. Accounts of Chemical Research 50, 1502-1512 (2017).
  • N. Shibata, T. Seki, G. Sanchez-Santolino, S. D. Findlay, Y. Kohno, T. Matsumoto, R. Ishikawa and Y. Ikuhara, Electric field imaging of single atoms. Nature Communications 8, (2017).
  • E. Tochigi, Y. Kezuka, A. Nakamura, A. Nakamura, N. Shibata and Y. Ikuhara, Direct Observation of Impurity Segregation at Dislocation Cores in an Ionic Crystal. Nano Letters 17, 2908-2912 (2017).
  • E. Tochigi, H. Matsuhata, H. Yamaguchi, T. Sekiguchi, H. Okumura and Y. Ikuhara, Investigation of V-shaped extended defects in a 4H-SiC epitaxial film. Philosophical Magazine 97, 657-670 (2017).
  • K. Tomita, T. Miyata, W. Olovsson and T. Mizoguchi, Strong excitonic interactions in the oxygen K-edge of perovskite oxides. Ultramicroscopy 178, 105-111 (2017).
  • Z. Wang, S. V. Ketov, C. L. Chen, Y. Shen, Y. Ikuhara, A. A. Tsarkov, D. V. Louzguine-Luzgin and J. H. Perepezko, Nucleation and thermal stability of an icosahedral nanophase during the early crystallization stage in Zr-Co-Cu-Al metallic glasses. Acta Materialia 132, 298-306 (2017).
  • Y. Zhang, B. Feng, H. Hayashi, T. Tohei, I. Tanaka, Y. Ikuhara and H. Ohta, Thermoelectric phase diagram of the SrTiO3-SrNbO3 solid solution system. Journal of Applied Physics 121, (2017).
  • H. Zhao, K. Cai, Z. Cheng, T. Jia, H. Kimura, Z. Ma, Q. Fu, Z. Huang, T. Matsumoto, T. Tohei, N. Shibata and Y. Ikuhara, A Novel Class of Multiferroic Material, Bi4Ti3O12・nBiFeO3 with Localized Magnetic Ordering Evaluated from Their Single Crystals. Advanced Electronic Materials 3, (2017).
  • H. Zhao, K. Cai, Z. Fan, Z. Huang, Z. Ma, T. Jia, H. Kimura, Y. Yang, T. Matsumoto, T. Tohei, N. Shibata and Y. Ikuhara, Ferroelectric domains and phase evolution in (Fe:) KTa1-xNbxO3 crystals. Applied Surface Science 413, 1-6 (2017).
  • Z. Zheng, M. Retana, X. Hu, R. Luna, Y. H. Ikuhara and W. Zhou, Three-Dimensional Cobalt Phosphide Nanowire Arrays as Negative Electrode Material for Flexible Solid-State Asymmetric Supercapacitors. Acs Applied Materials & Interfaces 9, 16987-16995 (2017).
  • C. Zhou, C. Fasel, R. Ishikawa, M. Gallei, Y. Ikuhara, S. Lauterbach, H.-J. Kleebe, R. Riedel and E. Ionescu, One-pot synthesis of a C/SiFeN(O)-based ceramic paper with in-situ generated hierarchical micro/nano-morphology. Journal of the European Ceramic Society 37, 5193-5203 (2017).
  • L. Zhou, J. Dai, Y. Chai, H. Zhang, S. Dong, H. Cao, S. Calder, Y. Yin, X. Wang, X. Shen, Z. Liu, T. Saito, Y. Shimakawa, H. Hojo, Y. Ikuhara, M. Azuma, Z. Hu, Y. Sun, C. Jin and Y. Long, Realization of Large Electric Polarization and Strong Magnetoelectric Coupling in BiMn3Cr4O12. Advanced Materials 29, (2017).
  • L. Zhou, J. Dai, Y. Chai, H. Zhang, S. Dong, H. Cao, S. Calder, Y. Yin, X. Wang, X. Shen, Z. Liu, T. Saito, Y. Shimakawa, H. Hojo, Y. Ikuhara, M. Azuma, Z. Hu, Y. Sun, C. Jin and Y. Long, Realization of Large Electric Polarization and Strong Magnetoelectric Coupling in BiMn3Cr4O12. Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) 29, (2017).
  • Y. Zhu, T. Nakanishi, K. Kanamori, K. Nakanishi, S. Ichii, K. Iwaida, Y. Masui, T. Kamei, T. Shimada, A. Kumamoto, Y. H. Ikuhara, M. Jeon, G. Hasegawa, M. Tafu, C. W. Yoon and T. Asefa, Amine/Hydrido Bifunctional Nanoporous Silica with Small Metal Nanoparticles Made Onsite: Efficient Dehydrogenation Catalyst. Acs Applied Materials & Interfaces 9, 36-41 (2017).
  • S. Akiyama, M. Nakabayashi, N. Shibata, T. Minegishi, Y. Asakura, M. Abdulla Al, T. Hisatomi, H. Nishiyama, M. Katayama, T. Yamada and K. Domen, Highly Efficient Water Oxidation Photoanode Made of Surface Modified LaTiO2N Particles. Small 12, 5468-5476 (2016).
  • H. An, A. Kumamoto, H. Takezaki, S. Ohyama, Y. Qian, T. Inoue, Y. Ikuhara, S. Chiashi, R. Xiang and S. Maruyama, Chirality specific and spatially uniform synthesis of single-walled carbon nanotubes from a sputtered Co-W bimetallic catalyst. Nanoscale 8, 14523-14529 (2016).
  • D. Chiba, N. Shibata and A. Tsukazaki, Co thin films deposited directly on ZnO polar surfaces. Scientific Reports 6, (2016).
  • K. Cui, A. Kumamoto, R. Xiang, H. An, B. Wang, T. Inoue, S. Chiashi, Y. Ikuhara and S. Maruyama, Synthesis of subnanometer-diameter vertically aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes with copper-anchored cobalt catalysts. Nanoscale 8, 1608-1617 (2016).
  • B. Feng, I. Sugiyama, H. Hojo, H. Ohta, N. Shibata and Y. Ikuhara, Atomic structures and oxygen dynamics of CeO2 grain boundaries. Scientific Reports 6, (2016).
  • B. Feng, T. Yokoi, A. Kumamoto, M. Yoshiya, Y. Ikuhara and N. Shibata, Atomically ordered solute segregation behaviour in an oxide grain boundary. Nature Communications 7, (2016).
  • Y. Furushima, A. Nakamura, E. Tochigi, Y. Ikuhara, K. Toyoura and K. Matsunaga, Dislocation structures and electrical conduction properties of low angle tilt grain boundaries in LiNbO3. Journal of Applied Physics 120, (2016).
  • P. Gao, H.-J. Liu, Y.-L. Huang, Y.-H. Chu, R. Ishikawa, B. Feng, Y. Jiang, N. Shibata, E.-G. Wang and Y. Ikuhara, Atomic mechanism of polarization-controlled surface reconstruction in ferroelectric thin films. Nature Communications 7, (2016).
  • H. Heuer, M. Z. Azar, H. Guhl, M. Foulkes, B. Gleeson, T. Nakagawa, Y. Ikuhara and M. W. Finnis, The Band Structure of Polycrystalline Al2O3 and Its Influence on Transport Phenomena. Journal of the American Ceramic Society 99, 733-747 (2016).
  • J. Hoemke, A. U. Khan, H. Yoshida, T. Mori, E. Tochigi, N. Shibata, Y. Ikuhara and Y. Sakka, Sintering characteristics and thermoelectric properties of Mn-Al co-doped ZnO ceramics. Journal of the Ceramic Society of Japan 124, 515-522 (2016).
  • Y. Imanaka, T. Anazawa, T. Manabe, H. Amada, S. Ido, F. Kumasaka, N. Awaji, G. Sanchez-Santolino, R. Ishikawa and Y. Ikuhara, An artificial photosynthesis anode electrode composed of a nanoparticulate photocatalyst film in a visible light responsive GaN-ZnO solid solution system. Scientific Reports 6, (2016).
