Akira Baba is a Professor at Faculty of Engineering, Niigata University, Japan, since 2020. He received his Ph.D. in electrical and electronic engine ering at Niigata University, Japan in 1999. In 1999, he joined the Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany as an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow. Then, he worked at National University of Singapore in the Department of Materials Science for half a year. After a short stay at University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2003, he moved to the University of Houston, Department of Chemistry where he worked as research associate staff. His research interest involves developments of surface sensitive techniques, nanofabrication and analysis of organic thin films/biomolecules, and their optoelectronic applications.

Niigata Univ. Website: http://researchers.adm.niigata-u.ac.jp/html/920_en.html

PROFESSIONAL AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCES

2020.04 – Current  Professor
　　　　　　Faculty of Engineering, Niigata University
2007.04 – 2020.03  Associate Professor
　　　　　　Niigata University
2007.01 – 2009.3  Visiting Researcher
　　　　　　National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
2004.06 – 2006.12    Research Associate Staff
　　　　　Department of Chemistry, University of Houston
2003.07 – 2004.05  Visiting Research Fellow
　　　　　　Department of Chemistry, University of Houston
　　　　　　(Department of Chemistry, University of Alabama at Birmingham,
　　　　　　Postdoctoral Researcher)
2003.01 – 2003.07  Research Fellow, Department of Materials Science
　　　　　　National University of Singapore
2002.01 – 2002.03  Visiting Research Fellow Department of Materials Science
　　　　　National University of Singapore,
1999.11 – 2002.12   Humboldt Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow
　　　　　Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research, Germany,

AWARD and HONORS.

1) The 4th Japanese Society of Applied Physics Awards for Research Paper Presentation (1998)
2) Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship (1999) "Surface Plasmon Enhanced Electroluminescent Diode (SPEELD) Device: Investigation of Combined Optical and Electrical Parameters in Electroluminescent Ultrathin Polymer Films"
3) NIH-related Keck Center Nanobiology Fellowship (2006) "Real-Time Electrochemical-Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensing for the Detection of Proteins in Nanostructured Films"
4) Award for Encouragement of Research in Thin Films)
"Controlling Surface Plasmon Optical Transmission with Electrochemical Switch Using Conducting Polymer Thin Films"
The 15^th International Conference on Thin Films (ICTF-15), November, (2011)

PUBLICATIONS
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Peer Reviewed Papers　("*": First or Corresponding Authors)

*100) Supeera Nootchanat, Hathaithip Ninsonti, Akira Baba, Sanong Ekgasit, Chuchaat Thammacharoen,  Kazunari Shinbo, Keizo Kato, Futao Kaneko

     “Investigation of Localized Surface Plasmon/Grating-coupled Surface Plasmon Enhanced Photocurrent in TiO₂ Thin Films”

      Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Vol. 16, pp.24484-24492 (2014)

*99) Paphawadee Netsuwan, Hiroto Mimiya, Akira Baba, Saengrawee Sriwichai, Kazunari Shinbo, Keizo Kato, Futao Kaneko, Sukon Phanichphant

“Long-range surface plasmon resonance immunosensor based on water–stable electrospun poly(acrylic acid) fibers”

Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, Vol. 204, pp.770-776 (2014)

*98) Weerasak Chomkitichai, Hathaithip Ninsonti, Akira Baba, Sukon Phanichphant, Kazunari Shinbo, Keizo Kato, Futao Kaneko

“Multiple Plasmonic Effect on Photocurrent Generation of Metal-loaded Titanium Dioxide Composite/Dye Films on Gold Grating Surface”

    Surface and Interface Analysis, Vol. 46, pp.607-612 (2014)

*97) Chutiparn Lertvachirapaiboon, Akira Baba, Sanong Ekgasit, Chuchaat Thammacharoen, Kazunari Shinbo, Keizo Kato, Futao Kaneko

"Distance-Dependent Surface Plasmon Resonance Coupling between a Gold Grating Surface and Silver Nanoparticles"

Plasmonics, August 2014, Vol. 9, pp 899-905 (2014).

*96) Akira Baba, Keisuke Imazu, Akihito Yoshida, Daisuke Tanaka, Kaoru Tamada

“Surface Plasmon Resonance Properties of Silver Nanoparticle 2D Sheets on Metal Gratings”

SpringerPlus, Vol. 3, pp.284(1)–284(10) (2014)

95) Hathaithip Ninsonti, Weerasak Chomkitichai, Akira Baba, NatdaWetchakun, Wiyong Kangwansupamonkon, Sukon Phanichphant, Kazunari Shinbo, Keizo Kato, Futao Kaneko

“Au-Loaded Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles Synthesized by Modified Sol-Gel/Impregnation Methods and Their Application to Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells”

International Journal of Photoenergy, Article ID: 865423 (8 pages) (2014)

