Automation of precise gas control for material-process researches; Application to synchrotron radiation real-time observation of surface reactions

Nakamura, Takafumi*; Yamamoto, Yukio*; Arakawa, Masakazu*; Maruyama, Akio*; Yoshigoe, Akitaka

Sangyo Oyo Kogakukai Rombunshi, 11(2), p.109 - 114, 2023/09

https://doi.org/10.12792/jjiiae.11.2.109

Surface chemistry experimental end-station at BL23SU in SPring-8 is widely used to study various surfaces and interfaces of functional materials by means of soft X-rays synchrotron radiation. To analyze surface chemical reactions between gas and solid surfaces, an accurate control of flow-rates of gases is essential. This paper describes a computerized automatic gas flow control system to improve the accuracy and reproducibility of gas-surface reaction experiments in the pressure range of ultra-high vacuum (molecular flow) conditions. The system uses feedback control to operate the slow-leak valve to control the gas-pressure. As a result, the system achieved results equivalent to those of a skilled experimenter.

Annual report of Nuclear Emergency Assistance and Training Center (April 1, 2012 - March 31, 2013)

Sato, Takeshi; Muto, Shigeo; Okuno, Hiroshi; Katagiri, Hiromi; Akiyama, Kiyomitsu; Okamoto, Akiko; Koie, Masahiro; Ikeda, Takeshi; Nemotochi, Toshimasa; Saito, Toru; et al.

JAEA-Review 2013-046, 65 Pages, 2014/02

JAEA-Review-2013-046.pdf:11.18MB

When a nuclear emergency occurs in Japan, the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) has the responsibility of providing technical support to the National government, local governments, police, fire stations and nuclear operators etc., because the JAEA has been designated as the Designated Public Institution under the Basic Act on Disaster Control Measures and the Act on Response to Armed Attack Situations, etc.. The Nuclear Emergency Assistance and Training Center (NEAT) of JAEA provides a comprehensive range of technical support activities to an Off-Site Center in case of a nuclear emergency. Specifically, NEAT gives technical advice and information, dispatches specialists as required, and supplies the National Government and local governments with emergency equipments and materials. NEAT provides various exercise and training courses concerning nuclear disaster prevention to those personnel taking an active part in emergency response organizations at normal times. The tasks of NEAT, with its past experiences as a designated public institution including the responses to TEPCO's Fukushima Accident, have been shifted to technical supports to the national government for strengthening its abilities to emergency responses; the NEAT therefore focused on maintenance and operation of its functions, and strengthening its response abilities in cooperation with the national government. This annual report summarized these activities of JAEA/NEAT in the fiscal year 2012.

Lanthanides (Eu and Gd)-Mssbauer spectroscopic study of defect-fluorite oxides coupled with new defect crystal chemistry model

Nakamura, Akio; Igawa, Naoki; Okamoto, Yoshihiro; Hinatsu, Yukio*; Wang, J.*; Takahashi, Masashi*; Takeda, Masuo*

Mssbauer Spectroscopy; Applications in Chemistry, Biology, and Nanotechnology, p.71 - 94, 2013/10

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118714614.ch04

The Structure, property and applications of defect fluorite oxides; Mssbauer, EXAFS and NMR studies coupled with new defect-crystal-chemistry model

Nakamura, Akio

Mesubaua Bunko Kenkyu, (14), p.8 - 11, 2013/00

I have recently proposed a new defect-crystal-chemistry model for coupled non-Vegardianity and non-random defect structure of so-called defect-fluorite oxides. In this lecture, I would like to give its review, emphasizing the importance of microscopic Mssbauer, EXAFS and NMR local-structure data in combination with XRD lattice parameter data.

High-magnetic-field X-ray absorption and magnetic circular dichroism spectroscopy in the mixed-valent compound YbAgCu

Nakamura, Toshiyuki*; Matsuda, Yasuhiro*; Her, J.-L.*; Kindo, Koichi*; Michimura, Shinji*; Inami, Toshiya; Mizumaki, Masaichiro*; Kawamura, Naomi*; Suzuki, Motohiro*; Chen, B.*; et al.

