43 results on '"Ken-ichiro Komaki"'
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2. Trajectory dependent resonant coherent excitation of planar-channeled ions in a thin Si crystal
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E. Takada, Y Nakano, T. Muranaka, A. Ishikawa, Atsushi Hatakeyama, Toshiyuki Azuma, S. Masugi, T. Murakami, Yoichi Nakai, Ken-ichiro Komaki, C. Kondo, and Yasunori Yamazaki
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Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Chemistry ,Resonance ,Electron ,Ion ,symbols.namesake ,Stark effect ,Excited state ,Ionization ,symbols ,Atomic physics ,Ground state ,Instrumentation ,Excitation - Abstract
We observed resonant coherent excitation (RCE) of 1s electron to the n = 2 states in 390 MeV/u Ar 17+ ions passing through thin Si crystals of about 1 μm in the {2 2 0} planar-channeling condition by measuring both the exit charge state and the exit angle of the emerged ions simultaneously in a list mode. The yield of the de-excitation X-rays from the Ar 17+ ions was also measured. The thin crystal is suitable to study trajectory dependent RCE dynamics, because the exit angle of the high energy planar-channeling ion is uniquely related to the ion trajectory. From the de-excitation X-ray yield on resonance, we learned that RCE occurs with a fairly large probability within the traveling length of about 1 μm, and a majority of the excited ions survive from ionization by the collisions with target electrons or nuclei, and de-excite into the ground state by emitting the X-rays. On the other hand, the observed resonance profile of the exit charge state is shallow and broadened by the Stark effect. We found that the ionization of the excited ions takes place when the ions travel close to the atomic plane from the observed relation between the charge state and the exit angle of the emerged ions.
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- 2007
3. Doubly-resonant coherent excitation of HCI planar channeled in a Si crystal
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Y Nakano, S. Masugi, Ken-ichiro Komaki, C. Kondo, Yasunori Yamazaki, E. Takada, Atsushi Hatakeyama, Toshiyuki Azuma, T. Muranaka, and T. Murakami
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Crystal ,History ,Planar ,Chemistry ,Ionization ,Resonance ,Atomic physics ,Excitation ,Computer Science Applications ,Education ,Ion - Abstract
We investigated resonant coherent excitation of H-like Ar17+ and He-like Ar16+ ions planar channeled in a Si crystal under the V-type and ladder-type double resonance conditions. In both cases, we observed distinct enhancement in the ionized fraction of the transmitted ions when the double resonance conditions were satis.ed. In the ladder-type configuration, the enhancement indicates that the doubly-excited 2p2 state of He-like Ar16+was produced through doubly-resonant coherent excitation.
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- 2007
4. Observation of an HCI-induced nano-dot on an HOPG surface with STM and AFM
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Yasuyuki Kanai, Shunsuke Ohtani, Yasunori Yamazaki, Ken-ichiro Komaki, Yoichi Nakai, Nobuyuki Nakamura, and Masashi Terada
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Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Microscope ,Materials science ,business.industry ,Analytical chemistry ,Ion ,law.invention ,Condensed Matter::Materials Science ,Scanning probe microscopy ,Highly oriented pyrolytic graphite ,law ,Nano ,Optoelectronics ,Irradiation ,Scanning tunneling microscope ,business ,Instrumentation ,Quantum tunnelling - Abstract
We have observed highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) irradiated with highly charged ions (HCIs) with a scanning probe microscope. The same impact site was observed with both the scanning tunnelling microscope (STM) and atomic force microscope (AFM) modes. In the non-contact mode AFM image, protrusion-like dots have been observed as well as in the STM observations. The dot size (diameter) and height observed with the AFM mode were nearly equal to that with the STM mode. The present observation clearly indicates that an HCI impact induces topographic modification on an HOPG surface.
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- 2005
5. SPM observation of nano-dots induced by slow highly charged ions
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Shunsuke Ohtani, Yoichi Nakai, Masashi Terada, Ken-ichiro Komaki, Nobuyuki Nakamura, Yasunori Yamazaki, and Yasuyuki Kanai
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Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Chemistry ,Highly charged ion ,Kinetic energy ,Potential energy ,Molecular physics ,Ion ,law.invention ,Scanning probe microscopy ,Highly oriented pyrolytic graphite ,law ,Surface modification ,Atomic physics ,Scanning tunneling microscope ,Instrumentation - Abstract
We have observed nano-dots on a highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) surface produced by highly charged ion impacts with a scanning probe microscope. In order to clarify the role of potential and kinetic energies in surface modification, we have measured the kinetic energy and incident ion charge dependences of the dot size. The results showed that the potential energy or the incident ion charge has strong influence on the surface modification rather than the kinetic energy.
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- 2005
6. Resonant coherent excitation of 2s electron of Li-like Fe ions to the n=3 states
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Tadashi Kambara, Yasunori Yamazaki, Yoshio Kanai, Tokihiro Ikeda, Yoichi Nakai, Nobuhisa Fukunishi, Ken-ichiro Komaki, C. Kondo, and Toshiyuki Azuma
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Crystal ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Plane (geometry) ,Chemistry ,Incident beam ,Resonance ,Electron ,Atomic physics ,Instrumentation ,Excitation ,Ion - Abstract
We observed resonant coherent excitation of the 2s electron to the n = 3 states of 83.5 MeV/u Li-like Fe23+ ions planar-channeling in the ( 2 2 ¯ 0 ) plane of a Si crystal. A survival fraction of the Li-like ions was measured as a function of the angle between the incident beam and the [0 0 1] axis. Clear resonance dips corresponding to the transitions of a 2s electron to all the n = 3 states were observed. The transition of each resonance dip was identified by comparing with spectroscopic data. The resonance dips at the transition energies corresponding to the optically forbidden 2s1/2–3s1/2, 2s1/2–3d3/2 and 2s1/2–3d5/2 transitions were observed as well as the resonance dips at transition energies corresponding to the optically allowed 2s1/2–3p1/2 and 2s1/2–3p3/2 transitions.
