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Prof. Kang Wang
Kang L. Wang received his BS (1964) degree from National Cheng Kung University and his MS (1966) and PhD (1970) degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1970 to 1972 he was the Assistant Professor at MIT. From 1972 to 1979, he worked at the General Electric Corporate Research and Development Center as a physicist/engineer. In 1979 he joined the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he is a Professor. He served as Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering at UCLA from 1993 to 1996. His research activities include semiconductor nano devices, and nano-technology; self-assembly growth of quantum structures and cooperative assembly of quantum dot arrays Si-based Molecular Beam Epitaxy, quantum structures and devices; Nano-epitaxy of hetero-structures; Spintronics materials and devices; Electron spin and coherence properties of SiGe and InAs quantum structures for implementation of spin-based quantum information; microwave devices. He was the inventor of strained layer MOSFET, quantum SRAM cell, and band-aligned superlattices. He has held more than 15 patents and published over 300 papers. He received many awards, including IBM Faculty Award; Guggenheim Fellow; IEEE Fellow; TSMC Honor Lectureship Award; Honoris Causa at Politechnico University, Torino, Italy; Semiconductor Research Corporation Inventor Awards; European Material Research Society Meeting Best paper award; the Semiconductor Research Corporation Technical Excellence Achievement Award.
He is a leader in Nanotechnology. He recently appointed as Raytheon Chair Professor of Physical Science. He serves on the editorial board of the Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology TM (American Scientific publishers). He currently also serves as the Director of Marco Focus Center on Functional Engineered Nano Architectonics --FENA, an interdisciplinary Research Center, funded by Semiconductor Industry Association and Department of Defense to address the need of information processing technology beyond scaled CMOS. The Center involves 12 universities across the nation with 35 participating faculty members. He was also named the Director of Western Institute of Nanoelectronics (WIN) - a coordinated multi-project Research Institute. WIN is funded by NRI, Intel and the State of California. The current on-going projects are aimed at spintronics for low power applications. He was also the founding director of Nanoelectronics Research Facility at UCLA (established in 1989) with the infrastructure to further research in nanotechnology. In addition to these technical leadership contributions, he has provided academic leadership in engineering education. He was also the Dean of Engineering from 2000 to 2002 at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
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Alexander Khitun
A. Khitun received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in applied physics and mathematics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1989,1991, and 1995, respectively. He started his scientific career in 1991 at the Fiber Optics Research Center at the General Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Science. Since Jan 1999 he works in the Device Research Laboratory, Electrical Engineering Department, University of California Los Angeles. |
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Mingqiang Bao
His research interests are low temperature RF weak signal detection, spin-wave detection, and InAlGaN-based high-power microwave high electron mobility transistor. |
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Kameshwar Yadavalli
Kameshwar recieved his BTech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras in the year 2000. He recieved an MS in Electrical Engineering in 2002 and a PhD in Electrical Engineering in 2005, from the University of Notre Dame. His dissertation was on background charge insensitive single electron memory devices. He has also worked on Quantum Dot Cellular Automata (QCA) devices and has demonstrated fanout gate operation in QCA. His current research interests include fabrication and characterization of Nanoscale CMOS devices, Carbon Nanotube electronics and novel device concepts in Spintronics. |
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Siguang Ma
My research interests lie in nanoscale SiGe-based device fabrication, characterization and simulation. Mainly I am working on a) enabling technologies for performance enhancement of next generation MOSFET; b) novel physical phenomenon in nanoscale materials and devices and their impact and potential application in the future microelectronic circuits. |
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Xinhai Han
PhD, Condensed Matter Physics, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), 2006; BS, Optical Information Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), 2001 |
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Yi Zhou
PhD: Physics, Auburn University (2007); M.S.: Physics, Auburn University (2004); B.S.: Electrical Engineering, University Of Shanghai for Science and Technology (2002). My Ph.D research was focused on bulk GaN processes and devices. Current research interests include Spintronic devices. |
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Kin Lui Wong
Kin received his MSc Degree in Engineering Physics from Chalmers
University in Sweden and a PhD degree in Physics from University of
Southern California in Los Angeles. His research interests are
studying the unique properties of nanoscale materials and find ways to
utilize them in novel electronic devices. |
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Faxian Xiu
He received his PH.D. degree from the Electrical Engineering at UCR in 2007. He is currently conducting his postdoctoral research in Device Research Laboratory at UCLA. His interests include the magnetic and electrical properties of MnGe films. He is also involved in fabricating and characterizing MnGe-based spintronic devices |
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Boris M. Vulovic
Research Interests: Semiconductor spintronics, spin-polarized optoelectronics and quantum computing; nanoelectronics/nanophotonics; metallic photonic crystals for TPV; active/passive silicon photonics.