*94) Sopis Chuekachang, Rapiphun Janmanee, Akira Baba, Sukon Phanichphant, Saengrawee Sriwichai, Kazunari Shinbo, Keizo Kato, Futao Kaneko, Nobuko Fukuda, Hirobumi Ushijima

"Electrochemically Controlled Detection of Adrenaline on Poly(2-aminobenzylamine) Thin Films by Surface Plasmon Resonance Spectroscopy and Quartz Crystal Microbalance"

Surface and Interface Analysis, Vol. 45, pp.1661-1666 (2013)

93) Rapiphun Janmanee, Akira Baba, Sukon Phanichphant, Saengrawee Sriwichai, Kazunari Shinbo, Keizo Kato, Futao Kaneko

"Electrochemically Fabricated Pyrrole Copolymer Thin Films and Their Electroactivity in Neutral Aqueous Solution"

Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, Vol. 580, pp.29-34 (2013)

92) Sopis Chuekachang, Rapiphun Janmanee, Akira Baba, Sukon Phanichphant, Saengrawee Sriwichai, Kazunari Shinbo, Keizo Kato, Futao Kaneko, Nobuko Fukuda, Hirobumi Ushijima

"Fabrication of Thin Film from Conducting Polymer/Single Wall Carbon Nanotube Composites for the Detection of Uric acid"

Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, Vol. 580, pp.1-6 (2013)

91) Paphawadee. Netsuwan, Saengrawee Sriwichai, Sukon Phanichphant, Akira Baba, Kazunari Shinbo, Keizo Kato, Futao Kaneko

"Fabrication of Carboxylated Conducting Polymer/CNTs Composites Thin films for Immnosensor Application"

Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, Vol. 580, pp.7-14 (2013)

90) Kazunari Shinbo, Akihiro Uno, Ryo Hirakawa, Akira Baba, Yasuo Ohdaira, Keizo Kato, and Futao Kaneko

"Fabrication of a Quartz-Crystal-Microbalance/Optical-Waveguide Hybrid Sensor and In Situ Evaluation of Vacuum-Evaporated Lead Phthalocyanine Thin Film "

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 52, pp. 05DC20 1-5 (2013).

*89) Chutiparn Lertvachirapaiboon, Chirayut Supunyabut, Akira Baba, Sanong Ekgasit, Chuchaat Thammacharoen, Kazunari Shinbo, Keizo Kato, and Futao Kaneko Transmission Surface Plasmon Resonance Signal Enhancement via Growth of Gold Nanoparticles on a Gold Grating Surface

Plasmonics, Vol. 8, pp.369-375 (2013).

*88) Hathaithip Ninsonti, Weerasak Chomkitichai, Akira Baba, Wiyong Kangwansupamonkon, Sukon Phanichphant,　Kazunari Shinbo, Keizo Kato, Futao Kaneko

"Enhanced Photocurrent Properties of Dye/Au-loaded TiO₂ Films by Grating-coupled Surface Plasmon Excitation"

IEICE Transactions Electronics, Vol. E96-C, pp.385-388 (2013)

*87) Akira Baba, Kohji Tada, Rapiphun Janmanee, Saengrawee Sriwichai, Kazunari Shinbo, Keizo Kato, Futao Kaneko, Sukon Phanichphant

"Controlling Surface Plasmon Optical Transmission with Electrochemical Switch Using Conducting Polymer Thin Films"

Advanced Functional Materials, Vol. 22, pp.4383-4388 (2012)

*86) Chutiparn Lertvachirapaiboon, Ryosuke Yamazaki, Prompong Pienpinijtham, Akira Baba, Sanong Ekgasit, Chuchaat Thammacharoen, Kazunari Shinbo, Keizo Kato, Futao Kaneko

"Solution-based fabrication of gold grating film for use as a surface plasmon resonance sensor chip"

Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, Vol. 173, pp.316-321 (2012)

85) Masahiro Minagawa, Yasuo Sato, Akira Takahashi, Akira Baba, Kazunari Shinbo, Keizo Kato, and Futao Kaneko

"Mechanism behind Improved Apparent Field-Effect Mobility in Pentacene Thin-Film Transistors with Thin Molybdenum Trioxide Layer"

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 51, 101601 (5pages) (2012)

*84) Rapiphun Janmanee, Akira Baba, Sukon Phanichphant, Saengrawee Sriwichai, Kazunari Shinbo, Keizo Kato, Futao Kaneko

In situ Electrochemical-Transmission Surface Plasmon Resonance Spectroscopy for Poly(pyrrole-3-carboxylic acid) Thin-Film-Based Biosensor Applications

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, Vol. 4, pp.4270-4275 (2012).

