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Current research activities: picosecond ultrasonics and plasmonics in nanostructures, plasphonics,
surface acoustic wave visualization with ultrashort optical pulses, ultrafast electronic and thermal
diffusion, nanoscale phonon detection using
atomic force microscopy
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X-shaped caustics in gratings
 
                             
Whispering gallery waves caught on film
 
 
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What is a phonon diode?
Imaging vibrating nanovoids
X-shaped caustics in gratings
Watching whispering-gallery waves
Vibrations of gold nanorings
Mapping the dispersion surfaces of a phononic crystal
Ultrafast contact mechanics
Watching ripples on square phononic crystal lattices
Watching ripples on crystals
Watching vibrations on an acoustic resonator
Picosecond ultrasonics in liquid mercury
Watching ripples on phononic crystals
Ripples between two crystals
Time reversal acoustics on the microscale
Picosecond ultrasonics with
ultrashort light pulses
Picosecond acoustic tomography
Picosecond shearing
Ultrasonic force microscopies
Ultrafast electron dynamics in thin metal films
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or e-mail to this address:
olly@eng.hokudai.ac.jpOur laboratory rooms are A2-24, A2-25, P261 in the Faculty of Engineering. Click here for the Map of our Faculty and for Access to the university.
Group Mascot: The Bingbonk (that likes phonons and electromagnetic waves)
Background image : Snapshot of surface acoustic waves propagating on crystals and complex nanostructures (200 micrometer x 200 micrometer regions).
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