Toshihiro Aoki

 

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Toshihiro Aoki, PhD

Project Scientist in TEM/TEM Leader

Irvine Materials Research Institute (IMRI)
University of California – Irvine

Office: 1150 Engineering Hall
Phone: 978-979-7306
Email: toshihia at uci.edu

Toshihiro Aoki

Biography:

Toshihiro “Toshi” Aoki is a materials scientist and electron microscopist, specializing in nanomaterials characterization,  using conventional and aberration-corrected S/TEM, EELS, EDS, and 4D-STEM. He currently serves as a project scientist and TEM leader for Center for Transmission Electron Microscopy (CTEM) in UC Irvine Materials Research Institute (IMRI), a key research facility for NSF MRSEC at UC Irvine.

He has authored and co-authored over 87 peer-reviewed articles in various journals. Please see google scholar page for a full list of his publications.

Experience:

  • 8/2016 – Present: Project Scientist/TEM Leader, UC Irvine Materials Research Institute
  • 11/2012 – 8/2016: Research Engineer, John M Cowley Center for High Resolution Electron Microscopy, Arizona State University
  • 9/2004 – 11/2012: TEM Applications specialist, JEOL USA, Inc.
  • 12/2003 – 9/2004: Postdoc, Eyring Materials Center,  Arizona State University

Education:

BS (1998), MS (2000) in Materials Science, Kumamoto University, Japan

Ph.D. (2003) in Science and Engineering of Materials, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

Selected Publications:

  1. “Anisotropy-Driven Crystallization of Dimensionally Resolved Quasi-1D Van der Waals Nanostructures” Dmitri Leo Mesoza Cordova, Kenneth Chua, Rebecca Mai Huynh, Toshihiro Aoki, Maxx Q Arguilla, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 41, 22413–22424.
  2. “Atomic-scale origin of the low grain-boundary resistance in perovskite solid electrolyte Li0.375Sr0.4375Ta0.75Zr0.25O3“Tom Lee, Ji Qi, Chaitanya A Gadre, Huaixun Huyan, Shu-Ting Ko, Yunxing Zuo, Chaojie Du, Jie Li, Toshihiro Aoki, Ruqian Wu, Jian Luo, Shyue Ping Ong, Xiaoqing Pan, Nature Communications, 4, Article number: 1940 (2023).
  3. “Nanoscale imaging of phonon dynamics by electron microscopy“, Chaitanya A Gadre, Xingxu Yan, Qichen Song, Jie Li, Lei Gu, Huaixun Huyan, Toshihiro Aoki, Sheng-Wei Lee, Gang Chen, Ruqian Wu, Xiaoqing Pan, Nature 606 (7913), 292-297.

  4. “Single-defect phonons imaged by electron microscopy“, Xingxu Yan, Chengyan Liu, Chaitanya A Gadre, Lei Gu, Toshihiro Aoki, Tracy C Lovejoy, Niklas Dellby, Ondrej L Krivanek, Darrell G Schlom, Ruqian Wu, Xiaoqing Pan, Nature   589, pages 65–69 (2021).

  5. “Real-space charge-density imaging with sub-ångström resolution by four-dimensional electron microscopy“, Wenpei Gao, Christopher Addiego, Hui Wang, Xingxu Yan, Yusheng Hou, Dianxiang Ji, Colin Heikes, Yi Zhang, Linze Li, Huaixun Huyan, Thomas Blum, Toshihiro Aoki, Yuefeng Nie, Darrell G Schlom, Ruqian Wu, Xiaoqing Pan, Nature  575, pages 480–484 (2019).

  6. “Unexpected strong thermally induced phonon energy shift for mapping local temperature“, Xingxu Yan, Chengyan Liu, Chaitanya A Gadre, Sheng Dai, Lei Gu, Kehang Yu, Toshihiro Aoki, Ruqian Wu, Xiaoqing Pan, Nano Lett. 2019, 19, 10, 7494–7502.

  7. “Intrinsic Conductance of Domain Walls in BiFeO3“, Yi Zhang, Haidong Lu, Xingxu Yan, Xiaoxing Cheng, Lin Xie, Toshihiro Aoki, Linze Li, Colin Heikes, Shu Ping Lau, Darrell G Schlom, Longqing Chen, Alexei Gruverman, Xiaoqing Pan, Adv. Mater. 2019, 31, 1902099.

  8. “Damage-free vibrational spectroscopy of biological materials in the electron microscope“, Peter Rez, Toshihiro Aoki, Katia March, Dvir Gur, Ondrej L Krivanek, Niklas Dellby, Tracy C Lovejoy, Sharon G Wolf, Hagai Cohen, Nature Communications volume 7, Article number: 10945 (2016).

  9. “Domain Architectures and Grain Boundaries in Chemical Vapor Deposited Highly Anisotropic ReS2 Monolayer Films“, Kedi Wu, Bin Chen, Sijie Yang, Gang Wang, Wilson Kong, Hui Cai, Toshihiro Aoki, Emmanuel Soignard, Xavier Marie, Aliya Yano, Aslihan Suslu, Bernhard Urbaszek, Sefaattin Tongay, Nano Lett. 2016, 16, 9, 5888–5894.

  10. “Carrier density modulation in a germanium heterostructure by ferroelectric switching“, Patrick Ponath, Kurt Fredrickson, Agham B Posadas, Yuan Ren, Xiaoyu Wu, Rama K Vasudevan, M Baris Okatan, S Jesse, Toshihiro Aoki, Martha R McCartney, David J Smith, Sergei V Kalinin, Keji Lai, Alexander A Demkov, Nature Communications volume 6, Article number: 6067 (2015).

  11. “Vibrational spectroscopy in the electron microscope“, Ondrej L Krivanek, Tracy C Lovejoy, Niklas Dellby, Toshihiro Aoki, RW Carpenter, Peter Rez, Emmanuel Soignard, Jiangtao Zhu, Philip E Batson, Maureen J Lagos, Ray F Egerton, Peter A Crozier, Nature volume 514, pages 209–212 (2014).

  12. “Lonsdaleite is faulted and twinned cubic diamond and does not exist as a discrete material” Péter Németh, Laurence AJ Garvie, Toshihiro Aoki, Natalia Dubrovinskaia, Leonid Dubrovinsky, Peter R Buseck, Nature Communications volume 5, Article number: 5447 (2014).