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Sakurai Atsunori

サクライ アツノリ | Sakurai Atsunori
Affiliation and department:
Job title: Assistant Professor
Homepage URL  (2): https://www.ims.ac.jp/research/assist/sakurai.htmlhttps://www.ims.ac.jp/en/research/assist/sakurai.html
Research field  (3): Basic physical chemistry ,  Thin-film surfaces and interfaces ,  Bio-, chemical, and soft-matter physics
Research theme for competitive and other funds  (6):
  • 2023 - 2027 Achieving tip-enhanced sum-frequency generation spectroscopy and exploring the new frontiers of surface science
  • 2024 - 2026 Development of a novel vibrational sum frequency generation spectroscopy method to detect the orientation of a small number of molecules
  • 2020 - 2022 Development of near-field sum frequency generation spectroscopy besed on MHz pulse laser system
  • 2019 - 2021 Development of new microscopy enabling the high-resolution observation of hydrogen on metal surfaces
  • 2016 - 2019 赤外コヒーレント制御による固体中の多段階振動励起とプロトン移動反応の操作
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Papers (24):
  • Toshiki Sugimoto, Tomoaki Ichii, Tsuneto Kanai, Ryu Yoshizawa, Shota Takahashi, Atsunori Sakurai, Keisuke Seto, Chengxiang Jin. Plasmonic- and Electronic-Enhancement-Free Coherent Raman Detection of Ångström-Scale Molecular Layers at Metal Interfaces. Nano Letters. 2026
  • Atsunori Sakurai, Shota Takahashi, Tatsuto Mochizuki, Tomonori Hirano, Akihiro Morita, Toshiki Sugimoto. Tip-enhanced sum frequency generation spectroscopy using temporally asymmetric pulse for detecting weak vibrational signals. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 2026. 164. 7. 074202
  • Shota Takahashi, Atsunori Sakurai, Tatsuto Mochizuki, Toshiki Sugimoto. Giant near-field nonlinear electrophotonic effects in an angstrom-scale plasmonic junction. Nature Communications. 2026. 17. 1. 2012
  • Shota Takahashi, Koichi Kumagai, Atsunori Sakurai, Tatsuto Mochizuki, Tomonori Hirano, Akihiro Morita, Toshiki Sugimoto. Tip-Enhanced Sum-Frequency Vibrational Nanoscopy beyond the Diffraction Limit. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 2025. 130. 1. 373-385
  • Tsuneto Kanai, ChengXiang Jin, Hibiki Tsunekawa, Atsunori Sakurai, Toshiki Sugimoto. Dramatic enhancement of supercontinuum generation in H 2 O by non-harmonic two-color excitation. Optics Letters. 2025. 50. 22. 7087-7087
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MISC (28):
  • Sakurai A., Takahashi S., Mochizuki T., Kumagai K., Hirano T., Morita A., Sugimoto T. High-Sensitivity Detection of Molecular Vibrations by Phase-Sensitive Tip-Enhanced Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy with a Time-Delay Method. Meeting Abstracts of the Physical Society of Japan. 2024. 79.2. 2293-2293
  • Oyamada Nobuaki, Goryo Shion, Jin ChengXiang, Sakurai Atsunori, Sugimoto Toshiki. Raman spectroscopy of small molecules adsorbed on surfaces at low temperature in vacuum. Meeting Abstracts of the Physical Society of Japan. 2024. 79.2. 3517-3517
  • Kanai Tsuneto, Jin ChengXiang, Tsunekawa Hibiki, Sakurai Atsunori, Sugimoto Toshiki. Highly stability, efficient white light generation in water at multi-megahertz repetition rates. Meeting Abstracts of the Physical Society of Japan. 2024. 79.2. 1708-1708
  • Tsunekawa Hibiki, Mochizuki Tatsuto, Sakurai Atsunori, Sugimoto Toshiki. In-situ measurement of ice film on surface-modified Pt(111) by non-linear vibrational spectroscopy. Meeting Abstracts of the Physical Society of Japan. 2024. 79.1. 2253-2253
  • Mochizuki Tatsuto, Takahashi Shota, Sakurai Atsunori, Sugimoto Toshiki. Tip-Enhanced SFG Vibrational Spectroscopy for Adsorbed Molecular Systems on Pt Surfaces. Meeting Abstracts of the Physical Society of Japan. 2024. 79.1. 2242-2242
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Lectures and oral presentations  (16):
  • Tip-Enhanced Sum Frequency Generation: Nonlinear Molecular Responses and Electrophotonic Effects Observed beyond the Diffraction Limit
    (The 16th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics (META2026) 2026)
  • Tip-Enhanced Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy: Development and Applications in Molecular Spectroscopy
    (The 6th Workshop on Challenges in Next-Generation Plasmonic Chemistry 2026)
  • Development of Tip-Enhanced Nonlinear Spectroscopy and Its Application to Sum-Frequency Generation
    (RIKEN PRI & IBS QCR Joint Workshop on Single-Molecule Science 2025)
  • 探針増強非線形分光の開拓と振動和周波発生分光法への展開
    (第9回日本表面真空学会 若手部会研究会 2025)
  • Tip-Enhanced Sum Frequency Generation for Molecular Vibrational Nanospectroscopy
    (Oktoberfest of Chemical Physics 2025)
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Education (3):
  • 2010 - 2013 Kyoto University Graduate School of Science Department of Chemistry
  • 2008 - 2010 Kyoto University Graduate School of Science Department of Chemistry
  • 2004 - 2008 Tokyo Institute of Technology Faculty of Science Department of Physics
Professional career (1):
  • D.Sc. (Kyoto University)
Work history (5):
  • 2019/03 - 現在 Institute for Molecular Science Department of Materials Molecular Science, Electronic Structure Assistant Professor
  • 2018/11 - 2019/02 Stanford University Department of Chemistry Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar
  • 2016/04 - 2019/02 The University of Tokyo Institute of Industrial Science JSPS Superlative Postdoctoral Fellow
  • 2015/06 - 2016/03 The University of Tokyo Institute of Industrial Science Postdoctoral Fellow
  • 2013/06 - 2015/05 Lund University Department of Chemical Physics Postdoctoral Fellow
Committee career (2):
  • 2025/04 - 現在 Surface Photonic Processes and Advanced Research Convergence (SPARC) Organizing Committee
  • 2024/04 - 2025/03 The Physical Society of Japan Member of the Division 9 Steering Committee
Awards (1):
  • 2026/03 - プラズモニック化学研究会 第6回若手奨励賞最優秀賞 探針増強非線形分光法の開発と分子分光への応用
Association Membership(s) (5):
プラズモニック化学研究会 ,  American Chemical Society ,  The Solid State Ionics Society of Japan ,  JAPAN SOCIETY FOR MOLECULAR SCIENCE ,  THE PHYSICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN
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