Chang C. Tsuei

Chang-Chyi Tsuei (* around 1938) is a Taiwanese - American solid-state physicist .

Tsuei studied at National Taiwan University ( bachelor's degree in 1960) and at Caltech with a master's degree in 1963 and a doctorate in materials science in 1966. He then stayed at Caltech and in 1973 went to the Thomas J. Watson Research Center at IBM . After various management positions, he returned to research on high-temperature superconductors (HTS) in 1993. In 1996/97 he was visiting professor at the University of Paris-South .

In 1998 he received the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize for phase-sensitive experiments to elucidate the orbital symmetry of the pair wave function in high-temperature superconductors . In 1992 he received the Max Planck Research Award . He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the Academia Sinica . In 1995 he received the Outstanding Achievement Award from IBM.

In addition to experimental work on the investigation of the Cooper pair wave function in HTS (with crystals of controlled variable orientation), he also theoretically investigates the microscopic mechanism of HTS.

At the beginning of his career, he and colleagues demonstrated the collective phenomenon of localization of magnetic flux pinning in amorphous superconductors and the existence of ferromagnetism in glass-like metallic alloys obtained from the liquid state using the quenching method. He also invented the Tsuei wire, a superconducting wire made from several filaments.

Web links

• Homepage at IBM

Individual evidence

1. ^ Buckley Prize