Yoichi Murakami, Dr. Eng.

Visiting Scientist (JSPS Postdoctoral Research Fellow)

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Rice University
6100 Main Street, Houston TX 77005-1892.

E-mail: "Yoichi.Murakami"@rice.edu
Phone: 713-348-3508

Research Interests

Optical processes in single-walled carbon nanotubes. Development and property elucidation of advanced nanomaterials.

Background

1998: B. E. degree, Dept. of Mechano-Aerospace Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology.
1999-2000: Visiting grad. student at Rohsenow Heat and Mass Trans. Lab., MIT. (Japanese national scholarship by MEXT.)
2001: M. E. degree, Dept. of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology.
2001-2002: Sony Corporation, VAIO Notebook Computer Div., a thermal/mechanical engineer for cooling designings of laptop-PCs.
2005: Dr. Eng. degree, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Tokyo.

Present: Visiting Scientist (Rice University), JSPS Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Univ. of Tokyo)

Publications

• Y. Murakami and B. B. Mikic, "Parametric Optimization of Multichanneled Heat Sinks for VLSI Chip Cooling," IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies, vol. 24, pp. 2-9, 2001. (PDF)

• Y. Murakami and B. B. Mikic, "Parametric Investigation of Viscous Dissipation Effects on Optimized Air Cooling Microchanneled Heat Sinks," Heat Transfer Engineering, vol. 24, pp. 53-62, 2003. (PDF)

• Y. Murakami, Y. Miyauchi, S. Chiashi, and S. Maruyama, "Characterization of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Catalytically Synthesized from Alcohol," Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 374, pp. 53-58, 2003. (PDF)

• Y. Murakami, S. Yamakita, T. Okubo, and S. Maruyama, "Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Catalytically Grown from Mesoporous Silica Thin Film," Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 375, pp. 393-398, 2003. (PDF)

• Y. Murakami, Y. Miyauchi, S. Chiashi, and S. Maruyama, "Direct Synthesis of High-Quality Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes on Silicon and Quartz Substrates," Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 377, pp. 49-54, 2003. (PDF)

• S. Maruyama, Y. Murakami, Y. Shibuta, Y. Miyauchi, and S. Chiashi. "Generation of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes from Alcohol and Generation Mechanism by Molecular Dynamics Simulations," Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology , vol. 4, pp. 1-8, 2003. (PDF)

• S. Maruyama, Y. Miyauchi, Y. Murakami, and S. Chiashi, "Optical Characterization of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Synthesized by Catalytic Decomposition of Alcohol," New Journal of Physics, Vol. 5, pp 149.1-149.12, 2003. (PDF)

• Y. Murakami, S. Chiashi, Y. Miyauchi, and S. Maruyama, "Direct Synthesis of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes on Silicon and Quartz Based Systems," Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 43, pp. 1221-1226, 2004. (PDF)

• Y. Murakami, S. Chiashi, Y. Miyauchi, M. Hu, M Ogura, T. Okubo, and S. Maruyama, "Growth of vertically aligned single-walled carbon nanotube film on quartz substrates and its optical anisotropy," Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 385, pp. 298-303, 2004. (PDF)

• S. Chiashi, Y. Murakami, Y. Miyauchi, and S. Maruyama, "Cold wall CVD generation of single-walled carbon nanotubes and in situ Raman scattering measurements of the growth stage," Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 386, pp. 89-94, 2004. (PDF)

• Y. Miyauchi, S. Chiashi, Y. Murakami, Y. Hayashida, and S. Maruyama, "Fluorescence spectroscopy of single-walled carbon nanotubes synthesized from alcohol," Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 387, pp. 198-203, 2004. (PDF)

• M. Hu, Y. Murakami, M. Ogura, S. Maruyama, and T. Okubo, "Morphology and chemical state of Co-Mo catalysts for growth of single-walled carbon nanotubes vertically aligned on quartz substrates," Journal of Catalysis, vol. 225, pp. 230-239, 2004. (PDF).

• S. Yamashita, S. Maruyama, Y. Murakami, Y. Inoue, H. Yaguchi, M. Jablonski, and S. Y. Set, "Saturable absorbers incorporating carbon nanotubes directly synthesized onto substrates/fibers and their applications to mode-locked fiber lasers," Optics Letters, vol. 29, pp. 1581-1583, 2004. (PDF).

