On Going Research
      I am an experimentalist in the interdisciplinary field between condensed matter physics and electrical engineering. More specifically, I am working on the following topics.
      
      
Quantum spin Hall insulators
        
         - Electric-field driven topological phase transition in InAs/InGaSb quantum wells. [PRMater]
- Detrimental effects of epitaxial tensile strain in InAs/GaSb quantum wells. [PRB]
- Strain-enhanced large energy gap in InAs/InGaSb quantum wells. [APL]
- Device geometry for the study of single-edge transport. [PRB]
      
Hybrid Josephson junctions
        
         - Observation of Andreev bound states in hybrid SQPC. [PRB]
- Observation of critical current quantization in hybrid SQPC. [PRB]
- Clear conductance quantization in high-In-content InGaAs. [APEX]
      
Device fabrication with novel materials/structures
        
         - Superconducting oxide thin films (with Y. Krockenberger and A. Ikeda, NTT BRL)
- Epitaxial graphene on SiC (with N. Kumada and Y. Sekine, NTT BRL)
- Cooper-pair light emitting diode (with S. S. Mou and I. Suemune, Hokkaido Univ.)
Past Research
      
      
Room temperature Terahertz ballistic nanodevices
        
         - Terahertz spectroscopy of T-branch junction. [JAP]
- Origin of nonlinear behavior in T-branch junction. [APL]
      
Electron and hole mobility in silicon MOSFET 
         
         - Novel techniques to characterize the electron mobility. [IEDM]
- Band engineering by crystal orientation + mechanical strain. [IEDM]
- Re-investigation of the Universal mobility. [IEDM]