News2020
The 39th CSJ Award for Technical Achievements Given toMr. Eiken Nakamura
Mr. Eiken Nakamura, Facility Chief Engineer in UVSOR Synchrotron Facility, has been awarded the39th Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ) Award for Technical Achievements for “Development of UVSOR
Beamlines and Their Experimental Apparatuses for Promoting Molecular Science”. The award is givenby CSJ to persons who have made significant contributions to the improvement/development ofdevices/instruments/plants for chemistry and the chemical industry with their special skills.
Arriving at UVSOR Synchrotron Facility in 1984 (soon after the first synchrotron-light creation(1983)), Mr. Nakamura started his career in the construction, maintenance, and modificationof beamlines and end stations. He made great contributions to the development of various
monochromators such as a grasshopper monochromator and a plane-grating monochromator, andalso of experimental apparatuses. Among a large number of contributions, some highlights can befound in the development of new beamlines: a far-infrared beamline (BL6B, 1985), which is the firstone in the world, a device/instrument calibration beamline (BL5B, 1988), which has been active for along time, and an undulator beamline (BL6U, 2003), where a state-of-the-art momentum microscopesystem (UVSOR MM) is currently being developed (see the next page). Another remarkable
contribution is to the modification of the soft-X-ray beamline BL4B to utilize the circularly polarized
light component of bending radiation, which was successful with Mr. Nakamura’s invention ofL-shaped water-cooling four-quadrant slit system.
As above, Mr. Nakamura played an important role in keeping the UVSOR facility on the cutting edgeof science and technology. Many UVSOR users have benefited from this effort and have also been
supported by him invarious ways to carry

Double award celebration!!
The CSJ award is one of the awards.

out experiments.

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The 39th CSJ Award for Technical Achievements Given toMr. Eiken Nakamura
Mr. Eiken Nakamura, Facility Chief Engineer in UVSOR Synchrotron Facility, has been awarded the39th Chemical Society of Japan (CSJ) Award for Technical Achievements for “Development of UVSOR
Beamlines and Their Experimental Apparatuses for Promoting Molecular Science”. The award is givenby CSJ to persons who have made significant contributions to the improvement/development ofdevices/instruments/plants for chemistry and the chemical industry with their special skills.
Arriving at UVSOR Synchrotron Facility in 1984 (soon after the first synchrotron-light creation(1983)), Mr. Nakamura started his career in the construction, maintenance, and modificationof beamlines and end stations. He made great contributions to the development of various
monochromators such as a grasshopper monochromator and a plane-grating monochromator, andalso of experimental apparatuses. Among a large number of contributions, some highlights can befound in the development of new beamlines: a far-infrared beamline (BL6B, 1985), which is the firstone in the world, a device/instrument calibration beamline (BL5B, 1988), which has been active for along time, and an undulator beamline (BL6U, 2003), where a state-of-the-art momentum microscope
system (UVSOR MM) is currently being developed (see the next page). Another remarkable
contribution is to the modification of the soft-X-ray beamline BL4B to utilize the circularly polarized
light component of bending radiation, which was successful with Mr. Nakamura’s invention ofL-shaped water-cooling four-quadrant slit system.
As above, Mr. Nakamura played an important role in keeping the UVSOR facility on the cutting edgeof science and technology. Many UVSOR users have benefited from this effort and have also been
supported by him invarious ways to carry

Double award celebration!!
The CSJ award is one of the awards.

out experiments.

HM

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2020
The NAGAI Foundation for Science & Technology Encouragement
Award Given to Dr. Fumihiko Matsui
Dr. Fumihiko Matsui, Senior Researcher in UVSOR Synchrotron Facility, has been awarded the NAGAI
Foundation for Science & Technology Encouragement Award for “Development of micro area analysis
of surfaces of materials with unique electronic properties by the momentum microscope”. The award
is given by the NAGAI Foundation for Science & Technology to researchers who made significant
achievements in the materials processing industry and related research fields.
Since taking up his post in April, 2018, Dr. Matsui has been conducting the development of aunique state-of-the-art surface and materials analysis system at the soft-X-ray beamline BL6U of theUVSOR-III synchrotron, introducing and advancing a momentum microscope (MM) in collaboration
with SPECS GmbH. The system aims at extracting accurate and sufficient information on atomic andelectronic structure and spin distribution carried by photoelectrons, in order to promote detailed
atomic-level investigation to solve, ultimately, global energy and environmental issues.
The award encourages the development of this promising system, which is somewhat slowly but
steadily in progress in the coronavirus pandemic. The development is performed in three steps: Step1, already completed, was to install and optimize a single HDA (Hemispherical Deflection Analyzer)
system, in which satisfactory performance was achieved. Step 2, currently being progressed, is toupgrade the system with twin HDAs and to construct a branch beamline at BL7U, which allows
normal light incidence on sample dually. Step 3 is to introduce a spin detector to the twin-HDA
system, for which a novel technique for resolving 3D spin polarization was invented. With these steps,
the UVSOR MM system would become the first and only experimental station that can determine thetrue nature of materials in view of electron’s energy, momentum, spin, and space.

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