16BG036/17AG044

HiSOR BL-9A

Low-Energy Photoemission Study on the Effects ofElectron Doping on the Kondo Insulator YbB12
A. Rousuli1, H. Sato2, M. Arita2, F. Iga3, K. Shimada2 and H. Namatame2
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Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8526, Japan
Hiroshima Synchrotron Radiation Center, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-0046, Japan
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Faculty of Science, Ibaraki University, Mito 310-8512, Japan

Keywords: Kondo insulator, energy gap

The Kondo insulators of f-electron compounds have attracted considerable attention in recent years. They
behave as metallic systems at high temperatures and non-magnetic insulators at low temperatures. The origin of
the insulating gap is still controversial. YbB12 is well known as the Kondo insulator with a narrow gap of ~10
meV and many theoretical and experimental studies are performed on its electronic structure. Recently, Hayashi
et al. have successfully been synthesized Yb1-xZrxB12 compounds whose electronic structure is significantly
changed by the Zr substitution [1]. Magnetic susceptibility measurement of Yb1-xZrxB12 shows a typical valencefluctuation behavior with the Pauli paramagnetic ground state. A broad maximum of magnetic susceptibility of
YbB12 is observed around 80 K and it moves up to about 220 K by x = 0.875 of Zr concentration. Recently, we
have investigated the electronic structure of Yb1-xZrxB12 by means of hard x-ray photoemission spectroscopy
with hν = 5.95 keV [2]. With increasing the Zr concentration, the Yb valence gets close to divalent state and theB 1s and Zr 3d peaks are shifted to the deeper binding energy. These results suggest that supplied electrons from
Zr4+ go both into the Yb 4f and conduction bands. In this study, we have examined the electronic structure in thevicinity of the Fermi energy (EF) of Yb1-xZrxB12 by means of low-energy photoemission spectroscopy (LEPES)
using the Xe discharge lump (hν = 8.44 eV) at BL-9A at HiSOR.
Figure 1 (a) shows the LEPES spectra near EF of YbB12 measured between 6 and 210 K. The crossing point
is not located at below EF, which is a signature of the gap formation. With decreasing temperature, threecharacteristic structures shows up at 15 (peak "A"), 30 (peak "B") and 45 meV (peak "C"). The spectral feature
is consistent with the previous result of laser PES [3]. According to Ref. 3, the sharp peak "A" and the broad
peak "C" are ascribed to the renormalized hybridization band between Yb 4f and conduction electrons (c - f
hybridization band) and the Yb 4 f7/2 states, so called the Kondo peak, respectively. The peak "B" would appear
as a result of the crystal splitting effect [4].
Figure 1 (b) shows the LEPES spectra near EF of Yb1-xZrxB12 (x = 0.25). The basic spectral feature is similar
to that of YbB12 in Fig. 1 (a) with respect to the three structures. However, the intensities become weak in whole.
In addition, the peak "A" is shifted toward EF and the peak "C" is shifted to opposite side. With increasing the Zr
concentration, the intensities of the three peaks gradually become weak and the peak "C" continues to be shiftedto the deeper binding energy. Since the energy position of the peak "C" reflects the Kondo temperature (TK), theenergy shift of the peak "C" suggests the increase of the c - f hybridization with the Zr concentration. This result
is consistent with the magnetic susceptibility measurements [1], where the maximal temperature of thesusceptibility increase with the Zr concentration and it is scaled with TK. The spectral features are almost
metallic for x > 0.625 with the weak and broad peak "C".
Figure 2 (a) shows the spectral density of states (DOS) of YbB12 derived by dividing the LEPES spectra in
Fig. 1 by the Fermi-Dirac distribution function. With decreasing temperature, DOS around EF is reduced, whichshows that the energy gap develops. The DOS curve crosses around 10 meV (indicated with "Δ" in the figure)and we tentatively assume that the energy position reflects the energy gap size. We found that the "Δ" is shiftedto the binding energy side with the Zr concentration up to up to x = 0.5 (see Fig. 2 (b) in case of x = 0.25). Thatis, the gap size becomes larger with the Zr concentration, which seems to be consistent with the result of thespecific heat measurements for x = 0.1 [1]. The signature of "Δ" disappears for x > 0.5 and the system is metallic.

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REFERENCES
1.
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4.

K. Hayashi et al., JPS Conf. Proc. 3, 011050 (2014).
A. Rousuli et al., J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 29, 265601 (2017).
M. Okawa et al., Phys. Rev. B 92, 161108(R) (2015).
P. A. Alekzeev, et al., J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 16, 2631 (2004).

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17AG010, 17BG015

BL9A

Discovery of 2D Anisotropic Dirac cones in borophene
B. Fenga, J. Zhangb, S. Itoc, M. Aritaa, C. Chengb, L. Chenb, K. Wub, F. Komoric,O. Suginoc, K. Miyamotoa, T. Okudaa, S. Mengb, and I. MatsudaaaHiroshima Synchrotron Radiation Center, Hiroshima University, 2-313 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima
739-0046, Japanb
Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, Chinac
Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, 277-8581, Japan

Keywords: Borophene, Anisotropic, Dirac cone, ARPES

Low energy electronic excitations in some quantum materials can behave as fundamental fermions innature: i.e., Dirac, Majorana, and Weyl fermions. In Dirac materials, such as graphene and Dirac semimetals,
there exist gapless Dirac cones near the Fermi level with linear energy momentum dispersion near the Diracpoints. Although Dirac cones are typically isotropic, anisotropic Dirac cones have been recently discovered
in several materials, such as BaFe2As2 and Sr(Ca)MnBi2. The anisotropy of the Dirac cones could result inanisotropic carrier mobility, making it possible to realize direction-dependent quantum devices. To date,most of the experimentally discovered Dirac materials are 3D, while 2D Dirac materials remain quite rare.
Among the hundreds of 2D materials that have been discovered, only graphene, silicene, and β12 borophene
have been experimentally confirmed to host Dirac cones. Although 2D anisotropic Dirac cones have attracted
great theoretical attention, experimental discoveries of such materials have been limited.
As the fifth element in the periodic table, boron is known to have a rich chemistry and is able to form
numerous bulk allotropes. Boron 2D sheets, namely, borophene, also have an enormous number ofpolymorphs, which can be considered to be triangular lattices with periodic vacancies. Recently, several
borophene phases have been synthesized on Ag(111) and Ag(110), such as β12 sheets (η = 1/6), χ3 sheets (η= 1/5), and α (η = 1/9) sheets. Moreover, a possible free-standing borophene structure has been synthesized
by deintercalation of Mg in MgB2 single crystals, which enables the possibility of boron-based devices.
Further theoretical works have revealed numerous novel properties of these borophene phases, such as
phonon-mediated superconductivity, excellent mechanical properties, and high-performance in capacitiveenergy storage. However, despite the rapid progress on the synthesis of borophene, experimental studies of
their electronic structures are still lacking.
Here, we report the observation of 2D anisotropic
Dirac cones in χ3 borophene using combined angleresolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES)
measurements and first-principles calculations. The
Dirac cones are centered at the X and X′ points of theBrillouin zone (BZ). Along some directions, the Fermi
velocity is as high as that in graphene. Our results also
reveal that these Dirac cones are mainly derived fromthe pz orbitals of boron, with negligible contributions
from the silver orbitals. Compared with the β12 phase,the χ3 phase has a weaker substrate-overlayer
hybridization, and thus represents a quasi-freestanding
borophene sheet. Our results validate χ3 borophene as
the first 2D material that hosts anisotropic Dirac cones,
which may stimulate further research interest andenable the realization of high-performance boron
devices.

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Blue and yellow rhombuses indicate unit cells of borophene and the superstructure. (b) A LEED pattern of the χ3 boropheneon Ag(111), which shows a 3 × 3 superstructure with respect to Ag(111)-1 × 1. The beam energy during the measurement was
116 eV. c) Schematic drawing of the BZ of the χ3 borophene. d) BZs of the χ3 borophene (black, blue, and red lines), Ag(111)(green lines), and the superstructure (black dashed lines).

FIGURE2.
Constantenergycontoursofborophene on Ag(111)measured with 21 eVphotons. (a–f) The binding
energies are 0, 0.6, 1.1, 1.4,
1.6, and 1.8 eV, respectively.
Black and red dashed lines
in (a) and (b) indicate thesurface bands near the K
point of Ag(111). The blackand red arrows indicate theDirac cones at the X′ and X
points of borophene.

FIGURE 3. (a) Schematic
drawing of the momentum
cuts measured in this figure.
(b,c) ARPES intensity plotsmeasured along cut 1 with
21 and 25 eV p polarized
photons, respectively. (d,e)
ARPES intensity plotsmeasured along cut 2 with
21 and 25 eV p polarized
photons, respectively. (f,g)
ARPES intensity plotsmeasured along cut 1 andcut 2 with s polarized light.
(h–k) ARPES intensity plotsmeasured along cuts 3–6
with p polarized light. Red
and black arrows indicate
the Dirac cones at the X and
X′ points (DC1 and DC2).

REFERENCES
1. B. Feng, et al. Discovery of 2D anisotropic Dirac cones. Adv. Meter. 30, 1704025 (2018).
2. B. Feng, et al. Experimental realization of two-dimensional boron sheets. Chem. 8, 563 (2016).
3. B. Feng, et al. Dirac fermions in borophene. Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 096401 (2017).

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15-A-6BL-9B

SARPES study on IrTe2
T. Mizokawaa, Y. Okamotoa, S. Iwasakia, K. Takubob,
H. Ishiic, K.Kudoc, M. Noharac, K. Miyamotod, T. OkudadaDepartment of Applied Physics, Waseda University, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555, JapanbcInstitute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Chiba 277-8581, Japan

Department of Physics, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Hachioji 192-0397, Japand
HiSOR, Hiroshima University, Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima 739-0046, Japan

Keywords: IrTe2, spin-orbit interaction, orbital order

After the discovery of IrTe2-based superconductor by Pyon, Kudo, Noara [1] and Yang et al. [2], extensive
experimental and theoretical studies have been performed for IrTe2 and related materials [3-10]. In order tounderstand the relationship between the charge-orbital order and the strong spin-orbit coupling in IrTe2, we have
performed SARPES study on IrTe2 at BL-9B, HiSOR. The crystals were cleaved at 300K (above the chargeorbital ordering temperature of 270 K) under the ultrahigh vacuum and then cooled to 20 K for the SARPES
measurements. The total energy resolutions were set to about 50 meV for excitation energy of 23 eV.
Figure 1 shows SARPES spectra of IrTe2 for in-plane spin polarization taken at 20 K with linearly polarized
light along the horizontal cut (along the *K direction of the hexagonal Brillouin zone). In addition to the strong
spin polarization near the Fermi level, spin polarizations with opposite signs are seen around -1.0 eV and -2.0
eV. In these energy regions, energy gaps are formed in the Te 5p/Ir 5d bands due to the strong spin-orbit
interaction. Therefore, the in-plane spin polarizations of the bulk bands with spin-momentum locking can be
assigned to possible inversion symmetry breaking in the charge-orbital ordered phase. As for the out-of-plane
polarization, the strong spin polarization is observed near the Fermi level which corresponds to the surface bandwith quasi-one-dimensional character [8] and suggests non-trivial spin texture of the surface band in the chargeorbital ordered phase. The present SARPES results [11] show that the surface band corresponds to the edge stateof quasi two-dimensional bulk band created by the charge-orbital order in IrTe2 [9,10].

REFERENCES
1. S. Pyon, K. Kudo, and M. Nohara, J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 81, 053701 (2012).
2. J. J. Yang, Y. J. Choi, Y. S. Oh, A. Hogan, Y. Horibe, K. Kim, B. I. Min, and S-W. Cheong, Phys. Rev. Lett.
108, 116402 (2012).
3.M. Kamitani, M. S. Bahramy, R. Arita, S. Seki, T. Arima, Y. Tokura, and S. Ishiwata, Phys. Rev. B 87,
180501 (2013).
4. Yoon Seok Oh, J. J. Yang, Y. Horibe, and S.-W. Cheong, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 127209 (2013).
5.D. Ootsuki, Y. Wakisaka, S. Pyon, K. Kudo, M. Nohara, M. Arita, H. Anzai, H. Namatame, M. Taniguchi, N.
L. Saini, and T. Mizokawa, Phys. Rev. B 86, 014519 (2012)
6. A. F. Fang, G. Xu, T. Dong, P. Zheng, and N. L. Wang, Sci. Rep. 3, 1153 (2013).
7. D. Ootsuki, S. Pyon, K. Kudo, M. Nohara, M. Horio, T. Yoshida, A. Fujimori, M. Arita, H. Anzai, H.
Namatame, M. Taniguchi, N. L. Saini, and T. Mizokawa, J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 82, 093704 (2013).
8. D. Ootsuki, H. Ishii, K. Kudo, M. Nohara, M. Takahashi, M. Horio, A. Fujimori, T. Yoshida, M. Arita, H.
Anzai, H. Namatame, M. Taniguchi, N. L. Saini, and T. Mizokawa, J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 86, 123704 (2017)
9. T. Toriyama, M. Kobori, Y. Ohta, T. Konishi, S. Pyon, K. Kudo, M. Nohara, K. Sugimoto, T. Kim, and A.
Fujiwara, J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 83, 033701 (2014).
10. G. L. Pascut, K. Haule, M. J. Gutmann, S. A. Barnett, A. Bombardi, S. Artyukhin, D. Vanderbilt, J. J. Yang,
S.-W. Cheong, and V. Kiryukhin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 86402 (2014).
11. Y. Okamoto, S. Iwasaki, H. Ishii, K. Kudo, M. Nohara, K. Miyamoto, T. Okuda, and T. Mizokawa,submitted.

- 83 -FIGURE 1. (a)-(g) SARPES spectra of IrTe2 at 20 K along the horizontal cut taken by linearly polarized
light with 23 eV. Spin polarization direction is parallel to the surface. (h) Spin polarization map. Positive andnegative spin polarizations are indicated by red and blue colors.

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16AG055

BL9

Spin-resolved ARPES experiment on chiral semiconductor
Tellurium
M. MulazziaaHumboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Physik, Newtonstr. 15, D12489 Berlin, Germany

Keywords: Electronic structure, Spin-resolved ARPES, Tellurium.

The aim of the experiment was the determination of the spin texture of Tellurium, which is deemed by us to
be interesting because, contrary to most materials, it is hedgehog-like [1] in the vicinity of the H point of theBrillouin zone.
Previously, the spin-integrated band structure was obtained on cleaved and sputter/annealed surfaces of
Tellurium, namely the (10-10). Also in the present experiment we opted for sputtering and annealing (at 500 eV
ion energy and annealing at progressively higher temperatures up to 350°C) as method to clean the surface.
LEED measurements showed that the surface is indeed well-ordered and not reconstructed.
Due to the high resolution of the spin-resolved experiment and the relatively low photoemission crosssections for Tellurium, we limited the k-space region that we investigated to two lines crossing at the H point
and perpendicular to each other.

FIGURE 1. Spin-resolved ARPES spectra taken about the H point of the Brillouin zone. In the left panel the spinpolarization is plotted as a function of the tilt angle, while in the right one as a function of the polar angle, perpendicular tothe previous one. All the three components of the spin polarization have been measured at a binding energy of about 0.4 eV.

The measurement clearly indicate that the spin polarization is non-zero and it shows a dependence on thephotoemission angle, i.e. momentum. However, only in two cases, i.e. Vx and Vy measured along the polar angle,
it is clear that there are four peaks, whose spin polarizations have alternating signs. It is hard to distinguish fourpeaks in the other four cases and also the magnitude of the spin polarization is very low compared to thetheoretical value that we expected. If this is an intrinsic feature of Tellurium is not clear, because other extrinsic
phenomena might be present, like those reported in Ref. [2].
Further experiments are needed to clarify, for each electronic state, the real magnitude of the spinpolarization and its direction.

REFERENCES
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2.

Weyl Node and Spin Texture in Trigonal Tellurium and Selenium, Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 206401 (2015)
Widespread spin polarization effects in photoemission form topological insulators, Phys. Rev. B 84 165113 (2011)- 85 -

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BL-9B

Local Rashba effect in PtSe2 thin film grown by molecularbeam epitaxy
Mingzhe Yan1, Kenan Zhang1, Wei Yao1, Shilong Wu3, Tomoki Yoshikawa3, Koji
Miyamoto3, Taichi Okuda3, Shuyun Zhou1,21.

State Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Quantum Physics and Department of Physics,
Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing 100084, China

Hiroshima Synchrotron Radiation Center, Hiroshima University, Kagamiyama 2-313, HigashiHiroshima 739-0046, Japan

Keywords: PtSe2, molecular beam epitaxy, Spin-ARPES, local Rashba effectLayered transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) have attracted extensive interest for applications
in electronics, optoelectronics and valleytronics due to the strong spin–orbit coupling, sizable band gap
and tunability of the electronic structure by quantum confinement effect. Platinum diselenide (PtSe2) has
emerged as an interesting compound with highest charge-carrier mobility expected in TMDCs and much
improved stability. Moreover, the hidden helical spin texture with spin-layer locking in monolayer PtSe2
has great potential for electric field tunable spintronic devices [1]. Therefore, PtSe2 is an attractive
candidate for a variety of applications. Obtaining high quality PtSe2 films is a critical step toward thisgoal. Among various growth methods for thin film, molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) can provide a better
control in terms of growth dynamics and realization of large size, high quality single crystalline films onvarious substrates with controlled film thickness. In this work, we have successfully grown the PtSe2 thinfilms and by using Spin-ARPES, we systematically investigated the helical spin texture with spin-layer
locking in monolayer, bilayer and bulk PtSe2 in detail. Such MBE growth method can be further extended
to other insulating substrates.
Figure 2(a)–(d) shows spin-ARPES measurements along the Γ-K and Γ-K’ high symmetry directionsof both 1 ML and 2 ML films. Large spin contrast is observed along the tangential direction at emission
angles of −4º and 4º, respectively (dashed line in figure 2(f)). The radial and out-of-plane directions show
negligible spin contrast. This is consistent with the helical spin texture as previously reported in 1 ML
PtSe2 films on Pt(111) substrate [2], confirming that it is an intrinsic effect of the PtSe 2 film rather than
the influence from Pt substrate. Similar helical spin texture is also observed in centrosymmetric bulk
PtSe2 crystals (figure 2(e)), supporting the spin-layer locking mechanism induced by local Rashba effect[1]. Such helical spin texture induced by local Rashba effect makes it potentially useful for electric field
tunable spintronics.
In summary, we have successfully achieved epitaxial growth of high quality PtSe 2 thin films with
controlled thickness using MBE. By Spin-ARPES, we reveal the hidden local Rashba spin polarizations
in our samples. Combined with its unique high charge carrier mobility and air stability, PtSe 2 is apromising candidate for applications in new-generation electronic devices.

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REFERENCE
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Zhang X, Liu Q, Luo J-W, Freeman A J and Zunger A. Hidden spin polarization in inversion-symmetric bulk
crystals Nat. Phys. 10 387–93 (2014)

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Yao W et al. Direct observation of local Rashba spin polarization and spin-layer locking in centrosymmetricmonolayer PtSe2 Nat. Commun. 8 14216–21 (2017)3.

Yan Mingzhe et al. High quality atomically thin PtSe2 films grown by molecular beam epitaxy 2D Mater. 4045015 (2017)

FIGURE 1: (a) Schematic view of PtSe2 grown on graphene substrate. (b) and (c) RHEED patterns of epitaxial
bilayer graphene over a 6H-SiC (0001) substrate (b) and after growing 0.8 ML PtSe2 thin film (c).

FIGURE 2: (a) and (b) Spin-resolved energy distribution curves (EDCs) for the 1 ML PtSe2 in-plane tangential
direction at emission angles of −4º and 4º, respectively. (c) and (d) Spin-resolved EDCs for bilayer PtSe2 in-plane
tangential direction at emission angles of −4º and 4º, respectively. (e) Spin-resolved EDCs for the bulk PtSe2 inplane tangential direction at emission angles of −4º. (f) ARPES data of 2 ML PtSe2 film measured at different
emission angles.

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16BG003

BL-9B

Rich Surface Electronic Structure of Group-X
Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides
O. J. Clark1, J. M. Riley1,2, J. Feng1, P. D. C. King1
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School of Physics & Astronomy, University of St Andrews, St Andrews KY1 69SS, United Kingdom
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Diamond Light Source, Harwell Campus, Didcot OX11 ODE, United Kingdom

Keywords: Transition-metal dichalcogenides, topological surface states, bulk Dirac fermions, spin-ARPES

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are layered compounds renowned for their wide array of bulk
electronic phases, from charge-density wave phases [1] to ‘hidden’ spin polarizations [2]. These properties
arise largely from electrons occupying the transition-metal d-orbital manifold and vary extensively whensubstituting the transition metal for another. In contrast, ladders of bulk Dirac points (BDPs) andtopological surface states (TSS) have been recently discovered across the full material family of TMDs,
owing to their origin being solely within the chalcogen p-orbital manifold [3,4].
The group-X TMDs (Pt, Pd) have a particularly rich surface electronic structure. A series of bandinversions along the kz axis of their Brillioun zone induces up to three topological states (labeled 0, 1 and 2
in Fig. 1). There are numerous other surface states (labeled 3, 4 and 5) within these compounds of
unknown origin. The extensive three-dimensionality of the bulk electronic structure results in only narrowkz projected band gaps in which these surface states can occupy, often resulting in complicated andoccasionally ‘flat’ band dispersions. The reduction of spin-orbit strength from PdTe2 to PtSe2 reduces thesizes of the projected band gaps further still, most obvious when comparing TSS2 and SS3 between thetwo compounds show in Fig. 1.
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Along the Γ-M direction, where only the chiral component is permitted to be non-zero for symmetry
reasons, all surface states give a strong signal with the top branch of SS3 and SS5 having an opposite
direction of chirality to the lower branch of SS3. When rotating azimuthally, a clear out-of-plane (Sz)polarization starts to develop for all states probed, becoming maximal along the Γ-K direction. Additional
data collected at BL9B (not shown) demonstrates how this out-of-plane component persists along the fullmomentum range of the surface states, and each obeys time-reversal symmetry. An equivalent dataset for
PtSe2, shows how significant radial warping of these states develops in addition to the out-of-planecomponent. This results from the reduced spin-orbit coupling strength of the selenium containing
compound enforcing flatter dispersions. The origins and full spin textures of each of these surface states
will be discussed in an upcoming publication [5].
Band inversions formed within a single-orbital manifold of the TMDs rely on large bandwidths along kz ofeach of the bulk bands contained within, and is therefore inherently associated with small kz projected bandgaps in the surface zone. The diversity in the states that make up the non-trivial surface electronic structureof the group-X TMDs is testament to this, and demonstrates how interlinked, complex surface electronic
structures are likely common to all compounds contain topological phases within a single-orbital manifold.

REFERENCES
1.
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K. Rossnagel et al., Fermi surface, charge-density-wave gap, and kinks in 2H-TaSe2, Physical Review B 72, 121103(R)(2005)J. M. Riley et al., Direct observation of spin-polarized bulk bands in an inversion-symmetric semiconductor Nature
Physics 10, 835–839 (2014)
M. S. Bahramy, O. J. Clark et al. Ubiquitous formation of bulk Dirac cones and topological surface states from a single
orbital manifold in transition-metal dichalcogenides. Nature Materials 17, 23–27 (2018)
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17AG011

BL-9B

Experimental observation of node-line-like surface states
in LaBi
Baojie Fenga, Jin Caob, Meng Yangc, Ya Fenga,d, Shilong Wue, Botao Fub,
Masashi Aritaa, Koji Miyamotoa, Shaolong Hed, Kenya Shimadaa, Youguo Shic,
Taichi Okudaa and Yugui Yaoba

Hiroshima Synchrotron Radiation Center, Hiroshima University, 2-313 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima
739-0046, Japanb
Beijing Key Laboratory of Nanophotonics and Ultrafine Optoelectronic Systems, School of Physics,
Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, Chinac
Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, Chinad
Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ningbo 315201,
Chinae
Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University, 1-3-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8526,
Japan
Keywords: node line, magnetoresistance, surface states, topological, ARPES, first-principles calculations.

Topological semimetals represent a novel class of quantum materials whose conduction and valencebands touch at discrete points or extended lines. Until now, three types of topological semimetals havebeen discovered: Dirac, Weyl and nodal line. In Dirac/Weyl semimetals, the energy-momentum dispersion
is linear along all momentum directions, forming Dirac/Weyl cones in the proximity of the Fermi level. In
nodal line semimetals, the crossing points form extended lines in the momentum space, i.e., the nodal lines.
While the Dirac cones or nodal lines discovered in topological semimetals typically derive from the bulk
bands, an interesting question is that whether they can exist as surface states of three-dimensional crystals.
The nodal line surface states could manifest extraordinary properties that are distinct from othertwo-dimensional Dirac materials. To date, the surface Dirac cones have already been extensively studied in
topological insulators, such as the Bi2Se3 family materials, while theoretical and experimental studies on
the surface nodal lines are still rare.
Recently, rare-earth monopnictide LaBi has been predicted to be a topological insulator based on
firstprinciples calculations. Moreover, magneto-transport measurements showed that LaBi hosts extremely
large magnetoresistence (XMR), in analogy to some topological semimetals, such as Cd3As2, TaAs, and
ZrSiS. These results have stimulated great research interest to search for the Dirac bands in LaBi. Recent
angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) measurements revealed that there are multiple
surface Dirac cones on the (001) surface of LaBi. However, the details of the band structures are still
controversial. J. Nayak et al. and X. H. Liu et al. reported two surface Dirac cones at the ܺത point with anenergy separation of 75 meV and 80 meV, respectively [1,2]. In contrast, R. Lou et al. reported only one
Dirac cone at the ܺത point. Therefore, clarifying these controversies, which is essential to understand theextraordinary transport properties in LaBi, calls for further experimental and theoretical efforts.
In this Letter, we present the results of high-resolution ARPES measurements and first-principles
calculations on the electronic structures of LaBi. We find that the surface states near the ܺത points
resemble Dirac nodal lines, bridging the band gap opened by spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and band inversion.
In addition, our calculation results show that these node-line-like bands originate from the topologicalsurface states (TSSs) of LaBi. These results may provide important information to understand theextraordinary physical properties in LaBi and could stimulate further research interest to search for the
exotic physical properties associated with nodal line fermions- 90 -FIGURE 1. (a) Crystal structure of LaBi. Red and blue balls represent La and Bi atoms, respectively. (b) Bulk Brillouinzone and the (001)-projected surface Brillouin zone. (c) Photoemission intensity at the Fermi level of LaBi measured with
31-eV photons. Red lines indicate the momentum cuts along which the ARPES intensity plots in (d) were taken. (d) ARPES
intensity plots along the red lines in (c). (e) Calculated bulk bands of LaBi. (f) Zoom-in band structures in the red circles of(e). (g) Surface band structures of the (001) surface of LaBi. The white arrow indicates the linear band crossing. (h)Schematic drawing of the surface state from one of the bulk X point. For clarity, the C4-related surface state from aninequivalent bulk X point is not shown here. The band dispersions along perpendicular directions are indicated by red(linear) and blue lines (quadratic). The constant energy contours are shown in the bottom.

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1. J. Nayak, S.-C. Wu, N. Kumar, C. Shekhar, S. Singh, J. Fink, E. E.D. Rienks, G. H. Fecher, S. S.P. Parkin, B. Yan, and
C. Felser.Nat. Commun.8, 13942 (2016).
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Rev. B 94, 165163 (2016).
3. R. Lou, et al. Phys. Rev. B 95, 115140 (2017).

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17AG017

BL-9B

Spin Texture of Topological Surface States on the Kondo
Insulator SmB6(111)
Yoshiyuki Ohtsuboa, b, Yuki Yamashitab, Koji Miyamotoc, Taichi Okudac,
Wataru Hiranod, Fumitoshi Igad and Shin-ichi Kimuraa,baGraduate School of Frontier Biosciences, Osaka University, Suita 565-0871, Japan
Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka 560-0043, Japanc
Hiroshima Synchrotron Radiation Center, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-0046, Japand
College of Science, Ibaraki University, Mito 310-8512, Japanb

Keywords: Topological Kondo Insulator, spin-resolved ARPES, SmB6

Topological surface states (TSS) with typical spin texture are one of hot topics in solid-state physics inthis decade [1]. Among them, TSS and its spin texture realized in the non-conventional bulk insulatorssuch as Kondo insulators whose bandgap opens due to the strong electron correlations, namely Kondo
effect, is gathering much attention in these days (Topological Kondo Insulator: TKI) [2]. It is because they
are regarded as a promising playground to search for new, exotic electronic phenomena driven byconcerted effects between strong electron correlation and topological order.
Samarium hexaboride (SmB6) is a typical and long-known Kondo insulator. Moreover, SmB6 is one of
the 1st materials proposed as a candidate of TKI [2]. Since one of the most evident electronic phenomena
due to the topological order is the metallic surface states dispersing across the bulk bandgap, the surface
electronic structure of SmB6 has been extensively studied [3-4]. Although some angle-resolved
photoelectron spectroscopy (ARPES) studies have reported metallic surface states as expected for TSS [3],the other report has claimed its origin as topologically trivial and accidental surface states [4]. One of thereason why the discussion is still controversial is that most of earlier ARPES studies are performed on thecleaved (001) surface of SmB6 single crystals; the SmB6 single crystal can be cleaved only along (001).
Since the cleaved surface can contain multiple atom-truncation planes (surfaces terminated by Sm or B6,
for example) and the (001) surface even forms surface superstructures, it was quite difficult to make anunambiguous assignment of the surface states and its topology.
In this work, we performed high-resolution spin-resolved ARPES measurements at BL-9B of HiSOR
on SmB6(111), which is the new surface orientation obtained this time. The (111) surface cannot be
obtained by cleaving. Instead, we heated the mechanically-polished single crystal surface up to 1600 K in
an ultra-high vacuum chamber, so that most of the contaminants as well as the damages to the surface bypolishing are removed.
Figure 1 (a) shows the Fermi contour of the SmB6(111) clean surface taken at the temperature of 20 K.
Three-fold oval contours, obeying the C3v symmetry group of the (111) surface, are clearly observed. At 20
K, the bulk electronic structure of SmB6 is insulating. Therefore, the observed electronic states at the Fermi
level here are from the surface electronic structure. Due to the time-reversal symmetry, the Fermi-contour
shape of the initial states should be six-fold, as depicted in Fig. 1 (c). The lack of the photoelectron
intensity for the other three-fold contours would be due to the ARPES experimental geometry and the lackof the mirror plane on (-110). Actually, the other three-fold Fermi contour was observed by the other
ARPES experiments with different experimental geometries (not shown).
In order to obtain further insight into this metallic surface states, especially about its topologicalcharacter, spin texture of these states are observed as shown in Fig. 1 (b) by the spin-resolved momentum
distribution curves at the Fermi level. It clearly shows the spin-resolved peak at ky ~ 0.25 ύ -1

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corresponding to the Fermi contour observed by the spin-integrated ARPES (Fig. 1 (a)). In addition, asmall but finite peak with the opposite spin polarization was also observed at ky ~ -0.25ύ-1. This peakwould correspond to the other three-fold Fermi contour discussed above, which is observed as a weak but
finite peak thanks to the spin resolution.
Based on these results, we could obtain the whole spin texture of the metallic surface states at the Fermi―

level, as depicted in Fig. 1 (c). It indicates the single Fermi contour enclosing each M point on the surface
Brillouin zone, which is the time-reversal invariant momenta (TRIM). Such situation is the typical
topologically non-trivial surface electronic structure and therefore we can conclude that SmB6 is the
topological Kondo insulator without any ambiguity.
Further studies and analysis for this peculiar surface electronic structure realized by the concerted effectbetween topology and strong electron correlation is in progress.


FIGURE 1. (a) Fermi contour of the SmB6(111) clean surface measured by ARPES (hQ = 26 eV, T = 20 K). Dashed lines are
guides to the eye. (b) Spin-resolved ARPES MDCs taken along [112] (hQ = 26 eV, T = 20 K). (c) A schematic drawing of the
Fermi contour and the observed spin orientations.

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1. M. Z. Hasan and C. L. Kane, Rev. Mod. Phys. 82, 3045 (2010).
2. M. Dzero et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 106408 (2010).
3. N. Xu et al., J. Phys.: Condens. Matt. 28, 363001 (2016) and references therein.
4. P. Hlawenka et al., arXiv: 1502.01542 (2015).

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17AG040

BL-9B

Spin polarized surface state derived from d-electrons on
W(100)
K. Miyamotoa, T. Matsudab, T. Okudaa, H. Satoa and J. Henkca

Hiroshima Synchrotron Radiation Center, Hiroshima Univ.
b
Graduated School of Science, Hiroshima Univ.
c
Institut für Physik, Martin-Luther-Universität

Keywords: Topological crystalline metal, Spin-ARPES

Topological materials and topological crystalline material possess edge state with spin polarization
called as topological surface state (TSS). The spin polarization is caused by spin-orbit interaction in a
combination with a broken space inversion symmetry. We have discovered spin-polarized Dirac-cone-likesurface state formed by d-electrons on W(110), which is reminiscent of TSS[1]. By recently detail bandcalculation of W, it suggests that the artificial strained in top, second and third layer of W open semimetal
band gap, which lead to non-zero mirror Chern number i.e., our discovered surface state of W(110) is
classified as edge state of topological crystalline transition metal. According to this theory, it is interesting
which the various surfaces such as (100) and (110) of tungsten have topologically spin-polarized
Dirac-cone surface states or not. In this report, we will clarify a spin-polarized surface state on clean
W(100) around  using spin- andangle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy(Sin-ARPES) at BL-9B (HiSOR).
Figure1showsangle-resolved
photoemission spectra without and with
spin-resolution along , taken at photon
energy of 43 eV with s-polarized light. In
spin-integrated ARPES result (left figure), a
band dispersion (S1) crossing at  atbinding energy of 1.1 eV is shown. Because
the band dispersion and energy position of
the observed crossing band is independenton photon energy from 20 to 43 eV, it isconcluded that S1 is derived from surface.
Furthermore, in order to confirm the spinfeature of S1, we have performed
spin-ARPES measurement as shown in
middle and right panels of Fig.1. Here, theobserved spin component is aligned along
in-plane spin component normal to . In
the spin-up spectra, there is one branch of S1
up-ward dispersion from -3 to 1.5 deg. On
F i g. 1 Spin-integrated (left) and spin-resolved ARPES
the other hand, counterpart branch of S1 isintensity (middle: spin-up, right:spin-down) for W(100)observed in spin-down state. Consequently,
. The observed spin orientation is aligned along thealong we have clarified that the S1 is the.
in-plane spin component normal to 
spin-polarized surface-derived state causedby spin-orbit interaction. In detail, we
introduce you in my presentation.

