Frank Fang

Frank F. Fang (born September 11, 1930 in Beijing ) is a Sino-American solid-state physicist. He was part of the team that succeeded in detecting a two-dimensional electron gas and its quantum properties in semiconductors in 1966.

Fang graduated from Taiwan State University with a bachelor's degree in 1951 and a master's degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1954. He received his doctorate in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1959 . In 1959/60 he was with Boeing and from 1960 he did research at IBM .

John Robert Schrieffer had predicted quantum effects in electron transport in 1956 due to the two-dimensional geometry in metal-insulator-semiconductor (MOS) structures , but the proof was only achieved by using catch with Alan B. Fowler , Phillip J. Stiles and Webster Eugene Howard at IBM in 1966 strong magnetic fields

In 1982 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 1984 he became an IEEE Fellow for the discovery and explanation of two-dimensional properties of silicon inversion layers and for contributions to research into semiconductor components . In 1988 he received the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize with Alan B. Fowler and Phillip J. Stiles .

In 1981 he received the Wetherill Medal of the Franklin Institute with Fowler, Howard, Stiles and Frank Stern (Stern and Howard gave the theoretical explanation of the 1966 experiment).

Web links

Frank F. Fang. Biography. In: Physics History Network. AIP; accessed on February 10, 2018

Individual evidence

↑ AB Fowler, FF Fang, WE Howard, PJ Stiles: Magneto-Oscillatory Conductance in Silicon Surfaces . In: Physical Review Letters . tape 16 , no. 20 , May 16, 1966, pp. 901-903 , doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevLett.16.901 .
↑ IEEE Fellows Directory ( Citation: For discovery and understanding of the two-dimensional properties of silicon inversion layers and for contributions in semiconductor device physics research. )
^ Frank Stern, WE Howard: Properties of Semiconductor Surface Inversion Layers in the Electric Quantum Limit . In: Physical Review . tape 163 , no. 3 , November 15, 1967, p. 816-835 , doi : 10.1103 / PhysRev.163.816 .

personal data
SURNAME	Fang, Frank
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Fang, Frank F.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH	September 11, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH	Beijing

[1] AB Fowler, FF Fang, WE Howard, PJ Stiles: Magneto-Oscillatory Conductance in Silicon Surfaces . In: Physical Review Letters . tape 16 , no. 20 , May 16, 1966, pp. 901-903 , doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevLett.16.901 .

[2] IEEE Fellows Directory ( Citation: For discovery and understanding of the two-dimensional properties of silicon inversion layers and for contributions in semiconductor device physics research. )

[3] Frank Stern, WE Howard: Properties of Semiconductor Surface Inversion Layers in the Electric Quantum Limit . In: Physical Review . tape 163 , no. 3 , November 15, 1967, p. 816-835 , doi : 10.1103 / PhysRev.163.816 .