Papers in 2018

  1. C. L. Chen, H. P. Li, T. Seki, D. L. 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[3] 2662-68 (2018).

  2. W. Y. Ching, M. Yoshiya, P. Adhikari, P. Rulis, Y. Ikuhara, and I. Tanaka, "First-principles study in an inter-granular glassy film model of silicon nitride,"
    Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 101[7] 2673-88 (2018).

  3. B. Feng, N. R. Lugg, A. Kumamoto, N. Shibata, and Y. Ikuhara, "On the quantitativeness of grain boundary chemistry using STEM EDS: A ZrO2 Sigma 9 model grain boundary case study,"
    Ultramicroscopy, 193 33-38 (2018).

  4. Y. Furushima, A. Nakamura, E. Tochigi, Y. Ikuhara, K. Toyoura, and K. Matsunaga, "<10 1¯0> Dislocation at a {2 1¯ 1¯0} low-angle grain boundary in LiNbO3,"
    Journal of Materials Science, 53[1] 333-44 (2018).

  5. 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, 184 217-24 (2018).

  6. 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, 184 177-87 (2018).

  7. P. Gao, S. Z. Yang, R. Ishikawa, N. Li, B. Feng, A. Kumamoto, N. Shibata, P. Yu, and Y. Ikuhara, "Atomic-Scale Measurement of Flexoelectric Polarization at SrTiO3 Dislocations,"
    Physical Review Letters, 120[26] (2018).

  8. X. D. Hao, A. Yoko, C. L. Chen, K. Inoue, M. Saito, G. Seong, S. Takami, T. Adschiri, Y. Ikuhara, “Cerium Valence State Distribution: Atomic‐Scale Valence State Distribution inside Ultrafine CeO2 Nanocubes and Its Size Dependence”,
    Small, 14[42], 1870195(2018).

  9. X. D. Hao, C. L. Chen, M. Saito, D. Q. Yin, K. Inoue, S. Takami, T. Adschiri, and Y. Ikuhara, "Direct Imaging for Single Molecular Chain of Surfactant on CeO2 Nanocrystals,"
    Small, 14[31] (2018).

  10. X. D. Hao, A. Yoko, C. L. Chen, K. Inoue, M. Saito, G. Seong, S. Takami, T. Adschiri, and Y. Ikuhara, "Atomic-Scale Valence State Distribution inside Ultrafine CeO2 Nanocubes and Its Size Dependence,"
    Small, 14[42] (2018).

  11. J. Hoemke, E. Tochigi, T. Tohei, H. Yoshida, N. Shibata, Y. Ikuhara, and Y. Sakka, "Inversion domain network stabilization and spinel phase suppression in ZnO,"
    Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 101[6] 2616-26 (2018).

  12. X. B. Hu, C. A. J. Fisher, S. Kobayashi, Y. H. Ikuhara, Y. Fujiwara, K. Hoshikawa, H. Moriwake, K. Kohama, H. Iba, and Y. Ikuhara, "Structural changes and their effect on Li-ion conductivity upon quenching of La(1-x)/3LixNbO3 solid electrolytes,"
    Acta Materialia, 156 379-88 (2018).

  13. X. B. Hu, H. Y. Niu, X. L. Ma, A. R. Oganov, C. A. J. Fisher, N. C. Sheng, J. D. Liu, T. Jin, X. F. Sun, J. F. Liu, and Y. Ikuhara, "Atomic-scale observation and analysis of chemical ordering in M3B2 and M5B3 borides,"
    Acta Materialia, 149 274-84 (2018).

  14. R. Ishikawa, S. D. Findlay, T. Seki, G. Sanchez-Santolino, Y. Kohno, Y. Ikuhara, and N. Shibata, "Direct electric field imaging of graphene defects,"
    Nature Communications, 9 (2018).

  15. K. Kawahara, R. Ishikawa, T. Higashi, T. Kimura, Y. H. Ikuhara, N. Shibata, and Y. Ikuhara, "Unique fitting of electrochemical impedance spectra by random walk Metropolis Hastings algorithm,"
    Journal of Power Sources, 403 184-91 (2018).

