Research

ArticlesList

• Dec 23, 2025RIKEN RESEARCH Why a chiral magnet is a direction-dependent street for electrons

  

  Two different mechanisms are found to be responsible for the direction-dependent flow of electrons in chiral magnets

• Aug 27, 2025RIKEN RESEARCH Marrying topological insulators with ferroelectricity

  

  Two very different properties have been realized in the same material, which could be useful in new devices

• Jul 25, 2025RIKEN RESEARCH Antiferromagnet shows promise for harvesting energy

  

  A new magnetic material is very effective at changing heat into electricity

• May 28, 2025RIKEN RESEARCH Spontaneous symmetry breaking in electron systems proves elusive

  

  What looked like a genuine case of spontaneous symmetry breaking was actually caused by tiny strains in samples

• Mar 31, 2025RIKEN RESEARCH A simple way to control superconductivity

  

• Mar 31, 2025RIKEN RESEARCH Controlling self-assembly better than nature does

  

  Applying a magnetic field to rod-like viruses induces them to form disks of tunable shape and size

PublicationsList

1. Y.-H. Kim, F. S. Yasin, N. Y. Kim, M. Birch, X. Yu, A. Kikkawa, Y. Taguchi, J. Yan, and M. Chi

   Ultralow-temperature cryogenic transmission electron microscopy using a new helium flow cryostat stage

   Ultramicroscopy 280, 114263 (2026)
2. J.-J. Lee, T.-W. Moon, F. Araoka, and S.-W. Choi

   Helically ordered chiral super spaces enable optical chirality in hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite crystals

   J. Colloid Interface Sci. 702, 138899 (2026)
3. R. Misawa, S. Kitou, R. Yamada, T. Gaggl, R. Nakano, Y. Shibata, Y. Okamura, M. Kriener, P. R. Baral, Y. Nakamura, Y. Onuki, Y. Takahashi, T.-h. Arima, M. Jovanovic, L. M. Schoop, and M. Hirschberger

   Successive Orthorhombic Distortions in Kagome Metals by Molecular Orbital Formation

   Adv. Mater. e13015 (2025)
4. Y. Sato, S. Nagahama, S. Kitou, H. Sagayama, I. Belopolski, R. Yoshimi, M. Kawamura, A. Tsukazaki, N. Kanazawa, T. Nomoto, R. Arita, T.-h. Arima, M. Kawasaki, and Y. Tokura

   Superconductivity and suppressed monoclinic distortion in FeTe films enabled by higher-order epitaxy

   Nat. Commun. 16, 10913 (2025)
5. O. Almora, A. O. Alvarez, D. Baran, C. I. Cabrera, L. A. Castriotta, B. Ehrler, S. Erten-ela, K. Fukuda, F. Guo, J. Hauch, A. W. Y. Ho-baillie, T. J. Jacobsson, R. A. J. Janssen, T. Kirchartz, M. A. Loi, R. R. Lunt, X. Mathew, J. Min, D. B. Mitzi, M. K. Nazeeruddin, A. F. Nogueira, U. W. Paetzold, N.-G. Park, B. P. Rand, H. Snaith, T. Someya, C. Sprau, L. Sun, K. Forberich, and C. J. Brabec

   Device Performance of Emerging Photovoltaic Materials (Version 6)

   Adv. Energy Mater. e05525 (2025)
6. Z.-T. Sun, X. Feng, Y.-M. Xie, B. T. Zhou, J.-X. Hu, and K. T. Law

   Pseudo-Ising superconductivity induced by p-wave magnetism

   Phys. Rev. B 112, 214504 (2025)
7. Y. Tanaka, D. Nakamura, R. Okugawa, and K. Kawabata

   Exceptional second-order topological insulators

   Phys. Rev. B 112, 245302 (2025)
8. S. Lee, L. Sun, S. Lee, K. Fukuda, and T. Someya

   Achieving Long-Term Stability of Ultraflexible OPVs under 1-Sun in Ambient Air Using a UV-Filtering Polyimide Substrate

   ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 17, 68249–68257 (2025)
9. A. Mine, T. Suzuki, Y. Zhong, S. Najafzadeh, K. Okawa, M. Sakano, K. Ishizaka, S. Shin, T. Sasagawa, and K. Okazaki

   Direct Observation of the Surface Superconducting Gap in the Topological Superconductor Candidate β-PdBi₂

   Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 236002 (2025)
10. N. Sasabe, Y. Ishii, and Y. Yamasaki

    X-ray magnetic circular dichroism originating from the anisotropic magnetic dipole operator in collinear altermagnets under trigonal crystal field

    Phys. Rev. B 112, 224401 (2025)