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Aug 26, 2008

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先日の国際会議で上の画像を欲しいと仰る方が何人かいらっしゃいましたので、下記サーバよりダウンロードできるようにしました。宜しければご活用ください。

Since some people wanted above pictures at the SCES conference, now you can download them as vector EPS (Encapsled Post Script for Adobe Illustrator CS3) format.

Filled-skutterudite x-tal structure with different view
x-tal-skutterudite.eps [2.5 MB]

Schematic image of Electron-Phonon interaction
electron-phonon.eps [2.6 MB]

研究日誌
2008-8/19「強相関電子系 国際会議@ブラジル」

Aug 19, 2008

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強相関電子系国際会議(International Conference on the Strongly Correlated Electron Systems 2008, Aug 19-23)に参加しています。充填スクッテルダイト化合物の最近の研究についてプレゼンテーションを行いました。朝から晩まで物理漬けの毎日。普段なかなか会えない海外の共同研究者から将来の共同研究者まで、共に充実した議論を行っています。南半球は冬ですが、開催地のブジオスはリオデジャネイロから北に車で3時間のところにあります。赤道に近いため気温は30度前後。気候はからっと乾燥していて過ごしやすく、やはりコーヒーはうまいです。

Now I'm attending the International Conference on the Strongly Correlated Electron Systems 2008, which being held at Buzios, Brazil. I have given a poster presentation of recent progress on my research of filled-skutterudites. Everyday, we are making fruitful discussions with co-workers and also with future collaborators! Buzios is located at North of Rio de Janeiro (3 hour drive). Temperature here is about 30 degrees Cercius. The taste of coffee here is pretty good as may be expected of Brazil.

研究日誌
2008-8/1「超音波装置セットアップ間近」

Aug 01, 2008

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2月に赴任してから着々と準備を進めてきた超音波装置のセットアップもいよいよ佳境にはいっています。
必要な機器と部品を全て揃え、近日中にキャリブレーションを兼ねた実験を行う予定です。
実験系研究室のセットアップには、お金がかかります。。。そのため中古機器や古い資産をうまく活用して、高精度の測定システムを組むべく知恵を絞っています。写真のネットワークアナライザHP8753Eは、10年前のヒューレットパッカード製の名機。当時の販売価格はなんと350万円(>_<)!ですが、秋葉原やWeb上をくまなく探して、価格は5分の1程度にもかかわらず質の良いリセール品を見つけることができました。まだまだ現役で使えます。

Start-up of the ultrasonic apparatus at our lab. is about to be completed, since it was prepared from Feb. when I have been started for my new post here. Now we are planning to perform preliminary experiment as system calibrations.
Generally, set upping an experimental laboratory has some costs of its own. We try to make a high-accuracy measurement system by utilize old equipments and secondhand equipment, sometimes. The top picture shows famous network analyzer HP8753E, which was selled a decade ago with list price of over $30000! Luckily, we could get a re-sell one with fifth list price due to all the effort for searching on Web and Akihabara. It’s still on active duty☺

研究日誌 2008-7/18「単結晶育成中」

Jul 18, 2008

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チョクラルスキー法とフラックス法を駆使して単結晶試料を鋭意育成中!
RA(リサーチアシスタント)の森下君とM1の真山君(共に 理学部 極低温研究室 所属)がサポートしてくれています。

Now we are start growing single x-tals of rare-earth compounds by using Czochralski- and molten flux-method.
Mr. Morishita (RA) and Mr. Mayama (Grad. Student from VLT Lab. at Grad. School of Science)are helping me out.


Topics: Discovery of Double Ultrasonic Dispersion due to Rattling in NdOs4Sb12

Jul 10, 2008

日本語解説 >> Topics「カゴ状化合物のラットリング

Ultrasonic investigation of the off-center rattling in the filled skutterudite compound NdOs4Sb12
Tatsuya Yanagisawa, Pei-Chun Ho, William M. Yuhasz, M. Brian Maple, Yuri Yasumoto, Hiromu Watanabe, Yuichi Nemoto, and Terutaka Goto

The off-center rattling of Nd rare-earth ions in the filled skutterudite compound NdOs4Sb12 has been investigated by ultrasonic measurement. The longitudinal C11 mode for frequencies between 34 and 253 MHz shows a marked frequency dependence in elastic constant and ultrasonic attenuations at two different temperatures centered at around 45 and 15 K. The relaxational frequency dependence of ultrasonic dispersion reveals a thermally activated Γ23-type off-center motion of Nd-ions, involving local charge fluctuations with Γ23 symmetry in the (OsSb3)4 cage. An attempt time τ0,(1)=7.5×10-12 s and an activation energy E1=337 K were obtained from fits to the dispersion at around 45 K. The presence of another dispersion at lower temperatures of around 15 K implies that the rattling in NdOs4Sb12 has an additional low-energy excitation characterized by a lower activation energy E2∼67 K with an attempt time τ0,(2)=5.1×10-11 s.

J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 77 (2008) 074607.

NdOs_4Sb_12 Ultrasonic Dispersion

Figure (a) Relative change in elastic constant ΔC11/C11 as function of temperature at frequencies of 34, 108, 180, and 253 MHz. (b) Solid lines show calculations of ΔC11/C11 using Landau-Khalatnikov theory. Dotted lines indicate the higher-frequency limit of the elastic constant C and the low frequency limit C0. Arrows indicate the temperatures that satisfy the resonant condition of ω ∼ 1/τi. (c) Temperature dependence of ultrasonic attenuation coefficient α11 at frequencies of 34, 108, 180, and 253 MHz. Solid lines are theoretical fits using the parameters.

(*This research was performed at UC San Diego and Niigata University in 2006.)
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