  • K. Inoue, M. Saito, C. Chen, M. Kotani and Y. Ikuhara, Mathematical analysis and STEM observations of arrangement of structural units in <001> symmetrical tilt grain boundaries. Microscopy 65, 479-487 (2016).
  • R. Ishikawa, N. R. Lugg, K. Inoue, H. Sawada, T. Taniguchi, N. Shibata and Y. Ikuhara, Interfacial Atomic Structure of Twisted Few-Layer Graphene. Scientific Reports 6, (2016).
  • R. Ishikawa, S. J. Pennycook, A. R. Lupini, S. D. Findlay, N. Shibata and Y. Ikuhara, Single atom visibility in STEM optical depth sectioning. Applied Physics Letters 109, (2016).
  • H. Kaneko, T. Minegishi, M. Nakabayashi, N. Shibata and K. Domen, Enhanced Hydrogen Evolution under Simulated Sunlight from Neutral Electrolytes on (ZnSe)0.85(CuIn0.7Ga0.3Se2)0.15 Photocathodes Prepared by a Bilayer Method. Angewandte Chemie-International Edition 55, 15329-15333 (2016).
  • H. Kaneko, T. Minegishi, M. Nakabayashi, N. Shibata, Y. Kuang, T. Yamada and K. Domen, A Novel Photocathode Material for Sunlight-Driven Overall Water Splitting: Solid Solution of ZnSe and Cu(In,Ga)Se-2. Advanced Functional Materials 26, 4570-4577 (2016).
  • S. Kawanishi and T. Mizoguchi, Effect of van der Waals interactions on the stability of SiC polytypes. Journal of Applied Physics 119, (2016).
  • S. Kiyohara, H. Oda, T. Miyata and T. Mizoguchi, Prediction of interface structures and energies via virtual screening. Science Advances 2, (2016).
  • S. Kiyohara, H. Oda, K. Tsuda and T. Mizoguchi, Acceleration of stable interface structure searching using a kriging approach. Japanese Journal of Applied Physics 55, (2016).
  • S. Kobayashi, C. A. J. Fisher, T. Kato, Y. Ukyo, T. Hirayama and Y. Ikuhara, Atomic-Scale Observations of (010) LiFePO4 Surfaces Before and After Chemical Delithiation. Nano Letters 16, 5409-5414 (2016).
  • S. Kondo, T. Mitsuma, N. Shibata and Y. Ikuhara, Direct observation of individual dislocation interaction processes with grain boundaries. Science Advances 2, (2016).
  • K. Kubobuchi, M. Mogi, M. Matsumoto, T. Baba, C. Yogi, C. Sato, T. Yamamoto, T. Mizoguchi and H. Imai, A valence state evaluation of a positive electrode material in an Li-ion battery with first-principles K- and L-edge XANES spectral simulations and resonance photoelectron spectroscopy. Journal of Applied Physics 120, (2016).
  • Kumamoto, N. Shibata, K.-i. Nayuki, T. Tohei, N. Terasaki, Y. Nagatomo, T. Nagase, K. Akiyama, Y. Kuromitsu and Y. Ikuhara, Atomic structures of a liquid-phase bonded metal/nitride heterointerface. Scientific Reports 6, (2016).
  • C. Li, T. Hisatomi, O. Watanabe, M. Nakabayashi, N. Shibata, K. Domen and J.-J. Delaunay, Simultaneous enhancement of photovoltage and charge transfer in Cu2O-based photocathode using buffer and protective layers. Applied Physics Letters 109, (2016).
  • N. Li, T. Katase, Y. Zhu, T. Matsumoto, T. Umemura, Y. Ikuhara and H. Ohta, Solid-liquid phase epitaxial growth of Li4Ti5O12 thin film. Applied Physics Express 9, (2016).
  • J.-C. Lin, T. Vu Thanh, D.-S. Tsai, T.-T. Lin, P.-C. Huang, W.-L. Hsu, H. J. Wu, R. Huang, C. Nguyen Van, R. Yoshida, J.-Y. Lin, Y. Ikuhara, Y.-P. Chiu, S. Gwo, D. P. Tsai, J.-H. He and Y.-H. Chu, Control of the Metal-Insulator Transition at Complex Oxide Heterointerfaces through Visible Light. Advanced Materials 28, 764-770 (2016).
  • H.-J. Liu, J.-C. Lin, Y.-W. Fang, J.-C. Wang, B.-C. Huang, X. Gao, R. Huang, P. R. Dean, P. D. Hatton, Y.-Y. Chin, H.-J. Lin, C.-T. Chen, Y. Ikuhara, Y.-P. Chiu, C.-S. Chang, C.-G. Duan, Q. He and Y.-H. Chu, A Metal-Insulator Transition of the Buried MnO2 Monolayer in Complex Oxide Heterostructure. Advanced Materials 28, 9142-+ (2016).
  • G. Ma, S. Chen, Y. Kuang, S. Akiyama, T. Hisatomi, M. Nakabayashi, N. Shibata, M. Katayama, T. Minegishi and K. Domen, Visible Light-Driven Z-Scheme Water Splitting Using Oxysulfide H-2 Evolution Photocatalysts. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 7, 3892-3896 (2016).
  • K. Matsui, K. Nakamura, A. Kumamoto, H. Yoshida and Y. Ikuhara, Low-temperature degradation in yttria-stabilized tetragonal zirconia polycrystal doped with small amounts of alumina: Effect of grain-boundary energy. Journal of the European Ceramic Society 36, 155-162 (2016).
  • Y. Matsui and T. Mizoguchi, First principles calculation of oxygen K edge absorption spectrum of acetic acid: Relationship between the spectrum and molecular dynamics. Chemical Physics Letters 649, 92-96 (2016).
  • T. Matsumoto, Y.-G. So, Y. Kohno, H. Sawada, Y. Ikuhara and N. Shibata, Direct observation of Sigma 7 domain boundary core structure in magnetic skyrmion lattice. Science Advances 2, (2016).
  • T. Matsumoto, Y.-G. So, Y. Kohno, H. Sawada, R. Ishikawa, Y. Ikuhara and N. Shibata, Jointed magnetic skyrmion lattices at a small-angle grain boundary directly visualized by advanced electron microscopy. Scientific Reports 6, (2016).
  • K. Matsunaga, T.-Y. Chang, R. Ishikawa, Q. Dong, K. Toyoura, A. Nakamura, Y. Ikuhara and N. Shibata, Adsorption sites of single noble metal atoms on the rutile TiO2 (110) surface influenced by different surface oxygen vacancies. Journal of Physics-Condensed Matter 28, (2016).
  • T. Matsunaga, H. Komatsu, K. Shimoda, T. Minato, M. Yonemura, T. Kamiyama, S. Kobayash, T. Kato, T. Hirayama, Y. Ikuhara, H. Arai, Y. Ukyo, Y. Uchimoto and Z. Ogumi, Dependence of Structural Defects in Li2MnO3 on Synthesis Temperature. Chemistry of Materials 28, 4143-4150 (2016).
  • T. Matsunaga, H. Komatsu, K. Shimoda, T. Minato, M. Yonemura, T. Kamiyama, S. Kobayash, T. Kato, T. Hirayama, Y. Ikuhara, H. Arai, Y. Ukyo, Y. Uchimoto and Z. Ogumi, Structural Understanding of Superior Battery Properties of Partially Ni-Doped Li2MnO3 as Cathode Material. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 7, 2063-2067 (2016).
  • Y. Miyamoto, Y. Kuroda, T. Uematsu, H. Oshikawa, N. Shibata, Y. Ikuhara, K. Suzuki, M. Hibino, K. Yamaguchi and N. Mizuno, Rational Low-Temperature Synthesis of Ultrasmall Nanocrystalline Manganese Binary Oxide Catalysts under Controlled Metal Cation Hydration in Organic Media. Chemnanomat 2, 297-306 (2016).
  • H. Moriwake, A. Kuwabara, C. A. Fisher, M. Nose, H. Nakayama, S. Nakanishi, H. Iba and Y. Ikuhara, Crystal and electronic structure changes during the charge-discharge process of Na4Co3(PO4)(2)P2O7. Journal of Power Sources 326, 220-225 (2016).