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REFERENCES
1. K. Miyamoto et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 0066808 (2012).
2. D. Thonig et al., Phys. Rev. B 94, 155132.

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AU008BL-9B

Signature of hidden order in spin resolved photoemission
spectra of Sr2IrO4
S. H. Kima, Y. K. Kima and B. J. Kimb,c,daDepartment of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 34141, Republic of
Koreab
Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Heisenbergstrasse 1, 70569 Stuttgart, GermanycDepartment of Physics, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang 790-784, South Korea
4Center for Artificial Low Dimensional Electronic Systems, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), 77
Cheongam-Ro, Pohang 790-784,

Keywords: iridate, spin-resolved photoemission spectroscopy

We have performed spin- and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy on 5d transition metal oxide
compound called iridates. Spin polarized spectra were successfully accumulated in momentum dependent
manner which reveal unexpected 2-fold symmetry.
Single layer iridate compound Sr2IrO4 becomes spin-orbit coupling assisted antiferromagnetic Mott
insulator below TN [1]. Due to the octahedral rotation, it additionally shows finite canted magnetic moment[2] which could introduce finite spin polarization in their electronic structure. Obtained spin polarized spectra
prove such possible spin polarization. Furthermore, spin polarizations in different momentum position show
distinct signs which follows 2-fold symmetry rather than 4-fold symmetry of tetragonal crystal structure. As
shown in figure 1, spin polarization spectra taken at the momentum position 1 and 2 have finite negativevalue (binding energy 0.3~0.1 eV) while that in position 3 and 4 return positive value.
This reduced rotational symmetry of spin suggests formation of additional phase that obeys 2-foldrotational symmetry. Indeed, recent experimental and theoretical works reveal that there could be hidden
order of 2-fold symmetry in pristine and electron doped Sr2IrO4 [3,4]. Our spin polarization spectra thus may
provide additional information on the genuineness of that hidden order which should be extracted out indetail and careful consideration

FIGURE 1. (a) Constant energy map of ARPES spectra at the top of low Hubbard band. (b)-(e) Energy

distribution curves of spin up (red triangle) and down (blue inverse triangle) obtained from different
momentum positions 1-4 indicated in (a). Black lines under each panel show spin polarization as a functionof binding energy.

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4.

B. J. Kim et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 076401 (2006).
J. H. Kim et al, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 177003 (2012).
A. de la Torre et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 176402 (2015).
Sen Zhou, Kun Jiang, Hua Chen, and Ziqiang Wang, Phys. Rev. X 7, 041018 (2017).

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17BU005 (HiSOR proposal number)

BL-9B (HiSOR beamline number)

Direct Experimental Verification on spin-resolved Valley
Structure in two-dimensional MX2 (M=Mo,W;X=S,Se)
Semiconductors
Wenjuan Zhao1, Yuan Huang1, Shilong Wu2, K. Miyamoto2, T.Okuda2,
Guodong Liu1* and Xingjiang Zhou1*
1

National Laboratory for Superconductivity, Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics,
Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
2
Hiroshima Synchrotron Radiation Center, Hiroshima University, 2-313 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima,
Hiroshima 739-0046, Japan
Keywords: 2D material, transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), Spin and Angle Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy(SARPES or spin-ARPES)

Spin-valley locking in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides is not fully understood yet. Basically,
it is believed that the spin polarization at K valley is 100%, and it reverses sign at K’[1, 2]. But, there has
no direct observation on this prediction in theory. What’s more, it is also an interesting point whether
incident beam or other factors in ARPES measurements can control the spin polarization and spin-valleylocking or not. Up to now, there are only few works of spin-resolved ARPES on monolayer TMDCs [3-5].
It calls for a systematic research on the involved spin electronic states and an in-depth understanding on
this issue. The investigation is also significant to the possible application in spintronics and valleytronics.
The approved beam time in HiSOR was used to do Spin and Angle Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy(SARPES) measurements on the typical monolayer TMDC material WSe2.
In Fig.1(a)[2], it shows the typical unit cell of 2H stacking WSe2. Fig.1(b) shows the schematic drawingof spin-valley locking[1].The hexagon Brillioun zone (BZ) is given in green guide line. And themomentum position of ARPES measurement used to focus on the K point is marked as blue line in Fig.1(c).
Fig.1(d) shows the corresponding dispersion where the spin-resolved EDCs was taken along the dashedblack line.

FIGURE 1.Electronic structure of monolayer WSe2. (a) The crystal structure of 2H-WSe2.The red and blue balls stand for
W and Se [2], respectively. (b)The schematic drawing of spin-valley locking [1]. (c)The WSe2 Brillouin zone (BZ). Greenline is the hexagon BZ of monolayer WSe2. (d) The measured band dispersion to find K position. The momentum positionof this spectrum is shown in (c) using blue line.

Fig.2 demonstrates the spin-resolved photoemission spectra at K or K' under different photon energy
and polarization. In Fig.2(a), it shows the spin polarization at adjacent two K points. Both Px and Pz (spinpolarization along x and z direction) are reversed from K to K’, which is consistent with theory. To see if
different photon parameters can change spin polarization or not, we tried different photon polarization andphoton energy in Fig2.(b) and (c). It’s obvious that spin polarization in magnitude change under different- 98 -

photon polarization and photon energy. Among these data, we got the highest spin polarization at 21.2eV
and under circular left (CL) polarization.

FIGURE 2. Spin polarization of monolayer WSe2. (a) A comparison between K and K’. Red line and blue line stand forspin-up and spin-down. Green line represents spin polarization. The up row corresponds to Px while down row Pz. Leftcolumn and right column is for K and K’(hv=21.2eV, photon polarization CL), respectively. (b) Spin polarization under
different photon polarization. From up to down, it shows S, CL and CR photon polarization, respectively. (c) Spinpolarization at different photon energy. The upper panel shows Pz spin polarization at 21.2eV photon energy. While thelower one displays that measured at 41eV photon energy (S photon polarization).
TABLE 1. The summary of spin polarization. The blue number means the spin polarization of the lower band in K splitting.
The signs * identify the cases with very high polarization. The signs '-' stand for spin down.

hv(eV)
21.2

Polarization
S

Momentum
K
K’

CL

K
K’

41

CR

K

S

K

CL

K

Pz(%)
37
-25
-62
46
65
-40
-49
50
37
-26
38
-25
68
-42

Px(%)
41
-21
-56
48
72
-27
-58
16
46
-47
32
-5
57
-15

Ptotal(%)
55
-33
-84*
67
97*
-48
-76*
52
59
-54
50
-26
89*
-45

Table 1. is a summary of spin polarization on various measurement conditions. We did SARPES study
on adjacent K points using different photon polarization and photon energy, and got some systematic
results. We directly show the nearly 100% spin polarization at K and K’ in experiment. The spinpolarization shows opposite sign from K to K’. However, we do not see spin polarization reverse its signwith photon polarization changing from CL to CR. But it is clear that the large modulation of spinpolarization appears with changed photon polarization and photon energy. Based on these results, a paper
writing is now in progress.

REFERENCES
1. D. Xiao et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 108,196802 (2012) .
2. YJ. Zhang et al., 2D Mater. 2 , 044004˄2015˅.
3. K. Sugawara et al. Appl. Phys. Lett. 107, 071601 (2015).
4. S.K. Mo et al., J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 28 454001 (2016).
5. H. Bana et al., arXiv:1802.02220 (2018)- 99 -

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BL-11

Sulfur Compound formed at surface of Granulated Coal
Ash Capped in Organically Enriched Sediment
Kyunghoi Kima, Tamiji Yamamotob and Shinjiro HayakawacaDepartment of Ocean Engineering, Pukyong National University, 45, Yongso-ro, Nam-Gu, Busan 48513,
Republic of Koreab
Department of Biosphere Science, Hiroshima University, 1-4-4, Kagamiyama 1 chome, Higashi-Hiroshima
739-8528, Japanc
Graduate School of Engineering, Hiroshima University, 1-4-1, Kagamiyama 1 chome, Higashi-Hiroshima 7398527, Japan
Keywords: Granulated coal ash, Capping, Hydrogen sulfide, Sulfur compound

Deterioration of sediment quality in coastal inner bay is a serious problem due to the inflow of organicload. In such organically enriched sediment, hydrogen sulfide is produced by sulfate reduction (Richard,2005). Hydrogen sulfide is highly toxic and fatal to living organisms. Hydrogen sulfide also consumes
oxygen in the seawater when it is oxidized. It is important to remediate deteriorated sediments and preserving
healthy ecosystems. Several articles have tried to develop techniques for remediating deteriorated sediments
using recycled materials such as iron slags (Yamada et al., 1987;‫ٻ‬Johansson and Gustafsson, 2000) and clamshells (Kwon et al., 2003; Asaoka et al., 2009; Yamamoto et al., 2012).
Fukuyama inner harbor is an enclosed bay located in the western Seto Inland Sea of Japan. This area has
many serious problems, such as outbreak of malodorous gas, raw scum, eutrophication and blue tide.
Granulated Coal Ash(GCA) was applied for the remediation of Fukuyama inner harbor (Nakamoto et al.,2017). In order to investigate mechanism of hydrogen sulfide removal with GCA in Fukuyama inner harbor,
XAFS analysis was carried out.
XAFS analysis (beamline BL-11 of the Hiroshima Synchrotron Research Center, HiSOR) of the K-edgeof sulfur was performed for the components contained in the sampled GCA in Fukuyama bay (Hayakawa etal., 2008). The standard spectra of FeS and humic acid are shown in Figure 1, and normalization was carriedout using software REX2000.
The sulfur K-edge peak of the initial GCA was 2482 eV, indicating sulfate. On the other hand, sulfur K-edge
curve of the Fukuyama GCA shell has an inflection point at approximately 2469, 2473.5, 2476 and 2482 eV,
which corresponds to FeS and humic acid. These results on XAFS analysis suggested that formation of FeS play
an important role in the removal of hydrogen sulfide in Fukuyama inner harbor (Hayashi et al., 2014).
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1. Asaoka, S., Yamamoto, T., Kondo, S., Hayakawa, S., 2009. Removal of hydrogen sulfide using crushedoyster shell from pore water to remediate organically enriched coastal marine sediments. Bioresource
Technology 100, 4127-4132.
2. Johansson, L., Gustafsson, J. P., 2000. Phosphate removal using blast furnace slags and opokamechanisms. Water Research 34, 259-265.
3. Hayashi, A., Asaoka, S., Watanabe, T., Kaneko, R., Takahashi, K., Miyata, Y., Kim, K., Yamamoto, T.,
Inoue, R., Ariyama, T., 2014. Mechanism of Suppression of Sulfide Ion in Seawater Using Steelmaking
Slag. ISIJ International 54, 1741-1748.
4. Kwon, H. B., Lee, C. W., Jun, B. S., Yun, J. D., Weon, S. Y., Koopman, B., 2004. Recycling waste oyster
shells for eutrophication control. Resources Conservation & recycling 41, 75-82.
5. Nakamoto, K., Hibino, T., Hino, K., Touch, N., 2015. Granulated coal ash – used method for remediation- 100 -

of organic matter enriched coastal sediments. Procedia Engineering 116, 326-333.
6. Richard, D., Morse, J.W., 2005. Acid volatile sulfide (AVS). Mar. Chem. 97, 141-197.
7. Yamada, H., Kayama, M., Saito, K., Hara, M., 1987. Suppression of phosphate liberation from sedimentby using iron slag. Water Research 21, 325-333.
8. Yamamoto, T., Kondo, S., Kim, K. H., Asaoka, S., Yamamoto, H., Tokuoka, M., Hibino, T., 2012.
Remediation of muddy tidal flat sediments using hot air-dried crushed oyster shells. Marine Pollution
Bulletin 64, 2428-2434.

FIGURE 1. Sulfur K edge XAFS spectra of Granulated Coal Ash sampled at Fukuyama inner harbor.

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17AG001

BL-11

Identifying sulfur species in marine sediments collectedfrom Seto Inland Sea, Japan using XAFS
Satoshi ASAOKAa, Yasuhiro USHIHARAb ,Akira UMEHARAc ,Kazuhiko TAKEDAd, Hiroshi SAKUGAWAd and Shinjiro HAYAKAWAea

Research Center for Inland Seas, Kobe Univ. (5-1-1 Fukaeminami, Higashinada Kobe 658-0022 Japan)bResearch Center for Inland Seas, Kobe Univ. (2746 Iwaya, Awaji 656-2401 Japan)cEnviron. Res. Manage. Cent., Hiroshima Univ. (1-5-3, Kagamiyama, Higashihiroshima, 739-8513 Japan)dGrad. School of Biosph. Sci., Hiroshima Univ. (1-7-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8521 Japan)eGrad. School of Eng., Hiroshima Univer. (1-4-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8527 Japan)
Keywords: eutrophication, enclosed water bodies, environmental remediation, hydrogen sulfide, sulfate

1. Introduction
Fisheries production in the Seto Inland Sea which is largest enclosed sea in Japan reduced by half in thelast 30 years. One of the reasons for the decrease is thought to be the deterioration of marine sediments.
Hydrogen sulfide in eutrophic marine sediments is highly toxic to benthic organisms and may cause foulodor and blue tide. The hydrogen sulfide distribution is controlled by biogenic and abiogenic reactions suchas sulfide oxidation, sulfate reduction, metal sulfide precipitation and dissolution, nucleophilic additions toorganic matter, and acid base equilibria. The purposes of this study were to (1) determine directly thehydrogen sulfide concentration in marine sediment pore water using a detection tube and (2) identify sulfur
species in marine sediment using XAFS instead of the complicated sequential extraction method.
2. Materials and Methods
Sediment samples were collected from Seto Inland Sea (Fig. 1) using an undisturbed core sampler (ø11cm, 50 cm long: HR type; Rigo) or an Ekman-Birge bottom sampler (20 cm x 20 cm; Rigo) deployed froma training and research vessel, HIKARI, of the National Institute of Technology, Hiroshima College and
ONOKORO, of the Research Center for Inland Seas, Kobe University and TOYOSHIO-Maru, of Faculty ofBiological Science, Hiroshima University. The collected cores were cut at every 5 cm on board. The
surface sediments collected by the Ekman-Birge bottom sampler were taken from the top layer (5 cm). The
sediment pore water was collected by installing a soil moisture sampler (DIK-305A; Daiki Rika Kogyo) tothe sediments and the concentration of hydrogen sulfide in the pore water was measured by the detection
tube (200SA or 200SB: Komyo Rikagaku Kougyo). Oxidation and reduction potential (Eh) and pH were
measured by inserting each electrode to the sediments (RM-30P; DKK-TOA, C-62; AS ONE). The
collected sediments were vacuum-dried at 45oC and ground using an agate made mortar. The homogenized
sediment samples were stored in vacuum packs to prevent oxidation before XAFS analyses. Verticalprofiles such as temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen (DO) concentration and salinity of the water column ateach sampling station were also measured using multi electrodes.
Sulfur K edge XAFS spectra (ranges 2460–2490 eV) of the sediments were measured using the BL11 in
the Hiroshima Synchrotron Research Center, HiSOR. The synchrotron radiation from a bending magnet
was monochromatized with a Si(111) double-crystal monochromator. The sample chamber was filled with
He gas, and XAFS spectra were measured by the X-ray fluorescence yield (XFY) mode using a SDD detector(XR-100SDD; AMPTEK). The X-ray energy around K edges of sulfur was calibrated with the spectra of
CuSO4 obtained with the CEY mode. The K edge main peak of sulfate was set to 2481.6 eV. The
sediment samples were mounted on a double stick tape (NW-K15; Nichiban) placed in the central hole (15mm in diameter) of a copper plate. The surface of the sample was attached to that of the copper plate.
The angle between the incident X-ray and the sample surface was adjusted at 20o, and the X-ray fluorescence
was detected from the direction normal to the incident beam in the plane of electron orbit of the storage ring.
Concentrations of each sulfur species were calculated from total sulfur concentration proportionally divided- 102 -

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Total sulfur concentration was determined by an ICP-AES or an

3. Results and Discussion
The concentrations of hydrogen sulfide in surface sediment pore water ranged from <0.1 to 4 mg-S L-1,
<0.1 mg-S L-1, <0.1 mg-S L-1, <0.1 to 15 g-S L-1, <0.1 to 110 mg-S L-1 and <0.1 mg-S L-1 in Hiroshima
Bay (Stns. HR) Aki-Nada (Stns. AK), Hiuchi-Nada (Stn. HU), Harima-Nada (Stns, HA), Osaka Bay (Stns.
OS) and Kii-Channel (Stns. KI) respectively. Sulfur species in marine sediments collected from Seto Inland
Sea mainly fitted with the combination of sulfate, thiosulfate, elemental sulfur, and pyrite. Examples of thesulfur species in surface sediments collected from Seto Inland Sea in Summer or Autumn are shown in Fig.
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bacteria, (2) sulfur formed by (bio) oxidation of hydrogen sulfide and (3) pyrite derived from (bio)mineralization. Pyrite was significantly identified at Osaka Bay (Stns. OS), Harima-Nada (Stns. HA-1, 2 , 5
and 6), Hiuchi-Nada (Stn. 1) and Stn. HR-4 (Etajima Bay). Osaka Bay are adjacent to a big metropolitan
area. The terrigenous loads from the Yodo River and Yamato River form halocline in the northern part of
Osaka Bay. The Stns. HA-1, 5, 6 and HU-1 are located in the center of the Bay. The peaks of thesedimentation rate were observed at these stations due to the presence of the spiral point of the reverse flowtransferring particle matter. Stn HR4 is located inside the enclosed bay called Etajima Bay where intensive
oyster culture is conducted. These stations are affected by significant organic matter loads. Thus, the highflux of organic matter leads to the rapid depletion of oxygen in the sediments due to intense microbial activity.
Under such anoxic conditions, sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) utilize sulfate as a terminal electron accepter
for the degradation of organic matter and generates hydrogen sulfide. The major pathway of pyrite formationis H2S Ѝ FeS Ѝ FeS2 [1]. Hence, pyrite in these stations was derived from hydrogen sulfide and ironcontained in the sediments. In contrast, Sulfate and thiosulfate were dominant species near the mouth ofrivers (Stns. OS-3, OS-4, HA-3, HR-1 and HR-2) because dissolved oxygen can be supplied with theestuarine circulation. Additionally, at oligotrophic areas (Stns KI and AK), sulfate and thiosulfate were also
dominant species due to saturated oxygen seawater intrusion from the Pacific Ocean and Iyo-Nada,
respectively.
Acknowledgements
This study was partially supported by the Environment Research and Technology Development Fund of
the Ministry of the Environment, Japan (S-13) and Fund of the Hyogo Science and Technology Associationin 2015. The authors show appreciation to Mr. Koji TAKEUCHI and Mr. Kazumitsu NAKAGUCHI, for piloting
the research vessel.

