Kang L. Wang

Professor Kang Lung Wang

Professor Kang Lung 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 and leads the Device Research Laboratory (DRL). He served as Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering at UCLA from 1993 to 1996. His research activities include semiconductor nano devices, and nanotechnology; 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 is also the Director of the 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 currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology (TNANO).^[1] 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.^[2]

Research Interests

Nanoelectronics and Nanoarchitectures
Spintronics and Nanomagnetics
Nanoscale Science
Devices and Quantum Systems
Nonvolatile Electronics and Low dissipation Devices
Molecular Beam Epitaxy
Optoelectronics and Solar Cells

Appointments

2011 – Present: Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology (TNANO)

2007 – Present: Associate Director, California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI)

2006 – Present: Raytheon Chair Professor of Physical Electronics

2006 – Present: Director, Western Institute of Nanoelectronics (WIN)

2003 – Present: Director, Marco Focus Center on Functional Engineered Nano Architectonics (FENA)

2000–2002: Dean of the School of Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

1993–1996: Electrical Engineering Department Chair, University of California, Los Angeles

1979 – Present: Professor, University of California, Los Angeles

1972–1979: Physicist/Engineer, General Electric Corporate Research and Development Center

1970–1972: Assistant Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Awards & Recognition

2009: Semiconductor Industry Award Research Award

2007: IBM Faculty Award

2006: Raytheon Chair Professor of Physical Electronics

2006: Director of Western Institute of Nanoelectronics (WIN)

2003: Director of National Center of Functional Engineered Nano Architectonics (FENA)

1996: Semiconductor Research Corporation Technical Excellency Award

1992: Fellow, IEEE

1987-88: Guggenheim Fellow Award, Max Planck Institute, Germany

Books

Wang, K.L. and Ovchinnikov, I., "Nanoelectronics and Nanospintronics: Fundamentals and Materials Perspective", In: Advances in Electronic Materials, Kasper, E., Mussig, H- J. and Grimmeiss, H. (Eds.), Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland, Vol. 608, pp. 133– 158 (2009)

Wang, K.L., Galatsis, K., Ostroumov, R., Ozkan, M., Likharev, K. and Botros, Y., "Chapter 10: Nanoarchitectonics: Advances in Nanoelectronics", In: Handbook of Nanoscience, Engineering, and Technology, Second Edition, Goddard, W., Brenner, D.W., Lyshevski, S.E. and Iafrate, G.J. (Eds.), CRC Press, pp. 10.1-10.24 (2007)

Eshaghian-Wilner, M. M., Flood, A. H., Khitun, A., Stoddart, J. F., Wang, K.L., "Chapter 14. Molecular and Nanoscale Computing and Technology", In: Handbook of Nature- Inspired and Innovative Computing: Integrating Classical Models with Emerging Technologies, Zomaya, A.Y. (Ed.), USA: Spinger-Verlag, 477-510 (2006)

Wang, K.L. and Balandin, A.A., editors, The Handbook of Semiconductor Nanostructures and Nanodevices, America Scientific Publishers, 2005

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