Director: YOSHIMURA, Kazuyoshi, D.Eng.
Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 6068501, Japan.
Phone and Fax: +81 75 753 4057
Web site: http://www.ltm.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/

About us

The Kyoto University Research Center for Low Temperature and Materials Sciences, shortly LTM Center, was established in April 2002. Our missions are:

1. supporting low temperature and materials science researches,
2. promotion of low temperature and material scientific researches including their applied fields,
3. enlightenments for these research areas.

Supporting

To support researches concerning low temperature and materials sciences, we supply two types of cryogens, liquid nitrogen and liquid helium, boiling at 77 K and 4.2 K under ambient pressure, respectively. Both of them are the essential basis for various sciences. In recent years, we supply 520,000 L of liquid nitrogen and 220,000 L of liquid helium to more than 5,000 researchers in the entire university annually. We locate facilities for cryogens in all of Yoshida, Uji and Katsura campuses.

The usages of the low temperature environments prepared by these cryogens are rich in variety; ultra-sensitive, state-of-the-art equipments, high-resolution NMR, MRI, low temperature electron microscope, superconducting magnet, cryogenic preservation of biological materials, medical treatments, and so on.

We possess and maintain several advanced measuring equipments, such as SQUID magnetometers, a 17 T superconducting magnet, an e-beam deposition machine, a focused ion beam fabrication machine, a photo lithography system, a dry-etching machine in a clean room, a scanning electron microscope (SEM with EDX), and other sorts of low temperature facilities. We open them for use in Kyoto University.

Promoting

We are not only a supporting organization, but also a reseach institute. We have research groups of:

• advanced and fundamental research on low temperature physics, especially on quantum gas, fluid and solid at ultralow temperatures,
• development of functional conducting organic materials and their analysis,
• interdisciplinary applications of low temperature for biological research, e.g. structural determination of proteins by electron microscope,
• development of low temperature functional materials, mainly new materials of superconductors and magnets, its nano-fabrications and low-dimensional physics.

The research targets now emphasize fundamental research of nano-technologies and material developments. Future inter-disciplinary researches in low temperature, materials sciences and technology are expected through the activities of the LTM Center.

Enlightenment

We provide enlightenment events such as safely trainings, and also organize educational activities concerning low temperature and materials sciences as described in details below.

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Academic staff

Director

YOSHIMURA, Kazuyoshi Doctor of Engineering, Kyoto University

• Magnetism and Superconductivity of Transition-Metal Compounds
• Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
• Strongly Correlated Electronic Systems

Professors

TERASHIMA, Takahito Doctor of Science, Kyoto University

• Solid State Chemistry
• Transition Metal Compounds
• Synthesis of Thin Films and Nano-Structures

YAMOCHI, Hideki Doctor of Science, Osaka University

• Design and Synthesis of Functional Molecules
• Analysis of Structure and Functionality of Molecular Assembly
• Organic (Super) conductors

SASAKI, Yutaka Doctor of Sciencs, Kyoto University

• Low Temperature Physics
• Quantum Fluids and Solids
• Ultra Low Temperature Technologies, Cryogenics, NMR and MRI at Ultra Low Temperature

Associate professors

SATO, Satoshi Doctor of Science, Kyoto University

• Biophysics
• Functions of Biomembranes
• Mechanisms of Endocytosis

MATSUBARA, Akira Doctor of Science, Osaka City University

• Low Temperature Physics
• Polarized Atomic Hydrogen Gas and Superfluid Helium
• Nano-fluid Dynamics

OTSUKA, Akihiro Doctor of Science, The University of Tokyo

• Organic Solid State Chemistry
• Molecular Organic Superconductor, Functional Condensed Materials
• Synthetic Organic Physical Chemistry

Assistant professor

NAKANO, Yoshiaki Philoshophiae Doctor (Engineering), Kyoto University

• Molecular magnetism
• Molecular conductor
• Photo-induced phase transition

Research associate

KASUGAI, Noboru

• Low Temperature Science and Technology
• Generative Mechanism of Low Temperature
• Fundamental Research of Cryogenics

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Educational activities

• Training and guidance for the safe handling of cryogenic liquid, as required by law.
• Publication of a priodical titled "Low Temperature and Materials Sciences [Kyoto University]."
• Courses for undergraduates
  • Low temperature science A and B
  • Condensed material science: Creation and control
• Dissemination of information on common low temperature technologies through workshops, seminars and our own web site.

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