  • T. Motoki, J.-i. Shimoyama, H. Ogino, K. Kishio, J. Roh, T. Tohei, Y. Ikuhara, S. Horii, T. Doi, G. Honda and T. Nagaishi, Microstructures and improved J(c)-H characteristics of Cl-containing YBCO thin films prepared by the fluorine-free MOD method. Superconductor Science & Technology 29, (2016).
  • C. Pan, T. Takata, K. Kumamoto, S. S. K. Ma, K. Ueda, T. Minegishi, M. Nakabayashi, T. Matsumoto, N. Shibata, Y. Ikuhara and K. Domen, Band engineering of perovskite-type transition metal oxynitrides for photocatalytic overall water splitting. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 4, 4544-4552 (2016).
  • Z. Pan, T. Hisatomi, Q. Wang, S. Chen, A. Iwase, M. Nakabayashi, N. Shibata, T. Takata, M. Katayama, T. Minegishi, A. Kudo and K. Domen, Photoreduced Graphene Oxide as a Conductive Binder to Improve the Water Splitting Activity of Photocatalyst Sheets. Advanced Functional Materials 26, 7011-7019 (2016).
  • Z. Pan, T. Hisatomi, Q. Wang, S. Chen, M. Nakabayashi, N. Shibata, C. Pan, T. Takata, M. Katayama, T. Minegishi, A. Kudo and K. Domen, Photocatalyst Sheets Composed of Particulate LaMg1/3Ta2/3O2N and Mo-Doped BiVO4 for Z-Scheme Water Splitting under Visible Light. Acs Catalysis 6, 7188-7196 (2016).
  • Z. Pan, T. Hisatomi, Q. Wang, M. Nakabayashi, N. Shibata, C. Pan, T. Takata and K. Domen, Application of LaMg1/3Ta2/3O2N as a hydrogen evolution photocatalyst of a photocatalyst sheet for Z-scheme water splitting. Applied Catalysis a-General 521, 26-33 (2016).
  • T. Sato, E. Tochigi, T. Mizoguchi, Y. Ikuhara and H. Fujita, An experimental system combined with a micromachine and double-tilt TEM holder. Microelectronic Engineering 164, 43-47 (2016).
  • K. Shimizu, H. Hojo, Y. Ikuhara and M. Azuma, Enhanced Piezoelectric Response due to Polarization Rotation in Cobalt-Substituted BiFeO3 Epitaxial Thin Films. Advanced Materials 28, 8639-8644 (2016).
  • S. Shiraki, Y. Takagi, R. Shimizu, T. Suzuki, M. Haruta, Y. Sato, Y. Ikuhara and T. Hitosugi, Orientation control of LiCoO2 epitaxial thin films on metal substrates. Thin Solid Films 600, 175-178 (2016).
  • D. J. Taplin, N. Shibata, M. Weyland and S. D. Findlay, Low magnification differential phase contrast imaging of electric fields in crystals with fine electron probes. Ultramicroscopy 169, 69-79 (2016).
  • T. Tohei, Y. Watanabe, H.-S. Lee and Y. Ikuhara, First principles calculation of thermal expansion coefficients of pure and Cr doped α-alumina crystals. Journal of Applied Physics 120, (2016).
  • K. Tomita, T. Miyata, W. Olovsson and T. Mizoguchi, Core-Exciton Interaction in Sodium L-2,L-3 edge Structure Investigated Using the Bethe-Salpeter Equation. Journal of Physical Chemistry C 120, 9036-9042 (2016).
  • C. Wang, T. Hisatomi, T. Minegishi, M. Nakabayashi, N. Shibata, M. Katayama and K. Domen, Thin film transfer for the fabrication of tantalum nitride photoelectrodes with controllable layered structures for water splitting. Chemical Science 7, 5821-5826 (2016).
  • C. Wang, T. Hisatomi, T. Minegishi, M. Nakabayashi, N. Shibata, M. Katayama and K. Domen, Effects of interfacial layers on the photoelectrochemical properties of tantalum nitride photoanodes for solar water splitting. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 4, 13837-13843 (2016).
  • Q. Wang, T. Hisatomi, Q. Jia, H. Tokudome, M. Zhong, C. Wang, Z. Pan, T. Takata, M. Nakabayashi, N. Shibata, Y. Li, I. D. Sharp, A. Kudo, T. Yamada and K. Domen, Scalable water splitting on particulate photocatalyst sheets with a solar-to-hydrogen energy conversion efficiency exceeding 1%. Nature Materials 15, 611-+ (2016).
  • Z. Wang, M. Saito, K. P. McKenna, S. Fukami, H. Sato, S. Ikeda, H. Ohno and Y. Ikuhara, Atomic-Scale Structure and Local Chemistry of CoFeB-MgO Magnetic Tunnel Junctions. Nano Letters 16, 1530-1536 (2016).
  • H. Yu, Y.-G. So, A. Kuwabara, E. Tochigi, N. Shibata, T. Kudo, H. Zhou and Y. Ikuhara, Crystalline Grain Interior Configuration Affects Lithium Migration Kinetics in Li-Rich Layered Oxide. Nano Letters 16, 2907-2915 (2016).
  • H. B. Zhang, R. J. Qi, N. F. Ding, R. Huang, L. Sun, C. G. Duan, C. A. J. Fisher, J. H. Chu and Y. Ikuhara, Elemental intermixing within an ultrathin SrRuO3 electrode layer in epitaxial heterostructure BaTiO3/SrRuO3/SrTiO3. Aip Advances 6, (2016).
  • S. Zheng, R. Zhang, R. Huang, T. Taniguchi, X. Ma, Y. Ikuhara and I. J. Beyerlein, Structure and energetics of nanotwins in cubic boron nitrides. Applied Physics Letters 109, (2016).
  • J. E. Zuliani, T. Miyata, T. Mizoguchi, J. Feng, D. W. Kirk and C. Q. Jia, Characterization of vanadium in oil sands fluid petroleum coke using electron microscopy. Fuel 178, 124-128 (2016).
  • R. Ang, Z. C. Wang, C. L. Chen, J. Tang, N. Liu, Y. Liu, W. J. Lu, Y. P. Sun, T. Mori and Y. Ikuhara, Atomistic origin of an ordered superstructure induced superconductivity in layered chalcogenides. Nature Communications 6, (2015).
  • C. Chen, S. Lv, J. Li, Z. Wang, X. Liang, Y. Li, D. Viehland, K. Nakajima and Y. Ikuhara, Two-dimensional electron gas at the Ti-diffused BiFeO3/SrTiO3 interface. Applied Physics Letters 107, (2015).
  • C. Chen, Z. Wang, T. Kato, N. Shibata, T. Taniguchi and Y. Ikuhara, Misfit accommodation mechanism at the heterointerface between diamond and cubic boron nitride. Nature Communications 6, (2015).
  • C. Chen, Z. Wang, F. Lichtenberg, Y. Ikuhara and J. G. Bednorz, Patterning Oxide Nanopillars at the Atomic Scale by Phase Transformation. Nano Letters 15, 6469-6474 (2015).
  • C. Chen, Z. Wang, F. Lichtenberg, Y. Ikuhara and J. G. Bednorz, Patterning Oxide Nanopillars at the Atomic Scale by Phase Transformation. Figshare (2015).
  • S.-Y. Choi, S.-D. Kim, M. Choi, H.-S. Lee, J. Ryu, N. Shibata, T. Mizoguchi, E. Tochigi, T. Yamamoto, S.-J. L. Kang and Y. Ikuhara, Assessment of Strain-Generated Oxygen Vacancies Using SrTiO3 Bicrystals. Nano Letters 15, 4129-4134 (2015).
  • R. Close, Z. Chen, N. Shibata and S. D. Findlay, Towards quantitative, atomic-resolution reconstruction of the electrostatic potential via differential phase contrast using electrons. Ultramicroscopy 159, 124-137 (2015).
