T. Sasaki, N. Shibata, K. Matsunaga, T. Yamamoto and Y. Ikuhara, Direct observation of the cleavage plane of sapphire by in-situ indentation TEM,” J. Ceram. Soc. Jpn., 120, 473-477 (2012).

N. Shibata, S.D. Findlay, Y. Kohno, H. Sawada, Y. Kondo and Y. Ikuhara, "Differential phase-contrast microscopy at atomic resolution," Nature Phys., 8, 611-615 (2012).

S. Kobayashi, S.D. Findlay, N. Shibata, T. Mizoguchi, Y. Sato, E. Okunishi, Y. Ikuhara and T. Yamamoto, "Simultaneous visualization of oxygen vacancies and the accompanying cation shifts in a perovskite oxide by combining annular imaging techniques," Appl. Phys. Lett., 100, 193112 (2012).

S. Kondo, N. Shibata, T. Mitsuma, E. Tochigi and Y. Ikuhara, "Dynamic observations of dislocation behavior in SrTiO3 by in situ nanoindentation in a transmission electron microscope," Appl. Phys. Lett., 100, 181906 (2012).

B. Feng, H. Hojo, T. Mizoguchi, H. Ohta, S.D. Findlay, Y. Sato, N. Shibata, T. Yamamoto and Y. Ikuhara, "Atomic structure of a Σ3 [110]/(111) grain boundary in CeO2," Appl. Phys. Lett., 100, 073109 (2012).​

E. Tochigi, Y. Kezuka, N. Shibata, A. Nakamura and Y. Ikuhara, "Structure of screw dislocations in a (0001)/[0001] low-angle twist grain boundary of alumina (α-Al2O3)," Acta Mater., 60, 1293-1299 (2012).