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BL-11

Mechanism Phosphate Removal by Pyrolyzed Oyster Shell
Kyunghoi Kima and Shinjiro HayakawabaDepartment of Ocean Engineering, Pukyong National University, 45, Yongso-ro, Nam-Gu, Busan 48513,
Republic of Koreab
Graduate School of Engineering, Hiroshima University, 4-1, Kagamiyama 1 chome, Higashi-Hiroshima 7398527, Japan
Keywords: Oyster shell, Phosphate removal, Pyrolysis

Phosphate is essential for all living things. It also plays a vital role in agricultural and industrial
development. However, substantial quantities of phosphate in water bodies owing to the discharge of
wastewater (as low as 0.02 mg/L) can trigger eutrophication (Conley et al., 2009; Li et al., 2016). Therefore,
treatment of wastewater is required to control the concentration of phosphate before its discharge. Oyster
shell is a byproduct of fisheries. Oyster shell has recently attracted interest for wastewater treatment becauseof its physical and chemical properties, such as calcium carbonate. Furthermore, application of a byproductin wastewater treatment is highly desirable in terms of economic advantages. In this study, removal
mechanism of phosphate with pyrolyzed oyster shell was analyzed using X-ray absorption fine structure(XAFS) analysis.
Pyrolysis is one of effective pretreatment method for recycling shells for removal of phosphate (Oladoja
et al., 2015). In this study, we used oyster shells pyrolyzed at 600oC for 6 hours with diameter of 0.075-0.355
mm.
XAFS analysis (beamline BL-11 of the Hiroshima Synchrotron Research Center, HiSOR) of the K-edgeof calcium was performed for the components contained in the initial and reacted pyrolized oyster shell in
phosphate solution (Hayakawa et al., 2008). The standard spectra of CaHPO4, CaO, and Ca(OH)2 are shownin Figure 1, and curve fitting was carried out using analysis software REX2000.
The calcium K-edge curve of the initial pyrolyzed oyster shell has an inflection point at approximately 4050
eV, which corresponds to calcium hydroxide, which does not appear in the spectra of the reacted fly ash. This
may imply that calcium hydroxide was decomposed in water to calcium ions. The curve fitting results clearlyshow that calcium hydrogen phosphate (CaHPO4) formed on the surface of the reacted fly ash, whereas calciumoxide and hydroxide were hydrolyzed. The results of XAFS analysis proposed that formation of calcium hydrogen
phosphate is mainly component for removal phosphate by pyrolyzed oyster shess (Xu et al., 2010).
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BL-11

Highly-Active Layered Titanosilicate Catalyst with High
SurfaceDensity of Isolated Titanium on the Accessible
Interlayer Surface
Nao Tsunoji,a Hidechika Nishida,a Shinjiro Hayakawa,a Masahiro Sadakane,aand Tsuneji Sanoa
Department of Applied Chemistry Graduate School of Engineering, Hiroshima University,a

Keywords:tianosilicate • layered silicate • olefin epoxidation • selective oxidation • titanium complex

Isolated metals or metal oxides having unusual coordination states on the solid phases often function as
catalytically specific active sites.[1] Among them, tetrahedrally coordinated transition metals, especially Ti
and V, covalently linked to frameworks of porous silicas (such as zeolites and mesoporous silicas) haveattracted a great attention due to the specific nature of the active sites in the “metallosilicate” catalyst
showing high activity and selectivity in the partial oxidations of a wide variety of hydrocarbons usingoxidants and/or photoirradiation.[2]In contrast, because of the formation of the unusual tetrahedrally coordinated species arising from an
isolation effect of the transition metals within the silica matrix, it has been difficult to obtain high surface
densities of the respective isolated sites in existing solid materials. If the surface density is greatly increased,transition metal oxides with octahedral coordination are typically formed by self-condensation.
Herein, to overcome such limitations, we attempted to use a layered material based catalyst designed byusing the crystalline surface of layered silicates. In this study, we immobilized Ti(IV) acetylacetonate(Ti(acac)4), a metal complex, onto the interlayer crystalline surface to afford a high surface density oftetrahedrally coordinated titanium species.The grafting of Ti(acac)4 was accomplished using the reaction of
long-chain alkylammonium-exchanged layered silicate (C16TMA HUS-7)[3] with Ti(acac)4, followed by the
extraction of C16TMA with an ethanol/hydrochloric acid solution to complete the immobilization, creating alayered titanosilicate with a relatively narrow interlayer space (HCl/Ti-HUS). However, in the previous
reports[4, 5], it have been found that the narrow interlayer spaces of layered silicate catalyst limits theircatalyticefficiency. Therefore, to prepared the catalyst providing larger interlayer reaction space an hencehigh mass-transport, grafting in low-polar solvent (toluene) containing dodecylbenzenesulfonic acid
(C12BSO3) was also performed, yielding a catalyst with layers supported by the maintained C16TMA (SO3/TiHUS).
Figure 1 (d) shows the Ti K-edge X-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES) spectra of the titaniumincorporated layered silicates and reference compounds (anatase TiO2, and titanium-incorporated
mesoporous silica (Ti-MCM-41)). Anatase TiO2 exhibits broad pre-edge peaks from 4965 to 4975 eV. Thesepeaks are assigned to the transitions from the 1s core level of the Ti atom to three different types of molecularorbitals (1t1g, 2t2g, and 3eg) of TiO2 with octahedral coordination.[6] In contrast, Ti-MCM-41 exhibits a sharp
pre-edge peak at approximately 4968 eV attributed to the transition from the 1s to the 3d level of the isolated
Ti atoms surrounded by four oxygen atoms.[7] Similarly, sharp pre-edge peaks were also observed in HCl/TiHUS and SO3/Ti-HUS. These results strongly indicate that the HCl/Ti-HUS and SO3/Ti-HUS have grafted
Ti species with a uniform tetrahedral coordination state. However, the Si/Ti ratios of HCl/Ti-HUS, SO3/TiHUS, and Ti-MCM-41 were 5.8, 6.4 and 27.9, respectively, (Table 1), and the loaded amount (surface
density) of titanium on the layered titanosilicates was much higher than that of Ti-MCM-41. The contents oftetrahedrally coordinated titanium (Si/Ti < 10) were remarkably high compared to those (Si/Ti = ca. 28-35)
of other zeolite and mesoporous silica based materials previously described in the literature.[8]Tetrahedrally coordinated titanium within porous silica catalysts activates oxidants with peroxy groups
that ensure efficient epoxidation of olefins. Therefore, the catalytic activities of HCl/Ti-HUS and SO3 TiHUS were evaluated for the oxidation of cyclohexene with tertbutyl hydroperoxide (TBHP) as an oxidant(Table 1). The reference commercial catalyst, Ti-MCM-41, with tetrahedrally coordinated titanium yields an- 108 -

epoxide product with a selectivity of 80%. In contrast, the layered titanosilicate catalyst showed higher
selectivity to the epoxideproducts (above 90 %), confirming that the isolated and tetrahedrally coordinatedTi species act efficiently for the HCl/Ti-HUS exhibited an epoxide yield (10.4%) that was approximately
two times higher than that exhibited by Ti-MCM-41 (5.7 %), although the layered titanosilicate has aremarkably low Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET) surface area (14 m2g-1) compared to the porous Ti-MCM41 catalyst (544 m2g-1). The layered titanosilicate with a large interlayer space (SO3/Ti-HUS) and also low
surface area (11 m2g-1) exhibited a much higher yield (16.7 %). These results reveal that effective epoxidation
reactions over layered titanosilicate proceed in the interlayer space.
In conclusion, we prepared a highly active layered titanosilicate with high surface density of tetrahedrally
coordinated titanium and tuned interlayer distance. In previous silica-based catalyst designs, the materials
with open-pore structures and high specific surfaces have shown a potential. Here, we showed that theefficient catalytic reaction space can be related to the suitable special distribution and coordination
environment of functional units that can be precisely tuned in the large interlayer space of layered silicate
based material. Accordingly, the catalyst design route that we have developed has a high potential in the
preparation of innovative catalysts with metal or metal oxide with unusual coordination state.

FIGURE 1. XANES spectra of layered silicate materials.
Table 1 Characteristics and catalytic performance of titanosilicate catalysts in the epoxidation of cyclohexene.
Catalytic performance[c]BETEpoxideEpoxideEpoxideTOF㻌area[b]
Si/Ti[a]yieldselectivity
production
rate
[mol
cyclohexeneoxide[m2 g-1][%]
molTi-1 h-1][%]
[mmol g-1 h-1]
HCl/Ti-HUS
5.8
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17BG033

BL-11

Depth selective and polarization dependence
measurements of sulfur K edge XAFS spectra frompolythiophene film under total reflection condition
Yuta Hamashimaa, Takeshi Kaia, Kenji Komaguchia, Joji Ohshitaa,
and Shinjiro Hayakawaaa Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
Keywords: XAFS, polythiophene, total reflection

Introduction
Polythiophene is one of popular conductive polymers, and the films of polythiophene and its derivatives
are utilized for organic solar cells and electroluminescence (EL) devices. It is known that the orientation ofa conductive polymer greatly contributes to the performance of the device, and the modification of theorientation by a substrate treatment [1] or introduction of a side chain [2] have been conducted.
Grazing incidence X-ray diffraction method is widely used to evaluate the orientation of the thin film.
However, it requires a powerful and highly collimated light source. We focused on the method of
evaluating the orientation of the thin film from the polarization dependence of the X-ray absorption finestructure (XAFS). Moreover, simultaneous detection of X-ray fluorescence yield (XFY) and conversion
electron yield (CEY) has enabled us XAFS measurements of bulk and near surface region [3], and thesignificant damage to the film caused by the annealing was observed around the near surface region.
In this study, orientation and oxidation state of poly (3-hexylthiophene-2,5-diyl) thin films prepared byspin-coating and drop-casting on Si substrates were evaluated from sulfur K edge XAFS spectra.
Experimental
A 5 mg / mL solution of P3HT in o-dichlorobenzene was dropped on a Si (100) wafer, and a thin film wasformed by a spin-coating (1st: 600 rpm for 3 s, 2nd: 3000 rpm for 30 s) and drop-casting. Thermal
annealing (100Υ, 20 min) was applied to the samples prepared by each method in air, and in a nitrogen
atmosphere. In addition, the samples without annealing were also prepared.
XAFS measurement was performed at BL-11 of Hiroshima Synchrotron Radiation Center (HiSOR). At
BL-11, monochromatized X-rays from 2.1 keV to 5.9 keV including S K edge energy can be used by Si(111) double crystal monochromator.
XFY and CEY can be measured simultaneously from a sample in a He filled chamber. The probing
depth with the CEY method is supposed to be less than 10 nm. In order to observe the polarization
dependence, ordinary arrangement [Figure 1(a)] that the angle between the electric field vector and thesample surface is 70 r(Eԋsurface), and grazing incidence arrangement [Figure 1(b)] including totalreflection condition were utilized. In the latter, the electric field vector and the sample surface are in thehorizontal plane (Eҋsurface).
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FIGURE 1. (a) conventional, (b) grazing incidence arrangements- 112 -

Results and Discussion
Glancing angle of 0.7 ° was employed for grazing incidence arrangement. The angle is corresponding to
the critical angle of total reflection for X-rays of 2490 eV on the Si surface. The critical angle wasexperimentally confirmed from the angle dependence of CEY from the spin-coated sample.
Polarization dependence of S K edge XAFS spectra obtained by CEY method from P3HT thin film
prepared by the spin-coat and the drop-cast are shown in Figure 2. Each sample was annealed in air.
According to a reference XAFS spectra of monolayer thiophene adsorbed on a substrate [4], the main peakat 2473.3 eV in the spectra obtained in the grazing incidence geometry could be assigned to the transition
from S 1s to σ*S-C, and the shoulder peak that appears lower energy side of the main peak was thetransition to π*. In the spectra of the spin-coated sample, the σ*S-C peak appeared strongly in the grazing
incidence arrangement. In the ordinary arrangement, the σ*S-C peak decreased, and the contribution of theπ* peak appearing in the shoulder increased. This result shows that the thiophene ring of P3HT is oriented
parallel to the substrate in the spin-coated sample. XAFS spectra from drop-cast sample shows the smaller
anisotropy than that of spin-coated sample owing the lower ordering of the film.
Figure 3 shows the effect of thermal annealing on the peaks ձand ղon the higher energy side of themain peak in the spectra. These peaks showed strong polarization dependence, and the dipole transition
moment of those were normal to the substrate (or thiophene plane). All XAFS spectra were obtained in theconventional arrangement. Peaks ձand ղ corresponded to sulfoxide and sulfonate, respectively. The
drop-cast samples showed no difference around peak ձwith and without the annealing While the peakղ significantly increased in sample annealed in air. For the spin-coated samples, no significant difference
was observed in the XAFS spectra. It was supposed that the near surface region of the film was originallyy
oxidized, and the oxidized region covered entire region of the spin coated film.

FIGURE 2. Polarization dependence of S K edge XAFS spectra from P3HT
prepared by (a) spin-coating (b) drop-casting.

FIGURE 3. Thermal annealing condition dependence of S K edge XAFS spectra obtained
from P3HT prepared in the conventional arrangement (a) spin-coati(b) drop-cast

References
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2. I. Osaka, M. Saito, T. Koganezawa, K. Takimiya :Adv. Mater. 26,331(2014).
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16BG018

BL-12

Structural Analysis of Lysine-4 Methylated Histone H3
Using VUV-CD Spectroscopy
Yudai Izumi and Koichi MatsuoaHiroshima Synchrotron Radiation Center, Hiroshima University, Japan

Keywords: Post-translational modification, epigenetics-1-1

Circular dichroism (M cm )Enzymatic methylation and demethylation of histone H3 proteins have been reported to play substantial
roles in cellular functions [1]. For example, methylation of H3 on the lysine-4 (K4) residue is considered to
be associated with transcriptional activation [1]. On the other hand, since the absence of K4-methylated H3
is required for DNA methylation, defects of which are linked to serious human diseases, such as cancer [2],demethylation of methylated H3 is also essential. Since the conformation of protein closely relates to its
biological function, it is important to determine the structures of (un)methylated H3 proteins in order tounderstand the cellular functions of (un)methylated H3 proteins more precisely. In this work, we measured
circular dichroism (CD) spectra of lysine-4 (K4) mono-, di-, and trimethylated H3 and unmodified H3proteins and predicted the secondary-structure contents and sequences.
Recombinant Xenopus laevis unmodified and K4 methylated H3 proteins were purchased from Merck
Millipore and Active Motif, respectively. Each reagent was dissolved with 25 mM sodium phosphate buffer
supplemented with 250 mM sodium fluoride (pH 8.6 at 25°C). Final concentration of each histone solution
was 1 mg/ml. CD spectroscopy was carried out in the BL12 beamline at the Hiroshima Synchrotron
Radiation Center in Japan. Secondary structure contents of the samples were analyzed using CD spectra and
SELCON3 program [3,4]. The secondary-structure sequences were predicted using neural-network method
based on CD spectroscopic results [5].
Figure 1 shows the CD spectra of K4
methylated H3. The CD spectrum of unmodified
H3 reproduced from Ref. [6] is also shown in4
this figure. All spectra show a positive peak3around 190 nm and negative peaks around 200230 nm. CD spectral shapes reflect the2secondary structure contents of proteins, which1means that methylation of K4 residue induced0
the structural alterations of H3.
Figure 2 shows predicted secondary structure-1
sequence of (un)methylated H3. It was predicted-2that the structural alterations were not limited to
the regions around methylation sites. For-3example, α-helix formations were predicted at
180
200
220
240
260
the 65th–69th, 80th–83rd, and 85th–86thWavelength (nm)residues in K4 mono- and dimethylated H3,
Fig. 1. CD spectra of unmodified H3 [6] (black), K4 monoalthough these α-helices reverted to coil(red), di- (green), and trimethylated H3 (blue).
structures in trimethylated H3. These global
structural alterations induced by K4 methylation
would contribute to epigenetic regulation in vivo.
References[1] N. Mosammaparast and Y. Shi, Annu. Rev. Biochem. 79, 155-179 (2010), [2] E. N. Gal-Yam et al., Annu.
Rev. Med. 59, 267-280 (2008), [3] N. Sreerama et al., Protein Sci. 8, 370-380 (1999), [4] N. Sreerama andR. W. Woody, Anal. Biochem. 287, 252-260 (2000), [5] K. Matsuo et al., Proteins 73, 104-112 (2008), [6] Y.
Izumi et al., J. Radiat. Res. in press.

