Department
Department of Materials Molecular Science, Electronic Properties
Biography
2011 Dr. of Science in Chemistry, The University of Tokyo
2008 M. S. in Science, The University of Tokyo
2006 B. S. in Science, The University of Tokyo
2011 Research Associate, Advanced Institute for Materials Research (AIMR), Tohoku University
2012 JSPS Reserach Fellowship (PD)
2013 Visiting Researcher, University of California, Santa Barbara (2013.08 – 2014. 02)
2015 Assistant Professor, Advanced Institute for Materials Research (AIMR), Tohoku University
2016 Contract Lecturer, School of Materials and Chemical Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology
2017 JST-PRESTO full-time Research Fellowship
2018 Assistant professor, School of Materials and Chemical Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology
2018 JST-PRESTO (Concurrent post, 2018.04 - 2021.03)
2020 Associate professor, School of Materials and Chemical Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology
2023 Associate Professor, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo
2025 Professor, Institute for Molecular Science
Awards
2011 NF-Foundation R&D Encouragement Award
2015 Young Scientist Presentation Award, Kanto Branch, The Surface Science Soceity of Japan
2018 Tokyo Tech Challenging Research Award
2020 The Young Scientists' Award, The Commendation for Science and Technology by MEXT
Main research themes
Exploration of novel electronic/ionic physical properties using inorganic thin films
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Inorganic solid-state chemistry, Surface-Interface Science, Solid-state electrochemistry, Materials Informatics |
Selected Publications
- Y. Komatsu, R. Shimizu, R. Sato, M. Wilde, K. Nishio, T. Katase, D. Matsumura, H. Saitoh, M. Miyauchi, J. Adelman, R. McFadden, D. Fujimoto, J. Ticknor, M. Stachura, I. McKenzie, G. Morris, W. Macfarlane, J. Sugiyama, K. Fukutani, S. Tsuneyuki, T. Hitosugi, "Repeatable Photoinduced Insulator-to-Metal Transition in Yttrium Oxyhydride Epitaxial Thin Films", Chem. Mater. 34, 3616 (2022).
- S. Chon, Y. Sugisawa, S. Kobayashi, K. Nishio, M. Wilde, N. Kishi, D. Sekiba, K. Fukutani, T. Hitosugi, R. Shimizu, "Selective Epitaxial Growth of Ca2NH and CaNH Thin Films by Reactive Magnetron Sputtering under Hydrogen Partial Pressure Control", J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 13, 10169 (2022).
- R. Shimizu, S. Kobayashi, Y. Watanabe, Y. Ando, T. Hitosugi, "Autonomous materials synthesis by machine learning and robotics", APL Mater. 8, 111110 (2020).
- R. Shimizu, H. Oguchi, T. Hitosugi, "Metal Hydrides: Epitaxial Growth and Electronic Properties", J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 89, 051012 (2020).
- R. Shimizu, K. Sugawara, K. Kanetani, K. Iwaya, T. Sato, T. Takahashi, T. Hitosugi, "Charge-density wave in Ca-intercalated bilayer graphene induced by commensurate lattice matching", Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 146103 (2015).
- R. Shimizu, K. Iwaya, T. Ohsawa, S. Shiraki, T. Hasegawa, T. Hashizume, T. Hitosugi, "Atomic-scale visualization of initial growth of homoepitaxial SrTiO3 thin film on an atomically ordered substrate", ACS Nano 5, 7967 (2011).