• M. Kohno, T.Orii, M. Hirasawa, T. Seto, Y.Murakami, S. Chiashi, Y. Miyauchi, S. Maruyama, "Growth of single-walled carbon nanotubes from size-selected catalytic metal particles," Applied Physics A, vol. 79, pp. 787-790, 2004. (PDF)

• H. Igarashi, H. Murakami, Y. Murakami, S. Maruyama, N. Nakashima, "Purification and characterization of zeolite-supported single-walled carbon nanotubes catalytically synthesized from ethanol," Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 392, pp. 529-532, 2004. (PDF)

• Y. Ohno, Y. Kurokawa, T. Shimada, Y. Murakami, A. Sakai, T. Okazaki, S. Kishimoto, K. Hiraga, S. Maruyama, H. Shinohara, T. Mizutani, "Synthesis of Carbon Nanotube Peapods Directly on Si Substrates," Applied Physics Letters, vol. 86, pp. 023109-023111, 2005. (PDF)

• Y. Murakami, S. Chiashi, E. Einarsson, S. Maruyama, "Polarization dependence of resonant Raman scattering from vertically aligned SWNT films," Physical Review B, vol. 71, pp. 085403-085410, 2005. (PDF)

• S. Noda, Y. Tsuji, Y. Murakami, S. Maruyama, "Combinatorial method to prepare metal nanoparticls that catalyze the growth of single-walled carbon nanotubes," Applied Physics Letters, vol. 86, pp. 173106-1-173106-3, 2005. (PDF)

• S. Maruyama, E. Einarsson, Y. Murakami, T. Edamura, "Growth process of vertically aligned single-walled carbon nanotubes," Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 403, pp. 320-323, 2005. (PDF)

• Y. Murakami, E. Einarsson, T. Edamura, S. Maruyama, "Polarization dependence of the optical absorption of single-walled carbon nanotubes," Physical Review Letters, vol. 94, no. 4, pp. 087402-1-087402-4, 2005. (PDF)

• Y. Murakami, E. Einarsson, T. Edamura, S. Maruyama, "Polarization dependent optical absorption properties of single-walled carbon nanotubes and methodology for the evaluation of their morphology," Carbon, vol. 43, pp. 2664-2676, 2005. (PDF)

• S. Yoo, Y. Jung, D. S. Lee, W. T. Han, K. Oh, Y. Murakami, T. Edamura, S. Maruyama, "Optical activity in single-walled carbon nanotubes," Optics Letters, vol. 30, pp. 3201-3203, 2005. (PDF)

• S. Noda, H. Sugime, T. Osawa, Y. Tsuji, S. Chiashi, Y. Murakami, S. Maruyama, "A simple combinatorial method to discover Co-Mo binary catalysts that grow vertically aligned single walled carbon nanotubes," Carbon, vol. 44, pp. 1414-1419, 2006. (PDF).

• S. Yamashita, Y. Inoue, S. Maruyama, Y. Murakami, H. Yaguchi, T. Kotake, S. Y. Set, "Mode-locked fiber lasers using adjustable saturable absorption in vertically aligned carbon nanotubes," Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 45, pp. L17-L19, 2006. (PDF).

• Y Murakami, S. Maruyama, "Detachment of vertically aligned single-walled carbon nanotube films from substrates and their re-attachment to arbitrary surfaces," Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 422, pp. 575-580, 2006. (PDF).

• M. Tamura, Y. Kemmochi, Y. Murakami, N. Chino, M. Ogura,, S. P. Naik, M. Takai, Y. Tsuji, S. Maruyama, T. Okubo, "Synthesis of single-walled carbon nanotubes in mesoporous silica film and their field emission property," Applied Physics A, vol. 84Cpp. 247-250, 2006.

• T. Inoue, K. Matsuda, Y. Murakami, S. Maruyama and Y. Kanemitsu, "Diameter dependence of exciton-phonon interaction in individual single-walled carbon nanotubes studied by microphotoluminescence spectroscopy," Phys. Rev. B, vol. 73, pp. 233401-1-233401-4C2006.

• Y. Ohno, S. Iwasaki, Y. Murakami, S. Kishimoto, S. Maruyama, T. Mizutani, "Chirality-dependent environmental effect in photoluminescence of single-walled carbon nanotubes," Phys. Rev. B, vol. 73, pp. 235427-1-235427-5, 2006.

• Y. Hashimoto, Y. Murakami, S. Maruyama, J. Kono, "Anisotropic decay dynamics of photoexcited aligned carbon nanotube bundles," Physical Review B, vol. 75, pp. 245408-1-245408-5, 2007.

Thesis

• Y. Murakami, Doctoral Thesis, "CVD Growth of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes and their Anisotropic Optical Properties," Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Tokyo, December 2004. (PDF)

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