Andrew Dzurak, University of New South Wales (Australia)
Andrew Dzurak is one of Australia’s leading experts in nanotechnology and quantum information technologies. He is the Director of the Semiconductor Nanofabrication Facility at the University of New South Wales, and Node Director of the Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF – see www.anff.org.au), a network of university-based laboratories that provide researchers and industry with access to state-of-the-art fabrication facilities. ANFF enables users to process hard materials (metals, composites and ceramics) and soft materials (polymers and polymer-biological moieties) and transform these into structures that have application in sensors, medical devices, nanophotonics and nanoelectronics. Following a PhD in physics at the University of Cambridge, Andrew returned to Australia in 1994 to establish Australia’s highest resolutionelectron-beam lithography capability at UNSW, offering nanoelectronic device feature sizes down to 10 nanometers. He also began work on an initiative to construct in Australia a solid state quantum computer and, together with Bob Clark and other colleagues, established the ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computer Technology, comprising over 100 research staff and students. The Centre is internationally renowned as the world’s largest focused collaboration on silicon-based quantum computing and has achieved major advances in the international race to realize a commercially practical quantum processor. Along the way, Andrew and his team have developed a range of single atom nanotechnologies of immediate relevance to today’s semiconductor industry. Andrew is a Director of the company Qucor Pty Ltd, which was established to commercialize this ground breaking research.