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- 2005
7. Compact electron beam ion source with high-TC bulk superconductors
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Atsumi Endo, Ken-ichiro Komaki, Yoichi Nakai, Nobuyuki Nakamura, Yasuyuki Kanai, and Yasunori Yamazaki
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Superconductivity ,Physics ,Magnetization ,Cathode ray ,Electron ,Superconducting magnet ,Atomic physics ,Instrumentation ,Current density ,Ion source ,Magnetic field - Abstract
We have developed an electron beam ion source (EBIS) assembling three rings made of high-TC superconductor as a solenoid coil, which enables us to construct a “table-top” EBIS operated at the liquid N2 temperature with a strong magnetic field. Optimizing a pulse field magnetization procedure, the assembly yielded a magnetic field as high as 0.8 T under a persistent mode, which stably lasted more than two days. An electron beam of 12 keV-50 mA was compressed to a current density of about 300 A/cm2 and guided by the magnetic field along the axis of the drift tube. After exiting the drift tube, the electron beam was decelerated to 2 keV and collected with an electron collector with an efficiency of more than 99%. We have succeeded in extracting highly charged ions such as Ar17+ and Xe42+.
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- 2004
8. Application of bulk high-TCsuperconductors to electron beam ion sources: present status and outlook
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Atsumi Endo, Yoichi Nakai, Ken-ichiro Komaki, Masashi Terada, Nobuyuki Nakamura, Yasuyuki Kanai, and Yasunori Yamazaki
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Physics ,Superconductivity ,History ,Magnetization ,Ion beam deposition ,Ion beam ,Solenoid ,Electron ,Atomic physics ,Ion source ,Computer Science Applications ,Education ,Magnetic field - Abstract
We have developed an electron beam ion source (EBIS) assembling three rings made of high-TC superconductor as a solenoid, which enables us to construct a `table-top' EBIS operated at the liquid N2 temperature with a strong magnetic field. Optimizing a pulse field magnetization procedure, the assembly yielded a magnetic field as high as 0.8 T under a persistent mode, which stably lasted more than two days. An electron beam of 12 keV–50 mA was successfully compressed and guided by the magnetic field along the axis of the drift tube and `soft-landed' on an electron collector with a collection efficiency of more than 99%. As a result, highly charged ions such as Ar17+ and Xe42+ have been produced and extracted.
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- 2004
9. Molecular cloning of PP2Cη, a novel member of the protein phosphatase 2C family
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Ken Ichiro Komaki, Takayasu Kobayashi, Koji Katsura, Makoto Watanabe, Motoko Ohnishi, Shinri Tamura, Ming Guang Li, and Masato Sasaki
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Expressed Sequence Tags ,Base Sequence ,biology ,Sequence analysis ,Molecular Sequence Data ,Phosphatase ,Biophysics ,DUSP6 ,Protein phosphatase 2 ,Molecular cloning ,Mouse Protein ,Biochemistry ,Protein Phosphatase 2C ,Structural Biology ,Phosphoprotein Phosphatases ,Genetics ,biology.protein ,Amino Acid Sequence ,Cloning, Molecular ,Nuclear protein ,Peptide sequence - Abstract
We have cloned a novel member of the mouse protein phosphatase 2C family, PP2Ceta. Sequence analysis suggests that PP2Ceta, PP2Czeta and NERPP-2C constitute a unique subgroup of the PP2C family. PP2Ceta had extremely low activity against alpha-casein compared with PP2Calpha and was localized mainly in cell nuclei, suggesting that PP2Ceta dephosphorylates a unique nuclear protein(s) in the cells.
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- 2003
10. A compact electron beam ion source equipped with a bulk high- T c superconductor solenoid
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Atsumi Endo, Yoichi Nakai, Yasuyuki Kanai, Yasunori Yamazaki, Ken-ichiro Komaki, and Nobuyuki Nakamura
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Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Ion beam deposition ,Materials science ,Ion beam ,Physics::Accelerator Physics ,Solenoid ,Electron ,Atomic physics ,Ion gun ,Instrumentation ,Focused ion beam ,Beam (structure) ,Ion source - Abstract
We have been developing an electron beam ion source equipped with an assembly of bulk high- T c superconductors (YBCO) as a solenoid, which fulfil the following practical requirements: high magnetic field, compact, operation at liquid nitrogen temperature. The energy and current of the electron beam are designed to be 30 keV and 100 mA at the maximum, which are sufficient to produce highly charged ions such as Ne-like U 82+ . Recently, we have succeeded in producing a stable solenoidal field of 0.8 T, and in injecting an electron beam of 10 keV – 40 mA keeping beam collection efficiency of ∼99% at the electron collector. The details of the design and the results of extraction tests are presented.
