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Prof. Yoshihiro Kuroiwa

Prof. Yoshihiro Kuroiwa

Prof. Yoshihiro Kuroiwa
Department of Physical Science, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, Japan
Valence Electron Distributions of Ferroactive ions in Perovskite Oxides and Polar Lattice Distortions 

Affiliation: Department of Physical Science, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University

Address: 1-3-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8526, JAPAN

Phone: +81-82-424-7397, Fax: +81-82-424-7398, E-mail: kuroiwa@sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp

Date of Birth: July, 1962

Education: BS of Engineering in Physics, Osaka University, March, 1985, MS of Engineering in Physics, Osaka University, March, 1987, and PhD of Engineering, University of Tsukuba, March, 1990

Employment: Research Associate, Chiba University, April, 1990, Associate Professor, Okayama University, April, 1998, and Professor, Hiroshima University, October, 2005

Current Areas of Research Interest: (1) Phase transitions of solids (ferroelectrics, strongly correlated materials, and layered materials), (2) Synchrotron radiation science (powder & single-crystal diffraction, charge density study, and time-resolved crystal structure analysis)

Awards: Scientific Award in the Crystallographic Society of Japan (2005), and the Japan Society of Applied Physics Paper Award (2012)

Current Membership of Editorial Boards: Japanese Journal of Applied Physics and Membership Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

Current Membership of International Committees: Chair of organization committee in 10th Japan-Korea Conference on Ferroelectrics (2014)

Publication: Listed below are representative for current research interest in over 200 original papers.

  1. Y. Kuroiwa, S. Aoyagi, A. Sawada, J. Harada, E. Nishibori, M. Takata and M. Sakata, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 217601 (2001), “Evidence for Pb-O Covalency in Tetragonal PbTiO3”
  2. H. Tanaka, Y. Kuroiwa and M. Takata, Phys. Rev. B 74, 172105 (2006), “Electrostatic Potential of Ferroelectric PbTiO3 : Visualized Electron Polarization of Pb Ion”
  3. C. Moriyoshi, S. Hiramoto, H. Ohkubo, Y. Kuroiwa, H. Osawa, K. Sugimoto, S. Kimura, M. Takata, Y. Kitanaka, Y. Noguchi and M. Miyayama, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 50, 09NE05 (2011), “Synchrotron Radiation Study on Time-resolved Tetragonal Lattice Strain of BaTiO3 under Electric Field”