  • B. Feng, A. Kumamoto, N. Lugg, N. Shibata and Y. Ikuhara, Atomic-Resolution STEM-EDS Mapping of Grain Boundary Solute Segregation in Yttria-Stabilized Zirconia (Retraction of Vol 21, Pg 2281, 2015). Microscopy and Microanalysis 21, E1-E1 (2015).
  • X. Gao, C. A. J. Fisher, Y. H. Ikuhara, Y. Fujiwara, S. Kobayashi, H. Moriwake, A. Kuwabara, K. Hoshikawa, K. Kohama, H. Iba and Y. Ikuhara, Cation ordering in A-site-deficient Li-ion conducting perovskites La(1-x)/3LixNbO3. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 3, 3351-3359 (2015).
  • R. M. Gorgoll, E. Yucelen, A. Kumamoto, N. Shibata, K. Harano and E. Nakamura, Electron Microscopic Observation of Selective Excitation of Conformational Change of a Single Organic Molecule. Journal of the American Chemical Society 137, 3474-3477 (2015).
  • L. Gu, D. Xiao, Y.-S. Hu, H. Li and Y. Ikuhara, Atomic-Scale Structure Evolution in a Quasi-Equilibrated Electrochemical Process of Electrode Materials for Rechargeable Batteries. Advanced Materials 27, 2134-2149 (2015).
  • L. Gu, L. Xu, Q. Zhang, D. Pan, N. Chen, D. V. Louzguine-Luzgin, K.-F. Yao, W. Wang and Y. Ikuhara, Direct in situ observation of metallic glass deformation by real-time nano-scale indentation. Scientific Reports 5, (2015).
  • H. Guhl, H.-S. Lee, P. Tangney, W. M. C. Foulkes, A. H. Heuer, T. Nakagawa, Y. Ikuhara and M. W. Finnis, Structural and electronic properties of Sigma 7 grain boundaries in alpha-Al2O3. Acta Materialia 99, 16-28 (2015).
  • K. Inoue, M. Saito, Z. Wang, M. Kotani and Y. Ikuhara, On the Periodicity of <001> Symmetrical Tilt Grain Boundaries. Materials Transactions 56, 281-287 (2015).
  • K. Inoue, M. Saito, Z. Wang, M. Kotani and Y. Ikuhara, The Decomposition Formula of <001> Symmetrical Tilt Grain Boundaries. Materials Transactions 56, 1945-1952 (2015).
  • T. Katase, K. Endo, T. Tohei, Y. Ikuhara and H. Ohta, Room-Temperature-Protonation-Driven On-Demand Metal-Insulator Conversion of a Transition Metal Oxide. Advanced Electronic Materials 1, (2015).
  • T. Katase, H. Takahashi, T. Tohei, Y. Suzuki, M. Yamanouchi, Y. Ikuhara, I. Terasaki and H. Ohta, Solid-Phase Epitaxial Growth of A-Site-Ordered Perovskite Sr4-xErxCo4O12-δ: A Room Temperature Ferrimagnetic p-Type Semiconductor. Advanced Electronic Materials 1, (2015).
  • S. Kobayashi, Y. Mizumukai, T. Ohnishi, N. Shibata, Y. Ikuhara and T. Yamamoto, High Electron Mobility of Nb-Doped SrTiO3 Films Stemming from Rod-Type Sr Vacancy Clusters. Acs Nano 9, 10769-10777 (2015).
  • H. Komatsu, H. Arai, Y. Koyama, K. Sato, T. Kato, R. Yoshida, H. Murayama, I. Takahashi, Y. Orikasa, K. Fukuda, T. Hirayama, Y. Ikuhara, Y. Ukyo, Y. Uchimoto and Z. Ogumi, Solid Solution Domains at Phase Transition Front of LixNi0.5Mn1.5O4. Advanced Energy Materials 5, (2015).
  • C. Li, T. Hisatomi, O. Watanabe, M. Nakabayashi, N. Shibata, K. Domen and J.-J. Delaunay, Positive onset potential and stability of Cu2O-based photocathodes in water splitting by atomic layer deposition of a Ga2O3 buffer layer. Energy & Environmental Science 8, 1493-1500 (2015).
  • H.-J. Liu, Y.-H. Du, P. Gao, Y.-C. Huang, H.-W. Chen, Y.-C. Chen, H.-L. Liu, Q. He, Y. Ikuhara and Y.-H. Chu, Tetragonal BiFeO3 on yttria-stabilized zirconia. Apl Materials 3, (2015).
  • J. W. Liu, M. Y. Liao, M. Imura, T. Matsumoto, N. Shibata, Y. Ikuhara and Y. Koide, Control of normally on/off characteristics in hydrogenated diamond metal-insulator-semiconductor field-effect transistors. Journal of Applied Physics 118, (2015).
  • D. V. Louzguine-Luzgin, C. L. Chen, L. Y. Lin, Z. C. Wang, S. V. Ketov, M. J. Miyama, A. S. Trifonov, A. V. Lubenchenko and Y. Ikuhara, Bulk metallic glassy surface native oxide: Its atomic structure, growth rate and electrical properties. Acta Materialia 97, 282-290 (2015).
  • N. R. Lugg, G. Kothleitner, N. Shibata and Y. Ikuhara, On the quantitativeness of EDS STEM. Ultramicroscopy 151, 150-159 (2015).
  • H. Masai, T. Yanagida, T. Mizoguchi, T. Ina, T. Miyazaki, N. Kawaguti and K. Fukuda, Local coordination state of rare earth in eutectic scintillators for neutron detector applications. Scientific Reports 5, (2015).
  • G. Mera, R. Ishikawa, E. Ionescu, Y. Ikuhara and R. Riedel, Atomic-scale assessment of the crystallization onset in silicon carbonitride. Journal of the European Ceramic Society 35, 3355-3362 (2015).
  • Y. Miyamoto, Y. Kuroda, T. Uematsu, H. Oshikawa, N. Shibata, Y. Ikuhara, K. Suzuki, M. Hibino, K. Yamaguchi and N. Mizuno, Synthesis of ultrasmall Li-Mn spinel oxides exhibiting unusual ion exchange, electrochemical, and catalytic properties. Scientific Reports 5, (2015).
  • H. Moriwake, X. Gao, A. Kuwabara, C. A. J. Fisher, T. Kimura, Y. H. Ikuhara, K. Kohama, T. Tojigamori and Y. Ikuhara, Domain boundaries and their influence on Li migration in solid-state electrolyte (La,Li)TiO3. Journal of Power Sources 276, 203-207 (2015).
  • M. Mukai, E. Okunishi, M. Ashino, K. Omoto, T. Fukuda, A. Ikeda, K. Somehara, T. Kaneyama, T. Saitoh, T. Hirayama and Y. Ikuhara, Development of a monochromator for aberration-corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy. Microscopy 64, 151-158 (2015).
  • N. Na, D. Y. Kim, Y.-G. So, Y. Ikuhara and S. Noda, Simple and engineered process yielding carbon nanotube arrays with 1.2 x 10(13) cm(-2) wall density on conductive underlayer at 400 degrees C. Carbon 81, 773-781 (2015).
  • Nakamura, Y. Gu, K. Taniguchi, N. Shibata, H. Takagi and Y. Ikuhara, Phase Interface Structures in Li1+xRh2O4 Zero Strain Cathode Material Analyzed by Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy. Chemistry of Materials 27, 938-943 (2015).
  • T. Ohsawa, M. Saito, I. Hamada, R. Shimizu, K. Iwaya, S. Shiraki, Z. Wang, Y. Ikuhara and T. Hitosugi, A Single-Atom-Thick TiO2 Nanomesh on an Insulating Oxide. Acs Nano 9, 8766-8772 (2015).
  • C. Pan, T. Takata, M. Nakabayashi, T. Matsumoto, N. Shibata, Y. Ikuhara and K. Domen, A Complex Perovskite-Type Oxynitride: The First Photocatalyst for Water Splitting Operable at up to 600 nm. Angewandte Chemie-International Edition 54, 2955-2959 (2015).
  • J.-Y. Roh, Y. Sato and Y. Ikuhara, Grain Boundary Plane Effect on Pr Segregation Site in ZnO σ 13 0001 Symmetric Tilt Grain Boundaries. Journal of the American Ceramic Society 98, 1932-1936 (2015).
