Chris G. Van de Walle

Palo Alto Research Center, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304

Ph. (650) 812-4163; Fax (650) 812-4105

email: vandewalle@parc.com

 


Education

1986             Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California

1982             Burgerlijk Elektrotechnisch Ingenieur, Rijksuniversiteit Gent, Belgium

Professional Experience

1991-           Principal Scientist/Senior Member/Member of Research Staff, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, California

1999                         Alexander von Humboldt US Senior Scientist at the Fritz-Haber-Institut and the Paul-Drude-Institut, Berlin, Germany, May-October 1999

1988-1991   Senior Member of Research Staff, Philips Laboratories, Briarcliff Manor, New York; Joint-study agreement with IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

1991                         Adjunct Professor, Columbia University, New York

1986-1988   Postdoctoral Scientist, IBM Research Division, T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York

1983-1986   Consultant, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, California

1983-1986   Research Assistant, Stanford Electronics Laboratories, Stanford, California

1983                         Teaching Assistant, Stanford University, Stanford, California

Honors

·     PARC Excellence Award, 2003

·     David Adler Award, American Physical Society, 2002

·     PARC Golden Acorn Award, 2002

·     Humboldt Research Award for Senior US Scientist, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, 1998

·     Fellow of the American Physical Society, 1997

·     Plenary Talk at International Conference on Physics of Semiconductors (ICPS-25), 2000

·     Plenary Talk at International Conference on Defects in Semiconductors (ICDS-19), 1997

·     Graduate Student Award of the Materials Research Society, 1985

·     F. E. Terman Award, Stanford University, Stanford, California, 1983

·     Fellow, Belgian American Educational Foundation, 1982-1983

·     Prijs van de Stad Gent (Prize of the City of Gent), Gent, Belgium, 1982


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Professional Activities

Conference chair:

·    Program Chair, 27th International Conference on Defects in Semiconductors (ICPS), 2004

·    Gordon Conference on Point and Line Defects in Semiconductors, 1998

·    23rd Conference on Physics and Chemistry of Semiconductor Interfaces (PCSI), 1996

·    7th Trieste Semiconductor Symposium: Wide-Band-Gap Semiconductors, 1992

Program and Advisory Committees:

·    International Conference on Defects in Semiconductors, 1995, 1999, 2001, 2003

·    International Conference on II-VI Compounds, 1993, 1995, 2003

·    International Workshop on Nitride Semiconductors, 2002

·    International Workshop on Zinc Oxide, 2002

·    International Symposium on Blue Laser and Light Emitting Diodes, 2000, 2002

·    International Conference on Nitride Semiconductors, 2001

·    International Workshop on Computational Electronics, 2001

·    Conference on Semiconducting and Insulating Materials, 1998

·    Electronic Materials Conference, 1995-1998

·    International Conference on Computational Physics, 1997

·    Conference on Physics and Chemistry of Semiconductor Interfaces, 1992-1996

Organizer of Focused Sessions for the APS Division of Materials Physics, 1992, 1994, 1997

Proceedings Editor, International Conference on Defects in Semiconductors, 1999

Referee/Reviewer:

·    Journals: Physical Review Letters, Nature, Physical Review B, Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics, Europhysics Letters, Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology, Surface Science, Physica B, Semiconductor Science and Technology, Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids

·    Funding agencies: National Science Foundation, Army Research Office, Office of Naval Research, International Science Foundation, INFM (Italian National Institute for Materials Physics), Research Corporation, Petroleum Research Fund

Member:

·    APS (American Physical Society) – Fellow

·    MRS (Materials Research Society)

·    AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science)

·    IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) – Senior Member

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Professional Activities (continued)

Contracts and grants: Office of Naval Research; Air Force Office of Scientific Research

Supervisor of three postdocs and three graduate students.

Editorial and Advisory Boards, Committees, Review Panels:

·    Editorial Board, Physical Review Letters, 1996-1999

·    Executive Committee, APS Division of Materials Physics, 2002-2004

·    Scientific Advisory Board, Paul Drude Institute, Berlin, Germany, 2002-

·    Review Panel, NSF, Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Teams, 2001

Research Interests

·    Novel electronic materials; wide-band-gap semiconductors, oxides.

·    Computational physics. Density-functional theory, pseudopotentials.  Atomic and electronic structure of crystalline, polycrystalline and amorphous materials, interfaces, surfaces, defects.

·    Semiconductor heterojunctions and superlattices; effects of strain; deformation potentials.  Metal-semiconductor interfaces, Schottky barriers.

·    Defects and impurities in solids, doping, diffusion.  Calculation of hyperfine parameters and vibrational modes. 

·    Physics and chemistry of hydrogen interactions with solids, liquids, and molecular systems.

·    Device simulations; optical gain in laser structures.

Publications and Presentations

190 scientific publications.  Publication list available upon request.

Thirteen U.S. patents; five patents pending.

68 Invited Presentations at International Conferences and Schools. 
Numerous invited seminars at universities and industrial or government laboratories.

 

 

June 2003