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Biography

AbstractImportant DatesOccupationPlacesSubjects

Relationships

PeopleInstitutions

Yves Jean Chabal

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Dates

August 5, 1952 – present

Authorized Form of Name

Chabal, Yves Jean, 1952-

Additional Forms of Names

Chabal, Yves J.

Biography

Abstract

Yves Chabal is the Texas Instruments Distinguished University Chair in Nanoelectronics at the University of Texas, Dallas. His research interests include semiconductors, H2 storage for hydrogen fuel economy, and organic electronics. His institutional affiliations also include Bell Laboratories and Cornell University.

Important Dates

August 5, 1952Birth, Pau (France).

1974Obtained BA in Physics, Princeton University, Princeton (N.J.).

1980Obtained PhD in Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca (N.Y.).

1980 – 1984Postdoctoral Member, Technical Staff (1980-1981) and Member to Distinguished Member, Technical Staff (1981-1984), Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill (N.J.).

1984 – 1996Member to Distinguished Member, Technical Staff, AT & T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill (N.J.).

1996 – 2008Member to Distinguished Member, Technical Staff, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill (N.J.).

2002 – 2008Professor of Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, and Physics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick (N.J.).

2008 – presentTexas Instruments Distinguished University Professor of Nanoelectronics, University of Texas, Dallas, Richardson (Tex.).

2009Awarded Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics, American Physical Society.

2012Awarded Medard W. Welch Award, American Vacuum Society.

Occupation

Applied physicist and materials scientist.

Places

Birth

Pau (France)

Undergraduate Education

Princeton (N.J.)

Graduate Education

Ithaca (N.Y.)

Employment

Murray Hill (N.J.)

New Brunswick (N.J.)

Richardson (Tex.)

Subjects

Applied physics and engineering.

Materials science.

Microelectronics.

Nanoelectronics.

Optoelectronics.

Semiconductors.

Relationships

People

Colleagues

Abrahams, Elihu

Both employed at Rutgers University.

Aeppli, Gabriel

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Alivisatos, P.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Anderson, P. W. (Philip W.), 1923-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Appelbaum, J. A. (Joel A.)

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Ashkin, Arthur, 1922-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Aspnes, D. E.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Bishop, David John, 1951-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Brinkman, William F. (William Frank), 1938-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Buchsbaum, Solomon J.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Bucksbaum, Philip H.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Cava, Robert J.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Chemla, D. S.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Chu, Steven

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Chynoweth, A. G.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Clogston, Albert McCavour

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Cohen, Morrel H.

Both employed at Rutgers University.

Coppersmith, Susan Nan

Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories.

DiSalvo, Francis

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Dolan, Gerald

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Dynes, Robert C.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Eigler, Donald

Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories.

Eisenstein, James P. (James Philip)

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Fleury, Paul A.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Fulton, Theodore Alan

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Gossard, A. C.

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Greene, Laura H.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Hagstrum, Homer D.

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Haldane, F. Duncan M.

Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories.

Hamann, Donald, 1939-

Both employed at Bell Laboratories and Lucent Technologies.

Hellman, Frances

Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories.

Hohenberg, Pierre C.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Hopfield, John J.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Isaacs, Eric D.

Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories and Lucent Technologies.

Jackson, Shirley Ann, 1946-

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Johnson, Peter D., 1952-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Laughlin, Robert B.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Lebowitz, Joel Louis, 1930-

Both employed at Rutgers University.

Lee, P. A. (Patrick A.), 1946-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Matthias, Bernd T., 1918-1980

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Millis, Andrew J.

Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories.

Murray, Cherry Ann

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Narath, Albert, 1933-

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Osheroff, Douglas D.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Patel, C. Kumar N.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Penzias, Arno A.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Pfann, William G.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Phillips, J. C.

Both employed at Rutgers University and Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Phillips, Julia M.

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Pinczuk, Aron

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Raghavachari, Krishnan

Both employed at Bell Laboratories and Lucent Technologies.

Rice, Thomas Maurice, 1939-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Rowell, John Martin, 1935-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Shank, C. V. (Charles V.)

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Smith, George E., 1930-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Smith, Neville, 1942-2006

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Stillinger, F. H.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Störmer, Horst

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Tank, David William, 1953-

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Tersoff, J.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Thomas, D. G. (David Gilbert), 1928-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Tsui, D. C. (Daniel Chee), 1939-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Weeks, John David

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Willett, Robert L.

Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories and Lucent Technologies.

Wilson, Robert Woodrow, 1936-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Zamolodchikov, A. B., 1952-

Both employed at Rutgers University.

Institutions

Major Positions

AT & T Bell Laboratories

Member to Distinguished Member, Technical Staff.

Bell Labs Innovations

Member to Distinguished Member, Technical Staff.

Bell Telephone Laboratories

Postdoctoral Member, Technical Staff and Member to Distinguished Member, Technical Staff.

Rutgers University. Department of Chemistry

Professor of Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering.

Rutgers University. Department of Physics and Astronomy

Professor of Physics.

University of Texas at Dallas

Texas Instruments Distinguished University Professor of Nanoelectronics.

Professional Activities & Affiliations

American Physical Society

Received 2009 Davisson-Germer Prize in Atomic or Surface Physics.

American Vacuum Society

Received 2012 Medard W. Welch Award.

Cornell University. Department of Physics

Obtained PhD (1980).

Materials Research Society

Princeton University. Department of Physics

Obtained BA (1974).

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