Yue Kuo

Professor
Holder of the Dow Professorship

Research Page

Telephone: (979) 845-9807
Fax Number: (979) 845-6446
E-mail: yuekuo@tamu.edu

Mailing Address...
235 Jack E. Brown Engineering Building
3122 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3122

Education

Dr. Eng. Sci., Columbia University, 1979
M.S., Columbia University, 1978
B.S., National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 1974

Awards & Honors

Honorary Guest Professorship, Nankai University, China, 07/14/2009.
Adjunct Professorship, Xi'An Jiaotong University, China, 07/10/2009.
IEEE Electron Devices Society Distinguished Lecture, Institute of Microelectronics, Beijing University, Beijing, China, July 14, 2009 -"ULSIC vs. TFT - From Nano to Giga Electronics."
National Academies Panel on Chemical Science and Technology, 2009
Top 20 most downloaded paper in Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 2008
Top 25 Hottest paper in Microelectronics and Reliability, 2008
AIP Virtual J. Nanoscale Sci. and Technol. 17(17) 2008
Hong Kong Research Grants Council Panel 2008-2010
3rd poster award in ECI Semiconductor Conference 2007
Electronics and Photonics Division Award, Electrochemical Society, 2007
IEEE Electron Device Society Distinguished Lecturer, 2007-present
Keynote Speaker, AM-FPD '07, Hyogo, Japan, 07/11-13/2007
National Academies Panel on Chemical Science and Technology, 2007
Organizer and Chair, Engineering Foundation International Conference on Semiconductor Technology for ULSICs and TFTs, Italy, July 2007
AIP Virtual J. Nanoscale Science & Technol. 13(15), 2006
Fellow, Texas Engineering Experiment Station, 2005
Planning Committee, National Academies Keck Future Initiative Conference on Designing Nanostructures at the Interface between Biomedical and Physical Systems, Irvine, CA, November 18-21, 2004
Fellow, Electrochemical Society, 1999
Fellow, IEEE, Electron Devices Society, 1998
10 IBM Awards on Technology, Invention Plateau, and External Honors, 1987 – 1997
110 keynote, distinguished, and invited speeches in international conferences, R&D centers, universities, etc.
30 Advisory, Review, and Planning boards, committees, etc.
Organizer or Chair in > 50 international conferences

Research Interests

Dr. Kuo's research is concentrated on nano and microelectronics with special interests in semiconductor materials, processes and devices as well as thin films and plasma technology. In his thin film nano and microelectronics research laboratory, he develops new materials, novel processes and advanced devices with the ultimate goal of creating high-performance, highly reliable, manufacturable devices for current and future applications. Devices under studies are TFTs, ULSIC, solar cells, bio and optical sensors, etc.

Selected Publications

G. Liu and Y. Kuo, "Electromigration of Copper Lines Patterned with a Plasma based Etch Process," J. Electrochem. Soc., 156(6)H579-H584(2009).

J. Lu, C.-H. Lin, and Y. Kuo, "Nanocrystalline Zinc Oxide Embedded Zirconium-doped Hafnium Oxide for Nonvolatile Memories," J. Electrochem. Soc., 155(6) H386-H389 (2008). This paper was selected by AIP Virtual J. Nanoscale Sci. and Technol. 17(17) 2008.

Y. Kuo, "TFT and ULSIC - Competition or Collaboration," Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., 47(3), 1845-1852 (2007). This paper was selected the Top 20 most downloaded papers in the journal for 3 months continuously. http://www.ipap.jp/jjap/index.htm

Y. Kuo and H. Nominanda, "Nonvolatile hydrogenated-amorphous-silicon thin-film-transistor memory devices," Appl. Phys. Letts., 89, 173503 (2006).

H. H. Lee and Y. Kuo, "Integration of an Amorphous Silicon Thin Film Transistor with a Microchannel Electrophoresis for Protein Identification," Electrochem. Solid-State Letts., 9, J21-J23 (2006). This paper was selected by AIP in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology, 13(15), 2006.