  16. S Kitaoka, T Matsudaira, T Ogawa, N Shibata, M Takeuchi, Y Ikuhara , ”Grain Boundary Engineering of Alumina Ceramics”,
    Nanoinformatics, 237-257(2018)

  17. S. Kobayashi, Y. Ikuhara, and T. Mizoguchi, "Lattice expansion and local lattice distortion in Nb- and La-doped SrTiO3 single crystals investigated by x-ray diffraction and first-principles calculations,"
    Physical Review B, 98[13] (2018).

  18. 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[6] (2018).

  19. S. Kobayashi, A. Kuwabara, C. A. J. Fisher, Y. Ukyo, and Y. Ikuhara, "Microscopic mechanism of biphasic interface relaxation in lithium iron phosphate after delithiation,"
    Nature Communications, 9 (2018).

  20. H. Komatsu, T. Minato, T. Matsunaga, K. Shimoda, T. Kawaguchi, K. Fukuda, K. Nakanishi, H. Tanida, S. Kobayashi, T. Hirayama, Y. Ikuhara, H. Arai, Y. Ukyo, Y. Uchimoto, E. Matsubara, and Z. Ogumi, "Site-Selective Analysis of Nickel-Substituted Li-Rich Layered Material: Migration and Role of Transition Metal at Charging and Discharging,"
    Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 122[35] 20099-107 (2018).

  21. T. Koyama, A. Kumamoto, K. Matsui, Y. Ikuhara, and H. Yoshida, "Revealing tetragonal-to-monoclinic phase transformation in Y-TZP at an initial stage of low temperature degradation using grazing incident-angle X-ray diffraction measurement,"
    Journal of the Ceramic Society of Japan, 126[9] 728-31 (2018).

  22. C. Li, Y. Shen, R. Huang, A. Kumamoto, S. Chen, C. Dai, M. Yoshiya, S. Fujii, K. Funai, C. AJ Fisher, Y. Wang, R. Qi, C. G. Duan, L. Pan, J. Chu, T. Hirayama, Y. Ikuhara, “Hierarchically Structured Thermoelectric Materials in Quaternary System Cu-Zn-Sn-S Featuring a Mosaic-type Nanostructure”,
    ACS Applied Nano Materials, 1[6]_2579-2588(2018).

  23. M. Q. Li, X. X. Cheng, N. Li, H. J. Liu, Y. L. Huang, K. H. Liu, Y. H. Chu, D. P. Yu, L. Q. Chen, Y. Ikuhara, and P. Gao, "Atomic-scale mechanism of internal structural relaxation screening at polar interfaces,"
    Physical Review B, 97[18] (2018).

  24. T. Matsudaira, S. Kitaoka, N. Shibata, Y. Ikuhara, M. Takeuchi, and T. Ogawa, "Effects of an oxygen potential gradient and water vapor on mass transfer in polycrystalline alumina at high temperatures,"
    Acta Materialia, 151 21-30 (2018).

  25. K. Matsui, H. Yoshida, and Y. Ikuhara, "Review: microstructure-development mechanism during sintering in polycrystalline zirconia,"
    International Materials Reviews, 63[6] 375-406 (2018).

  26. 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[2] 754-62 (2018).

  27. T Mizoguchi, S Kiyohara, Y Ikuhara, N Shibata, “Atomic-Scale Nanostructures by Advanced Electron Microscopy and Informatics”,
    Nanoinformatics, 157-178(2018)

  28. 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[1] 46-50 (2018).

  29. 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[3] (2018).

  30. 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).

  31. T. Ohsawa, M. Saito, R. Shimizu, K. Iwaya, S. Shiraki, Y. Ikuhara, and T. Hitosugi, "Impact of a surface TiO2 atomic sheet on the electronic transport properties of LaAlO3/SrTiO3 heterointerfaces,"
    Applied Physics Letters, 113[14] (2018).

  32. M. Saitoh, X. Gao, T. Ogawa, Y. H. Ikuhara, S. Kobayashi, C. A. J. Fisher, A. Kuwabara, and Y. Ikuhara, "Systematic analysis of electron energy-loss near-edge structures in Li-ion battery materials,"
    Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 20[38] 25052-61 (2018).

  33. A. V. Sanchela, M. Wei, H. Zensyo, B. Feng, J. Lee, G. Kim, H. Jeen, Y. Ikuhara, and H. Ohta, "Large thickness dependence of the carrier mobility in a transparent oxide semiconductor, La-doped BaSnO3,"
    Applied Physics Letters, 112[23] (2018).