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17AG002, 17BG001

BL-12

Structural Analysis of Wheat Gliadins by Vacuum
Ultraviolet Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy
Reiko Uradea,b , Yuki Higashinoa, Fumio Arisakac, Kunihiko Gekkod,
and Koichi MatsuodaGraduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University
Gokasho, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011 JAPANb
Institute for Integrated Radiation and Nuclear Science, Kyoto University
Kumatori, Sennan-gun, Osaka 590-0405 JAPANc
College of Bioresource Sciences, Nihon University
Kamino, Fujisawa, Kanagawa 252-0880 JAPANd
Hiroshima Synchrotron Radiation Center, Hiroshima University
Kagamiyama, Higashihiroshima Hiroshima 739-0046 JAPAN

Keywords: Wheat, Gliadin.

Wheat gluten formed from gliadin and glutenin, two major types of protein, plays a critical role inbreadmaking [1-3]. Gliadin contributes to the viscosity among the rheological properties of bread dough.
Gliadin is a typical monomeric prolamin protein that is soluble in 60–90% aqueous alcohol and have been
believed to be insoluble in water at neutral pH. Therefore, most studies have been performed with gliadins
extracted with conventional methods, which use aqueous alcohol or diluted hydrochloride solution. Recently,
gliadins have been shown to be soluble in pure water, and a novel extraction method into pure water has
been established [4, 5]. This has made it possible to analyze gliadins in pure water at neutral pH, andpermitted the characterization of native gliadins.

FIGURE 1. VUVCD spectra of gliadins.VUVCD experiments were performed at beamline #15 of HiSOR

using a high photon flux of 1010 photon/s. CD spectra were measured using a polarization modulation
technique over the wavelength range of 170–255 nm with a resolution of 1 nm.

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The gliadins are large families of proteins with similar amino acid sequences. They are classified as α-,γ-, ω-gliadins, based on their amino acid sequences deduced from DNA sequences. In this study, we
performed VUVCD spectroscopy analysis of α-, γ- and ω-gliadins and calculated contents of second
structures of each gliadin. Alpha-, γ- and ω-gliadin were separated by ion-exchange chromatography withSP Sephadex C-50 followed by gel-filtration chromatography with SPS-C50.
Figure 1 shows the VUVCD spectra of gliadins in pure H2O. The spectra of α-gliadin and γ-gliadin wereconsistent with approximately 30% and 25% of the protein being in a helical conformation, respectively.
There were more β-sheet and random coil structure in the γ-gliadins (20 and 34%) than in the α-gliadins (18and 30%). Based on structural studies with a Raman optical activity spectrum of α-gliadin, it has been
predicted that the repetitive domains of the α-gliadins consist of a mixture of poly-L-proline II and β-reverseturn structures and that the non-repetitive domains are rich in α-helical structure [6]. We studied recombinant
α-gliadin synthesized in an E. coli system. This protein has no disulfide bonds, and had a only very small
amount of α-helical structure and more random coiling (unpublished data), suggesting that the disulfide
bonds formed in the C-terminal region stabilize the α-helix. The CD spectra of ω-gliadin was quite different
from those of the α- and γ-gliadins. The secondary structure of the ω-gliadin was rich in β-strand and random
coil structure (45 and 32%) but it apparently have little α-helix (6%).

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Conformations of Myelin Basic Protein Interacted with
Membrane Revealed by Vacuum-Ultraviolet CircularDichroism Spectroscopy
Munehiro Kumashiroa, Yudai Izumib, and Koichi MatsuobaDepartment of Physical Science, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University,
1-3-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8526, Japanb
Hiroshima Synchrotron Radiation Center, Hiroshima University, 2-313 Kagamiyama,
Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-0046, Japan
Keywords: liposome; myelin basic protein; protein-membrane interaction; synchrotron-radiation circular-dichroism.

Myelin basic protein (MBP) is the second most abundant protein in the myelin sheath of central nervous
system which is a unique multilayered membrane surrounding the axon of neuron cell [1]. It is believed that
MBP is located between the membrane layers and physically interacts with them, leading to the compactnessof the multilayered structure [2]. However, the MBP conformation interacting with membrane and its
interaction mechanism remain unclear. In this study, to characterize the conformation of membrane-bound
MBP, we measured the vacuum-ultraviolet circular-dichroism (VUVCD) spectra of MBP in the presence ofvarious types of phospholipid liposomes related to myelin membrane (phosphatidylethanolamine: PE,
phosphatidylcholine: PC, sphingomyelin: SM, phosphatidylserine: PS, phosphatidylinositol: PI,
phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate: PIP, phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate: PIP2) and discussed themechanism of MBP-membrane interactions.
Native MBP exhibited a large negative CD peak around 200 nm, which is a characteristic peak of theunordered structure. This spectrum did not change when adding PE, PC, and SM liposomes, meaning that
there are no structural changes due to the interaction with these liposomes. On the other hand, the spectra of
MBP in the presence of PS, PI, PIP, and PIP2 liposomes showed two negative peaks around 208 and 222 nm,
and a positive peak around 193 nm, suggesting that these liposomes induces the helical structures of MBP.
The VUVCD analyses [3, 4] and Eisenberg plot analyses [5] showed that MBP with these liposomes formed
positively charged helix regions on the amino-acid sequence, which were mostly assigned to the coil, namely
turn and unordered, structures in the native state. Since the net charges of head groups in the PS, PI, PIP, andPIP2 phospholipid molecules are negative while those in PE, PC, and SM phospholipid molecules are neutral,
MBP could interact with membrane mainly via the electrostatic interaction. The interactions would induce
the formation of helical structures in the MBP. Further, MBP with PIP2 liposome formed hydrophobic helix
regions on the amino-acid sequence, which were mostly assigned to the E-strands in the native state. These
results suggest that MBP could interact with PIP2 liposome not only via the electrostatic interaction but also
via hydrophobic interaction and the phosphorylation of PI phospholipid molecules may enhance stable
membrane binding of MBP.

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R. Gautier, D. Douguet, B. Antonny, and G. Drin., Bioinfomatics, 24, 2008, pp. 2101-2102- 118 -

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A Preliminary Study of Vacuum-Ultraviolet Circular
Dichroism of Hydroxypropyl Cellulose
Yasuyuki Makia and Koichi Matsuob
ab

Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 819-0395

Hiroshima Synchrotron Radiation Center, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8526

Keywords: Polysaccharide, Cellulose derivative, Vacuum-ultraviolet circular dichroism.

Hydroxypropyl cellulose (HPC) is a water-soluble, non-toxic cellulose derivative, which is allowed foruse in pharmaceutical products and food additives. In the production of HPC, the three available hydroxyl
groups on a D-glucosyl residue of native cellulose are substituted by side chains containing a variable
number of hydroxypropoxy groups [1]. Rheological properties and phase behaviors of aqueous HPC
solutions are associated with conformation of HPC chains. Vacuum-ultraviolet circular dichroism (VUVCD)
spectroscopy is an effective tool for analyzing saccharide structure in aqueous solution because they containhigh-energy chromophores such as hydroxyl groups and acetal bonds whose electronic transitions are only
detectable in the vacuum-ultraviolet (VUV) region below 190 nm [2]. In this preliminary study, a VUVCD
spectrum of HPC in aqueous solution was measured using a VUVCD spectrophotometer with a synchrotron
radiation light source.
In this experiment, commercially available HPC (Wako Pure Chemical Industries, Catalog number 08207925) was used without further purification. The sample solutions were prepared by dissolving HPC in deionized water at concentrations of 5.0 and 10 wt%. The VUVCD spectra were measured from 220 to 167
nm at 25 oC under a nitrogen atmosphere using the SR-VUVCD spectrophotometer of Hiroshima
Synchrotron Radiation Center (BL-12) [3,4]. The path length l of the CaF2 optical cell was adjusted using a
Teflon spacer of 10 μm or 50 μm. The measurements without spacers were also performed in order to reduce
the absorption of light by water at low wavelengths. The spectra obtained without the spacers were calibrated
by normalizing the ellipticities θ to the spectra measured using the spacers in the overlapping wavelength
region.
The degree of polymerization (DP) of the HPC sample was not given by the manufacturer, so it was
roughly estimated as follows. According to the manufacturer, viscosity of 2 wt% aqueous solution of the
HPC sample at 20 oC ranges from 2.0 to 2.9 mPa s. If we tentatively use a “universal” relationship between
viscosity and concentration for non-entangled solutions of random coil polysaccharides [5],







,
where
,
,

,
are
the
viscosityofthepolymersolution,theviscosity
of
the


solvent, the intrinsic viscosity, and the polymer concentration, respectively,   of the HPC sample wasestimated to be (4-6) ×101 cm3/g. Using the Mark-Houwink equation for HPC in water [6],
, whereis the molecular weight of HPC,
is calculated to be (2-4) ×104. A molar
substitution (MS), the average number of hydroxypropyl substituent per anhydroglucose residue, depends
on the conditions of hydroxylpropylation, and is larger than 4 for typical commercial samples [1]. If weassume MS = 4 as the most probable value [7], the molecular weightof the structural unit was calculated
to be 394. Thus, the DP of the HPC sample was estimated to be between 6 × 101 and 1 × 102.
Figure 1(a) shows the VUVCD spectra of aqueous HPC solutions at 5.0 and 10 wt%. The CD spectra
were observed only in the VUV region below 190 nm, exhibiting a positive peak around 177 nm.
In Figure 1(b), the VUVCD spectra in Fig. 1 were re-expressed in the form of molar ellipticity [θ]calculated using the estimated value  of the structure unit. The spectra of different concentrations
coincide well within experimental error, indicating no concentration dependence on the HPC structure.
It is interesting to compare the VUVCD spectrum of HPC with that of unsubstituted cellulose. However,cellulose, a polysaccharide consisting of β-(1,4)-linked D-glucose units, is relatively insoluble in aqueous
solution. In a recent study [2], the VUVCD spectra of oligo-(1,4)-β-D-glucan of DP = 2 (cellobiose), 3- 119 -

(cellotriose), and 4 (cellotetraose) in aqueous solutions were measured, although the cello-oligosaccharides
above DP = 5 were insoluble. The VUVCD spectra of the cello-oligosaccharide had one positive peak around
174 nm and the peak intensity decreased as the DP increased [2]. Figure 2 compares the VUVCD spectra of
HPC with those of cello-oligosaccharides [2], indicating that a positive peak in HPC was red-shifted byaround 3 nm with respect to that in cello-oligosaccharides and that the peak intensity of HPC (DP is between
6 × 101 and 1 × 102) was much smaller than those of cello-oligosaccharides. The deviation in the spectra
between HPC and the unsubstituted oligo-(1,4)-β-glucan is attributed to the effect of hydroxypropoxy groups
on HPC. Another possible reason for the deviation is the large difference in the chain length, because the
VUVCD spectra of oligosaccharides such as oligo-(1,4)-α-glucan (malto-oligosaccharide) and oligo-(1,3)β-glucan (laminari-oligosaccharide) varied with the chain length [2].

FIGURE 1. VUVCD spectra of HPC in aqueous solutions at concentrations of 5.0 wt% (●) and 10 wt% (●) at 25 oC.

FIGURE 2. VUVCD spectra of HPC in aqueous solutions at concentrations of 5.0 wt% (●) and 10 wt% (●) at 25 oC. Thicksolid, dashed, and thin solid lines represent the VUVCD spectra of cello-oligosaccharides of DP = 2 (cellobiose), 3 (cellotriose)
and 4 (cellotetraose), respectively [2].

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Applications, by A. M. Stephen, G. O. Phillips and P. A. Williams, Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2006, pp. 147-180.

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Characterizations of Structural Dynamics and Hydration Structures of DGlucose using Vacuum-Ultraviolet Circular-Dichroism Spectroscopy
Koichi Matsuo, H. Namatame, M. Taniguchi
Hiroshima Synchrotron Radiation Center, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, 739-0046, Japan
Keywords: Molecular dynamics, Solution structure, Time-dependent density functional theory

Structural dynamics and hydration structures of saccharides are crucial for understanding their
biological functions such as the molecular recognition and stabilization of biomolecule structures. However,saccharides take complicated equilibrium conformations among the gauche-trans (GT), GG, and TG rotamersof hydroxymethyl group at C-5 and between the D- and E-anomer configurations of hydroxy group at C-1 inaqueous solution, which impedes the characterizations of their structures. Vacuum-ultraviolet circulardichroism (VUVCD) using a synchrotron radiation is very sensitive to the saccharide structures because it
can detect the high-energy chromophores such as hydroxy group and acetal bond. Recently the analyticaltechniques of the monosaccharide spectra have been largely developed by the combination with theoreticalanalysis such as molecular dynamics (MD) simulation and time-dependent density functional theory(TDDFT), which allowed us to obtain their complicated structures such as the structural dynamics andhydration structures [1-3]. In this study, the VUVCD spectrum of D-glucose experimentally measured down
to 163 nm was theoretically calculated to characterize its complicated structures in solution.
The VUVCD spectrum of D-glucose exhibited one positive peak around 170 nm, reflecting theequilibrium structures (D-GT, D-GG, D-TG, E-GT, E-GG, and E-TG conformers) [4]. The structures of these
conformers were simulated by the MD method in solution and their theoretical spectra were calculated fromthe respective simulated structures by TDDFT method. A linear combination of the CD spectra of the six
conformers, produced a D-glucose spectrum similar to that observed experimentally, disclosing that the GT
and GG rotamers show negative and positive CD around 170 nm, respectively, and that the D- and E-anomers
exhibit negative and positive CD around 160 nm, respectively. These pairwise relationships between CD andstructures were very consistent with those obtained in methyl D- and E-D-glucopyranosides [2, 3]. Further,
the structural dynamics of six conformers in solutions were largely different each other, depending on theirunique configurations of hydroxymethyl group at C-5 (GT, GG, and TG rotamers) and hydroxy group at C1 (D- and E-anomers). We also found that the differences in the structural dynamics of six conformers affected
the intramolecular hydrogen bonds around the ring oxygen and the hydroxy oxygen at C-1, and that the
numbers of water molecules exhibiting intermolecular hydrogen bonds (the degree of hydration) with solutes
were larger in E-anomer configuration than in D-anomer one. These results indicate that the intra- and intermolecular hydrogen bonds play important roles for determining the solution structures of monosaccharides,
affecting their CD spectra.
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Secondary structural analysis of XRCC4 protein using
HiSOR-VUVCD
Kai Nishikuboa,b, Yudai Izumic, Kentaro Fujiib, Koichi Matsuoc,
Yoshihisa Matsumotod, Akinari YokoyabaGraduate School of Science and Engineering, Ibaraki University, Japanb

Quantum Beam Science Research Directorate, National Institutes for Quantum andRadiological Science and Technology (QST), Japanc

Hiroshima Synchrotron Radiation Center, Hiroshima University, JapandTokyo Institute of Technology

Keywords: XRCC4, vacuum ultraviolet circular dichroism

Activation or inactivation of proteins is regulated by undergoing phosphorylation of certain
amino acid residues. XRCC4 also undergoes phosphorylation of its several sites by DNA-PK in the
DNA double strand break repair pathway (NHEJ) (1). The phosphorylation might cause a change ofstatic electric charge at the amino acid residues, resulting conformational alteration of the wholeprotein structure to permit the protein accessibility to the strand break terminus through the charge
re-distribution in the protein. In order to understand the role of XRCC4 properly, it will be necessary
to understand the mutual relationship between its structural change and activity change. So far,crystal structure analysis of XRCC4 has been performed, but there is no data on the full-length of
XRCC4 because of difficulty of crystallization of about 100 residues in the C-terminal which
includes several targets of phosphorylation. Instead of crystallography, we have applied circulardichroism (CD) spectral analysis in a vacuum UV region at HiSOR. CD spectral analysis allows us
to analyze the full-length of the protein structure because we can measure in an aqueous solution.
For the first step, we performed CD spectral analysis of unmodified full-length XRCC4. CD spectral
data suggests that the relative fraction of the turn structure is significantly larger than that reportedby the crystallography. The evidence shows that structural aspects of the full length of the proteins
are important to understand the conformational changes of the phosphorylation and their roles in
DNA repair processes.

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Figure 1 shows VUV-CD spectra of full-length XRCC4. A positive peak at 190 nm andnegative peak at around 208 nm are the characteristic CD peaks of α-helix structures(2).

