Alfred Y. Cho Scientist

Alfred Yi Cho (Chinese: 卓以和; pinyin: Zhuó Yǐhé; born July 10, 1937) is the Adjunct Vice President of Semiconductor Research at Alcatel-Lucent's Bell Labs. He is known as the "father of molecular beam epitaxy"; a technique he developed at that facility in the late 1960s. He is also the co-inventor, with Federico Capasso of quantum cascade lasers at Bell Labs in 1994.

Personal facts

Birth dateJuly 10, 1937
Birth place
China , Beijing
Nationality
United States
Residence
United States

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awards
National Inventors Hall of Fame
National Medal of Science
IEEE Medal of Honor
Elliott Cresson Medal
National Medal of Technology and Innovation
Field of study
Electrical engineering

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External resources

  1. http://www.bell-labs.com/news/1998/november/25/1.html
  2. http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Alfred_Y._Cho
  3. http://www.lucent.com/press/0202/020221.bla.html
  4. http://www.njinvent.njit.edu/1997/inductees_1997/alfred_y._cho.html