Ikutaro Hamada

Visiting Scientist

Areas of Interest

• Electronic structure methods based on density functional theory and many body perturbation theory, and their application to surface and interface problems

Experience

• 2013 - present MANA Scientist, International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA), and Global Research Center for Environment and Energy based on Nanomaterials Science (GREEN), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan
• 2009 - 2013, Assistant Professor, Advanced Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University
• 2003 - 2009, Postdoctoral researcher, Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University

Selected Publications

• P. Scherpelz, M. Govoni, I. Hamada, and G. Galli
  Implementation and Validation of Fully-Relativistic GW Calculations: Spin-Orbit Coupling in Molecules, Nanocrystals and Solids
  J. Chem. Theory Comput. 12 (8), 3523-3544 (2016)
• E. Inami, I. Hamada, K. Ueda, M. Abe, S. Morita, and Y. Sugimoto
  Room-temperature concerted switch of a binary atom cluster
  Nat. Commun. 6, 6231 (2015).
• I. Hamada, R. Shimizu, T. Ohsawa, K. Iwaya, T. Hashizume, M. Tsukada, K. Akagi, and T Hitosugi
  Imaging the evolution of d states at a strontium titanate surface
  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 136, 17201 (2014).
• I. Hamada
  van der Waals density functional made accurate
  I. Hamada, O. Sugino, N. Bonnet, and M. Otani
  Improved modeling of electrified interfaces with the effective screening medium
  Phys. Rev. B 88, 155427 (2013).
• T. Kumagai, A. Shiotari, H. Okuyama, S. Hatta, T. Aruga, I. Hamada, T. Frederiksen, and H. Ueba
  H-atom relay reactions in real space
  Nature Mater. 11, 167 (2012).
• I. Hamada, A. Uozumi, Y. Morikawa, A. Yanase, and H. Katayama-Yoshida
  Density-Functional Theory Study of Self-regenerating Catalyst LaFe_1-xM_xO_3-y (M=Pd, Rh, and Pt)
  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 133, 18506 (2011).
• I. Hamada and M. Otani
  A comparative van der Waals density functional study of graphene on metal surfaces
  Phys. Rev. B 82, 153412 (2010).
• I. Hamada, K. Lee, Y. Morikawa
  Interaction of water with a metal surface: Importance of the van der Waals forces Phys. Rev. B 81, 115452 (2010).
• I. Hamada, M. Otani, O. Sugino, Y. Morikawa
  A Green’s function approach to elimination of the spurious multipole interaction in the surface/interface slab model
  Phys. Rev. B 80, 165411 (2009).
• M. Otani, I. Hamada, O. Sugino, Y. Morikawa, Y. Okamoto, and T. Ikeshoji Electrode dynamics from first principles J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 77, 024802 (2008).