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- 2003
11. The number distribution of secondary electrons in heavy-ion-foil and μ-foil collisions
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H. Tada, Takehiro Azuma, Teiichiro Matsuzaki, K. Kuroki, Toshiyuki Hattori, Y. Watanabe, N. Kakutani, Kanetada Nagamine, Y. Miyake, Kusuo Nishiyama, Hiroshi Watanabe, Masayuki Sekiguchi, Tetsuya Hasegawa, Yasunori Yamazaki, and Ken-ichiro Komaki
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Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Radiation ,Materials science ,General Materials Science ,Heavy ion ,Atomic physics ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Secondary electrons ,FOIL method - Published
- 1993
12. Synthesis and intracellular transportation of type I procollagen during functional differentiation of odontoblasts
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Shinobu Tsuchiya, Shigehisa Sato, Shin Ichiro Kusunoki, Makoto Watanabe, Naoto Haruyama, Yasuyuki Sasano, Masahiro Tsuchiya, Ken Ichiro Komaki, and Ichiro Takahashi
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Pathology ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Histology ,macromolecular substances ,Collagen Type I ,stomatognathic system ,Dentin ,medicine ,Animals ,Rats, Wistar ,Molecular Biology ,integumentary system ,Odontoblasts ,Chemistry ,Odontoblast process ,Cell Biology ,Dentinogenesis ,Cell biology ,Rats ,Medical Laboratory Technology ,Procollagen peptidase ,Protein Transport ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Odontoblast ,Dentinal Tubule ,Pulp (tooth) ,Osteopontin ,Type I collagen - Abstract
The expression of type I collagen, the most component of dentin extracellular matrix proteins (ECMs) in odontoblast is correlated with the activity of dentin formation. Since odontoblast possesses a distinct cellular process for protein transport into the dentinal tubule, it is important to examine the intracellular protein localization. However, a study focusing on odontoblast processes has not been performed. Type I collagen is synthesized as procollagen, which is immediately converted to collagen upon secretion. After characterization of antiserum to rat type I procollagen, we investigated the intracellular localization of type I procollagen in odontoblasts during and after dentinogenesis, using immunohistochemistry and in situ hybridization. The level of mRNA expression decreased during dentinogenesis, whereas the intracellular localization of type I procollagen in odontoblast processes become more distinct. The percentage of dentinal tubules with type I procollagen increased significantly with aging. Odontoblasts in pulp horn, in particular, showed moderate expression of type I procollagen after dentinogenesis. Since loss of occlusion also caused a significant decrease in type I procollagen, we concluded that occlusal stimulation activated type I procollagen synthesis in odontoblasts. We also suggest that analysis of intracellular transport of type I procollagen via odontoblast processes may be a new approach to evaluation of odontoblast function.
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- 2009
13. Polarization control in three-dimensional resonant coherent excitation
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T. Murakami, Yasunori Yamazaki, E. Takada, Y Nakano, Ken-ichiro Komaki, C. Kondo, Atsushi Hatakeyama, Yoichi Nakai, and Toshiyuki Azuma
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Physics ,education.field_of_study ,Population ,General Physics and Astronomy ,Atomic physics ,Polarization (waves) ,Lambda ,Anisotropy ,education ,Excitation ,Ion - Abstract
We present an experimental demonstration of an ingenious technique to control the alignment of the atomic internal state in the x-ray region using a periodic crystal field. The alignment directions of ${\mathrm{Ar}}^{16+}$ and ${\mathrm{Fe}}^{24+}$ ions were readily controlled by selecting the array of atomic planes using three-dimensional resonant coherent excitation, and were probed via the anisotropy of the deexcitation x-ray emission. We applied this method to a double resonance experiment, and succeeded in controlling the population of the specific magnetic substate in a $\ensuremath{\Lambda}$-type three-level configuration.
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- 2008
14. Dressed Atoms in Flight through a Periodic Crystal Field: X-VUV Double Resonance
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E. Takada, Yoichi Nakai, T. Murakami, Ken-ichiro Komaki, C. Kondo, Toshiyuki Azuma, Yasunori Yamazaki, Y Nakano, and Atsushi Hatakeyama
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Condensed Matter::Quantum Gases ,Strongly coupled ,Physics ,Photon ,High velocity ,General Physics and Astronomy ,Spectral line ,Crystal ,Atom ,Physics::Atomic and Molecular Clusters ,Physics::Atomic Physics ,Atomic physics ,Excitation ,Coherence (physics) - Abstract
We report the Autler-Townes doublet demonstrating a novel type of coherent interaction of atoms not with photons but with a periodic crystal field when the atom is in flight through a crystal at high velocity. It was observed by the nonoptical X-VUV (vacuum-ultraviolet) double resonance of three-dimensional resonant coherent excitation with good coherence. The states strongly coupled in the VUV region were probed by the excitation in the x-ray region. The characteristic spectra are well interpreted by an analogy of the dressed atom concept often adopted for the atom-photon interaction.
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- 2008
15. Anisotropic X-Ray Emission from HeliumlikeFe24+Ions Aligned by Resonant Coherent Excitation with a Periodic Crystal Potential
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T. Muranaka, Yasunori Yamazaki, Ken-ichiro Komaki, C. Kondo, Yuichi Takabayashi, E. Takada, Toshiyuki Azuma, and T. Murakami
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Crystal ,Physics ,Planar ,Field (physics) ,Plane (geometry) ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Excited state ,General Physics and Astronomy ,Atomic physics ,Anisotropy ,Excitation ,Ion - Abstract
We have measured deexcitation x rays emitted from the resonant coherently excited 2{sup 1}P{sub 1} state of heliumlike Fe{sup 24+} ions of 423 MeV/amu, planar channeling through a Si crystal. Large anisotropy in the angular distribution of deexcitation x-ray emission is observed: the x-ray emission in the direction parallel to the channeling plane is favored by a factor of 2 compared to the perpendicular direction. This anisotropy originates from the direction of the periodic crystal field, which populates specific m states in resonant coherent excitation and aligns the excited states.
