Jun-ichi SHIRAKASHI received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, in 1995.
Through his postgraduate course, he was engaged in research on the metalorganic molecular beam epitaxial (MOMBE) growth of III-V compound semiconductors and heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs) with an ultra-high carbon-doped base.
In 1995, he joined Electrotechnical Laboratory (ETL), Tsukuba, Japan, where he was engaged in research on single-electron transistors (SETs) and novel nanofabrication techniques using scanning probe microscopes (SPMs).
He achieved the room temperature operation of niobium (Nb)-based SETs in 1997. In this study, the basic SET structures were fabricated by the SPM-based local oxidation.
He moved to Akita Prefectural University, Akita, Japan, as an associate professor in 1999. Since 2004, he was an associate professor in Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering,
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan. In 2015, he has been appointed as a professor at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology.
Currently, he is interested in nanofabrication techniques using electron-beam lithography (EBL), single-electron devices, quantum nanoscale devices/systems, new computing architectures using Ising spin model, quantum computers, quantum computing and variational quantum algorithms.
He received the Young Researcher Award of the International Conference on Solid State Devices and Materials in 1995.
He also received the 3rd JSAP Awards for Research Paper Presentation in 1998 and the 21st JSAP Award for the Most Promising Young Scientist in 1999, both from the Japan Society of Applied Physics,
and 1st Best Presentation Award in 2001 from the Magnetic Society of Japan. He is a member of the Japan Society of Applied Physics and the Magnetic Society of Japan.