83) Yasuo Ohdaira, Kazunari Shinbo, Akira Baba, Keizo Kato, Futao Kaneko

"Optical near-field excitation using liquid crystals on nanostructured photoreactive molecular thin films" Science China-Physics Mechanics & Astronomy Vol. 55, pp.1351-1355 (2012) 82) Guoqian Jiang, Chengyu Huang, Akira Baba, Rigoberto Advincula "Monitoring in situ Electrochemical Crosslinking in Nanostructured Precursor Polymer Films by EC-SPR Spectroscopy" Macromolecular Reaction Engineering Vol. 6, pp.153–159 (2012)

81) Kazunari Shinbo, Hiroshi Ishikawa, Akira Baba, Yasuo Ohdaira, Keizo Kato, Futao Kaneko

"Fabrication of a Quartz-Crystal-Microbalance/Surface-Plasmon-Resonance Hybrid Sensor and Its Use for Detection of Polymer Thin-Film Deposition and Evaluation of Moisture Sorption Phenomena"

Applied Physics Express Vol. 5 (2012) 036603 (3 pages)

80) Kazunari Shinbo, Makoto Iwasaki, Yasuo Ohdaira, Akira Baba, Keizo Kato, Futao Kaneko 

 "Humidity Detection by Using a Hybrid Sensor  Employing Optical Waveguide Spectroscopy and Quartz Crystal Microbalance "

 IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics  Vol.E94-C  No.12  pp.1851-1854, 2011

79) Futao Kaneko, Akira Baba, Kazunari Shinbo, Keizo Kato

Nano-structured Organic Devises and Biosensors utilizing Evanescent Waves and Surface Plasmon Resonance Date of Evaluation

IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics  Vol.E94-C  No.12  pp.1824-1831, 2011

*78) Akira Baba, Keisuke Wakatsuki, Kazunari Shinbo, Keizo Kato, Futao Kaneko

"Increased Short-Circuit Current in Grating-Coupled Surface Plasmon Resonance Field-Enhanced Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell"

Journal of Materials Chemistry, Vol. 21, pp.16436-16441 (2011)

77) M. Minagawa, K. Nakai, A. Baba, K. Shinbo, K. Kato, F. Kaneko, C. Lee

"Characteristics of Carrier-generated Field-effect Transistors with Pentacene/Vanadium Pentoxide"

Journal of the Korean Physical Society, Vol. 58, pp.1402-1406 (2011)

76) Kazunari Shinbo, Yuta Hirano, Masayuki Sakai, Masahiro Minagawa, Yasuo Ohdaira, Akira Baba, Keizo Kato, Futao Kaneko

"Surface Plasmon Excitation and Emission Light Properties Using Hybrid Setup of Prism and Grating Coupling"

IEICE Transactions Electronics Vol. E94C, pp196-197 (2011)   

*75) Akira Baba, Nobutaka Aoki, Kazunari Shinbo, Keizo Kato, Futao Kaneko

   “Grating-Coupled Surface Plasmon Enhanced Short-Circuit Current in Organic Thin-Film Photovoltaic Cells”

    ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Vol. 3, pp2080-2084 (2011)

74) Gareth Sheppard, Takao Oseki, Akira Baba, Derek Patton, Futao Kaneko, Leidong Mao, Jason Locklin

“Thiolene-Based Microfluidic Flow Cells for Surface Plasmon Resonance Imaging”

Biomicrofluidics, Vol. 5, p.026501(6 pages) (2011)

*73) Akira Baba, Takumi Nakatsukasa, Akihisa Baba, Kazunari Shinbo, Keizo Kato, Futao Kaneko

“Fabrication of Fluorescence Tunable Electrospun Conjugated Polycarbazole Fibers Containing Gold Nanoparticles”

Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Vol. 11, pp4289-4294 (2011)

72) Kazunari Shinbo, Kenta Mizusawa, Hayato Takahashi, Yasuo Ohdaira, Akira Baba, Keizo Kato, Futao Kaneko, Nobuo Miyadera

“Vapor Sensing Using Waveguide-Based Multiple Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensors”

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 50, 01BC15 (5 pages), (2011)

*71) Rapiphun Janmanee, Akira Baba, Sukon Phanichphant, Saengrawee Sriwichai, Kazunari Shinbo, Keizo Kato, Futao Kaneko

   “Detection of Human IgG on Poly(pyrrole-3-carboxylic acid) Thin Film by Electrochemical-Surface Plasmon Resonance Spectroscopy”

    Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 50, 01BK02 (6 pages), (2011).

