A paper on indium sulfide thin films has been published in Inorganic Chemistry. This work is the result of a collaborative study with Toho University and other partners. “Highly Oriented β-In2S3 Thin Films Grown via Two-Flow-Channel Vertical Chemical Vapor Deposition for Photoconductive Devices”

Terumi Yumitani, a third-year student in the Department of Chemistry, has been assigned to our group for the second half of FY2026. We look forward to working with her.

At the 32nd International Workshop on Oxide Electronics, held at the Sendai International Center, D2 Kamigaito, M2 Tsuiji, and Chikamatsu presented their posters.

D2 Kamigaito presented her poster at the Mirai Doctoral Festival 2026, held at Tokyo International Forum.

At the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Vacuum and Surface Science, held at Big Palette Fukushima, and at the Young Researchers Session, held at Keio University, D2 Kamigaito and Chikamatsu delivered presentations.

At the 87th Autumn Meeting of the Japan Society of Applied Physics, held on the Sapporo Campus of Hokkaido University, D2 Kamigaito delivered an oral presentation, and M2 Tsuiji and M1 Kasahara presented their posters.

A paper on sign‑reversal magnetoresistance in double‑perovskite cobalt oxides has been published in Journal of Materials Chemistry C. This work is the result of a collaboration with Tokyo University of Science and NIMS.

As a 2026 FWIP Exchange Student, Ms. Priyanku Nath, a second‑year doctoral student from the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, has been assigned to the Chikamatsu Laboratory. Her stay will be from August 2026 to January 2027.

D2 Kamigaito and Chikamatsu presented their posters at ACS Fall 2026, held at the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago, USA.

Our paper on the effects of fluorination on the ferroelectric and magnetic properties of barium‑substituted bismuth ferrite thin films has been published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. This work is the result of a collaborative effort with the University of Tokyo, KEK, Tohoku University, and Tokyo University of Science. “Fluorination Effects on the Ferroelectric and Magnetic Properties of Ba‑Substituted BiFeO3 Thin Films Studied by Electron Spectroscopy”