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Ken Ishikawa is affiliated with the Tokyo Institute of Technology in Japan, specializing in materials science and chemistry. Their research primarily spans the fields of materials science and chemistry, with notable focus areas including materials chemistry, organic chemistry, and electronic, optical, and magnetic materials.

Their work extensively covers topics such as liquid crystal research advancements, synthesis and properties of aromatic compounds, material dynamics and properties, photonic crystals and applications, polydiacetylene-based materials and applications, crystallization and solubility studies, and X-ray diffraction in crystallography.

Ken Ishikawa has contributed to multiple scientific publications across several prominent venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Physical review. E
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Macromolecules
  • Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Their publication record features the following recent papers, illustrating the scope and progression of their research:

  • Emergence of paraelectric, improper antiferroelectric, and proper ferroelectric nematic phases in a liquid crystal composed of polar molecules, 2022, Physical review. E
  • Cross-Linking of Poly(arylenebutadiynylene)s and Its Effect on Charge Carrier Mobilities in Thin-Film Transistors, 2021, Macromolecules
  • Ultrahigh dielectric constant induced by the interfacial polarization between liquid crystal droplets and polymer matrix, 2020, Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
  • Dinaphtho[2,1-b:1',2'-d]thiophenes as high refractive index materials exploiting the potential characteristics of "dynamic thiahelicenes", 2021, Journal of Materials Chemistry C
  • Transformation of polar nematic phases in the presence of an electric field, 2024, Physical review. E

Ken Ishikawa has collaborated closely with several researchers in their field. Frequent co-authors include:

  • A. V. Emelyanenko
  • Vladimir Yu. Rudyak
  • Fumito Araoka
  • Hiroya Nishikawa
  • Yoko Nambu

Best Publications

  • Antiferroelectric chiral smectic liquid crystals

    Atsuo Fukuda;Yoichi Takanishi;Tadaaki Isozaki;Ken Ishikawa

  • Light extraction from organic light-emitting diodes enhanced by spontaneously formed buckles

    Won Hoe Koo;Soon Moon Jeong;Fumito Araoka;Ken Ishikawa

  • Electro-tunable optical diode based on photonic bandgap liquid-crystal heterojunctions.

    Jisoo Hwang;Myoung Hoon Song;Byoungchoo Park;Byoungchoo Park;Suzushi Nishimura

  • Fabrication of a simultaneous red-green-blue reflector using single-pitched cholesteric liquid crystals.

    Na Young Ha;Youko Ohtsuka;Soon Moon Jeong;Suzushi Nishimura

  • Recent progress in degradation and stabilization of organic solar cells

    Huanqi Cao;Weidong He;Yiwu Mao;Xiao Lin

  • Effect of Phase Retardation on Defect‐Mode Lasing in Polymeric Cholesteric Liquid Crystals

    Myoung Hoon Song;Byoungchoo Park;Byoungchoo Park;Ki-Chul Shin;Takashi Ohta

  • Nonlinear optical properties of highly oriented polydiacetylene evaporated films

    T. Kanetake;K. Ishikawa;T. Hasegawa;T. Koda

  • How doping a cholesteric liquid crystal with polymeric dye improves an order parameter and makes possible low threshold lasing

    Fumito Araoka;Ki-Chul Shin;Yoichi Takanishi;Ken Ishikawa

  • (Tetrathiafulvalene)(tetracyanoquinodimethane) as a low-contact-resistance electrode for organic transistors

    Koji Shibata;Hiroshi Wada;Ken Ishikawa;Hideo Takezoe

  • Defect-mode lasing with lowered threshold in a three-layered hetero-cholesteric liquid-crystal structure

    Myoung Hoon Song;Na Young Ha;Kazuhiro Amemiya;Byoungchoo Park

  • Orientation of alkyl chains and hindered rotation of carbonyl groups in the smectic-C * phase of antiferroelectric liquid crystals studied by polarized Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy

    Kyeong Hyeon Kim;Ken Ishikawa;Hideo Takezoe;Atsuo Fukuda

  • Enhanced Optical Activity by Achiral Rod-Like Molecules Nanosegregated in the B4 Structure of Achiral Bent-Core Molecules

    Taketo Otani;Fumito Araoka;Ken Ishikawa;Hideo Takezoe

  • A racemic layer structure in a chiral bent-core ferroelectric liquid crystal

    M. Nakata;D. R. Link;F. Araoka;J. Thisayukta

  • Electric-field-induced polar biaxial order in a nontilted smectic phase of an asymmetric bent-core liquid crystal.

    Yoshio Shimbo;Ewa Gorecka;Damian Pociecha;Fumito Araoka

  • IR and ram-an studies in three polyanilines with different oxidation levels

    T. Fukuda;T. Nishioka;K. Suruga;S. Nakao

  • Spontaneous polarization parallel to the tilt plane in the antiferroelectric chiral smectic- C A phase of liquid crystals as observed by polarized infrared spectroscopy

    Kouichi Miyachi;Jin Matsushima;Yoichi Takanishi;Ken Ishikawa

  • Polyquinoxaline as an excellent electron injecting material for electroluminescent device

    Takashi Fukuda;Takaki Kanbara;Takakazu Yamamoto;Ken Ishikawa

  • Anomalously hindered E2 strength B(E2;2+(1)-->0+) in 16C.

    N Imai;H J Ong;N Aoi;H Sakurai

  • Circular‐Polarization‐Induced Enantiomeric Excess in Liquid Crystals of an Achiral, Bent‐Shaped Mesogen

    Suk-Won Choi;Tatsuya Izumi;Yusuke Hoshino;Yoichi Takanishi

  • Contact resistance of dibenzotetrathiafulvalene-based organic transistors with metal and organic electrodes

    Koji Shibata;Ken Ishikawa;Hideo Takezoe;Hiroshi Wada

Frequent Co-Authors

Hideo Takezoe
Hideo Takezoe Tokyo Institute of Technology
Yoichi Takanishi
Yoichi Takanishi Kyoto University
Atsuo Fukuda
Atsuo Fukuda Trinity College Dublin
Junji Watanabe
Junji Watanabe Tokyo Institute of Technology
Takashi Kubo
Takashi Kubo Osaka University
Takehiko Mori
Takehiko Mori Tokyo Institute of Technology
Damian Pociecha
Damian Pociecha University of Warsaw
Ewa Gorecka
Ewa Gorecka University of Warsaw
Myoung Hoon Song
Myoung Hoon Song Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
Takaki Kanbara
Takaki Kanbara University of Tsukuba

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