FIGURE 1. VUV-CD spectra of full-length XRCC4 in an aqueous solution.

TABLE 1. Secondary structural contents of XRCC4Structure
Content(%)α-Helix
β-StrandTurn

1FU1(3)

HiSOR

38
26
8

37
15
22

Unordered

28

26

Length(residues)

203

336

In table 1, 1FU1 is previously reported from crystallography (3),and HiSOR is the resultof CD measurement at HiSOR.
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1.

Kamdar,R.P. and Matsumoto,Y. Radiation-induced XRCC4 Association with
Chromatin DNA Analyzed by Biochemical Fractionation. J.Radiat.Res 2010; 51,
303-313.

2.

Matsuo.K. Structural analysis of protein using synchrotron radiation
vacuum-ultraviolet circular dichroism. The Journal of Biochemistry 2004 135,3, p.
405-411.

3.

Junop, M.S., Modesti, M., Guarne, A., Ghirlando, R., Gellert, M., Yang, W. Crystal
structure of the Xrcc4 DNA repair protein and implications for end joining. EMBO J
2010. 19: 5962-5970.

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Structural Analysis of Lysozyme by using VUVCD
Spectroscopy
Takayasu Kawasakia, Yudai Izumib, Koichi Tsukiyamaa, and Koichi MatsuobaInfrared Free Electron Laser Research Center, Tokyo University of Science,
2641 Yamazaki, Noda, Chiba 278-8510, Japanb
Hiroshima Synchrotron Radiation Center, Hiroshima University, 2-313 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima,
Hiroshima 739-0046, Japan

Keywords: Infrared free electron laser, lysozyme, VUVCD, amyloid.

Mid-infrared free-electron laser (FEL) is a synchrotron-radiation based coherent laser light that is
generated by an accelerated electron beam as a light source [1]. Its oscillation wavelengths are tunable within
the mid-infrared region from 5 to 10 Pm, and various resonant wavelengths for stretch vibrational modes of
C=O, C-O, C=C, and C-N bonds, and bending vibrational modes of N-H, C-H, and O-H bonds are containedin this region. We previously found that the FEL tuned to wavelengths 6.1-6.2 Pm (1666-1639 cm-1) that
correspond to the amide I band (QC=O) can dissociate amyloid-like aggregate of hen egg white lysozyme(HEWL) to the non-aggregate form in aqueous solution [2]. Amyloid-like aggregate of HEWL is string-likefibrils that have a width of several nano-meters and a length of several micro-meters, and many hydrogenbonds are formed in the stacking cavity of the fibril state. Interestingly, the peptide bonds are not hydrolyzed
by the irradiation to the amide bonds as shown by gel electrophoresis, and the renatured lysozyme after thelaser irradiation did not possess full enzymatic activity against the bacterial cell wall extract.
In this study, we employed a vacuum-ultraviolet circular-dichroism (VUV-CD) spectroscopy for analysisof the protein conformational change after the FEL irradiation. The secondary structure analysis using
SELCON program [3, 4] estimated that contents (%) of protein secondary structures were changed by theirradiation as follows: 38.3±5.0 (native) Ѝ 33.5±1.4 (after irradiation) in D-helices; 10.5±3.4 (native) Ѝ
16.8±1.8 (after irradiation) in E-strands; 24.5±3.9 (native) Ѝ 22.9±1.6 (after irradiation) in turns; 25.3±3.7(native) Ѝ 26.8±1.2 (after irradiation) in random structures. Among these changes in secondary structure
contents, remarkable differences between the native HEWL and the irradiated one are the decrease of Dhelix content and the increase of E-strand content.
Figure 1 shows a secondary structure map of D-helix (dark gray), E-strand (light gray), and other structures(white) upon amino acid sequence (based on the literature [5]) of non-treated lysozyme (4-b-1) and that after
irradiation at amid I band (4-b-2), which were estimated by a neural-network method. Focusing on the aminoacid sequences around catalytic residues (E35 and D52), the secondary structural changes are as follows: Dhelix was changed to E-strand with other structures in the segment L25-F34, the other structures werechanged to D-helix in the segment S36-T40, and D-helix was changed to E-strand with other structures inthe segment Y53-I58.
We evaluated these secondary structural changes in the active site as follows:
1) The two carboxyl groups on catalytic residues (E35 and D52) have important roles in hydrolysis
reaction of a glycoside bond of the substrate. Therefore, it can be estimated that the peptide chainsaround those catalytic residues are exposed to the surrounding space to bind the substrate and can beeasily affected by the intense infrared radiation.
2) Another noteworthy result is the structural change of the core region containing W62 for fibrillation:
E-strand consisted by W63 and C64 was changed to other structures by the irradiation. In the enzymeligand complex structure [6], two tryptophan residues (W62 and W63) are located close to the ligand
via hydrophobic interactions between the indole rings and carbohydrate rings. W62 also acts as acontact surface in the fibril formation. The amyloid fibrillation and E-sheet formation is triggered by- 124 -

this aromatic amino acid residue. It can be estimated that this region is dynamically changeable by theintense infrared radiation, which may cause to suppress the fibril formation.
3) On the contrary, R5-H15, Q41-N46, N65-C76, and I88-A95 were little affected by the irradiation.
These regions are located at surface area of the framework of lysozyme. Therefore, these regions may
have a role for maintaining the rigid structure in the whole state of HEWL.
4) The other regions (K1-F3, N77-D87, K96-G102, and C-terminal chain [N106-R125]) were also
structurally changed by the irradiation. K1-F3, N77-D87, and C-terminal flexible chain may not be
associated with the enzyme activity, because those segments are located apart from the ligand-binding
pocket. On the other hand, the K96-G102 segment is positioned near the active site pocket and boundto the I88-A95 segment that forms rigid framework of lysozyme, as mentioned above. Therefore, notonly the structural change around the catalytic residues but also that in the K96-G102 segment may
influence the enzymatic activity to no small extent.

FIGURE 1. Predicted positions of secondary structures. Dark gray: D-helix, light gray: E-strand, and white: other structures.
4-b-1: non-treated lysozyme; 4-b-2: lysozyme after irradiation at amide I band. The sequence agrees with that of the literature
data (Protein Data Bank (PDB) code: 4wld). Catalytic residues: E35 and D52; core region for fibrillation: W62-C64.

In conclusion, VUV-CD measurement predicted that secondary structures around acidic residues forcatalysis and tryptophan residue contributing to fibrillation of HEWL are changed and the rigid framework
surrounding the active site is little altered by the irradiation. It can be estimated that the mid-infrared radiation
targeting amide bonds can dissociate the fibril form without large damage to the whole structure of HEWL.

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2. T. Kawasaki, J. Fujioka, T. Imai, and K. Tsukiyama, Effect of mid-infrared free-electron laser irradiation on refolding ofamyloid-like fibrils of lysozyme into native form. Protein J., 31, 710-716 (2012).
3. N. Sreerama and R.W. Woody, Estimation of protein secondary structure from circular dichroism spectra: comparison of
CONTIN, SELCON, and CDSSTR methods with an expanded reference set. Anal. Biochem., 287, 252-260 (2000).
4. K. Matsuo, R. Yonehara, and K. Gekko, Improved estimation of the secondary structures of proteins by vacuum-ultraviolet
circular dichroism spectroscopy. J. Biochem., 138, 79-88 (2005).
5. H.Yamada, T. Nagae, and N. Watanabe, High-pressure protein crystallography of hen egg-white lysozyme. Acta
Crystallogr. D Biol. Crystallogr., 71, 742-753 (2015).
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Optical Activity Emergence in Amino-Acid Thin Films by
Circularly-polarized Light Irradiation
Jun-ichi Takahashia, Yudai Izumib, Koichi Matsuob, Masaki Fujimotoc,
Masahiro Katohc, Yoko Kebukawaa, Kensei KobayashiaaFaculty of Engineering, Yokohama National University, 79-5, Tokiwadai, Hodogaya,
Yokohama 250-8501, Japanb
Hiroshima Synchrotron Radiation Center, Hiroshima University, 2-313 Kagamiyama,
Higashi-Hiroshima 739-0046, Japanc
UVSOR Facility, Institute for Molecular Science, 38 Nishigo-Naka, Myodaiji,
Okazaki 444-8585, Japan

Keywords: Homochirality, Amino Acid, Optical Activity, Circularly-polarized Light, Circular Dichroism.

The origin of homochirality in terrestrial bioorganic compounds (L-amino acid and D-sugar dominant)remains one of the unresolved problems in the research for the origins of life. Because organic compounds
synthesized in abiotic circumstances are intrinsically achiral racemic mixtures (equal amounts of L- andD-bodies), it is hypothesized that chiral products were originated from asymmetric reactions on surfaces ofinterstellar dusts or meteorites. These types of asymmetric reactions could have been derived fromphysically asymmetric excitation sources, that is “chiral radiation”, in space. The chiral space products
would have been transformed into the complex organic materials (including amino-acid precursor
molecules) and transported to primitive Earth resulting in terrestrial biological homochirality (Cosmic
Scenario) [1].
Eventually, circularly-polarized light (CPL) in space originated by light scattering from interstellar dust
clouds in star formation regions have been observed as one of the potential candidates for “chiral radiation”
sustaining the relevance of Cosmic Scenario [2].
Several ground experiments to validate this scenario have been investigated asymmetric photochemical
reactions in simple biochemical molecules using CPL radiation from high-energy accelerators. We havereported optical activity emergence in solid-phase films of racemic mixtures of amino acids by CPL
irradiation of 215 nm in wavelength from free electron laser (FEL) of UVSOR-II [3]. By use of circulardichroism (CD) spectrometer, it has been suggested that the left- and right-handed CPL (LCPL and RCPL)
caused the preferential conformational changes between the two enantiomers in racemic amino acid films.
CD spectroscopy can easily detect the emergence of optical anisotropy due to the asymmetric reaction
because it sensitively reflects the steric structures of chiral molecules such as amino acids. The theoretical
calculation of CD spectrum of L-alanine molecule revealed that the chromophores such as carboxyl andamino groups had many characteristic electronic transitions (n-π*, π-π*, and n-σ*) below 230 nm [4],suggesting that the photochemical reaction might depend on the irradiation photon energy. Recently, we
carried out the measurement of CPL wavelength dependence of optical activity emergence at undulator
beam line BL1U of UVSOR-III by tuning undurator gap conditions. As for the sample, we formed thinsolid films of racemic DL-alanine on quartz substrates from crystal powders of DL-alanine (L/D = 50/50)
as a sublimation source by using a thermal-crucible vacuum-evaporation system in Hiroshima Synchrotron
Radiation Center (HiSOR). Sublimation temperature was controlled in the range of 150~200°C andpressure of the vacuum chamber was approximately 5x10-2 Pa throughout the evaporation process. The CD
spectra of thin solid films just after the deposition were measured from 260 to 170 nm in wavelength using
a vacuum-ultraviolet (VUV) CD instrument at beam line BL-12 of HiSOR and confirmed to be mostly
zero before the irradiation, showing that the spurious CD due to the contamination of film surface were
negligible.
In this study, three wavelengths of LCPL and RCPL (230, 215, and 202 nm) introduced from the undulator
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at beam line BL-12 of HiSOR. In order to delete the effects of linear dichroism (LD) and/or linear birefringence(LB) components, dependence on sample rotation angle (0, 45, 90, and 135 degrees) of the CD spectra wasmeasured. The wavelength dependence of optical activity emergence by CPL irradiation of 230, 215, and 202
nm in wavelength has been reported [5,6]. The LCPL and RCPL irradiation exhibited symmetrically inverted
spectra in the irradiation wavelengths (230, 215, and 202 nm), indicating the emergence of optical activity at theirradiation wavelengths. Further, the spectral shapes observed were largely different from each other suggestingthat the asymmetric reactions of DL-alanine film depend on the irradiation wavelength.
To further validate these results, we are presently trying to introduce optical activity by VUV-CPL
irradiation in shorter wavelength than 200 nm. The DL-alanine samples were set in a vacuum sample chamber
preventing VUV-CPL attenuation by air absorption in shorter wavelength than 200 nm (Fig.1). On the beam
entrance side of the vacuum sample chamber, a gate valve with a vacuum-sealed MgF2 window was mounted.
The irradiated CPL wavelengths were 180, 155, and 120 nm corresponding to photon absorption bands ofalanine molecule [7]. The irradiated photon number was measured with photoelectron current of a silicon
photodiode (International Radiation Detectors, Inc.) settled at the sample position. The typical energy dose
calibrated by using quantum efficiency data of the silicon photodiode was approximately 50 mWh. Detailed
analysis of SR-CD spectra at BL-12 of HiSOR, we are aiming to clarify full mechanism of the opticalactivity emergence, which potentially has relevance to the origin of terrestrial biological homochirality
stimulated by “chiral radiation”.

        
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FIGURE 1. Photos of VUV-CPL irradiation experiment on BL1U using a vacuum chamber.
(a) Top view of the inside of the chamber. Sample folder fixed on the VUV CPL beam pass(left) and photon flux monitor mounted on a feed-through terminal (center).
(b) Snap shot of VUV CPL irradiation on the sample (amino-acid film on a quartz substrate).

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1. W. A. Bonner, Orig. Life Evol. Biosph. 21, 407 (1991).
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BL12 (HiSOR beamline number)

Investigation of the Structural Change during the
Enzymatic Activation of a Prophenoloxidase by
Vacuum-ultraviolet Electronic Circular-Dichroism
Spectroscopy
Taro Masudaa and Koichi MatsuobaLaboratory of Food Quality Design and Development, Division of Agronomy and Horticultural Science,
Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Gokasho, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan
Tel./Fax: +81 774 38 3765
E-mail:masutaro@kais.kyoto-u.ac.jpb
Hiroshima Synchrotron Radiation Center, Hiroshima University, 2-313
Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-0046, Japan.
Tel.: +81 82 424 6293; Fax: +81 82 424 6294; E-mail:pika@hiroshima-u.ac.jp

Keywords: prophenoloxidase, copper protein, activation

Phenoloxidases (POs) play a crucial role in melanization of crustaceans. This class of enzymes
catalyzes the hydroxylation of monophenols to o-diphenols (monophenolase activity; E.C. 1.14.18.1) andthe subsequent oxidation to corresponding quinones (diphenolase activity; E.C. 1.10.3.1). Both POs andtyrosinases are classified as members of the "type 3 copper protein" family that is characterized by areaction center containing two copper atoms, each of which is coordinated by side chains of threecoordinated histidine ligands. Because PO produces a harmful intermediate in its catalytic reaction, theactivation of PO must be tightly regulated [1]. Actually, PO is synthesized as an inactive pro-enzyme(prophenoloxidase, proPO) that is activated by some process [2]. ProPO also can be activated in vitro byadding low concentration of detergents or proteases. However, the structural basis of the activation process
is unknown. In order to investigate the structural change during the activation, we compared the CD
spectra of inactive proPO (woSDS) and activated PO (wSDS), which was activated by low concentrationof SDS.
ProPO was purified from the homolymph of the kuruma prawn [3]. The active form of PO was obtainedby the treatment with 0.01% SDS. The concentrations of inactive and active form of PO were adjusted to
50 PM, before being scanned by by vacuum-ultraviolet electronic circular-dichroism spectroscopy at BL12in HiSOR.
The CD spectra of inactive proPO (woSDS) and activated PO (wPO) are shown in Fig. 1. These spectra
were basically very similar each other. Fig. 2 shows the deduced secondary structure of these proteins fromthe CD spectra. These results suggest that partial structural changes were observed in some places, though
the overall structure was not basically affected by the SDS treatment. We have a high-resolution X-ray
crystal structure of this protein [4]. Accordingly, we are investigating the effects of the transition of thesecondary structure on the structure of proPO, especially the structure adjacent to the active site.

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FIGURE 1.. The CD spectra of inactive (woSDS) and activated (wSDS) proPOs obtained by vacuum-ultraviolet electronic
circular-dichroism spectroscopy.

FIGURE 2.. The deduced secondary structural assignment of inactive (woSDS) and activated (wSDS) proPOs (partial
sequence).

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1. Solomon, E. I., Sundaram, U. M., & Machonkin, T. E. (1996). Multicopper Oxidases and Oxygenases. Chemical Reviews,
96(7), 2563-2606.
2. Cerenius, L., & Soderhall, K. (2004). The prophenoloxidase-activating system in invertebrates. Immunological Reviews,
198, 116-126.
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(2012). A novel type of prophenoloxidase from the kuruma prawn Marsupenaeus japonicus contributes to themelanization of plasma in crustaceans. Fish & Shellfish Immunology, 32(1), 61-68.
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Turner, CERN 98-04, CERN, Genève, 1998, pp. 1-44.

