Andrew Sachrajda, National Research Council
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Andrew Sachrajda is a Principal Research Officer for the National Research Council of Canada (NRC). He leads the Quantum Physics Group at the Institute for Microstructural Sciences in Ottawa and a fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research in the nanoelectronics program. He was the Canadian manager for the Canadian European Research Initiative on Nanostructures (CERION). Dr. Sachrajda obtained his D.Phil from the University of Sussex in England, working in the field of ultra low temperature physics and superfluid He3. He then conducted research on the superfluidity in He3 films in the group of Professor John Harrison at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario before joining NRC in 1986 and switching fields to semiconductors and nanoelectronics. Dr. Sachrajda is an adjunct professor at Sherbrooke and McGill Universities and has spent periods of time working at Nottingham University and CNRS in Grenoble. He is co-author of over 150 publications, has given invited presentations at most related international conferences and has served on a number of international conference committees, and as an expert on nanoelectronics on international review and selection committees.
Dr. Sachrajda works in experimental condensed matter physics. His interests are principally focused on transport techniques and their application to nanostructures, including nano-spintronics and quantum information. Recently he was the co-recipient of the Outstanding Research Award from NRC for his work on the spin transistor. His group was the first to demonstrate that a single electron could be isolated by purely electrostatic means. This discovery is now being applied by many groups internationally since it lies at the heart of solid state single spin and charge implementation schemes for quantum computation. Currently the group is developing more complex quantum circuits for quantum information applications.