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- 2006
16. Three-Dimensional Resonant Coherent Excitation of Nonchanneling Ions in a Crystal
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Atsushi Hatakeyama, Y Nakano, Yasunori Yamazaki, T. Murakami, Ken-ichiro Komaki, C. Kondo, E. Takada, S. Masugi, and Toshiyuki Azuma
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Crystal ,Physics ,High energy ,symbols.namesake ,Planar ,Stark effect ,symbols ,General Physics and Astronomy ,Resonance ,Atomic physics ,Energy (signal processing) ,Excitation ,Ion - Abstract
We have observed resonant coherent excitation (RCE) of H-like ${\mathrm{Ar}}^{17+}$ ions traveling through a $1\text{ }\text{ }\ensuremath{\mu}\mathrm{m}$-thick Si crystal at an energy of $391\text{ }\text{ }\mathrm{MeV}/\mathrm{u}$ in the nonchanneling condition. A three-dimensional periodic array of atomic planes induces RCE of the nonchanneling ions. The high energy heavy ions together with the thin crystal allow us to observe this new RCE through the measurements of the charge-state distribution of the emerging ions. The observed resonances are much narrower than those of planar-channeling ions due to the absence of the large Stark shift caused by the planar potential.
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- 2006
17. Motion-Induced Magnetic Resonance of Rb Atoms in a Periodic Magnetostatic Field
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Yasunori Yamazaki, Ken-ichiro Komaki, Y. Enomoto, and Atsushi Hatakeyama
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Physics ,Condensed Matter::Quantum Gases ,Zeeman effect ,Field (physics) ,Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph) ,General Physics and Astronomy ,Resonance ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Electromagnetic radiation ,Magnetic field ,Physics - Atomic Physics ,symbols.namesake ,Excited state ,Atom ,symbols ,Physics::Atomic Physics ,Atomic physics ,Excitation - Abstract
We demonstrate that transitions between Zeeman-split sublevels of Rb atoms are resonantly induced by the motion of the atoms (velocity: about 100 m/s) in a periodic magnetostatic field (period: 1 mm) when the Zeeman splitting corresponds to the frequency of the magnetic field experienced by the moving atoms. A circularly polarized laser beam polarizes Rb atoms with a velocity selected using the Doppler effect and detects their magnetic resonance in a thin cell, to which the periodic field is applied with the arrays of parallel current-carrying wires., Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures; minor corrections, Ref. [9] removed, published in PRL
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- 2005
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18. Roles of mammalian protein phosphatase 2C family members in the regulation of cellular functions
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Takayasu Kobayashi, Masato Sasaki, Ken-ichiro Komaki, Ming Guang Li, and Shinri Tamura
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Phosphatase ,RNA splicing ,Wnt signaling pathway ,Protein phosphatase 2 ,Biology ,Cell cycle ,Pyruvate dehydrogenase phosphatase ,Gene ,Actin cytoskeleton organization ,Cell biology - Abstract
The mammalian protein phosphatase 2C (PP2C) family is composed of at least ten different gene products, which share six uniquely conserved motifs. All members have magnesium- and/or manganese-dependent protein phosphatase activities. Biological and biochemical studies have revealed the participation of PP2C family members in the regulation of a variety of cellular functions that include the stress response, the cell cycle, actin cytoskeleton organization, the Wnt signaling pathway, the CFTR chloride ion channel and pre-mRNA splicing. Here, we describe the regulatory mechanisms of these specific cellular functions by PP2C family members.
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- 2003
19. Regulation of the interleukin-1-induced signaling pathways by a novel member of the protein phosphatase 2C family (PP2Cepsilon)
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Hisayuki Nomiyama, Ming Guang Li, Kunihiro Matsumoto, Shinri Tamura, Koji Katsura, Jun Ninomiya-Tsuji, Takayasu Kobayashi, and Ken Ichiro Komaki
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Scaffold protein ,MAP Kinase Kinase 4 ,MAP Kinase Kinase 3 ,Molecular Sequence Data ,MAP Kinase Kinase 6 ,Biology ,In Vitro Techniques ,Biochemistry ,Suppressor of cytokine signalling ,p38 Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases ,Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic ,Mice ,Genes, Reporter ,Escherichia coli ,Phosphoprotein Phosphatases ,Animals ,Point Mutation ,c-Raf ,SOCS3 ,Amino Acid Sequence ,Phosphorylation ,Protein kinase A ,Molecular Biology ,Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Kinases ,Hippo signaling pathway ,Base Sequence ,JNK Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases ,Cell Biology ,Protein-Tyrosine Kinases ,MAP Kinase Kinase Kinases ,Molecular biology ,Cell biology ,Protein Phosphatase 2C ,Transcription Factor AP-1 ,Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinases ,Ectopic expression ,Signal transduction ,Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases ,Interleukin-1 ,Signal Transduction - Abstract
Although TAK1 signaling plays essential roles in eliciting cellular responses to interleukin-1 (IL-1), a proinflammatory cytokine, how the IL-1-TAK1 signaling pathway is positively and negatively regulated remains poorly understood. In this study, we investigated the possible role of a novel protein phosphatase 2C (PP2C) family member, PP2Cepsilon, in the regulation of the IL-1-TAK1 signaling pathway. PP2Cepsilon was composed of 303 amino acids, and the overall similarity of amino acid sequence between PP2Cepsilon and PP2Calpha was found to be 26%. Ectopic expression of PP2Cepsilon inhibited the IL-1- and TAK1-induced activation of mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase 4 (MKK4)-c-Jun N-terminal kinase or MKK3-p38 signaling pathway. PP2Cepsilon dephosphorylated TAK1 in vitro. Co-immunoprecipitation experiments indicated that PP2Cepsilon associates stably with TAK1 and attenuates the binding of TAK1 to MKK4 or MKK6. Ectopic expression of a phosphatase-negative mutant of PP2Cepsilon, PP2Cepsilon(D/A), which acted as a dominant negative form, enhanced both the association between TAK1 and MKK4 or MKK6 and the TAK1-induced activation of an AP-1 reporter gene. The association between PP2Cepsilon and TAK1 was transiently suppressed by IL-1 treatment of the cells. Taken together, these results suggest that, in the absence of IL-1-induced signal, PP2Cepsilon contributes to keeping the TAK1 signaling pathway in an inactive state by associating with and dephosphorylating TAK1.
