Illuminating the moment.
Light sustains Innovation.

A Message from Director

NanoTerasu: Peering at the Frontiers of Sciencewith State-of-the-Art LightInternational Center forSynchrotron Radiation Innovation Smart (SRIS)
Tohoku University
DirectorCHIBA Daichi

Tohoku University operates under the spirit of Research First, and a policy of PracticeOriented Research and Education; it is the goal of the International Center for Synchrotron
Radiation Innovation Smart (SRIS) to uncover new knowledge for humankind, and it willseek to do this through NanoTerasu.
NanoTerasu is a next-generation 3GeV synchrotron radiation facility—a giant microscoperoughly the size of Tokyo Dome—located on the university’s Aobayama New Campus.
Generating light that is more than one billion times brighter than sunlight, the facility iscapable of making nanoscale observations of both the surfaces and interiors of different
objects; utilizing various observation methods, it is also capable of visualizing themicroscopic mechanisms by which these objects function.
Scientific technologies hold the key to the progress of modern civilization, and scientificfrontiers must be crossed if humankind is to resolve the varying issues it faces. Science
itself makes progress through discoveries rooted in curiosity. By applying our existingknowledge to this process of discovery, we gain further insights; and these insights bringabout progress for modern civilization—in industry and in medicine—and open up new
possibilities for humankind.
SRIS boasts an array of specialists with the ability to make sophisticated use of
NanoTerasu’s world-leading light source—to collaborate on resolving issues, to develop
cutting-edge methods of observation, and to open up new frontiers of science.
The center is set to play a key role for academia, industry, and the local community; it will
provide powerful support for academic developments whose impacts will be felt aroundthe world, and will encourage the development of globally minded talent.

SRIS: exploring the frontiers of science using high-brilliancesynchrotron radiation
International Center for Synchrotron
Radiation Innovation Smart (SRIS) is a
new organization launched at Tohoku
University in October 2019. We lead thecreation of innovation by expanding theuse of the next-generation synchrotron
radiation facility to diverse fields ofacademia and industries. In addition,as an academic member, we support
the concrete utilization of the new
synchrotron radiation facility throughthe design of its endstations andfeasibility studies at existing synchrotron radiation facilities. We also collaborate with thePhoton Science Innovation Center (PhoSIC) and the National Institutes for Quantum Scienceand Technology. We will continue to act as a hub connecting universities and research
institutes in Japan and abroad, creating an environment that develops the abundant talentand individuality of the next generation.

“Coalition” : a new concept of cooperation between
academia and industriesThe “Coalition” is a new concept for utilizing the next-generation synchrotron radiation facility.
For industry members, it is “a framework for accelerating research and development with ashared exit vision through one-on-one partnerships with academic partners who have thenecessary expertise and measurement technologies.” For members of academia, it is “aframework that provides opportunities to discover new themes related to scientific researchand the development of advanced measurement systems latent in the challenges faced by theindustry.” Companies, research institutes, and universities that have agreed to the “Coalitionconcept” have already contributed funds for the construction of the facility and areparticipating in the project as “Coalition members.” Under this concept, they have alreadystarted feasibility studies.

An international network hub with synchrotron
radiation at its core
With academic co-creation through international collaboration as one of its goals,
SRIS has launched the world’s first andlargest “Quadrilateral Research Complex,”

European all-in-one base for propelling innovation,in cooperation with world-class universities
and research institutions in four regions:
Europe, the United States of America, Asia/

Asia/Oceania

Quadrilateral
ResearchComplex

USA

Oceania, and South America. Through thecomplementary utilization and application ofSouth America

the next-generation synchrotron radiation
facility, its neighboring resources, andother facilities in Japan and abroad, we will
engender international academic exchange.

Research and development accelerated by co-creation withstrategic academic partners
To meet the diverse needs of companies
including what they want to “observe andsolve,” SRIS and PhoSIC will collaborate at the
next-generation synchrotron radiation facility
to establish a system, wherein academic
members who are maximizing “cutting-edge

scientific light” will support member companies from industry.
Such member companies from industry canutilize measurement data for everything fromproduct development to strategic planning.
Measurement outcomes can be proprietary
and are kept confidential. Some industry members that have already started feasibility studies
are strengthening relationships with academic members and are generating guidelines for
product development strategies.

Seven coalition beamlines to meet diverse measurement andanalysis needs
With an extensive lineup of measurement methods, synchrotron radiation facilities meet the needfor observation and verification which are the fundamentals of science. Compared to existing
synchrotron radiation facilities for soft X-rays in Japan, the next-generation synchrotron radiation
facility is designed to achieve much higher brilliance. This excellent light-source performanceenables the observation of an object’s configuration and state of reaction on a nanoscale.
The first ten beamlines are to be installed at the next-generation synchrotron radiation facility.
Seven of them are coalition beamlines, and coalition members have priority access to them.

There are two types of laboratories called endstations. The first type is for “highly automatedmeasurements” where routine measurements are conducted efficiently and flexibly. The

second one is for “advanced measurements” that can be used to conduct measurements in thedevelopment process, such as operando spectroscopic analysis and multidimensional coherent
imaging, and install innovation benches for challenging measurements. Coalition members canparticipate in discussions about the coalition beamlines, and their operating systems from thedesign phase.

Beamline
A generic term for a series ofdevices and endstations thatbifurcate the light generated
from the storage ring, shape
the light, and guide it to theendstations.

Advanced measurement endstation
Highly automated measurement endstation
Conceptual drawing of beamline

Organization
DirectorVisiting Professor / Visiting Associate Professor
Next-generation detection system Smart Lab

Cross Fertilization Division

Big data Smart Lab
Data visualization smart lab
International collaboration smart lab
Functional measurement smart lab
Multimodal measurement smart lab

SR Core Research Division

Multiscalel measurement smart lab
Interface measurement smart lab
Spin measurement smart lab
Bio-spectroscopic measurement smart labMaterials Science / Energy / Environment Smart Lab

Innovation and Technology
Transfer Division

Electronics Smart Lab
Future Medical / Drug Discovery Smart Lab
Agriculture / Food Smart Lab

Joint Research Division

Synchrotron Next Generation Measurement Science
Collaboration Research Division

Contact

International Center for Synchrotron Radiation Innovation Smart
Tohoku University
Katahira 2-1-1, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8577, Japan
Phone : +81-22-217-5204
sris@grp.tohoku.ac.jp

https://www.sris.tohoku.ac.jp/en/