Current interests

Masaya Kataoka is a Principal Research Scientist and leads the single-electron-device team at NPL. His research interests include semiconductor quantum devices, single-electron pumps, coherent electron transport, electron quantum optics, and quantum current standards.

Biography

Masaya obtained PhD degree in Physics from the University of Cambridge in 2000. His PhD work was on electron transport in semiconductor quantum devices. After working as a postdoc at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, he joined the Quantum Detection Group at NPL in 2009.

Selected publications

• Ultrafast Emission and Detection of a Single-Electron Gaussian Wave Packet: A Theoretical Study
  S. Ryu, M. Kataoka, and H.-S. Sim
  Physical Review Letters, 117, 146802 (2016)
  http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.146802
• Gigahertz single-electron pumping in silicon with an accuracy better than 9.2 parts in 10⁷
  G. Yamahata, S. P. Giblin, M. Kataoka, T. Karasawa, and A. Fujiwara
  Applied Physics Letters, 109, 013101 (2016)
  http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/apl/109/1/10.1063/1.4953872
• Time-of-Flight Measurements of Single-Electron Wave Packets in Quantum Hall Edge States
  M. Kataoka, N. Johnson, C. Emary, P. See, J. P. Griffiths, G. A. C. Jones, I. Farrer, D. A. Ritchie, M. Pepper, and T. J. B. M. Janssen
  Physical Review Letters, 116, 126803 (2016)
  http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.126803
• High-resolution error detection in the capture process of a single-electron pump
  S. P. Giblin, P. See, A. Petrie, T. J. B. M. Janssen, I. Farrer, J. P. Griffiths, G. A. C. Jones, D. A. Ritchie, and M. Kataoka
  Applied Physics Letters, 108, 023502 (2016)
  http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/apl/108/2/10.1063/1.4939250
• Measurement and control of electron wave packets from a single-electron source
  J. Waldie, P. See, V. Kashcheyevs, J. P. Griffiths, I. Farrer, G. A. C. Jones, D. A. Ritchie, T. J. B. M. Janssen, and M. Kataoka
  Physical Review B, 92, 125305 (2015)
  http://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.92.125305
• Precision measurement of a potential-profile tunable single-electron pump
  M.-H. Bae, Y.-H. Ahn, M. Seo, Y. Chung, J. D. Fletcher, S. P. Giblin, M. Kataoka, and N. Kim
  Metrologia, 52, 125305 (2015)
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0026-1394/52/2/195
• Clock-Controlled Emission of Single-ElectronWave Packets in a Solid-State Circuit
  J. D. Fletcher, P. See, H. Howe, M. Pepper, S. P. Giblin, J. P. Griffiths, G. A. C. Jones, I. Farrer, D. A. Ritchie, T. J. B. M. Janssen, and M. Kataoka
  Physical Review Letters, 111, 216807 (2013)
  http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.216807
• Stabilization of single-electron pumps by high magnetic fields
  J. D. Fletcher, M. Kataoka, S. P. Giblin, S. Park, H.-S. Sim, P. See, D. A. Ritchie, J. P. Griffiths, G. A. C. Jones, H. E. Beere, and T. J. B. M. Janssen
  Physical Review B, 86, 155311 (2012)
  http://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.86.155311
• 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)
  http://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms1935

Posters

• Detecting the Energy Spectrum of Single-Electron Emission
• 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