Dr. Kazutomo Suenaga
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan

Single atom imaging and spectroscopy in nanostructured materials
Date: Wednesday, 10 September 2014, 11:30–12:30
Room: Congress Hall



Kazu Suenaga (born in Osaka in 1966) got his Ph.D in Materials Science at the University of Tokyo in 1994. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mine de Paris (1994–1997) and at the Solid State Physics Laboratory in the University Paris-Sud (1997–1998). Then he joined the Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST) as a researcher (1998–2001) and now is a prime senior researcher at National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). He has published over 140 scientif ic papers with more than 6,700 citations. His h-index is 41. A recipient of the Seto award (Japanese Society of Microscopy 2005), winner of the Sir Martin Wood prize (the British Embassy 2006) and grantee par Sumitomo Foundation (1997) and CREST-JST (2006). His major research theme
involves the atomic level characterization of individual molecules by means of electron microscopy and spectroscopy.

List of publications (selected):

K. Suenaga, T. Okazaki, E. Okunishi and S. Matsumura “Detection of photons emitted from single erbium atoms in energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy”, Nature Photonics, 6 (2012) pp.545-548

K. Suenaga and M. Koshino, “Atom-by-atom spectroscopy at graphene edge”, Nature, 468 (2010) pp.1088-1090

K. Suenaga, Y. Sato, Z. Liu, H. Kataura, T. Okazaki, K. Kimoto, H. Sawada, T. Sasaki, K. Omoto, T. Tomita, T. Kaneyama, and Y. Kondo, “Visualizing and identifying single atoms using electron energy-loss spectroscopy with low accelerating voltage”, Nature Chemistry, 1 (2009) pp.415 – 418

M. Koshino, T. Tanaka, N. Solin, K. Suenaga, H. Isobe and E. Nakamura “Imaging of single organic molecules in motion”, Science 316 (2007) p.853

Z. Liu, K. Yanagi, K. Suenaga, H. Kataura and S. Iijima “Imaging the dynamic behaviour of individual retinal chromophores confined inside carbon nanotubes”, Nature Nanotechnology, 2 (2007) pp.422-425

K. Suenaga, H. Wakabayashi, M. Koshino, Y. Sato, K. Urita and S. Iijima “Imaging active topological defects in carbon nanotubes”, Nature Nanotechnology, 2 (2007) pp.358-360

A. Hashimoto, K. Suenaga, A. Gloter, K. Urita and S. Iijima, “Direct Evidence for Atomic Defects in Graphene Layers”, Nature 430 (2004)pp.870-873“

K. Suenaga, M. Tence, C. Mory, C. Colliex, H. Kato, H. Shinohara, K. Hirahara, S. Bandow and S. Iijima “Element-selective single atom imaging”, Science, 290 (2000) pp.2280-2282

Y. Zhang, K. Suenaga, C. Colliex and S. Iijima “Coaxial nanocable: Silicon carbide and silicon oxide sheathed with boron nitride and carbon”, Science, 281 (1998) pp973-975

K. Suenaga, C. Colliex, N. Demoncy, A. Loiseau, H. Pascard and F. Willaime "Synthesis of nanoparticles and nanotubes with well-separated layers of boron nitride and carbon”, Science, 278 (1997) pp653-655