Academic Staff and Fellows

TANAKA Senku
Associate Professor Ph. D.
Department/Energy and Materials  Graduate school/Electronic Engineering

Our goal is to produce an advanced electronic device using organic semiconductors. We focus on the development of organic solar cells and perovskite solar cells.

Join our study for the development of organic electronics!

Research Area Organic Electronics, Organic Solar Cells
Teaching (Undergraduate Course) Basic Physics and Exercise Ⅱ, Experiments for Energy and Environmental Engineering, Experiments for Engineering Design, Exercises for Mathematics in Chemistry, Introduction to Energy and Materials, Exercises for Mathematical Analysis, Fundamentals of Electronic Device, Introduction to Future Energy Infrastructure, Seminar for Bachelor Thesis, Individual Study for Bachelor Thesis,
Teaching (Graduate Course) Organic Electronics, Specialized Fundamental Lecture in Materials and Devices, Advanced Research on Electronic Engineering
Research Interests Organic solar cells、Organic Photovoltaics、Organic-inorganic hybrid devices
Selected Publications (1) Senku Tanaka, Siti Khadijah Binti Rosli, Ken Takada, Norito Taniai, Takuya Yoshitomi, Hideo Ando, Kouichi Matsumoto
"Effects of bromination of poly(3-hexylthiophene) on the performance of bulk heterojunction solar cells"
RSC Advances, 7 (2017) , 46874–46880.
DOI: 10.1039/C7RA07454A

(2) Hironobu Ishibashi, Mikimasa Katayama, Senku Tanaka, Toshihiko Kaji
"Hybrid perovskite solar cells fabricated from guanidine hydroiodide and tin iodide"
Scientific Reports7 (2017) 4969_1-6.
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-05317-w

(3) Senku Tanaka, Tomohiro Otani, Ken Fukuzawa, Koji Ogawa, Junpei Azuma, Isamu Yamamoto, Kazutoshi Takahashi, Masao Kamada, Ichiro Hiromitsu"Anomalous photoelectric emission from Ag on zinc-phthalocyanine film"
Applied Physics Letters104 (2014) 193304_1-4.
DOI: 10.1063/1.4876956
Research and Achievements
Affiliated Academic Societies The Japan Society of Applied Physics, The Japanese Society for Synchrotron Radiation Research,
Education
(Undergraduate Course)
Osaka City University
Education
(Master's/Doctral Course)
The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI)
Title of Thesis, Institute, Date "Surface Photovoltage in Semiconductors Studied with Photoelectron Spectroscopy Using Synchrotron Radiation and Laser" SOKENDAI, 2003.
Biography 2003-2004 Nagoya Univ. (Postdoc)
2004-2013 Shimane Univ.
2013- Kindai Univ.

Organic Electronics Laboratory

E-mail senku(at)emat.kindai.ac.jp
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Academic Staff and Fellows