- Professor, Chemical Engineering
- Joe M. Nesbitt Professor
- Phone: 979-845-9807
- FAX: 979-845-6446
- Email: yuekuo@tamu.edu
- Office: CHEN 235
- Website: Research Website

Educational Background
- Ph.D., Columbia University - 1979
- M.S., Columbia University - 1978
- B.S., National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan - 1974
Research Interests
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- Nano and microelectronics with special interests in semiconductor materials, processes and devices as well as thin films and plasma technology.
- New materials, novel processes and advanced devices with the ultimate goal of creating high-performance, highly reliable, manufacturable devices for current and future applications.
- Devices under studies are TFTs, ULSIC, SSI-LEDs, solar cells, bio and optical sensors, etc.
Awards & Honors
- President, Electrochemical Society, 2018-2019
- Fellow, Materials Research Society, 2019
- Visiting Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2017
- Honorary Chair Professor, National Chiao Tung University, Hsin Chu, Taiwan, 2017
- Fellow, American Vacuum Society, 2016
- Gordon E. Moore Medal of Outstanding Achievement in Solid Science and Technology, ECS, 2015.
- Vice President, Electrochemical Society, 2015-2018
- TEES Fellow, 2015
- Holder of the Dow Professorship
- Innovation Award, Texas A&M University System, 2014.
- Distinguished Research Achievement Award, Association of Former Students and Texas A&M University, 2012.
- Electronics and Photonics Division Award, Electrochemical Society, 2007.
- IEEE Electron Device Society Distinguished Lecturer, 2007-present.
- Fellow, Texas Engineering Experiment Station, 09/2005.
- Texas Experimental Engineering Station Fellow (05/2015).
- Fellow, Electrochemical Society, 1999.
- Fellow, IEEE Electron Devices Society, 1998.
- IBM External Honor, Invention Plateau Awards, Research Division Technology Awards, 10 awards, 1987 1997.
- > 200 keynote, plenary, and invited speeches in international conferences, universities, R&D centers.
- 100 conference organizer, chair, and co-chair.
- 40 Advisory, Review, and Planning boards, committees, etc. for governments, universities, professional societies
- Cover page article in ECS J. Solid State Sci. Technol., March 2016
- Keynote speech, 70th Annual Meeting of International Society of Electrochemistry, Durban, South Africa, 08/0 4-9/2019.
- Invited paper in IEDM San Francisco, CA 12/15/2014
- IEEE Spectrum Tech News (12/23/2014). http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/devices/meet-themicroscopic-light-bulb
- Plenary speech, 22nd International Workshop Active Matrix Flat Panel Displays and Devices, Kyoto, Japan (07/01/2015).
- Plenary speech, Korean Electrochemical Society, Fall Meeting, Yeosu, South Korea (11/01/2018).
- 26th International Symposium “Nanostructures: Physics and Technology,” Minsk, Belarus, June 18-22, 2018.
- Kenote speech, 22nd Topical Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry, Tokyo, Japan, 04/15-18/2018
- Plenary speech, Workshop on Displays, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, 11/ 14/2018
- Plenary speech, 1st International Semiconductor Conference for Global Challenges, Chinese Physical Society and Electrochemical Society, Nanjiang, China (07/19/2017).
- Invited paper in IEDM San Francisco, CA (12/15/2014) which was cited as an IEEE Spectrum Tech News (12/23/2014). http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/devices/meet-the-microscopic-light-bulb
- Paper ranked #1 most-cited solid state article in ECS Transactions as of July 1, 2014. ECS Trans. 2006 1(5): 447-454; doi:10.1149/1.2209294
- Keynote speech, 22nd Topical Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry, Tokyo, Japan, 04/15-18/2018
- Cover page article in J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B, January/February 2014.
- Keynote speech, Symposium of Semiconductor Science and Technology, 7th Sino-US Chemical Engineering Conference, Beijing, China, Oct. 15, 2013.
- Memorial (plenary) speech, 20th anniversary of International Workshop on Active-Matrix Flatpanel Displays and Devices, Kyoto, Japan, July 3, 2013.
- A top 20 Most Downloaded Paper in J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B on a new metal-doped High-k film, May 2013.
- A Research Highlight paper in Appl. Phys. Letts., February, 2013 on the new type of LED based on thin film metal oxides.
- Ranked #1, #4, and #29 Most-Cited Articles in ECS Trans. as of December 2012.
Selected Publications
- Y. Kuo, Editorial Board, IOP J. Physics D: Applied Physics, 2016-
- Y. Kuo, Technical Editor, ECS J. Solid State Science and Technology, 2012-2015.
- Y. Kuo, Technical Editor, ECS Solid State Letters, 2012-2015.