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 81(11), p.114702_1 - 114702_11, 2012/11

https://doi.org/10.1143/JPSJ.81.114702

The X-ray absorption and magnetic circular dichroism (MCD) spectra at the Yb L edge were measured in the mixed-valent heavy fermion compound YbAgCu at high magnetic fields and low temperatures. The magnetic-field-temperature (H-T) phase boundary determined by the valence state is in very good agreement with that determined by the magnetization. It is clearly found that the metamagnetism of this compound is due to the field induced valence transition. A distinctive positive peak of the XMCD spectra appears in the vicinity of the white line of the absorption due to Yb state, while no feature is observed in the XMCD spectra corresponding to the Yb state. A small negative XMCD peak was observed at a lower energy and was attributed to the quadrupole trasition from theoretical calcuration, which explains its peculicar magnetic field dependence.

Irradiation history of Itokawa regolith material deduced from noble gases in the Hayabusa samples

Nagao, Keisuke*; Okazaki, Ryuji*; Nakamura, Tomoki*; Miura, Yayoi*; Osawa, Takahito; Bajo, Kenichi*; Matsuda, Shintaro*; Ebihara, Mitsuru*; Ireland, T.*; Kitajima, Fumio*; et al.

Science, 333(6046), p.1128 - 1131, 2011/08

https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1207785

A steroid surface materials record regolith processes and a history of cosmic-ray irradiation. Noble gas isotopes in three rocky grains from Itokawa have been determined. High concentrations of solar He, Ne, and Ar, as high as those in lunar soils, are released at variable temperatures from each sample. The isotopic compositions are essentially identical to those of solar wind but distinguishable in He relative abundance. These noble gas characteristics can be explained by repeated implantation and preferential loss of solar He by removal of weathered He-rich rim on the grain surface through friction among regolith grains on Itokawa. Residence time of regolith materials on Itokawa is alculated to be shorter than 10 Myr, suggesting that regolith materials of small asteroids would escape easily to space.

New Defect-crystal-chemical approach to non-vegardianity and complex defect structure of fluorite-based MO-LnO solid solutions (M=Ce, Th; Ln= Lanthanide), 2; Detailed local-structure and ionic-conductivity analysis

Nakamura, Akio

Solid State Ionics, 181(37-38), p.1631 - 1653, 2010/12

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssi.2010.09.022

Magnetic and dielectric study of RSrMnO (R = Gd, Tb and Dy)

Yoshii, Kenji; Hiramitsu, Yusuke*; Okajima, Yuka*; Yoneda, Yasuhiro; Nishihata, Yasuo; Mizuki, Junichiro; Nakamura, Akio; Shimojo, Yutaka; Ishii, Yoshinobu*; Morii, Yukio; et al.

Materials Research Bulletin, 45(11), p.1574 - 1580, 2010/10

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.materresbull.2010.07.024

Magnetic and dielectric properties of perovskite manganites RSrMnO (R = Gd, Tb and Dy) have been investigated. DC and AC magnetic measurements showed short-range glassy magnetic ordering at Tg about 40 K. Such ordering was observed by neutron diffraction and is ascribable to the size mismatch of R and Sr settled randomly at the same crystallographic site. Dielectric constants for each material were about 1000-10000 between about 50 K and 300 K and showed broad maximums above Tg. Dielectric dispersion showed poor coherency of the motion of polar regions, plausibly because of the size-mismatch effect; both the magnetic and dielectric properties of this system are governed by the randomness at the R/Sr site. The tan and EXAFS data suggest that the dielectric response is rooted in a transfer of the Mn-3d electrons.

Heavy fermion state and quantum criticality

Onuki, Yoshichika; Settai, Rikio*; Honda, Fuminori*; Dung, N. D.*; Ishikura, Tatsuro*; Takeuchi, Tetsuya*; Matsuda, Tatsuma; Tateiwa, Naoyuki; Nakamura, Akio; Yamamoto, Etsuji; et al.

Physica B; Condensed Matter, 405(9), p.2194 - 2199, 2010/05

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physb.2010.02.006

Element and orbital-specific observation of two-step magnetic transition in NpNiGa; X-ray magnetic circular dichroism study

Okane, Tetsuo; Okochi, Takuo*; Inami, Toshiya; Takeda, Yukiharu; Fujimori, Shinichi; Kawamura, Naomi*; Suzuki, Motohiro*; Tsutsui, Satoshi*; Yamagami, Hiroshi; Fujimori, Atsushi; et al.

Physical Review B, 80(10), p.104419_1 - 104419_7, 2009/09

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.80.104419