  • G. A. Rosales-Sosa, A. Masuno, Y. Higo, H. Inoue, Y. Yanaba, T. Mizoguchi, T. Umada, K. Okamura, K. Kato and Y. Watanabe, High Elastic Moduli of a 54Al(2)O(3)-46Ta(2)O(5) Glass Fabricated via Containerless Processing. Scientific Reports 5, (2015).
  • H. Sawada, N. Shimura, F. Hosokawa, N. Shibata and Y. Ikuhara, Resolving 45-pm-separated Si-Si atomic columns with an aberration-corrected STEM. Microscopy 64, 213-217 (2015).
  • J. Seo, T. Takata, M. Nakabayashi, T. Hisatomi, N. Shibata, T. Minegishi and K. Domen, Mg-Zr Cosubstituted Ta3N5 Photoanode for Lower-Onset-Potential Solar-Driven Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting. Journal of the American Chemical Society 137, 12780-12783 (2015).
  • N. Shibata, S. D. Findlay, H. Sasaki, T. Matsumoto, H. Sawada, Y. Kohno, S. Otomo, R. Minato and Y. Ikuhara, Imaging of built-in electric field at a p-n junction by scanning transmission electron microscopy. Scientific Reports 5, (2015).
  • I. Sugiyama, Y. Mizumukai, T. Taniuchi, K. Okada, F. Shirase, T. Tanase, Y. Ikuhara and T. Yamamoto, Carbon content dependence of grain growth mode in VC-doped WC-Co hardmetals. International Journal of Refractory Metals & Hard Materials 52, 245-251 (2015).
  • R. Sun, Z. Wang, M. Saito, N. Shibata and Y. Ikuhara, Atomistic mechanisms of nonstoichiometry-induced twin boundary structural transformation in titanium dioxide. Nature Communications 6, (2015).
  • R. Sun, Z. Wang, N. Shibata and Y. Ikuhara, A dislocation core in titanium dioxide and its electronic structure. Rsc Advances 5, 18506-18510 (2015).
  • T. Takata, C. Pan, M. Nakabayashi, N. Shibata and K. Domen, Fabrication of a Core-Shell-Type Photocatalyst via Photodeposition of Group IV and V Transition Metal Oxyhydroxides: An Effective Surface Modification Method for Overall Water Splitting. Journal of the American Chemical Society 137, 9627-9634 (2015).
  • E. Tochigi, A. Nakamura, T. Mizoguchi, N. Shibata and Y. Ikuhara, Dissociation of the 1/3 <(1)over-bar101> dislocation and formation of the anion stacking fault on the basal plane in α-Al2O3. Acta Materialia 91, 152-161 (2015).
  • T. Tohei, H.-S. Lee and Y. Ikuhara, First Principles Calculation of Thermal Expansion of Carbon and Boron Nitrides Based on Quasi-Harmonic Approximation. Materials Transactions 56, 1452-1456 (2015).
  • T. Tohei, Y. Watanabe, N. Takahashi, T. Nakagawa, N. Shibata and Y. Ikuhara, First principles study of oxygen diffusion in a alpha-alumina {10(1)over-bar1} twin grain boundary. Philosophical Magazine 95, 3985-3999 (2015).
  • K. Ueda, T. Minegishi, J. Clune, M. Nakabayashi, T. Hisatomi, H. Nishiyama, M. Katayama, N. Shibata, J. Kubota, T. Yamada and K. Domen, Photoelectrochemical Oxidation of Water Using BaTaO2N Photoanodes Prepared by Particle Transfer Method. Journal of the American Chemical Society 137, 2227-2230 (2015).
  • Q. Wang, Y. Li, T. Hisatomi, M. Nakabayashi, N. Shibata, J. Kubota and K. Domen, Z-scheme water splitting using particulate semiconductors immobilized onto metal layers for efficient electron relay. Journal of Catalysis 328, 308-315 (2015).
  • H. Yang, H. S. Lee, P. G. Kotula, Y. Sato, Y. Ikuhara and N. D. Browning, Amphoteric doping of praseodymium Pr3+ in SrTiO3 grain boundaries. Applied Physics Letters 106, (2015).
  • R. Yu, H. Hojo, T. Mizoguchi and M. Azuma, A new LiNbO3-type polar oxide with closed-shell cations: ZnPbO3. Journal of Applied Physics 118, (2015).
  • R. Yu, H. Hojo, T. Watanuki, M. Mizumaki, T. Mizokawa, K. Oka, H. Kim, A. Machida, K. Sakaki, Y. Nakamura, A. Agui, D. Mori, Y. Inaguma, M. Schlipf, K. Z. Rushchanskii, M. Lezaic, M. Matsuda, J. Ma, S. Calder, M. Isobe, Y. Ikuhara and M. Azuma, Melting of Pb Charge Glass and Simultaneous Pb-Cr Charge Transfer in PbCrO3 as the Origin of Volume Collapse. Journal of the American Chemical Society 137, 12719-12728 (2015).
  • L. Zhang, T. Minegishi, M. Nakabayashi, Y. Suzuki, K. Seki, N. Shibata, J. Kubota and K. Domen, Durable hydrogen evolution from water driven by sunlight using (Ag,Cu)GaSe2 photocathodes modified with CdS and CuGa3Se5. Chemical Science 6, 894-901 (2015).
  • M. Zhong, T. Hisatomi, Y. Kuang, J. Zhao, M. Liu, A. Iwase, Q. Jia, H. Nishiyama, T. Minegishi, M. Nakabayashi, N. Shibata, R. Niishiro, C. Katayama, H. Shibano, M. Katayama, A. Kudo, T. Yamada and K. Domen, Surface Modification of CoOx Loaded BiVO4 Photoanodes with Ultrathin p-Type NiO Layers for Improved Solar Water Oxidation. Journal of the American Chemical Society 137, 5053-5060 (2015).
  • C. Zhou, X. Gao, Y. Xu, G. Buntkowsky, Y. Ikuhara, R. Riedel and E. Ionescu, Synthesis and high-temperature evolution of single-phase amorphous Si-Hf-N ceramics. Journal of the European Ceramic Society 35, 2007-2015 (2015).
  • H. Chang, M. Saito, T. Nagai, Y. Liang, Y. Kawazoe, Z. Wang, H. Wu, K. Kimoto and Y. Ikuhara, Single adatom dynamics at monatomic steps of free-standing few-layer reduced graphene. Scientific Reports 4, (2014).
  • T.-Y. Chang, Y. Tanaka, R. Ishikawa, K. Toyoura, K. Matsunaga, Y. Ikuhara and N. Shibata, Direct Imaging of Pt Single Atoms Adsorbed on TiO2 (110) Surfaces. Nano Letters 14, 134-138 (2014).
  • C. Chen, S. Lv, Z. Wang, K. Akagi, F. Lichtenberg, Y. Ikuhara and J. G. Bednorz, Atomic and electronic structure of the SrNbO3/SrNbO3.4 interface. Applied Physics Letters 105, (2014).
  • C. Chen, Z. Wang, M. Saito, T. Tohei, Y. Takano and Y. Ikuhara, Fluorine in Shark Teeth: Its Direct Atomic-Resolution Imaging and Strengthening Function. Angewandte Chemie-International Edition 53, 1543-1547 (2014).
  • S. D. Findlay, Y. Kohno, L. A. Cardamone, Y. Ikuhara and N. Shibata, Enhanced light element imaging in atomic resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy. Ultramicroscopy 136, 31-41 (2014).
  • C. A. J. Fisher, A. Kuwabara, H. Moriwake, H. Oki, K. Kohama and Y. Ikuhara, Systematic calculations of On (n=1 to 6) polytypes of LiCoO2. Physica Status Solidi-Rapid Research Letters 8, 545-548 (2014).
  • X. Gao, C. A. J. Fisher, T. Kimura, Y. H. Ikuhara, A. Kuwabara, H. Moriwake, H. Oki, T. Tojigamori, K. Kohama and Y. Ikuhara, Domain boundary structures in lanthanum lithium titanates. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2, 843-852 (2014).
