Chih-Kang (Ken) Shih, Ph.D., Stanford University, 1988

Professor, Department of Physics
Office:
    RLM 13.318
Mailing Address:
    RLM 5.208,
    The University of Texas at Austin
    Austin, Texas 78712
email: shih@physics.utexas.edu
Phone: 512-471-6603
Fax: 512-471-1005
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Course - Phys 303L-Fall-05

Education
 B.S.   Physics, National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan, R.O.C.  (1977)
 M.S.  Physics, University of Oregon (1981)
 Ph.D. Applied Physics, Stanford University (1988).

Appointment
9/04 – current Jane & Roland Blumberg Professor of Physics

9/01 - current   Professor of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin

9/96 – 8/01      Associate Professor of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin.

1/90 - 8/96       Assistant Professor of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin.

5/88 - 12/89     Postdoctoral Research, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY.

9/92 - 8/94       Trull Centennial Fellow, The University of Texas at Austin.

Publications:

Current research interests:

  • Structural, electronic and optical properties of semiconductor nanostructures
  • Quantum coherence/decoherence in semiconductor quantum dots
  • Novel thin-film growth
  • Novel quantum phenomena in thin metal films
  • Nanoscale characterizations of semiconductor devices