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- 2003
20. Regulation of stress-activated protein kinase signaling pathways by protein phosphatases
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Shinri, Tamura, Masahito, Hanada, Masato, Sasaki, Ken-ichiro, Komaki, Takayuki, Yonezawa, and Takayasu, Kobayashi
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Species Specificity ,Stress, Physiological ,Phosphoprotein Phosphatases ,Humans ,Animals ,Saccharomyces cerevisiae ,Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases ,Protein Kinases ,Signal Transduction - Abstract
Stress-activated protein kinase (SAPK) signaling plays essential roles in eliciting adequate cellular responses to stresses and proinflammatory cytokines. SAPK pathways are composed of three successive protein kinase reactions. The phosphorylation of SAPK signaling components on Ser/Thr or Thr/Tyr residues suggests the involvement of various protein phosphatases in the negative regulation of these systems. Accumulating evidence indicates that three families of protein phosphatases, namely the Ser/Thr phosphatases, the Tyr phosphatases and the dual specificity Ser/Thr/Tyr phosphatases regulate these pathways, each mediating a distinct function. Differences in substrate specificities and regulatory mechanisms for these phosphatases form the molecular basis for the complex regulation of SAPK signaling. Here we describe the properties of the protein phosphatases responsible for the regulation of SAPK signaling pathways.
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- 2002
21. Electron cooling of high-energy protons in a multiring trap with a tank circuit monitoring the electron-plasma oscillations
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Naofumi Kuroda, Masaki Hori, A. Mohri, K. Yoshiki Franzen, Nagayasu Oshima, Ken-ichiro Komaki, T. Ichioka, Yasunori Yamazaki, Hiroyuki Higaki, and Z. Wang
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Trap (computing) ,Physics ,High energy ,law ,Electron ,Physics::Atomic Physics ,Atomic physics ,LC circuit ,Proton energy ,Plasma oscillation ,XX ,Electron cooling ,law.invention - Abstract
Electron cooling of energetic protons in a multiring trap was investigated experimentally with a tank circuit monitoring electron-plasma oscillations in the trap. The energy of protons was determined by time-of-flight measurements. It is found that a simple model can explain the qualitative behavior of both electron and proton energy when the initial energy of protons is less than 2 keV. Monitoring the electron-plasma temperature with a tank circuit can be an effective tool when energetic particles are electron cooled in a multiring trap.
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- 2002
22. Regulation of the TAK1 signaling pathway by protein phosphatase 2C
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Ryunosuke Kanamaru, Koji Katsura, Jun Ninomiya-Tsuji, Ken-ichiro Komaki, Kunihiro Matsumoto, Shinri Tamura, Motoko Ohnishi, and Masahito Hanada
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Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins ,MAP Kinase Kinase 4 ,MAP Kinase Signaling System ,Adaptation, Biological ,MAP Kinase Kinase 6 ,Mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase ,Biochemistry ,MAP2K7 ,Transforming Growth Factor beta ,Phosphoprotein Phosphatases ,Animals ,ASK1 ,c-Raf ,Protein Phosphatase 2 ,Molecular Biology ,Cells, Cultured ,Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Kinases ,Binding Sites ,MAP kinase kinase kinase ,biology ,Akt/PKB signaling pathway ,Chemistry ,Cyclin-dependent kinase 2 ,JNK Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases ,Cell Biology ,MAP Kinase Kinase Kinases ,Molecular biology ,Cell biology ,Isoenzymes ,Protein Phosphatase 2C ,COS Cells ,Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinases ,biology.protein ,Cyclin-dependent kinase 9 ,Interleukin-1 ,Protein Binding - Abstract
Protein phosphatase 2C (PP2C) is implicated in the negative regulation of stress-activated protein kinase cascades in yeast and mammalian cells. In this study, we determined the role of PP2Cbeta-1, a major isoform of mammalian PP2C, in the TAK1 signaling pathway, a stress-activated protein kinase cascade that is activated by interleukin-1, transforming growth factor-beta, or stress. Ectopic expression of PP2Cbeta-1 inhibited the TAK1-mediated mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase 4-c-Jun amino-terminal kinase and mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase 6-p38 signaling pathways. In vitro, PP2Cbeta-1 dephosphorylated and inactivated TAK1. Coimmunoprecipitation experiments indicated that PP2Cbeta-1 associates with the central region of TAK1. A phosphatase-negative mutant of PP2Cbeta-1, PP2Cbeta-1 (R/G), acted as a dominant negative mutant, inhibiting dephosphorylation of TAK1 by wild-type PP2Cbeta-1 in vitro. In addition, ectopic expression of PP2Cbeta-1(R/G) enhanced interleukin-1-induced activation of an AP-1 reporter gene. Collectively, these results indicate that PP2Cbeta negatively regulates the TAK1 signaling pathway by direct dephosphorylation of TAK1.