           *70) Akira Baba, Chuanjun Xia, Wolfgang Knoll, Rigoberto C Advincula

    “Electrochemical Surface Plasmon Resonance and Field Enhanced Light Scattering (EC-SPR/EC-SPFELS): Monomer Copolymerization with a Polysiloxane Conjugated Polythiophene Network Precursor”

Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, Vol. 211, pp2624-2635, 2010

69) Guoqian Jiang, Suxian Deng, Akira Baba, Chengyu Huang, Rigoberto Advincula

“On the Monolayer Adsorption of Thiol Terminated Dendritic Oligothiophenes onto Gold Surfaces”

Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, Vol. 211, pp2562-2572, 2010

*68) Akira Baba, Touru Mannen, Yasuo Ohdaira, Kazunari Shinbo, Keizo Kato, Futao Kaneko, Nobuko Fukuda, and Hirobumi Ushijima

“Detection of Adrenaline on Poly(3-aminobenzylamine) Ultrathin Film by Electrochemical-Surface Plasmon Resonance Spectroscopy”

Langmuir, Vol. 26, pp18476–18482, 2010

*67) Akira Baba, Taihei Matsuzawa, Saengrawee Sriwichai, Yasuo Ohdaira, Kazunari Shinbo, Keizo Kato, Sukon Phanichphant, Futao Kaneko

   “Enhanced Photocurrent Generation in Nanostructured Chromophore/Carbon Nanotube Hybrid Layer-by-Layer Multilayers”

   The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 114, pp 14716–14721, 2010

*66) Akira Baba, Ramakrishna Ponnapati, Prasad Taranekar, Wolfgang Knoll, Rigoberto Advincula

“Electrochemical Surface Plasmon Resonance (EC-SPR) and Waveguide Enhanced Glucose Biosensing with N-Alkylaminated Polypyrrole/Glucose Oxidase Multilayers”

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Vol. 2, pp 2347–2354, 2010

*65) Saengrawee Sriwichai, Akira Baba, Sukon Phanichphant, Kazunari Shinbo, Keizo Kato, Futao Kaneko

“Electrochemically Controlled Surface Plasmon Resonance Immunosensor for the Detection of Human Immunoglobulin G on Poly(3-aminobenzoic acid) Ultrathin Films”

Sensors and Actuators B, Vol. 147, pp.322-329, 2010

64) Kazunari Shinbo, Shintaro Onozuka, Rikiya Hoshino, Yoshinori Mizuno, Yasuo Ohdaira, Akira Baba, Keizo Kato, Futao Kaneko

“Preparation of Electrospun Polymer Fibers Using a Copper Wire Electrode in a Capillary Tube”

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 49, (2010) 04DK24 (5 pages)

*63) Aya Ikarashi, Akira Baba, Kazunari Shinbo, Keizo Kato, Futao Kaneko

“Alignment Properties of Liquid Crystal Molecules under AC and DC Voltage Application Studied by Surface Plasmon Resonance and Optical Waveguide Spectroscopy”

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 49, (2010) 04DK22 (4 pages)

62) Masahiro Minagawa, Tetsuyuki Higashikawa, Kentaro Nakai, Kazunari Shinbo, Yasuo Ohdaira, Akira Baba, Keizo Kato, Futao Kaneko

“Fabrication and Evaluation of Poly(3-hexylthiophene) Field-Effect Transistor With V2O5 Layer”

Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, Vol. 519, pp. 213-221, 2010

*61)  Aya Ikarashi, Akira Baba, Kazunari Shinbo, Keizo Kato, Futao Kaneko

“In-situ Investigation of Tilt angles of 5CB LC Molecules on SiO₂ Alignment Layer Using Surface Plasmon Resonance/Optical Waveguide Spectroscopy”

Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, Vol. 519, pp.128–133 (2010).

*60)  Akira Baba, Kenji Kanda, Tsutomu Ohno, Yasuo Ohdaira, Kazunari Shinbo, Keizo Kato, Futao Kaneko

“Multimode Surface Plasmon Excitations on Organic Thin Film/ Metallic Diffraction Grating”

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 49 (2010) 01AE02 (4 pages)

*59)  Akira Baba, Yoshinori Kanetsuna, Saengrawee Sriwichai, Yasuo Ohdaira, Kazunari Shinbo, Keizo Kato, Sukon Phanichphant, Futao Kaneko

     “Nanostructured Carbon Nanotubes/Copper Phthalocyanine Hybrid Multilayers Prepared Using Layer-by-Layer Self-Assembly Approach”

     Thin Solid Films, Vol. 518 pp2200–2205 (2010).

58)  Masahiro Minagawa, Syohei Kitamura, Akira Baba, Kazunari Shinbo, Keizo Kato, Futao Kaneko

^“Fabrication and Characteristics of Field-Effect Transistors with Vanadium Pentoxide and Copper Phthalocyanine Multilayers^”

Applied Physics Express 2 (2009) 071502 (3 pages)

57)  Yasuo Ohdaira, Kazumasa Banba, Kengo Murotani, Takamasa Suzuki, Osami Sasaki, Akira Baba, Kazunari Shinbo, Keizo Kato, Futao Kaneko

“Evaluation of photoreactive azo dye molecular thin films utilizing an optical interferometer with evanescent wave illumination”

Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, 1563-5287, Volume 504, pp114 – 123 (2009).

