Alfred Y. Cho
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Alfred Yi Cho (Chinese: 卓以和; pinyin: Zhuó Yǐhé; born July 10, 1937[1]) is a Chinese-American electrical engineer, inventor, and optical engineer. He 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.
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Alfred Y. Cho | |
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卓以和 | |
Born | (1937-07-10) July 10, 1937 (age 86) Beiping, China |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
Awards | IEEE Medal of Honor (1994) National Medal of Science (1993) Elliott Cresson Medal (1995) National Medal of Technology (2007) National Inventors Hall of Fame |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Electrical engineering Optical engineering |
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Cho was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in (1985) for his pioneering development of a molecular beam epitaxy technique, leading to unique semiconductor layer device structures.