Frank F. Fang
{{Short description|Chinese-American solid-state physicist}}
Frank F. Fang (born 11 September 1930 in Beijing) is a Chinese-American solid-state physicist. He was part of the team that succeeded in 1966 in the detection of a two-dimensional electron gas and its quantum properties in semiconductors.
Education and career
Fang studied at the National Taiwan University with a bachelor's degree in 1951 and the University of Notre Dame with a master's degree in 1954. In 1959 he received his doctorate in electrical engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 1959/60 he worked for Boeing and from 1960 he did research at IBM.{{cite web | url = https://history.aip.org/phn/11508019.html | title = Frank F. Fang. Biography | website = Physics History Network | publisher = AIP }}
John Robert Schrieffer had predicted 1956 quantum effects in electron transport due to the two-dimensional geometry in metal-insulator-semiconductor structure (MIS). The detection was first successfully achieved by the team of Fang, Alan B. Fowler, Phillip J. Stiles and Webster Eugene Howard at IBM in 1966 by applying strong magnetic fields.{{cite journal |author=Fowler, AB|author2= Fang, FF|author3=Howard, WE|author4=Stiles PJ| title = Magneto-Oscillatory Conductance in Silicon Surfaces | journal = Physical Review Letters | volume = 16 | number = 20 | date = 16 May 1966 | pages = 901–903 | doi = 10.1103/PhysRevLett.16.901|bibcode= 1966PhRvL..16..901F}}
In 1982 Fang was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In 1984 he was elected an IEEE Fellow for "the discovery and explanation of two-dimensional properties of silicon inversion layers and for contributions to semiconductor device research." [https://www.ieee.org/membership/fellows/fellows-directory.html IEEE Fellows Directory] (Citation: For discovery and understanding of the two-dimensional properties of silicon inversion layers and for contributions to semiconductor device physics research.)
In 1981, he received the Wetherill Medal from the Franklin Institute with Fowler, Howard, Stiles and Frank Stern; Stern and Howard gave the theoretical explanation of the 1966 experiment. {{cite journal | author = Stern, Frank|author2= Howard, WE | title = Properties of Semiconductor Surface Inversion Layers in the Electric Quantum Limit | journal = Physical Review | volume = 163 | number = 3 | date = 15 November 1967 | pages = 816–835 | doi = 10.1103/PhysRev.163.816|bibcode= 1967PhRv..163..816S }} In 1988 Fang received with Alan B. Fowler and Phillip J. Stiles the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize.
Selected publications
- {{cite journal|doi=10.1103/PhysRev.169.619|title=Transport Properties of Electrons in Inverted Silicon Surfaces|journal=Physical Review|volume=169|issue=3|pages=619–631|year=1968|last1=Fang|first1=F. F.|last2=Fowler|first2=A. B.|bibcode=1968PhRv..169..619F}}
- {{cite journal|doi=10.1103/PhysRev.174.823|title=Effects of a Tilted Magnetic Field on a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas|journal=Physical Review|volume=174|issue=3|pages=823–828|year=1968|last1=Fang|first1=F. F.|last2=Stiles|first2=P. J.|bibcode=1968PhRv..174..823F}}
- {{cite journal|doi=10.1063/1.1659111|title=Hot Electron Effects and Saturation Velocities in Silicon Inversion Layers|journal=Journal of Applied Physics|volume=41|issue=4|pages=1825–1831|year=1970|last1=Fang|first1=F. F.|last2=Fowler|first2=A. B.|bibcode=1970JAP....41.1825F}}
- {{cite journal|doi=10.1103/PhysRevB.16.4446|title=Effective mass and collision time of (100) Si surface electrons|journal=Physical Review B|volume=16|issue=10|pages=4446–4454|year=1977|last1=Fang|first1=F. F.|last2=Fowler|first2=A. B.|last3=Hartstein|first3=A.|bibcode=1977PhRvB..16.4446F}}
- {{cite journal|doi=10.1103/PhysRevB.38.10142|title=Observation of the zero-field spin splitting of the ground electron subband in gasb-inas-gasb quantum wells|journal=Physical Review B|volume=38|issue=14|pages=10142–10145|year=1988|last1=Luo|first1=J.|last2=Munekata|first2=H.|last3=Fang|first3=F. F.|last4=Stiles|first4=P. J.|pmid=9945862|bibcode=1988PhRvB..3810142L}}
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Category:National Taiwan University alumni
Category:University of Notre Dame alumni
Category:Grainger College of Engineering alumni
Category:Fellows of the American Physical Society
Category:Physicists from Beijing
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Category:Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize winners
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