Kang L. Wang

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Kang L. Wang

Kang Lung Wang is a Taiwanese physicist and electrical engineer in the fields of nanotechnology, semiconductors, and quantum systems.

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Wang was born in Lukang, Changhua, Taiwan, in 1941. He received his BS (1964) degree from National Cheng Kung University and his MS (1966) and PhD (1970) degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [1] 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 and engineer. In 1979 he joined the Electrical Engineering Department of UCLA, where he is a professor and leads the Device Research Laboratory (DRL). Many of the students he has mentored, including MS and PhD candidates , have distinguished career in engineering and academics.[ quantify ]

Research

Wang's research activities focus on nanotechnology and semiconductor nano devices. Specific topics include:

He was the inventor of strained layer MOSFET, quantum SRAM cell, and band-aligned superlattices. He holds 45 patents and has published over 700 papers.

In 2018, the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) recognized Wang for his discovery of chiral Majorana fermions and his contributions to spintronics. [2]

Appointments

Wang is a leader in nanotechnology. He has been the Raytheon Chair Professor of Physical Science since 2006. He serves on the editorial board of the Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (American Scientific publishers). He currently also serves as the Director of Marco Focus Center on Functional Engineered Nano Architectonics, an interdisciplinary research center funded by Semiconductor Industry Association and the 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 the 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 journal IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology . [3] He was also the founding director of Nanoelectronics Research Facility at UCLA (established in 1989). 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. [4]

2006 – present
Raytheon Chair Professor of Physical Electronics
2006 – present
Director, Western Institute of Nanoelectronics
2011 – 2014
Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology
2007 – 2013
Associate Director, California NanoSystems Institute
2003 – 2013
Director, Marco Focus Center on Functional Engineered Nano Architectonics
2000–2002
Dean, School of Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
1993–1996
Chair, Electrical Engineering Department, 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 and recognition

2018: Magnetism award and Nēel Medal, International Union of Pure and Applied Physics

2018: Laureate of Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan

2018: Dr. Dan S. Louie lifetime achievement award Archived 2018-12-16 at the Wayback Machine

2017: J. J. Ebers Award by IEEE International Electron Devices Society

2017: Fellow, APS (American Physical Society) [5]

2016: Academician of Academia Sinica, Taiwan [6]

2015: Pan Wen Yuan Outstanding Research Award, Hsinchu, Taiwan

2012: Outstanding Alumni Award of National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

2009: Semiconductor Industry Award Research Award

2007: IBM Faculty Award

1996: Semiconductor Research Corporation Technical Excellency Award

1992: Fellow, IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics)

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: Springer-Verlag, 477–510 (2006)

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

See also

References

  1. ↑ "〈人物專訪〉高職生變成中研院、工研院雙院士 王康隆找到自己喜歡的工作" (in Chinese (Taiwan)). Liberty Times. 2018-09-10.
  2. ↑ "Kang Wang awarded international honor for seminal discovery in magnetism". UCLA Samueli. University of California Los Angeles. Apr 18, 2018. Retrieved 2025-05-18.
  3. ↑ "IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, Kang Wang EiC".
  4. ↑ "Forward, School of Engineering".
  5. ↑ "APS Fellow Archive". www.aps.org. Retrieved 16 September 2018.
  6. ↑ "Kang-Lung Wang". Academia Sinica. Retrieved 18 March 2022.
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