  • X. Gao, Y. H. Ikuhara, C. A. J. Fisher, H. Moriwake, A. Kuwabara, H. Oki, K. Kohama, R. Yoshida, R. Huang and Y. Ikuhara, Structural Distortion and Compositional Gradients Adjacent to Epitaxial LiMn2O4 Thin Film Interfaces. Advanced Materials Interfaces 1, (2014).
  • M. Hibino, R. Harimoto, Y. Ogasawara, R. Kido, A. Sugahara, T. Kudo, E. Tochigi, N. Shibata, Y. Ikuhara and N. Mizuno, A New Rechargeable Sodium Battery Utilizing Reversible Topotactic Oxygen Extraction/Insertion of CaFeOz (2.5 ≦ z ≦ 3) in an Organic Electrolyte. Journal of the American Chemical Society 136, 488-494 (2014).
  • D. Hojo, T. Togashi, T. Ohsawa, M. Saito, Z. Wang, Y. Sakuda, S. Asahina, Y. Ikuhara, T. Hitosugi and T. Adschiri, Nanoepitaxy of Anatase-type TiO2 on CeO2 Nanocubes Self-Assembled on a Si Substrate for Fabricating Well-Aligned Nanoscale Heterogeneous Interfaces. Crystal Growth & Design 14, 4714-4720 (2014).
  • H. Hojo, K. Fujita, H. Ikeno, T. Matoba, T. Mizoguchi, I. Tanaka, T. Nakamura, Y. Takeda, T. Okane and K. Tanaka, Magnetic structures of FeTiO3-Fe2O3 solid solution thin films studied by soft X-ray magnetic circular dichroism and ab initio multiplet calculations. Applied Physics Letters 104, (2014).
  • H. Hojo, K. Onuma, Y. Ikuhara and M. Azuma, Structural evolution and enhanced piezoresponse in cobalt-substituted BiFeO3 thin films. Applied Physics Express 7, (2014).
  • R. Huang, H.-C. Ding, W.-I. Liang, Y.-C. Gao, X.-D. Tang, Q. He, C.-G. Duan, Z. Zhu, J. Chu, C. A. J. Fisher, T. Hirayama, Y. Ikuhara and Y.-H. Chu, Atomic-Scale Visualization of Polarization Pinning and Relaxation at Coherent BiFeO3/LaAlO3 Interfaces. Advanced Functional Materials 24, 793-799 (2014).
  • Y. H. Ikuhara, X. Gao, R. Huang, C. A. J. Fisher, A. Kuwabara, H. Moriwake and K. Kohama, Epitaxial Growth of LiMn2O4 Thin Films by Chemical Solution Deposition for Multilayer Lithium-Ion Batteries. Journal of Physical Chemistry C 118, 19540-19547 (2014).
  • A. Ishihara, S. Kondo, E. Tochigi, N. Shibata and Y. Ikuhara, Observations of crack propagation along a Zr-doped alumina grain boundary, Microscopy (Oxford, England) 63 Suppl 1, i20-i21 (2014).
  • R. Ishikawa, A. R. Lupini, F. Oba, S. D. Findlay, N. Shibata, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, H. Hayashi, T. Sakai, I. Tanaka, Y. Ikuhara and S. J. Pennycook, Atomic Structure of Luminescent Centers in High-Efficiency Ce-doped w-AlN Single Crystal. Scientific Reports 4, (2014).
  • Z. Jian, C. Yuan, W. Han, X. Lu, L. Gu, X. Xi, Y.-S. Hu, H. Li, W. Chen, D. Chen, Y. Ikuhara and L. Chen, Atomic Structure and Kinetics of NASICON NaxV2(PO4)3 Cathode for Sodium-Ion Batteries. Advanced Functional Materials 24, 4265-4272 (2014).
  • Y.-W. Ju, J. Hyodo, A. Inoishi, S. Ida, T. Tohei, Y.-G. So, Y. Ikuhara and T. Ishihara, Double Columnar Structure with a Nanogradient Composite for Increased Oxygen Diffusivity and Reduction Activity. Advanced Energy Materials 4, (2014).
  • T. Kogure, H. Raimbourg, A. Kumamoto, E. Fujii and Y. Ikuhara, Subgrain boundary analyses in deformed orthopyroxene by TEM/STEM with EBSD-FIB sample preparation technique. Earth Planets and Space 66, (2014).
  • K. Kubobuchi, M. Mogi, H. Ikeno, I. Tanaka, H. Imai and T. Mizoguchi, Mn L-2,L-3-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopic studies on charge-discharge mechanism of Li2MnO3. Applied Physics Letters 104, (2014).
  • A. Kumamoto, T. Kogure, H. Raimbourg and Y. Ikuhara, Dislocation imaging for orthopyroxene using an atom-resolved scanning transmission electron microscopy. Microscopy (Oxford, England) 63 Suppl 1, i17-i17 (2014).
  • A. Kumatani, S. Shiraki, Y. Takagi, T. Suzuki, T. Ohsawa, X. Gao, Y. Ikuhara and T. Hitosugi, Epitaxial growth of Li4Ti5O12 thin films using RF magnetron sputtering. Japanese Journal of Applied Physics 53, (2014).
  • K. Matsui, H. Yoshida and Y. Ikuhara, Nanocrystalline, Ultra-Degradation-Resistant Zirconia: Its Grain Boundary Nanostructure and Nanochemistry. Scientific Reports 4, (2014).
  • M. Matsukawa, R. Ishikawa, T. Hisatomi, Y. Moriya, N. Shibata, J. Kubota, Y. Ikuhara and K. Domen, Enhancing Photocatalytic Activity of LaTiO2N by Removal of Surface Reconstruction Layer. Nano Letters 14, 1038-1041 (2014).
  • K. Matsunaga, Y. Tanaka, K. Toyoura, A. Nakamura, Y. Ikuhara and N. Shibata, Existence of basal oxygen vacancies on the rutile TiO2 (110) surface. Physical Review B 90, (2014).
  • K. P. McKenna, F. Hofer, D. Gilks, V. K. Lazarov, C. Chen, Z. Wang and Y. Ikuhara, Atomic-scale structure and properties of highly stable antiphase boundary defects in Fe3O4. Nature Communications 5, (2014).
  • T. Miyata, M. Fukuyama, A. Hibara, E. Okunishi, M. Mukai and T. Mizoguchi, Measurement of vibrational spectrum of liquid using monochromated scanning transmission electron microscopy-electron energy loss spectroscopy. Microscopy 63, 377-382 (2014).
  • N. Moitra, K. Kanamori, Y. H. Ikuhara, X. Gao, Y. Zhu, G. Hasegawa, K. Takeda, T. Shimada and K. Nakanishi, Reduction on reactive pore surfaces as a versatile approach to synthesize monolith-supported metal alloy nanoparticles and their catalytic applications. Journal of Materials Chemistry A 2, 12535-12544 (2014).
  • N. Moitra, A. Matsushima, T. Kamei, K. Kanamori, Y. H. Ikuhara, X. Gao, K. Takeda, Y. Zhu, K. Nakanishi and T. Shimada, A new hierarchically porous Pd@HSQ monolithic catalyst for Mizoroki-Heck cross-coupling reactions. New Journal of Chemistry 38, 1144-1149 (2014).
  • Nakamura, S. Furutsuki, S.-i. Nishimura, T. Tohei, Y. Sato, N. Shibata, A. Yamada and Y. Ikuhara, Phase Boundary Structure of LixFePO4 Cathode Material Revealed by Atomic-Resolution Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy. Chemistry of Materials 26, 6178-6184 (2014).
  • D. Oka, Y. Hirose, H. Kamisaka, T. Fukumura, K. Sasa, S. Ishii, H. Matsuzaki, Y. Sato, Y. Ikuhara and T. Hasegawa, Possible ferroelectricity in perovskite oxynitride SrTaO2N epitaxial thin films. Scientific Reports 4, (2014).
