- Professor Emeritus, Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Email: c-su4831@tamu.edu

Educational Background
- Ph.D., Physics, Brandeis University – 1979
Research Interests
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- Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) Sensors for Bio-Detection:
- Multipass SPR
- Field Assist SPR
- Formulas for SPR Calculations Using Matrix Techniques
- Fiber Optic Ratio Meter for Fast Measurement of Refractive Index of Liquid
- Surface Plasmon Modes in Nanoparticles
- Gold-Silica Nanoshell (doc)
Awards & Honors
- 1985 Leslie H. Warner Technical Achievement Award
- 1991 Texas Engineering Experimental Station Fellow
- 1993 Haliburton Award of Excellence
Selected Publications
- C. B. Su, An analytical solution of kinks and nonlinearities driven by near-field displacement instabilities in stripe geometry diode lasers," J. Applied. Physics, Vol. 52, No.2, pp. 2665-2673 ,1981.
- C. B. Su and R. Olshansky, Carrier lifetime measurement for determination of recombination rates and doping levels of III-V semiconductor light sources," Applied Physics Lett., Vol.41, No. 9, pp. 833-835, 1982.
- J. Lee and C. B. Su, Near Ballistic transport in a non-parabolic band structure for n- and p-GaAs," IEEE Transactions Electron Devices, Vol. ED-29, No. 5, pp. 933-935, 1982.
- C. B. Su, J. Schlafer, J. Manning and R. Olshansky, Measurement of radiative and Auger recombination rates in p-type InGaAsP diode lasers" , Electronics Lett., Vol. 18, No. 14, pp. 595-596, 1982.
- C. B. Su, J. Schlafer, J. Manning and R. Olshansky, Measurement of radiative recombination coefficient and carrier leakage in 1.3 micron InGaAsP lasers with lightly doped active layers," Electronics Lett. , Vol. 18, No. 25/26, pp. 1108-1110, 1982.
- C. B. Su and R. Olshansky, Measurement of threshold carrier density of III-V compound semiconductor laser diodes, Applied Physics Lett., Vol. 43, No. 9, pp. 856-858, 1983.
- J. Manning, R. Olshansky, C. B. Su and W. Powazinik, Measurement of carrier and lattice heating in 1.3 micron InGaAsP light-emitting diodes, Applied. Physics Lett., Vo. 43, No. 2, pp. 134-135, 1983.
- J. Manning, R. Olshansky and C. B. Su, The carrier induced index change in AlGaAs and 1.3 micron InGaAsP diode lasers, IEEE J. Quantum Electonics., Vol. QE-19, pp. 1525 ,1983.
- C. B. Su, R. Olshansky, W. Powazinik and J. Manning, Anomalous temperature dependence of the effective bimolecular recombination and the explanation of low T0 in 1.3 micron InGaAsP light sources, IEEE Transactions Electron Devices, Vol. ED-30, pp. 1594 ,1983.
- C. B. Su, R. Olshansky, J. Manning and W. Powazinik, Carrier dependence of the radiative coefficient in III-V semiconductor light sources, Applied. Physics Lett., Vol. 44, No. 8, pp. 732-734, 1984.