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Ji Young Kim
Ji Young Kim received the B.A. in Physics from Hanyang university, Korea in 1995 and the M.S. in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from Pohang University of Science and Technology( POSTECH ), Korea in 1997. He has joined semiconductor division of Samsung electronics in 1997.
From 2005, he joined the DRL group of UCLA for his Ph. D. research. |
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Minsheng Wang
Minsheng Wang is a graduate student Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles. He got his bachelor degree of science from Department of Electrical Engineering in Tsinghua University in 2002, and got his master degree in science from Institute of Microelectronics in Tsinghua Unveisity in 2005. He started to pursue his Ph.D. in DRL from September 2005. |
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Mei Xue
Research Interests:
Nanodevice design, characterization
, Nanowire, nanotube synthesis
, Biochip design and characterization
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Masaaki Ogawa
He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Waseda University in 2003. And then he joined DRL in UCLA as a graduate student since 2003. His current research topics are related to the solid source MBE, Ge quantum dot growth using carbon implantation and diblock copolymer pattern sample, and characterization. |
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Augustin Jinwoo Hong
BS in Materials science & Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Korea (2000)
Ms in Materials science & Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, Korea (2002)
Research: Microstrucure characterization of Amorphous alloy metals
Ms in Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College station, Texas USA(2005)
Research: Analog & mixed signal circuit, CMOS image sensor
PhD in Electrical Engineering
Research interest: Low power, high speed quantum devices, emerging devices such as
spinFET, MRAM, PRMA and molecular devices |
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Andrew (Chi-Hau) Sue
Andrew received both his B.S. and M.S. in Electronics Engineering from
the National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan, in 2002 and 2004,
respectively. He started his Ph.D. study in University of California,
Los Angeles from 2006. Now he is a joint Ph.D. student between Prof.
Kang Wang (Dept. of Electrical Engineering, UCLA) and Prof. J. Fraser
Stoddart (Dept. of Chemistry, Northwestern Univ.), and is working as a
predoctoral visiting scholar at Northwestern University. His research
interests involve Nanoelectronics, Molecular Devices, and
Self-Assembly. |
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Guangyu Xu
Guangyu Xu received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2003 and 2006, respectively. He started the PhD study in EE/UCLA from September 2006, and also is a Reserach Asisitant in DRL. |
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Sung Min Kim
Sung Min Kim received BS(1998) and MS(2000) in Physics from KyungHee University, Suwon, Korea. He has been working for semiconductor R&D center of Samsung electronics from 2000. From 2007, he joined the DRL group of UCLA for his Ph. D. research.
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Emil B Song
B.S. Physics, Postech, ROK(2004);
Research Interest: spintronic & nanoscale electronic devices |
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Jia (Amber) Chen
Amber received her B.S. degree in Microelectronics from Peking University, China, in 2006. She started her MS study at University of California, Los Angeles from 2006. Her research interests are: Nanoelectronics and nanoscale devices. |
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Caifu Zeng
Caifu received his B.S. degree in Electronic Science & Technology from Zhejiang University in 2007. He started his Master's and joined DRL at University of California, Los Angeles from Sep. 2007. His research interest lies in nanoscale devices and nanoelectronics. |
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Jianshi Tang
Jianshi TANG graduated from Tsinghua University in 2008 with B.S. degree from Department of Electrical Engineering. From September 2008, he joined the DRL group of Electrical Engineering Department in UCLA to pursue his M.S./PhD degree. His current research interests include fabrication and characterization of nanodevices with nanowires, CNT and graphene as well as novel device concepts in Spintronics |
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Juan Alzate
Juan received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering and his B.S. in Physics from Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia in September 2007. In September 2008, he joined DRL and UCLA to pursue his M.S/Ph.D. degree. His current research interest include nanoelectronics, spintronics, nanodevices for new low power dissipation applications and physical phenomena in the nanoscale. |
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Carlos Manuel Torres Jr.