  34. G. Sanchez-Santolino, N. R. Lugg, T. Seki, R. Ishikawa, S. D. Findlay, Y. Kohno, Y. Kanitani, S. Tanaka, S. Tomiya, Y. Ikuhara, and N. Shibata, "Probing the Internal Atomic Charge Density Distributions in Real Space,"
    Acs Nano, 12[9] 8875-81 (2018).

  35. T. Seki, Y. Ikuhara, and N. Shibata, "Theoretical framework of statistical noise in scanning transmission electron microscopy,"
    Ultramicroscopy, 193 118-25 (2018).

  36. Y. Sugawara, S. Taminato, T. Hirayama, M. Hirayama, R. Kanno, Y. Ukyo, and Y. Ikuhara, "Interfacial Atomic Structures of Single-Phase Li2MnO3 Thin Film with Superior Initial Charge-Discharge Behavior,"
    Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 165[2] A55-A60 (2018).

  37. K. Szot, C. Rodenbucher, G. Bihlmayer, W. Speier, R. Ishikawa, N. Shibata, and Y. Ikuhara, "Influence of Dislocations in Transition Metal Oxides on Selected Physical and Chemical Properties,"
    Crystals, 8[6] (2018).

  38. J. Tam, B. Feng, Y. Ikuhara, H. Ohta, and U. Erb, "Crystallographic orientation-surface energy-wetting property relationships of rare earth oxides,"
    Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 6[38] 18384-88 (2018).

  39. E. Tochigi, M. Bin, S. Kondo, A. Nakamura, N. Shibata, Y. Ikuhara, “2pA_SS3-8 Investigations of deformation twinning in sapphire by in situ TEM indentation and atomic-resolution STEM”,
    Microscopy 67, S2, i22-i22(2018).

  40. E. Tochigi, T. Mizoguchi, E. Okunishi, A. Nakamura, N. Shibata, and Y. Ikuhara, "Dissociation reaction of the 1/3 <(1)over-bar101 > edge dislocation in alpha-Al2O3,"
    Journal of Materials Science, 53[11] 8049-58 (2018).

  41. E. Tochigi, A. Nakamura, N. Shibata, and Y. Ikuhara, "Dislocation Structures in Low-Angle Grain Boundaries of alpha-Al2O3,"
    Crystals, 8[3] (2018).

  42. Z. Wang, C. L. Chen, S. V. Ketov, K. Akagi, A. A. Tsarkov, Y. Ikuhara, and D. V. Louzguine-Luzgin, "Local chemical ordering within the incubation period as a trigger for nanocrystallization of a highly supercooled Ti-based liquid,"
    Materials & Design, 156 504-13 (2018).

  43. Z. Wang, Y. Inoue, T. Hisatomi, R. Ishikawa, Q. Wang, T. Takata, S. S. Chen, N. Shibata, Y. Ikuhara, and K. Domen, "Overall water splitting by Ta3N5 nanorod single crystals grown on the edges of KTaO3 particles,"
    Nature Catalysis, 1[10] 756-63 (2018).

  44. K. Yoshida, Y. Sugawara, M. Saitoh, K. Matsumoto, R. Hagiwara, A. Kuwabara, Y. Ukyo, Y. Ikuhara, “3aA_MI-4 Microscopic Analysis of Fluorine-graphite Intercalation Compound”,
    Microscopy 67, S2, i27-i27(2018).

  45. H. J. Yu, Y. G. So, Y. Ren, T. H. Wu, G. C. Guo, R. J. Xiao, J. Lu, H. Li, Y. B. Yang, H. S. Zhou, R. Z. Wang, K. Amine, and Y. Ikuhara, "Temperature-Sensitive Structure Evolution of Lithium-Manganese-Rich Layered Oxides for Lithium-Ion Batteries,"
    Journal of the American Chemical Society, 140[45] 15279-89 (2018).

  46. Y. Q. Zhang, B. Feng, H. Hayashi, C. P. Chang, Y. M. Sheu, I. Tanaka, Y. Ikuhara, and H. Ohta, "Double thermoelectric power factor of a 2D electron system,"
    Nature Communications, 9 (2018).