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BL-12

Secondary Structural Analysis of Hyaluronan Synthase
Interacted with Membrane by Vacuum-Ultraviolet
Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy
Shoma Suenagaa, Munehiro Kumashiroa, Yudai Izumib, and Koichi MatsuobaDepartment of Physical Science, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University,
1-3-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8526, Japanb
Hiroshima Synchrotron Radiation Center, Hiroshima University, 2-313 Kagamiyama,
Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-0046, Japan
Keywords: liposome, micelle, protein-membrane interaction, synchrotron-radiation circular-dichroism

The interaction between protein and bio-membrane is of great interest since such interactions occur invarious biological events such as the drug delivery into cell and formation of amyloid fibrils. In the proteinmembrane interaction studies, the phosphate lipids are widely used as the compositions of model membrane
and these lipids can form liposome (lipid bilayer) and micelle (lipid monolayer) depending on the types offatty acids (or tail groups). However, the contributions to the protein conformation due to the differences
between bi- and mono-layers remain unclear. In this study, we measured the VUVCD spectra of hyaluronan
synthase (HAS) from Pasteurella multocida [1] that is known as membrane-bound protein, under thepresence of liposome and micelle, to characterize the conformations of the protein in the two types ofmembranes.
The VUVCD spectra of HAS at pH 6.8 and pH 4.5 from 260 to 175 nm are shown in Fig.1. The spectrum
at pH6.8 exhibited two negative peaks around 210 and 220 nm, and a positive peak around 190 nm,
suggesting that HAS forms helical rich structure at native state. The spectrum at pH 4.5 showed large
decrement in the intensity but its shape was similar to that at pH 6.8. Liposome and micelle were produced
from phosphatidylglycerol (PG) and lyso-phosphatidylglycerol (LPG), respectively. As shown in Fig.1,
when adding PG to HAS solution at pH 4.5 (green line), the spectrum had a negative peak around 220 nm
and a positive peak around 195 nm, which were similar characteristic peaks with those of E-strand-richprotein. When adding LPG (orange line), the spectrum showed two negative peaks around 220 and 208 nm
and a positive peak around 190 nm, as observed at pH 6.8.
The secondary-structure contents were analyzed by SELCON3 program. The helical content of HAS
slightly decreased under the PG liposome compared to that at pH 4.5 but it largely increased under the LPG
micelle. To characterize the membrane-binding site of proteins, the secondary structure sequences and thetransmembrane regions were predicted by VUVCD-NN method [2] and TMpred [3], respectively. As a result,it was expected that HAS had no interaction region in the liposome but two transmembrane regions in the
micelle. These results show that the shapes of membrane largely affect the conformations of HAS. We willshow the results of other proteins in the presentation.

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W. Jing, P. L.DeAngelis, Glycobiology, 10, 883 (2000).
K. Matsuo, K. Gekko, Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn., 6, 675 (2012).
K. Hofmann, W. Stoffel Biol. Chem., 374, 166 (1993).

FIGURE 1. VUVCD spectra of HAS with and without membrane.

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BL-12

Vacuum-ultraviolet circular dichroism (VUVCD) for
absolute configuration determination of chiral allenes
Tatsuo Nehiraa, Yugo Tokunagaa, Taiki Umezawab, and Koichi MatsuocaGraduate School of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Hiroshima University,
1-7-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8521, Japanb
Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University,
N10W5 Kita-ku Sapporo 060-0810, Japanc
Hiroshima Synchrotron Radiation Center Hiroshima University,
2-313 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-0046, Japan

Keywords: vacuum-ultraviolet electronic circular dichroism, ECD analysis, chiral allenes

Umezawa et al. achieved the total synthesis of a marine natural chiral allene “omaezallene” that showsan antifouling activity, establishing its absolute configuration [1]. The structure analysis required a lot ofsynthetic efforts and careful chirality assignments using appropriate empirical methods [2].
Based on the absorption bands of allenes, we expected that circular dichroism at the vacuum-ultraviolet
region would be helpful for structure analysis of chiral allenes. In fact, vacuum-ultraviolet circulardichroism (VUVCD) [3] has afforded CD spectra down to 175 nm, where we observed characteristic
Cotton bands of allenes, allowing clear-cut chirality assignment with the help of quantum mechanics CD
calculation [4]. As is represented with FIGURE 1, VUVCD spectra from an enantiomeric pair of synthetic
intermediates that satisfy the empirical methods were unambiguously predictable by theoretical
calculations. This method of ours was valid for all the synthetic
intermediates of omaezallene.
y

FIGURE 1. Synthetic intermediates 1 and 2, structures (left), VUVCD (center), and calculated CD (right).

Therefore, absolute configurations of chiral allenes can be determined by combining experimental
observation and theoretical prediction of VUVCD spectra. In order to generalize our approach, evaluation
with a broader range of compounds is underway.

REFERENCES
1. T. Umezawa, Y. Oguri, H. Matsuura, S. Yamazaki, M. Suzuki, E. Yoshimura, T. Furuta, Y. Nogata, Y. Serisawa, K.
Matsuyama-Serisawa, T. Abe, F. Matsuda, M. Suzuki, and T. Okino, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 53, 3909-3912 (2014).
2. G. Lowe, J. Chem. Soc. Chem. Commun. 411-413 (1965).
3. K. Gekko and K. Matsuo, Chirality 18, 329-334 (2006).
4. T. Nehira, Y. Tokunaga, T. Umezawa, and K. Matsuo, HiSOR Activity Report, 117 (2016).

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17AG058, 17BG014

BL-13

Soft X-Ray Absorption Measurements for Thin Organic
Materials by Means of Partial Electron and Fluorescence
Detections at BL13
Shin-ichi Wadaa,b, Yoshitaka Taguchia, Yoshiki Iyobea, and Atsunari Hirayaa,baDepartment of Physical Science, Hiroshima University
Hiroshima Synchrotron Radiation Center, Hiroshima Universityb

Keywords: X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS),Total electron yield (TEY), Partial electron yield (PEY), Total fluorescence
yield (TFY), Self-assembled monolayers (SAMs)

Normalized intensity / arb. units

Intensity / arb. units

BL-13 is a soft X-ray beamline in HiSOR with a Dragon-type spherical grating monochromator [1]. The
beamline has been devoted to investigate soft X-ray surface photochemistry and has kept a potential tomeasure X-ray absorption and photoelectron spectra especially for organic thin materials. X-ray absorption
spectroscopy (XAS) is a great tool to investigate element-specific electronic states of samples. So far, XAS
measurements at the end station of BL-13 has been provided with the total electron yield (TEY) mode simply
by measuring sample drain current Is. But in this method, the beamline need to be kept at organic
contamination-free conditions of beamline optics and to prepare a clean I0 monitor by deposition of fresh
gold onto it. On the other hand, another convenient method to measure XAS is partial electron yield (PEY)
detection, which has a great advantage to reduce huge background signal coming from sample substrates [2].
This detection method need to detect emitted electrons at a 
1.6
grazing emission direction from the surface. In this study,
2.23
PEY
TEY
we prepared a newly built partial yield detector for organic
2.22
1.4
thin materials at the end station of BL-13 and evaluated the
2.21
detection system by using organic thin films and self1.2
assembled monolayers (SAMs).
2.20
The detector was set just under a sample (a sample
2.19
1.0
holder) and was also perpendicular to the X-ray propagation
2.18
direction at the BL-13 end station. The partial yield detector
0.8
is assembled using two high transmission metal grids and a
2.17
microchannel plate (MCP) of large aperture. The first grid is
525
530
535
540
545
550
555
560
kept at ground potential (V1 = 0 V) and a negative voltage
Photon energy / eV
was operated to the second grid as a retardation voltage (V2)
FIGURE 1. O1s XAS spectra of MHDA SAM
to prevent detection of low-kinetic energy electrons. Typicalmeasured by PEY (solid line) and TEY (dotted
retardation voltages V2 were ~ -200 V for carbon and ~ - 400line) detection modes.
V for oxygen. The voltage of the front side of MCP (VMCP)㻌㻼㻱㼅
was 0 V in order to efficiently collect electrons. Samples used in
1.4㻌㼀㻱㼅
this study are PMMA ([-CH2C(CH3)(COOCH3)-]n) polymer thinfilms (thickness ~500 Å) and methyl-ester terminated SAMs
(Au-S(CH2)15COOCH3, ~20 Å). SAMs were prepared by
1.2
immersing Au substrates into 1.0 mM ethanol solutions of
MHDA (HS(CH2)15COOCH3).
1.0
Fig. 1 shows typical results of XAS spectra measured for O1s
EDFNJURXQG
region of MHDA SAM by TEY and PEY detection modes. The
0.0
PEY spectrum indicates clear improvement in spectral profile, as
525
530
535
540
545
550
555
560
㻼㼔㼛㼠㼛㼚㻌㼑㼚㼑㼞㼓㼥㻌㻌㻛㻌㼑㼂
the TEY spectrum depicts depletion of intensity around first π*
FIGURE 2. Simple comparison of S/Bpeak and direct ionization region (above 545 eV) due to hugeratios on the O1s XAS spectra between PEY
background signal of TEY detection method and therefore,(solid line) and TEY (dotted line) detection
reflecting contamination of the I0 monitor. In order to simply
modes measured for SAM.

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compare the reduction of background signal by PEY mode, spectra are compared by normalizing each preedge intensity as shown in Fig. 2. In this situation, intensity from 0 to 1.0 is due to background components
mainly coming from substrate gold and the intensity over 1.0 is XAS signal of the samples. It is clearly seenthat the huge background measured for monolayer sample of MHDA by TEY mode is strongly reduced in
the PEY mode, resulting in achieving the sample-sensitive detection. In order to clarify the retarding voltage
dependence of such sample sensitivity, XAS spectra of MHDA SAM in PEY mode were measured bychanging the retardation voltage V2 from 0 to -600 V as shown in Fig. 3(a). Fig. 3(b) indicates signal tobackground (S/B) ratio at 541 eV depending on V2. The plot shows maximum ration at V2 = -400 V,
indicating that the retardation voltage around -400 V is suitable for high sample-sensitive measurement foroxygen region because of effective detection of oxygen Auger electrons.
The other potential of this partial yield detector for X-ray spectroscopy is also evaluated as show in Figs.
4 and 5. The dotted line in Fig. 4 is the plot of intensity at 541 eV depending on V2, and its differential
intensity is also depicted as the solid line, corresponding to a convenient photoelectron spectroscopy (PES)
spectrum which reflects inelastic low-energy electrons and carbon (~200 eV) and oxygen (~400 eV) KLL
Auger components. On the other hand, by changing voltage setting to V2 = +100 V and VMCP = -2 kV toprevent ion (V2) and electron (VMCP) detection, the partial yield detector can detect (X-ray) fluorescencefrom the sample. Fig. 5 shows the typical result measured for PMMA in this voltage setting and therefore,
indicates total fluorescence yield (TFY) spectrum of PMMA in O1s region. This measurement is also
sensitive to thin sample as shown in improvement of S/B ratio.

REFERENCES
1. Homepage of Hiroshima Synchrotron Radiation Center, http://www.hsrc.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/english/storagering_
beamlines/ beamlines.html
2. J. Stöhr, NEXAFS spectroscopy, Berlin: Springer, 1992, pp. 118-133.

2.0

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1.2

0.6

S/B ratio

Intensity / arb. units(b) 1.8

Retardation
voltage

0.5
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0.8
0.6

0.3

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0.2
0.1
0.0
530

1.0

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-600 V
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545

550

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560

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-200

Photon energy / eV

-300

-400

-500

Retardation voltage / V

FIGURE 3. (a) Retardation voltage dependence of XAS spectra of SAM in PEY
mode and (b) derived S/B ratio depending on the retardation voltage.
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1.0

2.5

200
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150

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100

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50

0

0

-100

-200

-300

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-500

Normalized intensity / arb. units

0.8

dEY/dVElectron yield / arb. units

250

0.0
-600

Retardation Voltage / V

FIGURE 4. (dotted line) Retardation voltage
dependence of PEY intensity for SAM and (solidline) its differential intensity, corresponding toconvenient PES spectrum.

㻌㼀㻲㼅
㻌㼀㻱㼅
2.0

1.5

1.0

0.5

EDFNJURXQG

0.0
525

530

535

540

545

550

Photon energy / eV

555

560

FIGURE 5. O1s XAS spectra of PMMA thin film
measured by TFY (solid line) and TEY (dotted line)
detection modes.

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BL-14Magnetic state of Co layers intercalated into h-BN/Ni(111)
studied by soft X-ray magnetic circular dichroism
Yuka Ohashia, Norikazu Ichikawab, Masahiro SawadacaDepartment of Physical Science, Faculty of Science, Hiroshima University,
1-3-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, 739-8526, Japanb
Department of Physical Science, Graduate school of science, Hiroshima University,
1-3-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, 739-8526, Japanc
Hiroshima Synchrotron Radiation Center, Hiroshima University,
2-313 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, 739-0046, Japan

Keywords: h-BN, cobalt, nickel ; X-ray magnetic circular dichroism

Tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) effect is appeared on TMR structures which is composed of anonmagnetic insulator layer inserted in two ferromagnetic metal layers. TMR effect has been used fordeveloping devices such as magnetic random access memory, magnetic head for hard disk drives and highsensitive magnetic field sensor. MR ratio, one of important performance factors of a TMR device, isprincipally determined by spin polarization of the ferromagnetic layer at the interface. In order to develop
high performance TMR devices, it is essentially important to examine magnetic state at an interface
between a nonmagnetic insulator layer and a ferromagnetic metal layer. Atomically flat interfaces is also
required to avoid coherence loss of a spin polarized electron wave transmitted through the insulating
barrier layer. Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is one of good candidates as insulating barrier layer, whose
flat monolayer can be fabricated on some of fcc(111) metal surfaces. Intercalation effect of metallic atoms
under the monolayer h-BN is also reported, which may enable us to obtain an ideal interface ofh-BN/ferromagnet for TMR devices.
In this study, we made efforts to fabricate a layered sample of h-BN/Co/Ni(111) with a high quality
interface of h-BN/Co under ultra-high vacuum condition. The intercalation of Co underneath h-BN wascompleted by post-annealing treatment after deposition of 0.5-7.2 ML Co onto h-BN/Ni(111), which was
fabricated by thermal cracking of Borazine on the clean surface of Ni(111). We found out a propercondition of post-annealing to obtain h-BN/Co/Ni(111) with atomically flat interface, which was checkedby means of Auger electron spectroscopy and low energy electron diffraction.
We examined magnetic state of h-BN/Co/Ni(111) and Co thickness dependence of local magnetic
moments by soft X-ray magnetic circular dichroism experiments at Co L2,3 and Ni L2,3 absorption edges.
Spin magnetic moment of Co was estimated from analysis of the XMCD spectra with magneto optical sum
rule, and its thickness dependence was clearly observed. We have found that spins in the Co layer isantiferromagnetically aligned opposite to external magnetic field and magnetization of the Ni substrate in
the thinnest region, whose spin direction turns to the field direction as Co thickness increases. The
averaged magnetization is ferromagnetically saturated above 5 ML. The saturated value of spin-magnetic
moment is estimated at 1.75±0.17ߤ஻ . This value is bigger than bulk value, 1.62ߤ஻ [1]. From this result, theintercalated interface of h-BN/Co with 5 ML Co is concluded to be advantageous for TMR device
application.

REFERENCES
1. C. T. Chen, Y. U. Idzerda, H.-J. Lin, N. V. Smith, G. Meigs, E. Chaban, G. H. Ho, E. Pellegrin, and F. Sette Phys. Rev.
Lett., 75, 152 (1995).

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BL-14

Antiferromagnetic Interlayer Coupling of Co/h-BN/Ni(111)Studied by Soft X-ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism
Norikazu Ichikawaa, Yuka Ohashib, Masahiro Sawadac,
Akio KimuraaaDepartment of Physical Sciences, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University,
1-3-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, 739-8526, Japanb
Department of Physical Sciences, Faculty of Science, Hiroshima University,
1-3-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, 739-8526, Japanc
Hiroshima Synchrotron Radiation Center, Hiroshima University,
2-313 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, 739-0046, Japan

Keywords: boron nitride, cobalt, nickel; X-ray magnetic circular dichroism

Tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) is crucial for reading magnetic head in hard disk. Monolayer hexagonalboron nitride is an insulating layered material with stable honeycomb structure. It is expected to serve an ideal
barrier layer in magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ). Spin-dependent transport studies with the MTJ incorporating amonolayer h-BN have shown the MR ratio up to 150% at room temperature [1, 2]. So far, magnetic state at theinterface between a magnetic layer and a monolayer h-BN has not been sufficiently clarified, although it takes
an essential role in a mechanism of TMR. We have previously reported antiferromagnetic coupling between the
Co layer and Ni substrate via h-BN spacer layer [3]. As a next step, we have attempted to estimate theantiferromagnetic coupling energy and its Co thickness dependence from the element specific magnetization v.s.
external magnetic field acquired by soft X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD).
We fabricated Co wedge film on h-BN/Ni(111) films for this purpose. High-quality h-BN was prepared onNi(111) surface by cracking of vaporized borazine (B3N3H6) [4]. The samples of Co/h-BN/Ni(111) are obtainedby MBE evaporation of Co at room temperature. The XMCD experiments were in-situ performed at HiSORBL14 [5, 6]. Figure 1 shows the XMCD spectrum
measured at room temperature at Co and Ni L2,3 edges innormal incidence geometry under the external magnetic
field of 1.1 T along sample normal direction. The Co
magnetic moment is antiferrromagnetically saturated
below 2.3 ML whose direction is opposite to Ni spin andexternal magnetic field. As the Co film thickness isincreased, the antiferromagnetic coupling is gradually
released by increasing energy gain of ferromagneticalignment pallarel to the field. We estimated a quantitativevalue of the antiferromagnetic coupling energy between Ni
and Co layers by analyzing Co thickness dependence of MH curves derived from field dependent XMCD signals.
FIGURE 1. XMCD spectrum at Co L2,3 edge andNi L2,3 edge in normal incidence geometry withmagnetic field of 1.1 T along sample normal

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17AU019

BL-14

X-ray magnetic circular dichroism study of Eu2Ti2O7 andhybrid Eu2-xTMxTi2O7 Pyrochlore
Arkadeb Pala, Shiv Kumarb, Eike F. Schwierb, Masahiro Sawadab, Kenya
Shimadab, Anup K. Ghoshc and Sandip Chatterjeea
ab

Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi-221005, India
Hiroshima Synchrotron Radiation Center, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-0046, Japanc
Department of Physics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221005, India

Keywords: Pyrochlore oxide, electronic structure, spin relaxation, XMCD.