Carlos graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Florida with a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Electrical Engineering and a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Physics in May 2008. During the summer of 2008, he participated in a research internship at the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology (CNST) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Maryland. He is a Department of Defense SMART( Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation) Recruit fellowship recipient and joined the DRL group during the end of summer 2008. He is currently pursuing a Masters in Electrical Engineering at UCLA with an ultimate intention of a PhD in Electrical Engineering. His research areas of interest are in quantum computing, graphene, and spintronics. |
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Fei Liu
I am a fourth year graduate student in DRL group. I obtained my B.S. from Electronic Engineering, Tshinghua University, China, and M.S. from Electrical Engineering, UCLA. I am now a Ph. D candidate. My research interest is variability issues in nanodevices, including random telegraph signal, low frequency noise in carbon nanotube devices |
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Jingjing Chen
JingjingChen graduated from Tsinghua University, China in 2004 with B.S and M.S degree. She started the PhD study in EE/UCLA from September 2004, and also is a Reserach Asisitant in DRL. Her research interest is high speed low power consumption device over CMOS such as spintronic device. Now she is the main researcher for the Intel Spin Gain Transistor project. |
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Christopher Chen
Chris Chen earned his B.S. in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2004. His M.S. thesis is on the development and characterization of Ge quantum dot infrared photodetectors. |
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Joo-Young Lee
B.S. in EE from Yonsei University in 1991 and then worked for Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Korea, for about 11 years. M.S in EE from UCLA in 2005 and is currently pursuing Ph.D in solid state electronics. |
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Vanessa Preisler
Vanessa Preisler received her B.S. degree in Physics from the University
of California, San Diego, in 2002, and her Ph.D. degree in Physics from
the Universit Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, in 2006. Her graduate
research, carried out at the Laboratoire Pierre Aigrain at the Ecole
Normale Supérieure focused on the optical properties of InAs/GaAs
self-assembled quantum dots. Her research is now focused on spintronic
devices.
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Roman Ostroumov
In the field of information processing, Mr. Ostroumov is currently studying the problem of power dissipation and is developing new computing paradigms which are not hampered by heat dissipation. In nanostructures for coherent particles generation, Roman Ostroumov is working on the achievement of exciton condensation and subsequent coherent phonon generation by means of dispersion engineering. For Silicon optoelectronics, Mr. Ostroumov is also developing efficient Si LED based on defect engineering. Finally, for spintronics applications, Roman Ostroumov is working to achieve memory and computing devices based on DMS. |
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Alex Hsing
Alex graduated from the University of Waterloo (Canada) in 2004 with a bachelor s degree in EE with the Physics Option. He is currently pursuing his MS degree in EE at UCLA. During past internships, he has worked in several areas, including the characterization of FET devices and quantum well photdetectors, optical fiber system design, satellite ground station engineering and software development. His research interests are in the area of Ge MOS capacitors and Ge passivation.
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Dongho Cha
B.S. in Physics, Sungkyunkwan University, 1990 (Korea)
M.S. in Physics, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), 1995 (Korea)
Ph.D course in Electrical Engineering, UCLA since 2002
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Zuoming Zhao
PhD: Materials Science and Engineering, 2006 University of California, Los Angeles. M.S.: Physics, 2001 Nanjing University. B.S.: Physics 1998 Lanzhou University. Research invloves fabrication of high-speed material channel for FET bleow 20nm. |
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Song Han
PhD, Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, 2005; MS, Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, 2003;
BS, Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, China, 2000.
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