56)  Kazunari Shinbo, Shunya Otuki, Yasuo Ohdaira, Akira Baba, Keizo Kato, Futao Kaneko, Nobuo Miyadera

“A Hybrid Humidity Sensor Using Optical Waveguide on Quarts Crystal Microbalance”

     Thin Solid Films, 518, pp.629–633 (2009)

55)  Keizo Kato, Kazuki Yamashita, Yasuo Ohdaira, Akira Baba, Kazunari Shinbo, Futao Kaneko “Electrochemical surface plasmon excitation and emission light properties in poly(3-hexylthiophene) thin films”

     Thin Solid Films, 518, pp.758-761 (2009)

54)        Xinheng Li, Kaoru Tamada, Akira Baba, Masahiko Hara

“pH Controlled Two Dimensional Gold Nanoparticle Aggregates for Systematic Study of Local Surface Plasmon Coupling”

Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Vol. 9, pp.408-416 (2009).

*53)  Akira Baba, Fuminobu Sato, Nobuko Fukuda, Hirobumi Ushijima, Kiyoshi Yase

“Micro/Nanopatterning of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes-Organic Semiconductor Composites”

Nanotechnology, Vol. 20, pp85301(6pp) (2009)

*52)  Akira Baba, Yohsuke Sano, Yasuo Ohdaira, Kazunari Shinbo, Keizo Kato, Futao Kaneko

     “Electrocatalytic Oxidation Properties of Ascorbic Acid at Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) Films Studied by Electrochemical-Surface Plasmon Resonance Spectroscopy”

IEICE Transactions, Vol. E91-C, pp1881-1882 (2008)

51)  Megumi Hafuka, Masahiro Minagawa, Yasuo Ohdaira, Akira Baba, Kazunari Shinbo, Keizo Kato, Futao Kaneko

“Surface Plasmon Excitation and Emission Light Property for Otto/Kretschmann Configuration with  MEH-PPV Film”

IEICE Transactions, Vol. E91-C, pp1883-1884 (2008)

50)  Yushin Park, Prasad Taranekar, Jin Young Park, Akira Baba, Timothy Fulghum, Ramakrishna Ponnapati, Rigoberto C. Advincula

“Hybrid CdSe Nanoparticle–Carbazole Dendron Boxes: Electropolymerization and Energy-Transfer Mechanism Shift”

Advanced Functional Materials, Vol. 18, pp.2071–2078 (2008).

49)  Kazunari Shinbo, Hiroshi Miura, Yasuo Ohdaira, Akira Baba, Keizo Kato, Futao Kaneko

 “Adsorption and Surface Plasmon Emission Light of Polystyrene Spheres with Fluorescent Dyes on Ag Thin Film”

      IEICE Transactions, Vol. E91-C, pp1663-1668 (2008)

48)  Saengrawee Sriwichai, Akira Baba, Suxiang Deng, Chengyu Huang, Sukon Phanichphant and Rigoberto C. Advincula

“Nanostructured Ultrathin Films of Alternating Sexithiophenes and Electropolymerizable Polycarbazole Precursor Layers Investigated by Electrochemical-Surface Plasmon Resonance (EC-SPR) Spectroscopy”

Langmuir, Vol. 24, pp.9017-9023 (2008)

47)  Chatthai Kaewtong, Guoqian Jiang, Tim Fulghum, Yushin Park, Akira Baba, Buncha Pulpoka and Rigoberto Advincula

“Azacalixarene-Carbazole Conjugated Polymer Network (CPN) Ultrathin Films for Specific Cation Sensing”

     Chemistry of Materials, Vol. 20, pp.4915-4924 (2008)

46)  Yutaka Kobayashi, Makoto Fukushima, Akira Baba, Yasuo Ohdaira, Kazunari Shinbo, Keizo Kato, Futao Kaneko

“Humidity Adsorption and Surface Plasmon Excitation of Poly(vinyl alcohol) Films with Fluorescent Microspheres”

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 47, pp.1110-1114 (2008).

45) Kazunari Shinbo, Toshiyuki Akazawa, Yasuhito Takatsuka, Yasuo Ohdaira, Akira Baba, Keizo Kato, Futao Kaneko

 “Characteristics of Field-Effect Transistors with Vapor-Treated Magnesium  Phthalocyanine Films”

 Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 47, pp.484-487 (2008)

44)  Prasad Taranekar, Chengyu Huang, Timothy M. Fulghum, Akira Baba, Guoqian  Jiang, Jin-Young Park, and Rigoberto C. Advincula

“Nanocomposite Films of a Polyfluorene Copolymer and Carbazole- Thiol-Capped Gold Nanoparticles: Electrochemical Crosslinking and Energy-Transfer Properties”

    Advanced Functional Materials Vol.18, pp.347-354 (2008)

43) Guoqian Jiang,Akira Baba, Hiroshi Ikarashi, Risheng Xu, Jason Locklin, Khan Rana Kashif, Kazunari Shinbo, Keizo Kato, Futao Kaneko, Rigoberto Advincula

“Signal Enhancement and Tuning of Surface Plasmon Resonance: ATR Spectroscopy and Imaging of Hybrid Gold Nanoparticles/Polyelectrolytes Ultrathin Films”

The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 111, pp18687-18694 (2007).