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- 2000
23. Convoy electron emission following ionization of highly-charged ions excited by resonant coherent excitation
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Y Nakano, S Ohtsuki, T. Murakami, Yoichi Nakai, Toshiyuki Azuma, Ken-ichiro Komaki, T Shindo, E. Takada, K Metoki, S Suda, and Atsushi Hatakeyama
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History ,education.field_of_study ,Chemistry ,Population ,Resonance ,Electron ,Charged particle ,Computer Science Applications ,Education ,Ion ,Excited state ,Ionization ,Atomic physics ,education ,Excitation - Abstract
Projectile ionization of highly-charged Ar and Fe ions in the excited states passing relativistically fast through a thin crystalline foil was experimentally studied. We selectively controlled the population of the excited states of the projectiles, and their alignment by choosing a specific m-state through three-dimensional resonant coherent excitation technique by periodical electric fields in a crystalline. We measured energy-differential spectra of electron emission released from projectiles at zero degree. Under the resonance condition, we found an evident enhancement of the convoy electron yield, which reflects the electron momentum distribution of the initial bound state of the excited ions.
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- 2012
24. Electron emission from fast heavy ions associated with resonant coherent excitation
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Yoichi Nakai, E. Takada, Toshiyuki Azuma, T. Murakami, Atsushi Hatakeyama, Y Nakano, Ken-ichiro Komaki, K Metoki, S Suda, and Y Takano
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Physics ,education.field_of_study ,Population ,Resonance ,Electron ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics ,Charged particle ,Ion ,Crystal ,Excited state ,Atomic physics ,education ,Mathematical Physics ,Excitation - Abstract
We observed convoy electrons emitted from 416 MeV/u He-like Ar16+ passing through a thin Si crystal under the condition of three-dimensional resonant coherent excitation (3D-RCE). The convoy electrons, which originate from electrons released from ions into the continuum by collisions with target atoms, emerged in the forward direction and formed a cusp-shaped peak in the energy distribution. We selectively controlled the population of the ground and excited states of ions traveling through the crystal by using 3D-RCE, where the 1s electron was excited to the 2p state by a periodic crystal field. Under the resonance condition, we found an enhancement of the convoy electrons with a narrowing in the energy distribution, which reflects the electron momentum distribution of the initial bound state of the excited ions.
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- 2011
25. Visible Light Emission from Slow Highly Charged Ions Transmitted Through a Ni Microcapillary
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Yuichiro Morishita, Shiro Ninomiya, Yasunori Yamazaki, Ken-ichiro Komaki, Kenro Kuroki, Hideki Masuda, and Masayuki Sekiguchi
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Angular momentum ,Materials science ,Electron ,Condensed Matter Physics ,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics ,Ion ,Acceleration ,symbols.namesake ,Single electron ,Physics::Plasma Physics ,Rydberg formula ,symbols ,Atomic physics ,Mathematical Physics ,FOIL method ,Visible spectrum - Abstract
Interaction of slow highly charged ions (HCI) with a thin microcapillary foil was studied for the first time through measurements of visible light emitted from the ions downstream of the foil. The microcapillary was employed so that ions which capture electrons in high Rydberg states may not violently collide with the surface in spite of the image acceleration. The wavelength range measured was from 300 nm to 600 nm. Some strong lines were found attributable to Δn = 1 transitions resulting from a single electron capture into states with ni ~ Q and with a large angular momentum.
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- 1999
26. Single and double K-shell ionization cross sections of fluorine by light ion bombardments
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K. Kawatsura, Kunio Ozawa, M. Terasawa, A. Ootuka, Fuminori Fujimoto, and Ken-ichiro Komaki
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Physics ,chemistry ,Ionization ,Physics::Atomic and Molecular Clusters ,Electron shell ,Fluorine ,Coulomb ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Semiclassical physics ,General Medicine ,Atomic physics ,Spectral line ,Ion - Abstract
The K α satellite and hypersatellite X-ray spectra have been measured for fluorine produced by 0.3–2.0 MeV H and He ion bombardments of the thick LiF target. The single and double K-shell ionization cross sections derived from the X-ray yields have been compared with theoretical calculations based on the binary-encounter approximation (BEA) and the semiclassical Coulomb approximation (SCA). The result shows that the observed cross sections for the single K-shell ionization agree with the BEA better than with the SCA and those for the double K-shell ionization systematically differ from the BEA by a factor of three.
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- 1980
27. Projectile Dependence of KLl Vacancy Production Cross Sections of Al by H and He Ion Bombardments
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Ken-ichiro Komaki, Kunio Ozawa, Akio Ootuka, F. Fujimoto, M. Terasawa, and K. Kawatsura
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Physics ,Range (particle radiation) ,Spectrometer ,Nuclear Theory ,Binding energy ,General Physics and Astronomy ,Spectral line ,Ion ,Vacancy defect ,Ionization ,Physics::Atomic and Molecular Clusters ,Coulomb ,Atomic physics ,Nuclear Experiment - Abstract
Spectra of Al K α X rays induced by H and He ion bombardments in the energy range of 0.2–0.4 MeV/amu have been measured with a Bragg spectrometer and Z 1 dependence of single K- plus multiple L-shell (KL l ) ionization has been investigated. The result shows that the L-shell ionization probability of Al by light ion bombardments follows the scaling law of direct Coulomb ionization considering the binding energy correction.
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- 1984
28. Single and Double K-Shell Ionization Cross Sections of Beryllium by C, N, O and Ne Ion Bombardments
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Ken-ichiro Komaki, F. Fujimoto, Kunio Ozawa, K. Kawatsura, M. Terasawa, and Akio Ootuka
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Coupling ,Materials science ,chemistry ,Ionization ,Electron shell ,General Physics and Astronomy ,Collision system ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Beryllium ,Atomic physics ,Nuclear Experiment ,Ion - Abstract
Cross sections for single and double K-shell ionization of Be were obtained from K α diagram and hypersatellite X-ray yields produced by C, N, O and Ne ion bombardments with the energies from 0.3 to 1.3 MeV. The data are compared with the theoretical predictions which consider 2pσ-2pπ MO coupling. The results show a good agreement except for the collision system of Ne+Be.
