RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics Neutron Frontier Research Team
Team Director: Takehiko Saito (Ph.D.)
Research Summary
Building on RIKEN’s prior efforts in advancing non-destructive inspection techniques for large-scale structures (e.g., infrastructure) using neutron beams, this program will promote research utilizing neutrons across a wide range of fields, including materials science (semiconductors, energy storage materials and structures), biology and medicine, space science, novel material creation, and fundamental physics. Furthermore, in addition to developing neutron sources and detectors that support these studies, we will also pursue the creation of new experimental methodologies and data analysis techniques.
Main Research Fields
- Engineering
Related Research Fields
- Physics
- Multidisciplinary
- Space Science
Keywords
- Neutron beam
- Applied science
- fundamental science
- material science
- radiation hardness
Selected Publications
- 1.Yasuki Okuno, Yukiko Kamikawa, Mitsuru Imaizumi, Tamotsu Okamoto, Tomohiro Kobayashi, Takahiro Makino, Kasada Ryuta, Yuki Jimba, Kazuya Usui, Yasuhito Gotoh, Masafumi Akiyoshi, Nobuhiro Sato, Tetsuya Nakamura and Yoshie Otake.:
"Gamma ray ionizing dosimeter with a high radiation resistant CIGS solar cell"
J. Appl. Phys. 65, 041003 (2026) - 2.S. Koizumi, Y. Noda, H. Izunome, Y. Otake, T. Kobayashi, K. Fujita and C. Iwamoto.:
"Time-of-flight small-angle neutron scattering instrument ib-SAS at the compact accelerator-based neutron source RANS"
J. Appl. Cryst. 58, (2025) 2066-2077 - 3.Hiroki Kusano, Hiroshi Nagaoka, Teruaki Enoto, Naoyuki Yamashita , Yuzuru Karouji , Takeshi Hoshino , Munetaka Ueno, Makoto Hareyama.:
"Sensitivity of leakage neutrons to the abundance and depth distribution of lunar subsurface water"
Planetary and Space Science Volume 251, 105968 (2024) - 4.Yan He, Takehiko R. Saito, Hiroyuki Ekawa, Ayumi Kasagi, Yiming Gao, Enqiang Liu, Kazuma Nakazawa, Christophe Rappold, Masato Taki, Yoshiki K. Tanaka, He Wang, Ayari Yanai, Junya Yoshida and Hongfei Zhang.:
"Artificial intelligence pioneers the double-strangeness factory"
Nature Communications 16, 11084 (2025) - 5.Abdul Muneem, Junya Yoshida, Takehiko R. Saito, Hiroyuki Ekawa, Masahiro Hino, Katsuya Hirota, Go Ichikawa, Ayumi Kasagi, Masaaki Kitaguchi, Kenji Mishima, Jameel-Un Nabi, Manami Nakagawa.:
"Advancing neutron imaging techniques to highest resolution with fluorescent nuclear track detectors"
Scientific Reports 15, 2103-1-11 (2025)
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Lab Members
Principal investigator
- Takehiko Saito
- Team Director
Core members
- Yoshie Otake
- Deputy Team Director
- Yasuo Wakabayashi
- Research Scientist
- Maki Mizuta
- Research Scientist
- Yasuki Okuno
- Research Scientist
- Tomonori Fukuchi
- Research Scientist
- Sohei Imajo
- Research Scientist
- Hiroki Kusano
- Research Scientist
- Muneem Abdul
- Postdoctoral Researcher
- Yujiro Ikeda
- Senior Visiting Scientist
- Teruaki Enoto
- Senior Visiting Scientist
- Machiko Hatsuda
- Senior Visiting Scientist
Contact Information
Neutron Application Facilities,
2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
Email: takehiko.saito@riken.jp