- Y. Kuo, Associate Editor, J. Electrochemical Society, 2003-2012.
- Y. Kuo, Associate Editor, Electrochemical Society Letters, 2003-2012.
- Y. Kuo and M. Furuta, Guest Editors, Focused Issue on Oxide Thin Film Transistors, ECS J. Solid State Science and Technology, 3(9), 2014.
- A. Flewitt, Y. Kuo, and J. Jang, Guest Editors, IEEE J. Display Technology, special issue on TFTs, 8(1), 2012.
- Y. Kuo, Editor, ECS Transactions 5th Semiconductor Technology for Ultra Large Scale Integrated Circuits and Thin Film Transistors, 67(1), Electrochem. Soc., Pennington, 2015.
- Y. Kuo, Editor, ECS Transactions 4th Semiconductor Technology for Ultra Large Scale Integrated Circuits and Thin Film Transistors, 54(1), Electrochem. Soc., Pennington, 2013.
- Y. Kuo and G. Bersuker, Editors, ECS Transactions 3rd Semiconductor Technology for Ultra Large Scale Integrated Circuits and Thin Film Transistors, 37(1), Electrochem. Soc., Pennington, 2011
- Y. Kuo, Editor, ECS Trans.13th Thin Film Transistor Technologies, 75(10), 2016.
- Y. Kuo, Editor, ECS Trans.12 th Thin Film Transistor Technologies, 64(1), Electrochem. Soc., Pennington, 2014.
- Y. Kuo, Editor, ECS Trans. 11th Thin Film Transistor Technologies, 50(8), Electrochem. Soc., Pennington, 2012.
- Y. Kuo, Editor, ECS Trans. 10th Thin Film Transistor Technologies, 33(5), Electrochem. Soc., Pennington, 2010.
- Y. Kuo, Editor and co-author, Polycrystalline Silicon Thin Film Transistors, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA, 2004.
- Y. Kuo, Editor and co-author, Amorphous Silicon Thin Film Transistors, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA, 2004.
- S. Zhang and Y. Kuo, Temperature Effects on Charge Storage and Transfer of Nanocrystalline CdSe Embedded Zr-doped HfO2 MOS Memory Device, ECS J. Solid State Sci. Technol., 5(9), Q231-Q238 (2016). DOI: 10.1149/2.0231609jss
- L. Liu, Y. Wang, Y. Lin, X. Zhang, Y. Kuo, and J. Tian, “Auxiliary structure of nano-pinnacle prepared on silicon substrate: Improving the emission intensity by 9 times in SSI- LEDs,” Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing, 93, 226-230 (2019).
- Y. Kuo, invited “Progress of Thin Film Transistor Technology,” 2018 14th IEEE Intl. Conf. Solid-Satate and IC Technol. Procs., S 44-1, Oct. 31-Nov. 3, Qingdao, China (2018). ISBN: 978-1-5386-4439-3
- M. Li* and Y. Kuo, “Electromigration of Plasma Etched Copper Lines with Different Widths and Lengths,” ECS Trans., 86(8), 41-47 (2018).
- J. Jiang, Y. Kuo, T.-C. Chang, and H.-C. Chiang, “Illumination Light Wavelength Effects on Double-Gate a-IGZO Thin Film Transistor with Source/Drain-to-Gate Offset Top-Gate,” ECS Trans., 86(11), 147-152 (2018).
- S. Zhang* and Y. Kuo, “Enhancement of SSI-LED Light Emission by Embedding CdS in the Zr-doped HfO2 High-k Film,” ECS Trans. Nanoscale Luminescent Materials 5, 85(3), 53-58 (2018).
- C.-C. Lin and Y. Kuo, Light emission enhancement by embedding nanocrystalline cadmium selenide in amorphous ZrHfO high-k dielectric thin film deposited on silicon wafer, ECS J. Solid State Sci. Technol., 5(3), Q75-Q80 (2016). A cover page article (03/2016).
- Y. Kuo, invited, A Metal Oxide Antifuse-Diode Device, ECS Trans., 69(12) 23-29 (2015).
- S. Zhang, Y. Kuo, and S. Verkhoturov, Post Deposition Annealing Atmosphere Effect on SSI-LEDs Made of Zr-Doped HfO2 High-k Gate Dielectric, ECS Trans., 69(12), 17-22 (2015).
- Y. Kuo, invited, A new type of solid state incandescent LED (SSI-LED) prepared by sputter deposited metal oxide thin film on Si wafer, 13th ISSP Proc., 20-24 (2015).
- D. Li, K. Kim, S. Zhang, G. Dong, Y. Kuo, High-performance organicinorganic hybrid optocouplers based on organic light-emitting diodes and a-Si:H photodiodes, Sensors and Actuators A, 236, 364-368 (2015).