National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology - Japan

JP
AIST - National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
www.aist.go.jp/index_en.html
 

Organization profile:
The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) is a rather new research organization established in 2001, however, AIST and its predecessor organizations have been contributing to society through continuous advancement in technologies and support of Japanese industries since 1876.
AIST has over 50 autonomous research units in various innovative research fields, and the units are located at 9 research bases and several sites of AIST all over Japan. About 2500 research scientists and well over 3000 visiting scientists, post doctoral fellows and students are working at AIST. About 700 permanent administrative personnel and many temporary staff support the research of AIST.
Missions of AIST are as follows, and AIST members are making efforts to accomplish the missions. 

• Contribution to a sustainable society.
• Contribution to industrial competitiveness.
• Contribution to local industrial development.
• Contribution to industrial technology policies.

Leader:
Hiroshi Eisaki is a senior researcher at AIST and a professor at the High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Osaka University, Japan. Eisaki has been working in the condensed matter research field for over 20 years and has published numerous papers in prestige journals: 24 in Science/Nature, 53 in Physical Review Letters, 75 in Physical Review B and much more in other journals. His work has been cited over 5,000 times and among these citations, 80 of them are in Nature/Science, 490 in Physical Review Letters and 1,700 in Physical Review B, making h-index 68.
 

Expertise:
Synthesis of single/-poly crystals of transition metal pnictides and pnictide-oxides using high-pressure technique. Magnetic and electronic properties characterization.
 

Specific facilities:

• x-ray diffractometer (Rigaku ULTIMA IV)
• SEM/EDX  (JEOLJSM-6301F)
• SQUID magnetometer (Quantum Design MPMS)
• Cubic-anvil type high-pressure synthesis furnace (TRY engineering)
• Cubic-anvil type high-pressure transport measurement system (Rigaku) 

Personnel assigned to this project:
Hiroshi Eisaki, team leader, Akira Iyo, HP synthesis, Nao Takeshita, HP transport properties measurements, Shoji Ishibashi, ab-initio calculations.
 

Main tasks in SUPER-IRON: 

• Synthesis of single/poly-crystals of LnFeAsO1-y samples using high-pressure (HP) technique
• Synthesis of BaFe2As2-based superconducting single crystals
• Crystal structural analysis using neutron diffraction
• Search for new superconductors using HP technique
• High-pressure transport study