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- 1984
29. Plasma Oscillations Excited by a Fast Electron in a Metallic Particle
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Ken-ichiro Komaki and F. Fujimoto
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Free electron model ,Materials science ,Mie scattering ,Excited state ,General Physics and Astronomy ,Particle ,Plasma ,Electron ,Atomic physics ,Photon energy ,Plasma oscillation - Abstract
The interactions between a fast incident electron and a metallic spherical particle full of a free electron gas as the conduction electrons are studied using the hydrodynamic equations of Bloch. The obtained energy spectrum of a transmitted electron is composed of the well known peak due to the bulk plasma oscillations with small corrections and the peak due to the surface plasma oscillations which are given by sum of various modes of oscillations with different energies. The energy value of the surface oscillations at maximum intensity increases with increasing particle size and tends to that in the foil case. Numerical examples are given for aluminum particle coated with aluminum oxide and for colloidal alkali metal in alkali halide. The latter example is compared with experimental observations. The possibility of the plasma radiation is also discussed. The radiated photon energy is the same as that in the Mie scattering from small particle. Energy spectrum, angular distribution and photon yield are num...
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- 1968
30. Surface Plasma Oscillations in Copper Films
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F. Fujimoto, Ken-ichiro Komaki, and Tadahiro Takigawa
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Surface (mathematics) ,Materials science ,chemistry ,Analytical chemistry ,General Physics and Astronomy ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Physical and Theoretical Chemistry ,Plasma oscillation ,Copper ,Mathematical Physics - Abstract
An energy loss peak at 2 eV in the energy spectrum of electrons transmitted through thin copper films is observed and the variations of the energy value and of the intensity of the peak with film thickness are studied. The cross section for the surface plasmon excitation is calculated from optical data. The observed variations of the energy value and of the intensity of the peak show quantitative and qualitative agreements, respectively, with calculated values. It is concluded that the peak is mainly due to the surface plasmon which does not emit plasma radiation.
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- 1973
31. Molecular effect of Al K α X-ray yields from aluminum oxide films for H+ and H+2 ion bombardments
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Fuminori Fujimoto, Kunio Ozawa, Akio Ootuka, M. Terasawa, K. Kawatsura, and Ken-ichiro Komaki
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Physics ,Satellite line ,X-ray ,Analytical chemistry ,General Physics and Astronomy ,Atomic physics ,Intensity ratio ,Spectral line ,Aluminum oxide ,Ion - Abstract
Al Kα X-ray spectra for equi-velocity H + and H + 2 ions of ≃ 0.9 MeV/amu incident on thin aluminum oxide films with thickness 100 and 300 A were observed. The intensity ratio of the KL 1 satellite line to the KL 0 main one for H + 2 incident on the films of thickness 100 and 300 A was about 10% and 4% larger than that for incident H + , respectively.
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- 1983
32. Proton channeling in uranium mononitride
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K. Kawatsura, Kunio Ozawa, Ken-ichi Shiozawa, T. Kurasawa, Ken-ichiro Komaki, Shoichi Nasu, and T. Takada
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Nuclear physics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,symbols.namesake ,Materials science ,Nuclear Energy and Engineering ,Proton ,chemistry ,Radiochemistry ,symbols ,chemistry.chemical_element ,General Materials Science ,Rutherford scattering ,Uranium - Published
- 1974
33. Channeling radiation from 350 MeV electrons
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N. Horikawa, Y. Ohashi, Ken-ichiro Komaki, Fuminori Fujimoto, Toru Nakanishi, Shuji Fukui, Akio Ootuka, and Hideki Okuno
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Physics ,Monocrystalline silicon ,Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors ,Plane (geometry) ,Detector ,Energy spectrum ,General Physics and Astronomy ,Electron ,Atomic physics ,Radiation - Abstract
The energy spectrum of channeling radiation from 350 MeV electrons was measured in the case of the (110) plane of silicon crystal. The result shows good agreement with the spectrum calculated by quantum theory and corrected for detector efficiency.
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- 1983
34. Channeling Radiation Experiments between 100 and 1000 MeV
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Ken-ichiro Komaki and F. Fujimoto
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Crystal ,Physics ,Positron ,Silicon ,chemistry ,Plane (geometry) ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Bremsstrahlung ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Development (differential geometry) ,Electron ,Atomic physics ,Radiation - Abstract
Channeling radiation was first observed as an anomalous energy loss of electrons and as an enhancement of the bremsstrahlung from electrons passing through a thin silicon or germanium crystal along their low-indexed axial direction.1,2 On the other hand, Kumakhov3 and Terhune and Pantell4 have developed a theory of the radiation from channeled electrons and positrons with relativistic velocity. Since the development of their theories, radiation from relativistic electrons and positrons travelling along a crystal axis or plane has been intensively investigated.5
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- 1987
35. Channelling of H+and He+ions in pyrolytic graphite
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Kiyoshi Kawatsura, Hiroshi Tomimitsu, Tadao Iwata, Kunio Ozawa, Kenji Doi, and Ken-ichiro Komaki
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symbols.namesake ,Materials science ,General Engineering ,Analytical chemistry ,symbols ,Pyrolytic carbon ,Rutherford scattering ,Atomic physics ,Channelling ,Ion - Abstract
Much research has been devoted to the understanding of the channeling of high-energy ions in crystals. This communication presents a preliminary experimental result on the ion chnnelling along the c−axis ([0001] axis] of pyrolytic graphite by the use of wide-angle Rutherford scattering.
