VITAE

YIA-CHUNG CHANG

Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)

RESEARCH AREAS:

shallow impurities and excitons, electronic, optical, and transport properties of semiconductors and nanostructures, electronic and optical properties of semiconductor surfaces and interfaces, phonons and electron-phonon couplings in semiconductors and nanostructures, non-linear optical properties, many-body effects in semiconductors, exciton condensation, magnetic multilayers and giant magnetoresistance, femtosecond pump-and-probe phenomena, photonic crystals, metrology of semiconductor thin films and gratings, infrared and radiation detectors, semiconductor lasers and modulators, resonant tunneling diodes, quantum transport properties, single-photon generators, spintroincs, and quantum computing.

EDUCATION:

Ph. D., Physics, Caltech, 1980

M. S., Physics (minor in Applied Physics), Caltech, 1978

B. S., National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan, 1974

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Distinguished Research fellow and Director, Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, 2005-present

Emeritus Professor, Physics, UIUC, 2009-present

Professor, Physics, UIUC, 1991-2005

Associate professor, UIUC, 1986-1991, Assistant professor, UIUC, 1980-1986

Visiting Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, June-July, 1994

Summer faculty, IBM Research Center, 1985

Summer faculty, Sandia National Lab, Livermore, 1986,1987,1990-98  

Consultant, Honeywell Science Center, 1984, Hughes Research Lab 1986-88 & 1995,

Bell Communications Research, 1988-1990,  Rockwell Science Center, 1987-1990,

Consultant, Thermawave Inc., 1999-2005, Consultant, Brookhaven National Lab, 2003

Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Jet Propulsion Lab, NASA, 2003

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Fellow, American Physical Society, 2000

Program committee, 6th International Conference on Superlattices, Microstructures, and Microdevices, 1993 , Program committee, SPIE Photonics West, 2002.

Program committee, International Conference of Spontaneous Coherence in Excitonic Systems, 2004

Panel Review, Texas Higher Education Board, 1989 & 1993.

Panel Review, NIRT, NSF 2003

AWARDS AND HONORS:

  Fellow, Academy of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, ANNA, 2010

NCKU  Distinguished Alumni Award, 2009

Fellow, American Physical Society, 2000

  ISI highly cited scientist. (isihighlycited.com, A0209-2004-P)

Distinguished Visiting Scientist, Jet Propulsion Lab, 2004,2005

Dr. C. S. Wu scholarship, 1972 and 1973

  NASA Tech Brief Award, Dot-in-a-Well Quantum Dot Infrared Photodetectors, 2006

PATENTS: US patents 6867866, 7038850 (CD metrology analysis using Green's function),US-2005-0072679-A1 (Germanium and Germanium Alloy Nanoparticle and Method for Producing the Same)

PUBLICATIONS: Over 290 SCI journal papers, total # of citations (>7400)