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Appendix D. Site Reports—Japan 283<br />

Dr. Fukumi showed that nanoscale gold colloids dispersed in glasses<br />

exhibit novel nonlinear optical properties. The materials are produced by<br />

ion implantation of Au + into silica glass. The Au+ ion energy is 1.5 MeV<br />

with densities of 10 16 -10 17 Au + ions/cm 2 . Characterization by TEM showed<br />

the average particle size was 8.6 nm diameter. In these materials, the third<br />

order nonlinear susceptibility χ 3 was measured to be 1.2 x 10 -7 esu, about<br />

four orders of magnitude higher than that obtained by a melting method used<br />

by others to produce the gold/glass system.<br />

Following the technical presentations, the WTEC team enjoyed a lunch<br />

that Dr. Haruta had kindly arranged with the Director General of ONRI, Dr.<br />

Teruo Kodama, <strong>and</strong> Dr. Noboru Wakabayashi, the senior officer for research<br />

planning. After lunch the team had a tour of the lab facilities of the<br />

Interdisciplinary Basic Research Section. From these interactions we<br />

learned that funding for the National Laboratory at Osaka increased by 16%<br />

in 1996, but simultaneously, the permanent staff is decreasing. The decrease<br />

in permanent staff is somewhat compensated by the increase in (mostly)<br />

foreign postdoctoral support to the 30-40 person level.<br />

The lab facilities for the Basic <strong>Science</strong> Section are impressive, consisting<br />

of several catalyst testing units <strong>and</strong> a special testing unit with all stainless<br />

steel surfaces that have been chromium oxide-coated to allow water vapor<br />

levels to be reduced to < 10 ppb. This is the only unit in the world with this<br />

capability, which has allowed this group to carefully isolate the role of water<br />

vapor in the catalytic reactions. Recent funding has allowed purchase of a<br />

new high resolution TEM (~$1.3 million), <strong>and</strong> a new sophisticated surface<br />

science apparatus (>$1 million) which at the time of the WTEC visit had<br />

been ordered but not yet delivered. The new equipment is to be used to<br />

better underst<strong>and</strong> the differences <strong>and</strong> similarities of surface reactions<br />

occurring at low pressure under UHV conditions <strong>and</strong> those occurring in the<br />

higher pressure catalytic reactions carried out under actual processing<br />

conditions.

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