Raphael Tsu
Raphael Tsu (born December 27, 1932 in Shanghai ) is a Chinese-American physicist who deals with semiconductor physics.
Tsu studied electrical engineering at the University of Dayton with a bachelor's degree in 1956 and physics from Ohio State University with a master's degree in 1957 and a doctorate in 1960. He was then at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, where he worked on ultrasonic amplifiers before he moved to the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center , where he began working with Leo Esaki on semiconductor nanostructures such as quantum wells and superlattices .
He then went to the Amorphous Semiconductor Institute (ASI), where he researched amorphous silicon with applications in photovoltaics , and at Stanford Ovshinsky’s Energy Conversion Devices . From 1985 to 1987 he headed research on amorphous silicon at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (then SERI, Solar Energy Research Institute) in Golden, Colorado.
Since the early 1970s, he has been involved in building up a scientific exchange between China and the USA.
Together with his colleagues Leo Esaki and Leroy L. Chang , he investigated superlattices in semiconductors, which he produced using molecular beam epitaxy .
He is a professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
In 1985 he received the James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials . He is a fellow of the American Physical Society .
Fonts
- with L. Esaki: Tunneling in a finite superlattice, Applied Physics Letters, Volume 22, 1973, p. 562.
- with Leroy L. Chang, Leo Esaki: Resonant tunneling in semiconductor double barriers, Applied Physics Letters, Volume 24, 1974, p. 593.
- with Esaki: Superlattice and negative differential conductivity in semiconductors, IBM Journal of Research and Development, Volume 14, 1970, pp. 61-65
- Superlattices to Nanoelectronics, Elsevier, 2nd edition 2010
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tsu, Raphael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chinese-American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 27, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Shanghai |