Experimental evidence for the significance of optical phonons in thermal transport of tin monosulfide

Wu, P.*; Murai, Naoki; Li, T.*; Kajimoto, Ryoichi; Nakamura, Mitsutaka; Kofu, Maiko; Nakajima, Kenji; Xia, K.*; Peng, K.*; Zhang, Y.*; et al.

New Journal of Physics (Internet), 25(1), p.013032_1 - 013032_11, 2023/01

https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/acb3ed

Enhanced covalency and nanostructured-phonon scattering lead to high thermoelectric performance in -type PbS

Rathore, E.*; Juneja, R.*; Sarkar, D.*; Roychowdhury, S.*; Kofu, Maiko; Nakajima, Kenji; Singh, A. K.*; Biswas, K.*

Materials Today Energy (Internet), 24, p.100953_1 - 100953_9, 2022/03

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtener.2022.100953

Evidence for singular-phonon-induced nematic superconductivity in a topological superconductor candidate SrBiSe

Wang, J.*; Ran, K.*; Li, S.*; Ma, Z.*; Bao, S.*; Cai, Z.*; Zhang, Y.*; Nakajima, Kenji; Kawamura, Seiko; ermk, P.*; et al.

Nature Communications (Internet), 10, p.2802_1 - 2802_6, 2019/06

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10942-2

Colossal barocaloric effects in plastic crystals

Li, B.*; Kawakita, Yukinobu; Kawamura, Seiko; Sugahara, Takeshi*; Wang, H.*; Wang, J.*; Chen, Y.*; Kawaguchi, Saori*; Kawaguchi, Shogo*; Ohara, Koji*; et al.

Nature, 567(7749), p.506 - 510, 2019/03

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1042-5

Refrigeration is of vital importance for modern society for example, for food storage and air conditioning- and 25 to 30% of the world's electricity is consumed for refrigeration. Current refrigeration technology mostly involves the conventional vapour compression cycle, but the materials used in this technology are of growing environmental concern because of their large global warming potential. As a promising alternative, refrigeration technologies based on solid-state caloric effects have been attracting attention in recent decades. However, their application is restricted by the limited performance of current caloric materials, owing to small isothermal entropy changes and large driving magnetic fields. Here we report colossal barocaloric effects (CBCEs) (barocaloric effects are cooling effects of pressure-induced phase transitions) in a class of disordered solids called plastic crystals. The obtained entropy changes in a representative plastic crystal, neopentylglycol, are about 389 joules per kilogram per kelvin near room temperature. Pressure-dependent neutron scattering measurements reveal that CBCEs in plastic crystals can be attributed to the combination of extensive molecular orientational disorder, giant compressibility and highly anharmonic lattice dynamics of these materials. Our study establishes the microscopic mechanism of CBCEs in plastic crystals and paves the way to next-generation solid-state refrigeration technologies.

Liquid-like thermal conduction in intercalated layered crystalline solids

Li, B.; Wang, H.*; Kawakita, Yukinobu; Zhang, Q.*; Feygenson, M.*; Yu, H. L.*; Wu, D.*; Ohara, Koji*; Kikuchi, Tatsuya*; Shibata, Kaoru; et al.

Nature Materials, 17(3), p.226 - 230, 2018/03

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-017-0004-2

ITER magnet systems; From qualification to full scale construction

Nakajima, Hideo; Hemmi, Tsutomu; Iguchi, Masahide; Nabara, Yoshihiro; Matsui, Kunihiro; Chida, Yutaka; Kajitani, Hideki; Takano, Katsutoshi; Isono, Takaaki; Koizumi, Norikiyo; et al.

Proceedings of 24th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference (FEC 2012) (CD-ROM), 8 Pages, 2013/03

http://www-naweb.iaea.org/napc/physics/FEC/FEC2012/papers/578_ITR24.pdf

The ITER organization and 6 Domestic Agencies (DA) have been implementing the construction of ITER superconducting magnet systems. Four DAs have already started full scale construction of Toroidal Field (TF) coil conductors. The qualification of the radial plate manufacture has been completed, and JA and EU are ready for full scale construction. JA has qualified full manufacturing processes of the winding pack with a 1/3 prototype and made 2 full scale mock-ups of the basic segments of TF coil structure to optimize and industrialize the manufacturing process. Preparation and qualification of the full scale construction of the TF coil winding is underway by EU. Procurement of the manufacturing equipment is near completion and qualification of manufacturing processes has already started. The constructions of other components of the ITER magnet systems are also going well towards the main goal of the first plasma in 2020.