42)  Kaoru Tamada, Fumio Nakamura, Masateru Ito Xinheng Li, Akira Baba,

“SPR based DNA detection with metal nanoparticles”

 Plasmonics, Vol. 2, pp.185-191 (2007).

41) Masateru Ito, Fumio Nakamura, Akira Baba, Kaoru Tamada, Hirobumi Ushijima, King Hang Aaron Lau, Abhijit Manna and Wolfgang Knoll

“Enhancement of Surface Plasmon Resonance Signals by Gold Nanoparticles on High-Density DNA Microarrays”

The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 111, pp11653-11662 (2007).

40)  Renu Ravindranath, Parayil Kumaran Ajikumar,Sheeja Bahulayan, Nurmawati Bte Muhammad Hanafiah, Akira Baba ,Rigoberto C. Advincula, Wolfgang Knoll, Suresh Valiyaveettil

“Ultrathin Conjugated Polymer Network Films of Carbazole Functionalized Poly(p-Phenylenes) via Electropolymerization”

The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Vol. 111, pp6336–6343 (2007)

39)  Guoqian Jiang, Akira Baba, Rigoberto Advincula

“Nanopatterning and Fabrication of Write-read-erasable Memory Devices from Layer-by-Layer Poly (3, 4-ethylenedioxythiophene): Poly (styrene sulfonate) (PEDOT: PSS) Ultrathin Films”

Langmuir, Vol. 23, pp.817-825 (2007).

38) Prasad Taranekar, Timothy Fulghum, Akira Baba, Derek Patton and Rigoberto Advincula

Electrochemical Co-polymerization of Electrochromic Precursor Polymers Based on Terthiophene and Carbazole

Langmuir,Vol. 23, pp.908-917 (2007).

37) Prasad Taranekar, Akira Baba, Jin Young Park, Timothy Fulghum, and Rigoberto Advincula

“Dendrimer Precursors for Nanomolar and Picomolar Real-Time SPR/Potentiometric Chemical Nerve Agent Sensing using Electrochemically Cross-linked Ultrathin Films”

Advanced Functional Materials, Vol. 16, pp.2000-2007 (2006)

*36) Akira Baba, Guoqian Jiang, Kang-Min Park, Jin-Young Park, Hoon-Kyu Shin, Rigoberto Advincula

“Electro-Nananopatterning of Surface Relief Gratings (SRG)s on Azobenzene Layer-by-Layer Ultrathin Films by Current-sensing Atomic Force Microscopy”

The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Vol. 110, pp17309-17314 (2006)

35)   Xinheng Li,Kaoru Tamada, Akira Baba, Wolfgang Knoll, andMasahiko Hara

“Estimation of Dielectric Function of Biotin-Capped Gold Nanoparticles via Signal Enhancement on Surface Plasmon Resonance”

The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Vol. 110, pp.15755-15762 (2006)

*34)  Akira Baba, Wolfgang Knoll and Rigoberto Advincula

“Simultaneous In Situ Electrochemical, Surface Plasmon Optical and Atomic Force Microscopy Measurements: Investigation of Conjugated Polymer Electropolymerization”

Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 77, pp064101(1-6) (2006)

*33)  Akira Baba, Jason Locklin, Risheng Xu, Rigoberto Advincula

“Nanopatterning and Nano-Charge writing in Layer-by-Layer Quinquethiophene (5TN) /Phthalocyanine (CuPS) Ultrathin Films”

The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Vol. 110, pp42-45 (2006)

32) Timothy Fulghum, S. M. Abdul Karim, Akira Baba, Prasad Taranekar, Takafumi Nakai , Toshio Masuda, and Rigoberto C. Advincula

“Conjugated Polyphenylacetylene Films Crosslinked with Electropolymerized Polycarbazole Precursors”

    Macromolecules, Vol. 39, pp1467-1473 (2006)

31) Sanong Ekgasit, Arunchai Tangcharoenbumrungsuk, Fang Yu, Akira Baba, Wolfgang Knoll

    “Resonance Shifts in SPR Curves of Nonabsorbing, Weakly Absorbing, and Strongly Absorbing Dielectrics”

     Sensors and Actuators B, Vol. 105, pp532-541 (2005)

30)  Mitchel D. Millan, Jason Locklin, Timothy Fulghum, Akira Baba and Rigoberto C. Advincula

“Polymer Thin Film Photodegradation and Photochemical Crosslinking: Evanescent Waveguide Spectroscopy, FT-IR Imaging, and QCM Studies”

    Polymer, Vol. 46, pp5556–5568 (2005)

29)  Prasad Taranekar, Akira Baba Timothy Fulgham and Rigoberto Advincula

“Network Conjugated Polymer Films: Electro-copolymerization on a Binary Electro-active Monomer Composition”

　　　Macromolecules, Vol. 38, pp3679-3687 (2005)

