Yi-Han Kao
Professor of Physics
- Office : 309 Fronczak Hall ; Lab : 313 & 320 Fronczak Hall.
- Phone : (716)645-2576
- Fax : (716)645-2507
- E-Mail : yhk@acsu.buffalo.edu
- Ph.D Columbia University (1962)
- Research Fields : Condensed Matter Physics; Materials Physics
- Society memberships :
- Fellow Americal Physical society
- Member, Materials Research Society
- Awards :
- SUNY Senior Fellow Award (1969)
- Science and Technology Advancement Award -- National Education Commmittee, China (1988)
- Most Outstanding Teacher Award (Physics) -- SUNY at Stony Brook (1982 and 1989)
Professional Experience
- Research Scientist, Sohio Oil Company (1957)
- Research Scientist, Cities Service Laboratory, (1958)
- Post-Doctoral Research Associate, IBM Watson Laboratory, (1962-1963)
- Assistant Professor of Physics, State University of New York at Stony Brook (1963-1966)
- Associate Professor of Physics, State University of New York at Stony Brook (1966-1971)
- Visiting Physicist, Brookhaven National Laboratory (1968)
- Visiting Professor, National Taiwan University and National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan (1969-1970)
- Professor of Physics, State University of New York at Stony Brook (1971-1989)
- Visiting Professor, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan (1976-1977)
- Consultant, National Science Council, Taiwan (1976-1986)
- Consultant, North American Philips Corporation (1984-1989)
- Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, State University of New York at Stony Brook (1987-1992)
- Member, Advisory Committee, Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (1991-1994)
- Editor, Superconductivity and Its Applications (American Institute of Physics Proceedings No. 219, 1990 and No. 251, 1991)
- Professor of Physics, State University of New York at Buffalo (1989-present)
- Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Midwest Supeuconductivity Inc. (1991-present)
- Editor, International Journal of Modern Physics B and Modern Physics Letters B (1988-present)
- Chairman, International workshop on Semiconductor Research using Synchrotron RÁdiation (brookhaven National Laboratory, 1996)
- CEEM Professor of Materials Physics, State University of New York at Buffalo (1990-present)
Current Research Activities
Physics of thin films and interfaces; Physics of superconductivity; X-ray physics and synchrotron radiation; Multilayer semiconductors; Transport phenomena; Disorder in alloys and layered materials; Hig-Tc superconductivity; Fullerenes and fullerides.
Publications
180 papers appeared in refereed journals and conference proceedings.
Recent Publications
- Local Structures Around Mn Luminescent Centers in Mn-Doped Nanocrystals of ZnS (with Y.L. Soo, Z.H. Ming, S.W. Huang, R.N. Bhargave, and D. Gallagher), Phys Rev B50 (1994) 7602.
- Chemical Doping and Intergranular Magnetic-Field Effects in Bulk Tl-Based Superconductors (with M. Yang, Y.Xin, and K.W. Wong), Phys Rev B50 (1994) 13653
- Interfacial Microstructures of Ultuathin Ge layers on Si Probed by X-ray Scattering and Fluorescence Yeild (with Z.H. Ming, Y.L. Soo, S. Huang, J.C. Tsang, and S.S. Iyer), Appl. Phys. Lett 65 (1994) 1382.
- Low-Field Magentic Susceptibility Studies of High-Tc Superconductors (with C.Y. Lee), Physica C 241 (1995) 167.
- Thickness Modulation of InGaAs/GaAs Superlattices Studied by Large Angle X-ray Scattering (with Z.H. Ming, Y.L. Soo, S. Huang, K.Stair, G.Devane, and C. Choi-Feng), Appl. Phys. Lett 66 (1995) 165.
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