Technical report on the Korea-Japan software collaboration

Inamura, Yasuhiro; So, J.-Y.*; Nakajima, Kenji; Suzuki, Jiro*; Nakatani, Takeshi; Kajimoto, Ryoichi; Otomo, Toshiya*; Moon, M.-K.*; Lee, C.-H.*; Yasu, Yoshiji*; et al.

JAEA-Technology 2010-047, 74 Pages, 2011/02

JAEA-Technology-2010-047.pdf:15.03MB

This report summarizes the two-year (2007-2009) activities of Korea-Japan collaboration of chopper software development. Here we have described the background of the collaboration and the main part of our work. We also discussed briefly a future plan of our collaboration starting in 2010. Some of detailed description on the management of the collaboration as well as related information is given in appendix.

Improvement of the quality and stability of electron bunch using countercrossing laser beam

Kotaki, Hideyuki; Daito, Izuru; Kando, Masaki; Hayashi, Yukio; Ma, J.-L.; Chen, L.-M.; Esirkepov, T. Z.; Fukuda, Yuji; Homma, Takayuki; Pirozhkov, A. S.; et al.

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, 36(4), p.1760 - 1764, 2008/08

https://doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2008.927944

The counter-crossing injection, which is a realistic setup for applications, by two sub-relativistic laser pulses colliding is demonstrated in sub-relativistic intensity laser pulse interaction with plasma. The laser pulses in plasma are self-focused to higher intensity when the laser power is above the threshold of a relativistic self-focusing. The collision of self-focused laser pulses generates a high-quality electron beam with high repeatability. The generated monoenergetic electron beam has 14 MeV of the peak energy, 11% of the energy spread, 22 pC of the charge, 1.6mm mrad of the normalized emittance, and 50% of the repeatability.

Counter-crossing injection for stable high-quality electron beam generation via laser-plasma interaction

Kotaki, Hideyuki; Daito, Izuru; Hayashi, Yukio; Ma, J.-L.; Chen, L.-M.; Kando, Masaki; Esirkepov, T. Z.; Fukuda, Yuji; Homma, Takayuki; Pirozhkov, A. S.; et al.

Journal of Physics; Conference Series, 112(4), p.042031_1 - 042031_4, 2008/00

https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/112/4/042031

Laser-driven plasma accelerators have been conceived to be the next-generation particle accelerators, promising ultrahigh field particle acceleration with a very short duration electron beam. In the case of electron beam generation by using one laser pulse via wavebreaking, however, it is not stable. In order to generate a stable high-quality electron beam, optical injection by collision of two laser pulses is proposed. Recently, the electron generation with this approach was demonstrated. The experiment was carried out by the perfect head-on collision, which has problems to the backward laser light and the extraction of the generated electron beam. The counter-crossing injection, which is a realistic setup for applications, by two sub-relativistic laser pulses collision with the colliding angle of 45 is demonstrated. The collision of two laser pulses generates a high-quality electron beam with high repeatability. The generated monoenergetic electron beam has 14.4 MeV of the peak energy, 10.6% of the energy spread, 21.8 pC of the charge, 1.6 mm mrad of the normalized emittance, and 47.4% of the repeatability.

Self-guiding of 100 TW femtosecond laser pulses in centimeter-scale underdense plasma

Chen, L.-M.; Kotaki, Hideyuki; Nakajima, Kazuhisa*; Koga, J. K.; Bulanov, S. V.; Tajima, Toshiki; Gu, Y. Q.*; Peng, H. S.*; Wang, X. X.*; Wen, T. S.*; et al.

Physics of Plasmas, 14(4), p.040703_1 - 040703_4, 2007/04

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2720374

An experiment for the laser self-guiding studies has been carried out with 100 TW laser pulse interaction with the long underdense plasma. Formation of extremely long plasma channel with its length, about 10 mm, 20 times above the Rayleigh length is observed. The self-focusing channel features such as the laser pulse significant bending and the electron cavity formation are demonstrated experimentally for the first time.