Dr. Akira Endo
Assistant Professor
Department of Microelectronics
Delft University of Technology
Netherlands
Biography
Akira Endo received the Ph.D. degree in astronomy (with "Prize for Encouragement in Research, analogous to cum laude) from the School of Science, University of Tokyo in 2009 with a dissertation entitled "AlN Tunnel Barriers for Submillimeter Wave SIS Mixers." Since 2009, he is working as a postdoc researcher at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience within the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. From November 2014, he is appointed as a tenure-track assistant professor at the EEMCS Department of Delft University of Technology. During 2011-2014, he conducted an NWO-Veni program and a JSPS postdoctoral research program "Probing the Cosmic History of Star Formation by Submillimeter Wave Ultrabroadband Spectroscopy using Superconducting Resonators." He has been granted a NWO-Vidi program starting from 2014 entitled "Dawn of Superconducting Astrophotonics." This project aims at the development and demonstration of a superconducting on-chip filterbank spectrometer DESHIMA, which capitalizes on the collaborative development of MKIDs at Delft University of Technology and SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research.
Research Interest
Experimental astronomy with superconducting devices
Publications
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Reactive magnetron sputter deposition of superconducting niobium titanium nitride thin films with different target sizes
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Superconducting NbTin Thin Films With Highly Uniform Properties Over a ∅ 100 mm Wafer
