Topic ：Nanostructure Engineering -- A unique path to discovery and innovation

Reporter：Prof. Stephen Y. Chou NanoStructure Laboratory,Department of Electrical Engineering,Princeton University

Time: 14:00 PM 18^th August 2015

Location：The fifth western building A424

Content： 

New advances in engineering nanostructures open up a unique path to discovery and innovation as well as commercialization.  This is because (a) as nanostructures become smaller than a fundamental physical length scale, conventional theory may no longer apply, leading to new phenomena, new knowledge, and revolutionary products in a broad range of disciplines; and (b) new high-throughput and low-cost nanomanufacturing methods will not only accelerate R&D, but also are essential to turn inventions in laboratories into commercial products.  

The presentation will give some examples of the author’s 30 years research in nanostructures engineering, particularly, the pioneer researches in ultra-transistors (world smallest transistors, transistor scaling, velocity overshoot, quantum devices, and single electron memories), and the inventions of new magnetic data storage paradigm (bit-patterned media) and path-changing high-throughput manufacturing methods (nanoimprint and self-perfection by liquefaction (SPEL)).

The introduction of Stephen Y. Chou：

        Education：

•Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986

•M.A., Physics, State University of New York at Story Brook, 1982

•B.S., Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, 1978

Honors and Awards ：

•Member of National Academy of Engineering (2007)

•National Academy of Invention

•IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award (2004)

•IEEE Nanotechnology Pioneer Award

•Inductee of New Jersey High Tech Hall of Fame (2004)

•Einstein Professorship, Chinese Academy of Sciences

•Pan Wen Yuan Foundation, Outstanding Research Award (2009)

•Fellow of IEEE, AVS, OSA