Materials Science and Engineering Laboratories
Energy Materials Laboratory
Basic Information
Staff |
Professor Tsunehiro Takeuchi / Associate Professor Masaharu Matsunami / Assistant Professor Keisuke Hirata |
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Outline |
Development of functional materials leading to sustainable low-carbon society In the Energy Materials Laboratory, we develop functional materials, such as thermoelectric materials, thermal diodes, and high-Tc superconductors. These materials lead to low sustainable low-carbon society. For these studies, we are using detailed analyses on electronic structure both from experiments and theoretical calculations. |
Research Themes |
Development of high performance thermoelectric materials using solely of ubiquitous elements |
Website |
Equipment
Sample preparation
- Arc furnace
- Planetary ball milling
- Induction furnace
- Single role melt spinning
- RF sputtering
- Three-zones furnace
- Box furnaces
- Vacuum furnaces
- Floating zone furnace
- Molecular beam epitaxy
Evaluation of sample quality
- XRD for powder and thin film
- Differential scanning calorimetry
- Differential thermal analysis
- Thermogravimetric Analysis
- Digital optical-microscope
Transport properties measurement
- Physical property measurement system for electrical resistivity, Hall coefficient, magneto-resistance, Seebeck coefficient, thermal conductivity, specific heat, magnetic susceptibility
- Seebeck coefficient measurement system
- Laser flash thermal conductivity measurement system
- High tempera electrical resistivity measurement system
- Thermal conductivity measurement system for thin film
Electronic structure analyses
- Photoemission spectroscopy (XPS, UPS, ARPES)