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- 1975
36. Stopping Cross-Sections of Rare Gases in Amorphous Silicon for MeV Energy Helium Ions
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K. Kawatsura, F. Fujimoto, Kunio Ozawa, Akio Ootuka, Yoshifumi Katayama, Toshikazu Shimada, and Ken-ichiro Komaki
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Amorphous silicon ,Range (particle radiation) ,Argon ,Materials science ,Silicon ,Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors ,Krypton ,Doping ,General Engineering ,General Physics and Astronomy ,chemistry.chemical_element ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Xenon ,chemistry ,Helium ions ,Atomic physics - Abstract
Using the Rutherford backscattering method, the stopping cross-sections of amorphous silicon doped with rare gases to a concentration of a few percent were measured for helium ions. The effective stopping cross-sections of the rare gases were deduced by assuming Bragg's rule and by using Ziegler's cross-section values for silicon. The results were systematically about 30 percent lower than Ziegler's values for the gaseous state, in the energy range near 1 MeV. The incident energies were 1.0–2.6 MeV for samples containing 8% argon, and 1.0–1.6 MeV for those containing 7% krypton or 4% xenon.
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- 1983
37. Detection of Adsorbed Hydrogen on W(001) by Using 1H(15N, αγ)12C Reaction
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F. Fujimoto, Hiroshi Yamashita, Eugeni Vilalta, Koichi Kobayashi, Yoshitada Murata, Akio Ootuka, Ken-ichiro Komaki, and Yasushi Iwata
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Nuclear reaction ,Sticking coefficient ,Hydrogen ,General Engineering ,Analytical chemistry ,General Physics and Astronomy ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Resonance ,chemistry ,Excited state ,Monolayer ,Physics::Atomic Physics ,Sticking probability ,Doppler broadening ,Nuclear chemistry - Abstract
Hydrogen coverage on W(001) was measured by using the resonant nuclear reaction 1H(15N, αγ)12C. The detection limit of the hydrogen coverage was 1/50 of the full monolayer, i.e. 4×1013 H atoms/cm2. The coverage dependence of the sticking probability of hydrogen was estimated by considering the ion-stimulated desorption of hydrogen. The zero-point energy of the vibration of adsorbed hydrogen atoms in the direction perpedicular to the surface was obtained by the Doppler broadening of the resonance width as 64±16 meV.
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- 1987
38. Calculation of a Shadow Cone Formed by Scattering of an Ion Beam from an Atom
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Ken-ichiro Komaki, F. Fujimoto, and Akio Ootuka
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Condensed Matter::Quantum Gases ,Ion beam ,Scattering ,Chemistry ,General Engineering ,General Physics and Astronomy ,Radius ,Ion ,Cone (topology) ,Atom ,Shadow ,Physics::Atomic and Molecular Clusters ,Physics::Accelerator Physics ,Astrophysics::Earth and Planetary Astrophysics ,Physics::Atomic Physics ,Atomic physics ,A titanium - Abstract
The shadow cone formed by the scattering of ions from an atom was calculated using Moliere potential. Calculated radii of the shadow cone by replacing the Thomas-Fermi radius, a TF with 0.85 a TF show a good agreement with an experiment for 1 keV helium ions on a titanium atom.
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- 1982
39. Hydrogen Content in a-SiC:H Films Prepared by Plasma Decomposition of Silane and Methane or Ethylene
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Yoshio Hashimoto, Yoshihiro Hamakawa, Isao Yamane, Kunio Nishimura, Ken-ichiro Komaki, Hiroshi Yamashita, Yasushi Iwata, F. Fujimoto, Yoshihisa Tawada, Hiroaki Okamoto, and Akio Ootuka
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Silanes ,Ethylene ,Hydrogen ,Absorption spectroscopy ,Inorganic chemistry ,General Engineering ,Absorption cross section ,General Physics and Astronomy ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Infrared spectroscopy ,Decomposition ,Silane ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,chemistry - Abstract
The hydrogen content in a-SiC:H films prepared by the plasma decomposition of gas mixtures of silane and methane or ethylene was measured by 1H(15N, αγ)12C nuclear reaction (NR) and infrared absorption spectroscopy (IR). The contents observed by both methods can be made to agree well for most of the films by putting the average value of the inverse absorption cross section for the CH n (n=1, 2 and 3) stretching mode over all values of n as A s=1.0×1021 cm-2. In some films prepared from silane and ethylene mixtures, the hydrogen content given by NR was higher than that by IR. Hydrogen release from films with a hydrogen content of over 30 atm.% was observed during NR analysis. The mechanism of the hydrogen release is discussed by comparing the IR spectra before and after ion bombardment.
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- 1984
40. Surface Plasma Oscillation in Aluminum Fine Particles
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Ken-ichiro Komaki, F. Fujimoto, and Kohtaro Ishida
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Surface (mathematics) ,Materials science ,chemistry ,Aluminium ,General Physics and Astronomy ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Composite material ,Plasma oscillation - Published
- 1967
41. Some Observations in Energy Loss Spectrum of Silver
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F. Fujimoto, Ken-ichiro Komaki, and Kohtaro Ishida
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Energy loss ,Materials science ,Spectrum (functional analysis) ,General Physics and Astronomy ,Molecular physics - Published
- 1969
42. Ion induced L X-ray spectra of 3d transition elements
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Kiyoshi, Kawatsura, Kunio, Ozawa, Mititaka, Terasawa, Ken-ichiro, Komaki, and Fuminori, Fujimoto
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- 1993
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