*28)  Akira Baba, Ken Onishi, Rigoberto C Advincula and Wolfgang Knoll

“Investigating Work Function Tunable Hole-Injection / Transport Layers of Electrodeposited Polycarbazole Network Thin Films”

  The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Vol. 108, pp18949-18955 (2004)

27)  Suxiang Deng, Jason Locklin, Derek Patton, Akira Baba, Amanda Guloy and Rigoberto C. Advincula

“Thiophene Dendron Jacketed Poly(amidoamine) Dendrimers: Nanoparticle Synthesis, Spectroscopic and Microscopic Study”

 Journal of the American Chemical Society, 127, pp1744-1751 (2005)

*26)  Akira Baba, Shengjun Tian, Fernando D. Stefani, Chuanjun Xia, Zhehui Wang, Rigoberto C. Advincula, Diethelm Johannsmann and Wolfgang Knoll

“Electropolymerization and Doping/dedoping Properties of Polyaniline Thin Films as Studied by Electrochemical-Surface Plasmon Spectroscopy and by the Quartz Crystal Microbalance”

Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry, Vol. 562, pp95-103 (2004)

*25)  Akira Baba, Gerd Kleideiter, Thomas Jacob, Wolfgang Knoll

“Functional Thin Polymer Films at High Pressure”

    Macromololecular Chemistry & Physics, Vol. 205, pp2267-2274, (2004)

24)  Chuanjun Xia, Rigoberto C. Advincula, Akira Baba and Wolfgang Knoll

“Electrochemical Patterning of a Polyfluorene Precursor Polymer from a Microcontact Printed (μCP) Monolayer”

    Chemistry of Materials, Vol. 16, pp2852-2856, (2004)

23)  Keizo Kato, Naoki Watanabe, Shigenobu Katagiri, Kazunari Shinbo, Futao Kaneko, Jason, Locklin, Akira Baba, Rigoberto C. Advincula

“Electrical Properties and Gas Response in Alternate Layer-by-Layer Films of Copper Phthalocyanine Dyes”

    Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 43, No. 4B, pp.2311-2314, (2004)

22) Jason Locklin, Derek Patton, Suxiang Deng, Akira Baba, Mitchel Millan, and Rigoberto C. Advincula

“Conjugated Oligothiophene Dendron capped CdSe Nanoparticles: Synthesis and Energy Transfer”

Chemistry of Materials, Vol. 16, pp5187-5193 (2004)

*21)  Akira Baba, Jörn Lübben, Kaoru Tamada and Wolfgang Knoll

“Optical Properties of Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) Ultrathin film at Several Doping Levels Studied by In Situ Electrochemical-Surface Plasmon Resonance Spectroscopy”

Langmuir, Vol. 19, pp9058-9064 (2003).

20) Andreas Bund, Akira Baba, Steffen Berg, Diethelm Johannsmann, Jörn Lübben, Zhehui Wang, Wolfgang Knoll

“Combining SPR and QCM for the in situ investigation of the electropolymerization and doping/dedoping of poly(pyrrole)”

The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Vol. 107, pp6743-6747, (2003)

*19) Akira Baba and Wolfgang Knoll

“Properties of Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) Ultrathin Films Detected in situ by Electrochemical-Surface Plasmon Field-Enhanced Photoluminescence Spectroscopy”

The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Vol. 107, pp7733-7738, (2003)

*18) Akira Baba and Wolfgang Knoll

“Electrochemical Growth of Dendritic Conducting Polymer Networks”

Advanced Materials, Vol. 15 (12), pp1015-1019, (2003).

17) Shengjun Tian, Akira Baba, Jianyun Liu, Zhehui Wang, Wolfgang Knoll, Mi-Kyoung Park, Rigoberto Advincula

“Electroactivity of Polyaniline Multilayer Films in Neutral Solution and Their Electrocatalized Oxidation of NADH Studied by Electrochemistry Combined with Surface Plasmon Spectroscopy and Quartz Crystal Microbalance”

Advanced Functional Materials, Vol. 13, pp473-479 (2003).

16) Keizo Kato, Junichi Kawashima, Akira Baba, Kazunari Shinbo, Futao Kaneko and Rigoberto C. Advincula

“Attenuated Total Reflection and Emission due to Surface Plasmon Excitation of Layer-by-Layer Ultrathin Films Containing Azo-Dye”

Thin Solid Films, 438-439, 2003, pp101-107 (2003)

15) Keizo Kato, Junichi Kawashima, Akira Baba, Kazunari Shinbo, Futao Kaneko and

      Rigoberto C. Advincula

“Attenuated Total Reflection and Emission Properties of Self-Assembled Layer-by-Layer Films Containing Azobenzene Dye”

Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst., vol. 407, pp501-509, (2003)

14) Rigoberto Advincula, Mi-kyoung Park, Akira Baba, Futao Kaneko

“Photoalignment in Layer-by-Layer Ultrathin Films Molecularly Ordered Small Molecule Azobenzene Dyes”

