Chao Zhang, PhD, FAIP

Professor, School of Engineering Physics
Associate Director, Institute of Superconducting and Electronic Meterials
Coordinator, Solid State Research Program
Fellow, Australian Institute of Physics
Tel: (61)-2-42213458
Fax: (61)-2-42215944
chao_zhang@uow.edu.au

Qualifications

M.A., City College of New York, 1984
M.Phil., City University of New York, 1985
Ph.D., City University of New York, 1987

Positions held

Postdoctoral Fellow, Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany, (1987-1989)
Research Associate, TRIUMF, Vancouver, Canada, (1989-1992)
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor/Professor, University of Wollongong, (1993---)

Honorary and visiting positions

Visiting Professor, Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Alberta, Canada, (1996,1997)
Senior Visiting Fellow, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, (1996, 1997)
Visiting Professor, National Tsinghua University and National Center for Theorectical Science, Taiwan , (2001)
Japan Society for Promotion of Science Invitational Fellow, Tokai University, Japan , (2002)
Guest Professor, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, (2002-2009)
Guest Professor, Xian Institute of Optics and Precision mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, (2006)
Guest Professor, Institute of Solid State physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, (2005)
Guest Professor, Tianjin University, China, (2005)
Visiting Professor, University of Utah (2004)

Research Interests

• Optical properties and transport phenomena in low dimensional electronic structures and nanometer structures, including linear and nonliear transport, Raman scattering, optical absorption and reflection, cyclotron resonance, electron energy losses.
• Phonon emission in low dimensional systems, ultrasound and hypersound in electronic systems with lateral confinement.
• Manybody problems, correlation and exchange effects, collective excitations in electron liquid with application to high temperature superconductors.
• Quantum transport in nanosystems, including magneto-phonon-photon resonance and acoustic phonon generation in quantum wires, thermionic emission in semiconductor nanostructures
• Resonant tunneling in double barrier structures, single electron tunneling in NNN and NSN structures.
• Theory of quantum diffusion, tunneling and coherence in insulators and superconductors, including the effect of dissipation on tunneling.
• Dynamics in spintronics systems , current and density response at zero and finite frequencies.
• Kinetic theorem of classical plasmas and mechanism of instability in quantum plasmas.

Collaborators

• K. A. Chao, Lund University, Sweden, Terahertz phenomena, thermionic emission
• X.-C. Zhang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA, Terahertz optoelectronics
• F. Liu, University of Utah, USA, Trasport in Carbon nanotubes
• J. Cao, Shanghai Institute of Microsystems and Information Technology, China, Terahertz optoelectronics
• Z. S. Ma, Peking University , China, Quantum transport in nanostructures
• T. Toyota, Tokai University , Japan, Quantum field theory and high-Tc superconductivity
• Z. Zeng, Institute of Solid State Physics , Chinese Academy of Science, China, Spintronics

External Research Fundings

• DIISR ISL grant, High performance nanomaterials for thermionics and thermoelectrics applications , 2008-2011
• ARC Discovery grant, Novel graphene nanostructures: modelling, synthesis, fabrication and characterisation , 2008-2010
• ARC Linkage-project grant, Novel methods for enhancing room temperature figure of merit of thermoelectric/thermionic materials for refrigeration applications , 2008-2010
• ARC Linkage-international grant, Design and creation of nanomechanical architectures from folding of ultrathin bi-layer films , 2008
• ARC Discovery grant, First principles for development of novel hybrid electrochemical energy storage and conversion systems , 2007-2011
• DEST International Science Linkage grant, Development of terahertz emitters based on electronic and hybrid spintronic materials , 2007-2010
• ARC Linkage-infrastructure grant, 16 Tesla Physica Property Measurement System , 2007
• ARC Linkage-international grant, Terahertz optoelectronics based on spintronics materials , 2006-2007
• ARC Linkage-international grant, Photon induced nonlinear absorption and transport in semiconductor nanostructures , 2005-2007
• ARC Discovery grant, Nonlinear dynamics of electronic systems and devices in terahertz regime , 2004-2006
• ARC Discovery grant, Analysis, simulation, fabrication and characterization of of reliable, robust and scalable compact cooling elements based on semiconductor nanostructures , 2003-2005
• NSW Department of Energy, Utilities and Sustainability SERDF grant , Study and implementation of solar thermal solid state electron power generators , 2004-2007
• ARC Linkage-infrastructure , T-ray factory , 2004
• Auatralian Academy of Sciences International Award, Magnetoresistance in semiconductor nanostructures under intense electromagnetic radiation , 2004-2005
• ARC Linkage-international, Simulation and characterisation of opto-thermionic devices , 2003-2005
• ARC Linkage-international, Development of solid state cooling chips , 2000-2002
• ARC SPIRT grant, Experimental development of thermionic cooling for domestic refrigeration , 2001-2003
• ARC SPIRT grant, Development of thermionic cooling for domestic refrigeration , 2000-2002
• Auatralian Academy of Sciences International Award, Electronic properties under terahertz radiation , 2001-2002
• Auatralian Academy of Sciences International Award, Electron Thermal Conduction and Solid State Power Generation and Refrigeration Using Metal-Semiconductor Superlattices , 2000-2001
• Auatralian Academy of Sciences International Award, Terahertz emission and absorption in low dimensional systems. , 1999-2000
• ARC Large grant, Electronic properties of nanostructures and mesoscopic systems , 1995-1998
• ARC Large grant, Electronic and vibrational spectra of solid , 1995-1998

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