  • S.-i. Okuoka, Y. Ogasawara, Y. Suga, M. Hibino, T. Kudo, H. Ono, K. Yonehara, Y. Sumida, Y. Yamada, A. Yamada, M. Oshima, E. Tochigi, N. Shibata, Y. Ikuhara and N. Mizuno, A New Sealed Lithium-Peroxide Battery with a Co-Doped Li2O Cathode in a Superconcentrated Lithium Bis(fluorosulfonyl)amide Electrolyte. Scientific Reports 4, (2014).
  • S. Ootsuki, H. Ikeno, Y. Umeda, Y. Yonezawa, H. Moriwake, A. Kuwabara, O. Kido, S. Ueda, I. Tanaka, Y. Fujikawa and T. Mizoguchi, Impact of local strain on Ti-L-2,L-3 electron energy-loss near-edge structures of BaTiO3: a first-principles multiplet study. Microscopy 63, 249-253 (2014).
  • J.-Y. Roh, Y. Sato and Y. Ikuhara, Atomistic structure and segregation behavior in secondary structure and facet of Pr-doped ZnO Σ 13 27.8 degrees 0001 tilt grain boundary. Journal of the Ceramic Society of Japan 122, 381-385 (2014).
  • J.-Y. Roh, Y. Sato and Y. Ikuhara, Atomic Structure of ZnO Sigma 13 0001 /{13(4)over-bar0} Symmetric Tilt Grain Boundary. Journal of the American Ceramic Society 97, 617-621 (2014).
  • M. Saito, Z. Wang and Y. Ikuhara, Selective impurity segregation at a near-I 5 pound grain boundary in MgO. Journal of Materials Science 49, 3956-3961 (2014).
  • Y. Sato, T. Hirayama and Y. Ikuhara, Monoclinic nanodomains in morphotropic phase boundary Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-PbTiO3. Applied Physics Letters 104, (2014).
  • S. Shiraki, H. Oki, Y. Takagi, T. Suzuki, A. Kumatani, R. Shimizu, M. Haruta, T. Ohsawa, Y. Sato, Y. Ikuhara and T. Hitosugi, Fabrication of all-solid-state battery using epitaxial Li CoO2 thin films. Journal of Power Sources 267, 881-887 (2014).
  • I. Sugiyama, Y. Kim, S. Jesse, E. Strelcov, A. Kumar, A. Tselev, E. K. Rahani, V. B. Shenoy, T. Yamamoto, N. Shibata, Y. Ikuhara and S. V. Kalinin, Spatially-resolved mapping of history-dependent coupled electrochemical and electronical behaviors of electroresistive NiO. Scientific Reports 4, (2014).
  • K. Takehara, Y. Sato, T. Tohei, N. Shibata and Y. Ikuhara, Titanium enrichment and strontium depletion near edge dislocation in strontium titanate 001 /(110) low-angle tilt grain boundary. Journal of Materials Science 49, 3962-3969 (2014).
  • K. Tsuruta, E. Tochigi, Y. Kezuka, K. Takata, N. Shibata, A. Nakamura and Y. Ikuhara, Core structure and dissociation energetics of basal edge dislocation in α-Al2O3: A combined atomistic simulation and transmission electron microscopy analysis. Acta Materialia 65, 76-84 (2014).
  • S. Uchida, Y. Ogasawara, T. Maruichi, A. Kumamoto, Y. Ikuhara, T. Yamada, H. Kitagawa and N. Mizuno, Morphology-Controlled Synthesis of Cubic Cesium Hydrogen Silicododecatungstate Crystals. Crystal Growth & Design 14, 6620-6626 (2014).
  • Z. Wang, M. Saito, C. Chen, Y. Matsubara, K. Ueno, M. Kawasaki and Y. Ikuhara, Full Determination of Individual Reconstructed Atomic Columns in Intermixed Heterojunctions. Nano Letters 14, 6584-6589 (2014).
  • Z. Wang, M. Saito, K. P. McKenna and Y. Ikuhara, Polymorphism of dislocation core structures at the atomic scale. Nature Communications 5, (2014).
  • H. Yakita, H. Ogino, T. Okada, A. Yamamoto, K. Kishio, T. Tohei, Y. Ikuhara, Y. Gotoh, H. Fujihisa, K. Kataoka, H. Eisaki and J.-i. Shimoyama, A New Layered Iron Arsenide Superconductor: (Ca,Pr)FeAs2. Journal of the American Chemical Society 136, 846-849 (2014).
  • H. Yakita, H. Ogino, T. Okada, A. Yamamoto, K. Kishio, T. Tohei, Y. Ikuhara, Y. Gotoh, H. Fujihisa, K. Kataoka, H. Eisaki and J.-I. Shimoyama, COD ID: 4120528. Crystallography Open Database (2014).
  • H. Yakita, H. Ogino, T. Okada, A. Yamamoto, K. Kishio, T. Tohei, Y. Ikuhara, Y. Gotoh, H. Fujihisa, K. Kataoka, H. Eisaki and J.-I. Shimoyama, A New Layered Iron Arsenide Superconductor: (Ca,Pr)FeAs2. Figshare (2014).
  • H. Yamaguchi, H. Hiramatsu, H. Hosono and T. Mizoguchi, The atomic structure, band gap, and electrostatic potential at the (112) 1(1)over-bar0 twin grain boundary of CuInSe2. Applied Physics Letters 104, (2014).
  • H. Yamaguchi and T. Mizoguchi, Defect formation energetics at the grain boundary in CuInSe2 using first-principles calculations. Journal of the Ceramic Society of Japan 122, 469-472 (2014).
  • T. Yamamoto and T. Mizoguchi, Importance of Fermi energy for understanding the intermixing behavior at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 heterointerface. Applied Physics Letters 105, (2014).
  • H. Yang, P. G. Kotula, Y. Sato, M. Chi, Y. Ikuhara and N. D. Browning, Segregation of Mn2+ Dopants as Interstitials in SrTiO3 Grain Boundaries. Materials Research Letters 2, 16-22 (2014).
  • H. Yasumatsu, T. Tohei and Y. Ikuhara, Determination of Exact Positions of Individual Tungsten Atoms in Unisize Tungsten Oxide Clusters Supported on Carbon Substrate by HAADF-STEM Observation. Journal of Physical Chemistry C 118, 1706-1711 (2014).
  • H. Zhao, H. Kimura, Z. Cheng, M. Osada, J. Wang, X. Wang, S. Dou, Y. Liu, J. Yu, T. Matsumoto, T. Tohei, N. Shibata and Y. Ikuhara, Large magnetoelectric coupling in magnetically short-range ordered Bi5Ti3FeO15 film. Scientific Reports 4, (2014).
  • J. Zhao, T. Minegishi, L. Zhang, M. Zhong, Gunawan, M. Nakabayashi, G. Ma, T. Hisatomi, M. Katayama, S. Ikeda, N. Shibata, T. Yamada and K. Domen, Enhancement of Solar Hydrogen Evolution from Water by Surface Modification with CdS and TiO2 on Porous CuInS2 Photocathodes Prepared by an Electrodeposition-Sulfurization Method. Angewandte Chemie-International Edition 53, 11808-11812 (2014).
  • Z. Zheng, J. Chen, R. Yoshida, X. Gao, K. Tarr, Y. H. Ikuhara and W. Zhou, One-step synthesis of TiO2 nanorod arrays on Ti foil for supercapacitor application. Nanotechnology 25, (2014).
  • C. Zhu, L. Gu, L. Suo, J. Popovic, H. Li, Y. Ikuhara and J. Maier, Size-Dependent Staging and Phase Transition in LiFePO4/FePO4. Advanced Functional Materials 24, 312-318 (2014).
  • H. Chang, Z. Sun, M. Saito, Q. Yuan, H. Zhang, J. Li, Z. Wang, T. Fujita, F. Ding, Z. Zheng, F. Yan, H. Wu, M. Chen and Y. Ikuhara, Regulating Infrared Photoresponses in Reduced Graphene Oxide Phototransistors by Defect and Atomic Structure Control. Acs Nano 7, 6310-6320 (2013).
  • S.-Y. Choi, J. B. Lim, Y. Ikuhara, D. Suvorov and J.-H. Jeon, Direct Observation of Cationic Ordering in Double Perovskite Sr2FeReO6 Crystals. Microscopy and Microanalysis 19, 25-28 (2013).
