E-mail chchen35@ntu.edu.tw Office CCMS-213 Tel. of office +886-2-3366-5200 Laboratory CCMS-B104 Tel. of Lab. +886-2-3366-5210
Education
B. S., Physics, 1968, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Ph. D., Applied Physics, 1974, Cornell University, USA
Experience
Postdoctral Associate, School of Applied Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA (1974 July ~ 1976 Aug.)
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA (1976 Aug. ~ 1978 July)
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA (1978 July ~ 2003 Feb.)
Distinguished Professor, Center for Condensed Matter Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan (2003 March ~ present)
Research Interests
Scanning transmission electron microscopy and electron energy loss spectroscopy and their applications to nanomaterials.
Charge orderings and electronic phase separations in transition metal oxides
Phase transitions due to electronic instabilities in complex materials
Electron diffraction at low temperatures
Physics of colossal magnetoresistance in manganites
Honors, Awards, and Recognitions
Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Bell Labs, USA (1991)
Fellow, American Physical Society, USA (1996)
Chair Professor, National Taiwan University, Taiwan (2003)
Outstanding Scholarship Award, Foundation for Outstanding Scholarship, Taiwan (2003 and 2008)
Fellow, Physical Society of Republic of China, Taiwan (2004)
Taiwan-France Science Prize, Institute of France, France (2005)
Life-Time Distinguished Professor, National Taiwan University, Taiwan (2006)
Selected Publications
"Paired Jahn-Teller Stripes: Basic Building Block in Charge-ordered (La,Ca)MnO", S. Mori and C. H. Chen et al., Nature392, 473 (1998).
"Anomalous Melting Transition of Charge-ordered State in Manganites", C. H. Chen et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 4792 (1999).
"Percolative Phase Separation underlies Colossal Magnetoresistance in Mixed-valent Manganites", M. Uehara and C. H. Chen et al., Nature399, 560 (1999).
"Formation of Isomorphic Ir3+ and Ir4+ Octamers and Spin Dimerization in the Spinel CuIr2S4", P. G. Radelli and C. H. Chen et al., Nature416, 155 (2002).
"Solid Sate Self-Assembly of Nano-Checkerboards," S. Yeo, Y. Horibe, S. Mori, C.M. Tseng, C.H. Chen, A. G. Khachaturyan, C. L. Zhang, and S-W. Cheong, Appl. Phys. Lett.89, 233120 (2006).
"Incommensurate Structural Correlations in the Disordered Spin-Dimer State Induced by X-ray and Electron Irradiation in CuIr2S4," V. Kiryuhkin, Y. Horibe, Y.S. Hor, H.J. Noh, S-W. Cheong, and C.H. Chen, Phys. Rev. Lett.97, 225503 (2006).
"Magnetic Nano-Checkerboards with Tunable sizes in the Mn-Doped CoFe2O4 Spinel," C.L. Zhang, C.M. Tseng, S. Yeo, Y.J. Choi, C.H. Chen, and S-W. Cheong, Appl. Phys. Lett.91, 233110 (2007).
"Direct Observation of Charge-Density Waves in Ho5Ir4Si10," C.M. Tseng, C.H. Chen, and H.D. Yang, Phys. Rev. B77, 155131 (2008).
"Surface Exciton Polaritons in Individual Au Nanoparticles in the Far-UV Spectral Regime," M-W. Chu, C.H. Chen, F.J.G. de Abajo, J.P. Deng, and C.Y. Mou, Phys. Rev. B77, 245402 (2008).
“Emergent Chemical Mapping at Atomic-Column Resolution by Energy-Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy in an Aberration-Corrected Electron Microscope”, M-W. Chu, S. C. Liou, C-P. Chang, S. F. Choa, and C. H. Chen, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 196101 (2010).
“Scanning transmission electron microscopy using selective high-order Laue zones: three-dimensional atomic ordering in sodium cobaltate”, F. -T. Huang, A. Gloter, M. - W.Chu, F. C. Chou, G. J. Shu, L.-K. Liu, C. H. Chen, and C. Colliex Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 125502 (2010).