The study of geometrically frustrated pyrochlore materials has received much attention due to its varietyof low-temperature ground states which is associated to the geometry of the spin-lattice leading to frustration
among the local spin interactions [1-3]. However, the geometrical spin frustration occurs when the spatial
positions of the magnetic spins in a material and its local near neighbour spin-spin interactions hinders theformation of an ordered collinear ground state at very low temperatures. As a consequence of frustration, thespins cannot attain a long-range order at low temperature but freeze in a random manner or remain dynamic
down to lowest possible temperatures giving rise to exotic ground states. These special low-temperaturestates include spin liquid states [4-6], apparent spin-glass-like states [7], spin ice state [8] and a state known
as order by disorder [9] etc.
High quality polycrystalline Eu2-xFexTi2O7 (with x=0.0, x=0.1 and 0.2) samples were synthesized using
conventional solid-state reaction techniques. X-ray powder diffraction measurements confirm the preparedsamples are of single phase with no chemical phase impurity. We have carried out XAS and XMCD
measurements with polarized X-rays at the BL-14 beamline.
Figure 1(a) shows Fe 2p XAS spectrum corresponding to the photo-absorption from Fe2p core level to
the Fe 3d unoccupied states. The Fe 2p XAS spectrum consists of two peaks FeL3(2p3/2) and FeL2(2p1/2) at ̴
710 eV and ̴ 724 eV, respectively, which is separated due to the spin-orbit interaction (ΔE ̴ 14 eV). We haveobserved a small but distinct crystal field splitting in the t2g peaks of both FeL3 and FeL2 are discernible
which indicates localized nature of Fe 3d electrons. Figure 2(b) shows the XMCD spectra at FeL2,3 absorption
edge which is obtained by taking the difference between XAS spectra under +1 T and -1 T magnetic fields.
We could not observe the XMCD signals at room temperature, indicating the absence of magnetic ordering
at room temperature.
Figure 2(c) shows the Eu3d XAS spectrum at EuM4,5 edges at 300 K, which corresponds to the dipole
transition from Eu3d core level to unoccupied Eu4f state. Two peaks exist corresponding to the EuM5
(3d5/2→4f) at ̴ 1131.2 eV and EuM4 (3d3/2→4f) at ̴ 1158.9 eV, which are separated by the spin-orbit
interaction (energy ΔE ̴ 27.7 eV). The Eu3d XAS spectra is similar to that of Eu2O3, but different from thatof EuO, confirming nominal valency of 3+ for Eu ions in our sample. Note that while Eu3+ is non-magnetic
in its 7F0 ground state, its subsequent excited states 7F1,2,3 are magnetic [10], leading to appreciable magnetic
behaviour.
Figure 2(d) depicts the Ti2p XAS spectrum of EFTO at TiL2,3 edges at 300 K. The Ti2p XAS spectrum
is associated to the transition of electrons from Ti2p to Ti3d states. By comparing the line shape and energy
separation between the obtained peaks of Ti2p XAS spectra in EFTO with previously reported Ti2p XAS
spectra for TiO2, Ti2O3, BaTiO3, SrTiO3 the observed spectrum for EFTO accords with those of TiO2, SrTiO3,
BaTiO3 suggesting nominal oxidation state is Ti4+ [11]. The four-peak structure of the observed spectra is acommon feature for all tetravalent Ti-based compounds with TiO6 coordination, e.g. TiO2, SrTiO3, andBaTiO3. It is relevant to mention here that the L3-eg splitting into ݀௫ మି௬మ and ݀௭ మ doublet for EFTO similar
to that of TiO2, unlike SrTiO3 or BaTiO3 in which Ti is in perfect Oh symmetry [11]. The L3-eg splitting isabout ΔE ̴ 0.85 eV for EFTO while it is ̴ 1.2 eV for TiO2. It is in turn suggesting a smaller distortion from- 138 -

the perfect Oh symmetry for EFTO. However, this explanation of eg splitting still remains under debate
because the distortion effect is too weak to produce significant eg splitting. Later, P. Kruger claimed the eg
splitting is not due to a local structure effects, but rather arises due to a long-range band structure effect [12].
In summary, we have synthesized and characterized the pyrochlore compound of Eu2-xFexTi2O7 withpartial substitution of Fe on Eu site. Electronic structure of Eu2-xFexTi2O7 has been investigated using XAS
measurements. The analysis confirmed nominal oxidation states to be Eu3+, Fe3+ and Ti4+. Clear splitting of
L3-eg peak of Ti 2p XAS spectra can be attributed to the deviation from pure Oh symmetry in Ti octahedral
coordination in EFTO which was also evident from the X-ray diffraction analysis as it showed sizeable
distortion present in the TiO6 octahedra.
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Photon energy (eV)FIGURE 1: (a) Fe 2p XAS spectra at L2,3 edges recorded at 300K. (b) Fe 2p XAS under +/-1T fields and the corresponding
XMCD is shown in bottom panel. (c) Eu 3d XAS spectra at M4-5 edges at 300K. (d) Ti 2p XAS spectra at L2,3 edges at 300
K.

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BL-14

XAS, XMCD and ARPES Studies of Co and Co40Fe40B20
Ultrathin Films on Bi2Te3 for Spintronic Applications
Andrey K. Kaveeva, Nikita S. Zhiltsova and Masahiro SawadabaIoffe Institute, 194021, 26 Polytechnicheskaya str., Saint-Petersburg, Russiab
Hiroshima University, 739-8527, Higashi Hiroshima, Japan

Keywords: CoFeB, Laser Molecular Beam Epitaxy, Spin, Orbital magnetic moment, Magnetic hysteresis, Topologicalinsulator

For the last years pronounced interest in spintronics area is related to the interesting class of thematerials – topological insulators. These materials possess insulating properties in a bulk, having theirsurface conductive, owing to a strong spin-orbital interaction. Spin-orbital interaction leads to spin splittingof the surface states. These states form Dirac cone near Γ point [1].
Studies of the interface properties of a ferromagnetic metal grown on a ferromagnetic insulator are
winning owing to the magnetic proximity effect, which breaks symmetry of the system relative to the timeinversion of topological states. This effect is related to the ferromagnetic exchange field influence on thesurface states of topological insulator. One may observe the reciprocal effect. The effect is related to thecausing the magnetic order in ferromagnets by spin-polarized current flow through the topological states of
a topological insulator. An idea of the mutual tunable influence of the topological interfacial states andmagnetization on each other is attractive for the development of a novel spintronic devices based on themagneto-resistive systems and spin transistors [2, 3].
We have grown and studied Co and Co40Fe40B20 (CoFeB in text) nanofilms using the Bi2Te3(0001)
substrates. These films were grown with use of laser MBE system (produced by Surface, GmbH.) based on
KrF6 excimer laser. The film thickness was in the 1-20 nm range. Clear surface of Bi2Te3 substrates was
obtained using adhesive tape to eliminate top layer of the material. To dehydrate the surface, Bi2Te3
substrates were annealed under 10-8 mBar pressure at 200qC during 30 minutes. The Co and CoFeB layers
were grown on the Bi2Te3 substrate in 200-400qC temperature range. RHEED analysis was performed
in-situ with use of built-in diffractometer at 30 kV. We have carried out an image analysis via special
software developed in our group [4]. The software allows one to plot 3D projections of RHEED patterns in
the reciprocal space for concrete zone axis. AFM measurements were realized with the microscopeproduced by NT-MDT (Zelenograd, Russia).
The results of XAS and XMCD measurements (BL14 beamline at HiSOR) of CoFeB/Bi2Te3 heterostructuresare shown in Fig. 1. Shown in this figure is the Co 2p (a) and Fe 2p (b) L3,2 fine structure of 5 nm thick
CoFeB/Bi2Te3 grown at RT. The shapes of the spectra correspond to the metallic Co state in these layers [18].
The Fe state represents the superposition of metallic and oxidized Fe (Fe 2O3 - type). For the case of
CoFeB/Bi2Te3 the angular dependence of the XMCD signal was measured. In Fig. 2 the dependence of the
XMCD signals normalized to the L3 peak height on the photon energy for different beam incident angles T isshown for Co (left) and Fe (right). It is seen that the value of the area of XMCD L2 peak ΔAL2 increases with T
increase. This fact confirms that the values of calculated experimental effective spin and orbital moment values
definitely depend on the T value. The values of ms and morb were calculated using original software for Co and
Fe in both Co/Bi2Te3 and CoFeB/ Bi2Te3 cases (the results for the CoFeB films are summarized in Table 1). The
software was developed by the authors of the work. Characteristic values of ms and morb are relatively close tothat for bulk (1.98 and 0.07 for Fe, and 1.55 and 0.15 for Co, resp.) [5]. Small deviation may be attributed to theoxidation of the samples and dimensional effects. It is seen that the directions of morb of Co and Fe are almost- 140 -

perpendicular to each other.

FIGURE 1. Co 2p (left) and Fe 2p (right) L3,2 fine structures of 5 nm thick CoFeB/Bi2Te3 for the opposite external field
directions. XMCD signals are shown in the insets.

FIGURE 2. The dependence of the XMCD signal of Co (left) and Fe (right) on the Tangle in CoFeB/Bi2Te3 nanostructure.
The spectra are normalized to L3 peak height.
TABLE 1. Calculated values of spin and orbital moments (including the in- plane and out-of-plane components of morb)of Co and Fe in CoFeB for CoFeB/Bi2Te3.

ms
morb|morb||||morbA|

CoFeB/Bi2Te3
Fe
1.88r0.10
0.17r0.03
0.05
0.13

Co
1.22r0.05
0.20r0.03
0.17
0.05

Some preliminary ARPES measurements of Co grown on Bi2Te3 were carried out using Laser ARPES
setup. It was shown that optimal thickness of Co to see dispersion is about 0.1-0.2 Å. These experiments areplanned to continue in next beamtime. This work has been supported by Russian Foundation for Basic
Research (grant № 17-02-00729). Part of the work was carried out using Hiroshima Synchrotron radiation
center.

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XMCD Study of Mn-doped Topological Insulators
A.V. Korolevaa, D. Estyunina, A.M. Shikina,
M. Sawadab, A. Kimurab,cabSaint Petersburg State University, 198504 Saint Petersburg, Russia
Hiroshima Synchrotron Radiation Center, University of Hiroshima, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-0047, Japanc
Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University , Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8526, Japan

Keywords: Topological Insulators, XMCD, Magnetic properties.

It is well known that magnetically-doped topological insulators are characterized by unique electronic
and magnetic properties allowing a realization of the quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) [1,2].For
expanding the QAHE on higher temperature region a detailed study of magnetic coupling, its temperaturedependence and relation to the features of electronic structure is demanded.

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Fig.1 XAS spectra measured for Mn-doped Bi2Te3 at Mn L2,3 edge at 83K – (a) and room temperature – (b) underphotoexcitation by circularly polarized SR with magnetic field of opposite orientation applied perpendicular to the surface(red and black lines) and corresponding difference XMCD signal (green lines).

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It is interesting that measurements of ARPES dispersion maps for Mn-doped TIs show often a splittingof the Dirac cone states at the Dirac point at temperatures above than the bulk Curie temperature that canbe related to higher surface Curie temperature [3] and corresponding surface ferromagnetism. The
surface-sensitive XMCD measurement for magnetically-doped TIs (see, for instance, Refs [4-6]) confirms
an availability of a weak, but distinguishable surface magnetic moment up to temperatures 200-250K. It is
assumed [6,7] that the coupling between ferromagnetic impurity atoms takes place via spin-dependent
hybridization with the Te(p) states. Because chemical bonding and corresponding hybridization is not
significantly influenced by temperature, this kind of the surface magnetic ordering is assumed be
maintained up to higher temperatures
The current work is devoted to study of magnetic properties of Mn-doped Bi2Te3 measured at liquid
nitrogen and room temperature by analysis of the XMCD signal at Mn L2,3 edge by XAS at BL-14.
Fig. 1 shows the results of measurements of magnetic moments developed at the Mn-ions in Mn-doped
Bi2Te3 at liquid nitrogen (83K) and room temperatures, i.e. significantly above the bulk Curie temperature
expected for such kind compounds. The magnetic moments were measured by XAS at Mn L2,3 edge underphotoexcitation by circularly polarized SR with magnetic field of opposite orientation applied
perpendicular to the surface that is an analog of corresponding XMCD measurements underphotoexcitation by SR of opposite chirality
Our results show a visible XMCD signal at Mn L2,3 edge developed in Mn-doped Bi2Te3 both at 83K
and room temperature testifying to the out-of-plane magnetization of Mn-ions even at room temperaturethan can be related to the spin-dependent d-p hybridization and its weak dependence on temperature.

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X-ray magnetic circular dichroism study of 0.7(BiFeO3)0.3(TbMnO3) composite
Prince Guptaa, Arkadeb Pala, Rahul Singha, Abhishek Singha, Shiv Kumarb, Eike
F. Schwierb, Masahiro Sawadab, Takeshi Matsumurac Kenya Shimadab, Anup K.
Ghoshd and Sandip ChatterjeeaaDepartment of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi-221005, India
Hiroshima Synchrotron Radiation Center, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-0046, Japanc
Department of Quantum Matter, Hiroshima University, Higashi-hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8530, Japand
Department of Physics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221005, Indiab

Keywords: Multiferroic, Exchange bias, XMCD.

In recent years BiFeO3 (BFO) has emerged as one of the most significant materials for investigating theexchange bias phenomenon as well as multiferroicity. It is the only perovskite material (with R3c spacegroup) which shows multiferroic behavior at room temperature (TN ≈ 643 K and ferroelectric TC ≈ 1100 K).
We have incorporated TbMnO3 to synthesize a composite with BiFeO3. As TbMnO3 (TMO) is very
promising material to induce strain in the system as it shows very strong magneto-electric coupling. Although
TbMnO3 possesses perovskite structure with a very close space group (space group Pbnm), the latticemismatch between the two materials in the composite system is sufficient to create a strain the structure.
In this work, we have synthesized the hard and soft antiferromagnetic composite system of BiFeO3 (70%)
and TbMnO3 (30%) using conventional solid-state reaction technique. X-ray powder diffraction
measurements confirm the prepared samples are of single phase with no chemical phase impurity. We havecarried out XAS and XMCD measurements with polarized X-rays at the BL-14 beamline. We have observeda large value of spontaneous exchange bias at room temperature and below room temperature. The origin of
exchange bias in BiFeO3 based systems has been an argued mechanism in recent years. In some BiFeO3
based systems the exchange bias can only be found at lower temperatures and the EB phenomena has been
linked with the super spin glass (SSG) moments. In order to understand this large value of the spontaneous
exchange bias as well as the origin of ferromagnetism at low temperature we have done XMCD measurement
to study the element specific magnetization of the sample.
In summary, we have synthesized and characterized the hard and soft antiferromagnetic composite system
of BiFeO3 (70%) and TbMnO3 (30%). The role of interfacial exchange coupling in getting exchange bias
in the system has been also confirmed by the training effect of the exchange bias and XMCD spectra of Fe
and Mn L2,3 edge.

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50
40

Fe L2,3 edge in BFO

+ XAS
- XAS
XMCD

6

at 300K
5

30

+ XAS
- XAS
XMCD

Mn L2,3 edge in TMO
at 300 K

1.5
0.15

1.0

4

300K

0.10

3

20

2

10
1

(a)

(a)

20
18
16
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
-2
14
12

0

Fe L2,3 edge in 0.7BFO-0.3TMO

+ XAS
- XAS
XMCD

at 180 K(b)

Norm. Intensity

Norm. Intensity

0

12
10

+ XAS
- XAS
XMCD

Mn L2,3 edge in
0.7BFO-0.3TMO at 300 K

8Magnetization (emu/g)

0.05

6

Fe L2,3 edge in 0.7BFO-0.3TMO

-2000

-1500

-1000

-500

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500

1000

1500

0.0

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10
8

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(b)

2

at 180 K

10

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4

0

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XMCD

0.00

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+ XAS
- XAS
XMCD

-20000-10000

0

10000

20000

30000

Magnetic Field (Oe)Mn L2,3 edge in
0.7BFO-0.3TMO at 180 K

6

6
4

4
2

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2

0

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700

710

720

730

Binding Energy (eV)

740

625

630

635

640

645

650

655

660

665

Binding energy (eV)FIGURE 1: fig (A): XAS and XMCD spectra of Fe L2,3 edge in (a) BFO (b) 0.7BFO-0.3TMO at 300 K (c) 0.7BFO-0.3TMO
at 180 K. Fig(B): XAS and XMCD spectra of Mn L2,3 edge in (a) TMO at 300 K (b) 0.7BFO-0.3TMO at 300 K (c) 0.7BFO0.3TMO at 180 K. Fig (C) The hysteresis loop shift of 0.7BFO-0.3TMO composite measured at 300K.

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