Biography

Masaya Kataoka was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1972. He received the BEng degree in Electrical Engineering from Kobe University in 1995, the MSc degree in Physics from Lancaster University in 1996, and the PhD dgree in Physics from the University of Cambridge in 2000.

His PhD work was on electron transport through edge states in quantum antidots.

After his PhD, Masaya worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Cavendish Laboratory, investigating single-electron transport using surface acoustic waves.

Current interests

In 2009, Masaya joined the Quantum Detection Group at NPL as a Senior Research Scientist, and is currently working on semiconductor single-electron pumps.

Selected publications

• Towards a quantum representation of the ampere using single electron pumps
  S. P. Giblin, M. Kataoka, J. D. Fletcher, P. See, T. J. B. M. Janssen, J. P. Griffiths, G. A. C. Jones, I. Farrer, and D. A. Ritchie
  Nature Communications, 3, 930 (2012)
• On-demand single-electron transfer between distant quantum dots
  R. P. G. McNeil, M. Kataoka, C. J. B. Ford, C. H. W. Barnes, D. Anderson, G. A. C. Jones, I. Farrer, and D. A. Ritchie
  Nature, 477, 439 (2011)
• Tunable Nonadiabatic Excitation in a Single-Electron Quantum Dot
  M. Kataoka, J. D. Fletcher, P. See, S. P. Giblin, T. J. B. M. Janssen, J. P. Griffiths, G. A. C. Jones, I. Farrer, and D. A. Ritchie
  Physical Review Letters, 106, 126801 (2011)
• Coherent Time Evolution of a Single-Electron Wave Function
  M. Kataoka, M. R. Astley, A. L. Thorn, D. K. L. Oi, C. H. W. Barnes, C. J. B. Ford, D. Anderson, G. A. C. Jones, I. Farrer, D. A. Ritchie, and M. Pepper
  Physical Review Letters, 102, 156801 (2009)
• Detection of Coulomb Charging around an Antidot in the Quantum Hall Regime
  M. Kataoka, C. J. B. Ford, G. Faini, D. Mailly, M. Y. Simmons, D. R. Mace, C.-T. Liang, and D. A. Ritchie
  Physical Review Letters, 83, 160 (1999)

Posters

• Effect of magnetic fields on high accuracy single-electron pumps
• Quantum Spillage in a Single Electron Pump
• Rectification artefacts in the tunable-barrier electron pump

Contact details

Email: masaya.kataoka@npl.co.uk
Tel: 020 8943 6751