Langmuir Vol. 19, pp654-665, (2003)

*13) Akira Baba, Rigoberto C. Advincula and Wolfgang Knoll

“In Situ Investigations on the Electrochemical Preparation and Properties of Polyaniline by Surface Plasmon Optical Techniques”

The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Vol.106, pp1581-1587 (2002)

12) Chuanjun Xia, Rigoberto C. Advincula, Akira Baba and Wolfgang Knoll

“In-situ Investigations of the Electrodeposition and Electrochromic Properties of Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) Ultrathin Films by Surface Plasmon Spectroscopy (SPS)”

Langmuir, Vol. 18, pp3555-3560 (2002)

*11) Akira Baba, Mi-Kyoung Park, Rigoberto C. Advincula and Wolfgang Knoll

“Simultaneous Surface Plasmon Optical and Electrochemical Investigation of Layer-by-Layer Self-assembled Conducting Ultrathin Polymer Films”

Langmuir, Vol. 18, pp4648-4652 (2002)

10) Kazunari Shinbo, Akira Baba, Futao Kaneko, Takashi Kato, Keizo Kato, Rigoberto C. Advincula and Wolfgang Knoll

“In-Situ Investigations on The Preparations of Layer-by-Layer Films Containing Azobenzene and Applications for LC Display Devices”

Materials Science & Engineering C, Vol. 22, pp319-325 (2002).

9) Kazunari Shinbo, Jun Ishikawa, Akira Baba, Futao Kaneko Keizo Kato and Rigoberto C. Advincula

“Alignments of Nematic Liquid Crystal Molecules on Azo-Dye Containing Alternate Self-assembled Films Investigated Using Attenueted Total Reflection Method”

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 41, pp2753-2758 (2002)

8) Jun Ishikawa, Akira Baba, Futao Kaneko, Kazunari Shinbo, Keizo Kato and Rigoberto C. Advincula

“Photo-Induced In-Plane Alignment of LC Molecules on Layer-by-Layer Self-Assembled Films Containing Azo Dyes Evaluated by Attenuated Total Reflection Measurements”

Colloids and Surfaces A, Vols 198-200, pp.905-909 (2002)

7) Takashi Kato, Akira Baba, Futao Kaneko, Kazunari Shinbo, Keizo Kato and Rigoberto C.  Advincula

“Photo-Induced Fabrication of Surface Relief Gratings in Alternate Self-Assembled Films Containing Azo Dye And Alignments Of Lc Molecules”

Colloids and Surfaces A, Vols 198-200, pp.805-810 (2002)

*6) Akira Baba, Futao Kaneko and Rigoberto C. Advincula

   "Polyelectrolyte Adsorption Processes Characterized In Situ Using the Quartz Crystal Microbalance Technique : Alternate Adsorption Properties in Ultrathin Polymer Films"

   Colloids and Surfaces A, Physicochem. Eng. Aspects, Vol. 173, pp.39-49, 2000.

*5) Akira Baba, Futao Kaneko, Kazunari Shinbo, Keizo Kato, Satoshi Kobayashi and 

     Rigoberto C. Advincula

“Photo-Induced Alignments of Liquid Crystal Molecules on Alternate Self-Assembly Films Evaluated by the Attenuated Total Reflection Measurement”

   Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, Vol.347, pp.15-24, 2000.

4) Kazunari Shinbo, Akira Baba, Hironori Tsuruta, Takaaki Ebe, Futao Kaneko, Keizo Kato and Takashi Wakamatsu

 “Enhancement of Short - circuit Photocurrent in Merocyanine LB Film Cell Utilizing Surface Plasmon Polariton Excitation”

    Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, Vol.349, pp.231-234, 2000

*3) Akira Baba, Futao Kaneko, Kazunari Shinbo, Keizo Kato, Satosi Kobayashi and Takashi Wakamatsu

  "Evaluation of Temperature and Voltage Dependences of Nematic Liquid Crystal      Molecules on LB Films in the Thick Cell using the Attenuated Total Reflection Method"

   Materials Science & Engineering C, Vol. 8-9, pp.145-150, 1999.

*2) Akira Baba, Futao Kaneko, Kazunari Shinbo, Keizo Kato, Satoshi Kobayashi and Takashi Wakamatsu

 "Orientations of Liquid Crystal Molecules on Polyimide LB Films Evaluated by the 

  Attenuated Total Reflection Measurement"

    Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, Vol. 316, pp.231-234, 1998.

*1) Akira Baba, Futao Kaneko, Kazunari Shinbo, Keizo Kato, Satoshi Kobayashi and Takashi Wakamatsu

 "Evaluating of Tilt Angles of Nematic Liquid Crystal Molecules on Polyimide Langmuir Blodgett Films using Attenuated Total Reflection Measurement Method"

 Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 37, pp.2581-2586, 1998.