ECE FACULTY

Chia-Hung Yang

Title: Professor
Areas/Affiliations: ECE
E-mail: yang@umd.edu
Phone: (301)405-3673
Office: A.V. Williams 1323

Website: http://www.ece.umd.edu/~yang

Biography:

Chia-Hung Yang is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, in the Microelectronics area of study. He received his B.S. at the National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, Republic of China in 1979, served in the Chinese Marine Corps from 1979 to 1981 as second lieutenant, carried out his Ph.D. study in Electrical Engineering at Princeton University from 1981 to 1987, and worked at Texas Instruments, Dallas, Texas, as a member of the technical staff, from 1987 to 1989. Prof. Yang joined the faculty here as Assistant Professor in 1989, and was promoted to Associate Professor and Professor in 1994 and 1999, respectively.

Prof. Yang is a senior member of the IEEE, and a member of the Amiercan Physics Society. He teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses, about analog and digital electronics, circuit design, solid state physics, semiconductor devices, and nanoelectronics.

Research Interests:

His research interests cover a wide range involving quantum device fabrication and applications, such as quantum computing by single electron qubits, coherent electron transport in one-dimensional quantum wires, and low-power, high-speed logic gates built by resonant tunneling transistors.

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