  • X. Gao, C. A. J. Fisher, T. Kimura, Y. H. Ikuhara, H. Moriwake, A. Kuwabara, H. Oki, T. Tojigamori, R. Huang and Y. Ikuhara, Lithium Atom and A-Site Vacancy Distributions in Lanthanum Lithium Titanate. Chemistry of Materials 25, 1607-1614 (2013).
  • M. Haruta, T. Nagai, N. R. Lugg, M. J. Neish, M. Nagao, K. Kurashima, L. J. Allen, T. Mizoguchi and K. Kimoto, Atomic resolution chemical bond analysis of oxygen in La2CuO4. Journal of Applied Physics 114, (2013).
  • H. Hojo, K. Onuma, Y. Ikuhara and M. Azuma, Effect of Oxygen Pressure on Electrical Properties of BiFe0.9Co0.1O3 Thin Films Prepared by Pulsed Laser Deposition. Japanese Journal of Applied Physics 52, (2013).
  • S. Kobayashi, Y. Ikuhara and T. Yamamoto, Labyrinth-type domain structure of heteroepitaxial SrMnO2.5 film. Applied Physics Letters 102, (2013).
  • H.-J. Liu, T. Vu-Thanh, Y.-J. Chen, R. Huang, C.-G. Duan, Y.-H. Hsieh, H.-J. Lin, J.-Y. Lin, C.-T. Chen, Y. Ikuhara and Y.-H. Chu, Large Magnetoresistance in Magnetically Coupled SrRuO3-CoFe2O4 Self-Assembled Nanostructures. Advanced Materials 25, 4753-4759 (2013).
  • S. Lv, M. Saito, Z. Wang, S. Chakraverty, M. Kawasaki and Y. Ikuhara, Atomistic geometry and bonding characteristics at the Sr2FeTaO6/SrTiO3 interface. Applied Physics Letters 102, (2013).
  • S. Lv, M. Saito, Z. Wang, C. Chen, S. Chakraverty, M. Kawasaki and Y. Ikuhara, Atomic-scale structure and electronic property of the La2FeCrO6/SrTiO3 interface. Journal of Applied Physics 114, (2013).
  • S. Lv, Z. Wang, M. Saito and Y. Ikuhara, Atomic and electronic structure of La2CoMnO6 on SrTiO3 and LaAlO3 substrates from first principles. Journal of Applied Physics 113, (2013).
  • A. Masuno, C. Moriyoshi, T. Mizoguchi, T. Okajima, Y. Kuroiwa, Y. Arai, J. Yu, H. Inoue and Y. Watanabe, Stabilization of metastable ferroelectric Ba1-xCaxTi2O5 by breaking Ca-site selectivity via crystallization from glass. Scientific Reports 3, (2013).
  • Y. Matsui, K. Seki, A. Hibara and T. Mizoguchi, An estimation of molecular dynamic behaviour in a liquid using core-loss spectroscopy. Scientific Reports 3, (2013).
  • T. Matsumoto, R. Ishikawa, T. Tohei, H. Kimura, Q. Yao, H. Zhao, X. Wang, D. Chen, Z. Cheng, N. Shibata and Y. Ikuhara, Multivariate Statistical Characterization of Charged and Uncharged Domain Walls in Multiferroic Hexagonal YMnO3 Single Crystal Visualized by a Spherical Aberration-Corrected STEM. Nano Letters 13, 4594-4601 (2013).
  • T. Mizoguchi, S. D. Findlay, A. Masuno, Y. Saito, K. Yamaguchi, H. Inoue and Y. Ikuhara, Atomic-Scale Identification of Individual Lanthanide Dopants in Optical Glass Fiber. Acs Nano 7, 5058-5063 (2013).
  • T. Morimura, Y. Sato, Y. Ikuhara, T. Yamaguchi and M. Hasaka, Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy and Thermoelectric Properties of Sr-Doped Misfit Cobalt Oxide. Japanese Journal of Applied Physics 52, (2013).
  • K. Morita, G. Mera, K. Yoshida, Y. Ikuhara, A. Klein, H.-J. Kleebe and R. Riedel, Thermal stability, morphology and electronic band gap of Zn(NCN). Solid State Sciences 23, 50-57 (2013).
  • Nakamura, T. Mizoguchi, K. Matsunaga, T. Yamamoto, N. Shibata and Y. Ikuhara, Periodic Nanowire Array at the Crystal Interface. Acs Nano 7, 6297-6302 (2013).
  • S. Nishida, S. Kobayashi, A. Kumamoto, H. Ikeno, T. Mizoguchi, I. Tanaka, Y. Ikuhara and T. Yamamoto, Effect of local coordination of Mn on Mn-L-2,L-3 edge electron energy loss spectrum. Journal of Applied Physics 114, (2013).
  • M. Ohwada, K. Kimoto, T. Mizoguchi, Y. Ebina and T. Sasaki, Atomic structure of titania nanosheet with vacancies. Scientific Reports 3, (2013).
  • M. Saito, Z. Wang, S. Tsukimoto and Y. Ikuhara, Local atomic structure of a near-sigma 5 tilt grain boundary in MgO. Journal of Materials Science 48, 5470-5474 (2013).
  • Y. Sato, J.-Y. Roh and Y. Ikuhara, Grain-boundary structural transformation induced by geometry and chemistry. Physical Review B 87, (2013).
  • I. Sugiyama, Y. Mizumukai, T. Taniuchi, K. Okada, F. Shirase, T. Tanase, Y. Ikuhara and T. Yamamoto, Three-dimensional morphology of (W,V)C-x in VC-doped WC-Co hard metals. Scripta Materialia 69, 473-476 (2013).
  • Y. Sun, L. Zhao, H. Pan, X. Lu, L. Gu, Y.-S. Hu, H. Li, M. Armand, Y. Ikuhara, L. Chen and X. Huang, Direct atomic-scale confirmation of three-phase storage mechanism in Li4Ti5O12 anodes for room-temperature sodium-ion batteries. Nature Communications 4, (2013).
  • T. Yamamoto and T. Mizoguchi, The influence of neighboring vacancies and their charge state on the atomic migration of LaAlO3. Applied Physics Letters 102, (2013).
  • S. Yasui, K. Yazawa, M. Matsushima, T. Yamada, H. Morioka, H. Uchida, T. Iijima, L. You, J. Wang, T. Yamamoto, Y. Ikuhara and H. Funakubo, Unusual 90 degrees domain structure in (2/3)Bi(Zn1/2Ti1/2)O-3-(1/3)BiFeO3 epitaxial films with giant 22% tetragonal distortion. Applied Physics Letters 103, (2013).
  • K. Yoshida, K. Toyoura, K. Matsunaga, A. Nakahira, H. Kurata, Y. H. Ikuhara and Y. Sasaki, Atomic sites and stability of Cs+ captured within zeolitic nanocavities. Scientific Reports 3, (2013).
  • H. Yu, R. Ishikawa, Y.-G. So, N. Shibata, T. Kudo, H. Zhou and Y. Ikuhara, Direct Atomic-Resolution Observation of Two Phases in the Li1.2Mn0.567Ni0.166Co0.067O2 Cathode Material for Lithium-Ion Batteries. Angewandte Chemie-International Edition 52, 5969-5973 (2013).
  • P. Zhao, A. Kumamoto, S. Kim, X. Chen, B. Hou, S. Chiashi, E. Einarsson, Y. Ikuhara and S. Maruyama, Self-Limiting Chemical Vapor Deposition Growth of Monolayer Graphene from Ethanol. Journal of Physical Chemistry C 117, 10755-10763 (2013).
  • S. J. Zheng, C. A. J. Fisher, T. Hitosugi, A. Kumatani, S. Shiraki, Y. H. Ikuhara, A. Kuwabara, H. Moriwake, H. Oki and Y. Ikuhara, Antiphase inversion domains in lithium cobaltite thin films deposited on single-crystal sapphire substrates. Acta Materialia 61, 7671-7678 (2013).