Dr. Yong-Hang Zhang

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Dr. Zhang
Director - Center for Nanophotonics
Location: ERC 161
Telephone: 480-965-2562
Fax: 480-965-0775
Email: yhzhang@asu.edu
Web Page: http://asumbe.eas.asu.edu
Address: Arizona State University
Engineering Research Center
Electrical Engineering
Tempe, AZ 85287-5706 USA

Yong-Hang Zhang is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Arizona State University. He received a doctorate degree in Physics from Max-Planck Institute for Solid States and the University of Stuttgart, Germany, in 1991. He spent two years at UCSB as an Assistant Research Engineer before he joined Hughes Research Laboratories in 1993. He came to Arizona State University in 1996 as an Associate Professor. He was promoted to Professor in 2000.

Prof. Yong-Hang Zhang's areas of research interest are semiconductor optoelectronic devices and structures grown by MBE. He and his colleagues at HRL demonstrated the first MWIR lasers that use a type-II superlattice active region in 1994 and won an award for Innovation & Excellence in Laser Technology & Applications from Hughes Electronics Company. He has chaired and co-chaired many international conference committees and edited 4 conference proceedings and published 1 book chapter, 4 issued US patents, and 140 articles in journals and conference proceedings. He has supervised 15 postdoctoral researchers and graduated 9 PhD and 4 MS students in the past ten years.