B.S., National Taiwan University (1981)

M.S., Harvard University (1985)

Ph.D., Harvard University (1989)

Research Fellow, GE R&D Center (1989–1993)

Associate Research Fellow, IAMS, Academia Sinica (1993–1999)

Research Fellow, IAMS, Academia Sinica (1999–)

Joint Appointment Professor, Center for Condensed Matter Sciences, National Taiwan University (2004–)

Joint Appointment Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, National Chun Hsing University (2005–)

Synthesis and characterization of carbon, silicon and nitrogen based materials such as diamond, CNTs, SiC, SiCN and nitride materials

One-dimensional nanomaterial development and their energy related applications such as Fuel Cells and Solar Cells

Functionalization of advanced materials and their applications in bio-sensing 

Thermal conductivity, hardness and acoustic wave measurement of diamond films and their applications

"Generally applicable self-masked dry etching technique for nanotip arrays formation," C.H. Hsu, and K.H. Chen et al., Nano Letters 4, 471 (2004).

"Molecular sensing with ultrafine silver crystals on hexagonal aluminum nitride nanorod template," S. Chattopadhyay, and K.H. Chen et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc. 127, 2820 (2005).

"Anomalous energy shift of emission spectra of ZnO nanorods with sizes beyond quantum confinement regime," C.W. Chen, and K.H. Chen et al., Appl. Phys. Lett. 88, 241905 (2006).

"Photosensitive gold nanoparticle-embedded dielectric nanowires," M.S. Hu, and K.H. Chen et al., Nature Materials 5, 102-106 (2006).

"High Performance of low electrocatalysts loading on CNT directly grown on carbon for DMFC," C.H. Wang, and K.H. Chen et al., J. Power Sources 171, 55-62 (2007).

"Ultrahigh photocurrent gain in m-axial GaN nanowires," R.S. Chen, and K.H. Chen et al., Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, 223106 (2007).

"Improved broadband, and quasi-omnidirectional anti-reflection properties with biomimetic silicon nanostructures," Y.F. Huang, S. Chattopadhyay, Y.J. Jen, and K.H. Chen et al., Nature Nanotechnology 2, 770-774 (2007).

"On-chip fabrication of eell aligned and contact barrier-free GaN nanobridge devices with ultrahigh photocurrent responsivity," R.S. Chen, and K.H. Chen et al., ACS Small 7, 925-929 (2008).

"Enhanced charge separation by sieve-layer mediation in high efficiency inorganic-organic solar cell," C.H. Lin, and K.H. Chen et al., Adv. Mater. (In press, 2008).