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2026
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2023

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

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104
Citations
44278
World Ranking
149
National Ranking
73

Physics

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108
Citations
47546
World Ranking
1244
National Ranking
653

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Germany Leader Award
  • 1993 - US President's National Medal of Science "For his pioneering work in the development of molecular beam epitaxy, which revolutionized thin film growth, making possible atomically accurate structures for elecronic and proelecronic devices, and for the study of new quantum phenomena.", Presented by President Clinton and Vice President Gore at a ceremony on the White House South Lawn, September 30, 1993.
  • 1983 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For the development of the molecular beam technique for epitaxial growth of semiconductor materials, which has resulted in significant scientific and technological advances in semiconductor physics and semiconductor device development

Overview

Alfred Y. Cho is affiliated with Nokia in the United States and has contributed to the field of Materials Science, with particular focus on Materials Chemistry. Their work spans subfields including Electrical and Electronic Engineering as well as Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

The research undertaken by Alfred Y. Cho explores several main topics such as 2D Materials and Applications, Graphene research and applications, MXene and MAX Phase Materials, Copper-based nanomaterials and applications, Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors, and Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques.

The scientist's recent publications include the following papers:

  • Work Function-Tunable Graphene/Wo3 Heterojunctions for High-Performance Photoelectrochemical Cell: Uv-Treatment Effect and Defective Graphene, 2024, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Enhancing Photoelectrochemical Co2 Reduction with Cubi2o4-Cellulose Nanofibers Hybrid Photocathodes, 2024, SSRN Electronic Journal

Alfred Y. Cho has collaborated with several co-authors, including Taekjib Choi, Jin Hong Kim, Sung Ryul Choi, Jun-Young Park, and Yoon-Uk Heo.

Their work has been published predominantly in the SSRN Electronic Journal, which accounts for their most frequent publication venue.

Notable awards received by Alfred Y. Cho include the US President's National Medal of Science in 1993, awarded for pioneering work in molecular beam epitaxy and the study of quantum phenomena, presented by President Clinton and Vice President Gore.

They were also named Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 1983 with a citation recognizing the development of molecular beam epitaxial growth techniques that significantly advanced semiconductor physics and device development.

Best Publications

  • Quantum cascade laser

    Mattias Beck;Jérôme Faist;Antoine Muller

  • Recent progress in quantum cascade lasers and applications

    Claire Gmachl;Federico Capasso;Deborah L Sivco;Alfred Y Cho

  • High-Power Directional Emission from Microlasers with Chaotic Resonators

    Claire Gmachl;Federico Capasso;E. E. Narimanov;Jens U. Nöckel

  • Resonant tunneling through double barriers, perpendicular quantum transport phenomena in superlattices, and their device applications

    F. Capasso;K. Mohammed;A. Cho

  • High power mid‐infrared (λ∼5 μm) quantum cascade lasers operating above room temperature

    Jérôme Faist;Federico Capasso;Carlo Sirtori;Deborah L. Sivco

  • Optical surface waves in periodic layered media

    Pochi Yeh;Amnon Yariv;A. Y. Cho

  • Distributed feedback quantum cascade lasers

    Jérome Faist;Claire Gmachl;Federico Capasso;Carlo Sirtori

  • Sensitive absorption spectroscopy with a room-temperature distributed-feedback quantum-cascade laser

    K. Namjou;S. Cai;E. A. Whittaker;J. Faist

  • Short wavelength (λ∼3.4 μm) quantum cascade laser based on strained compensated InGaAs/AlInAs

    Jérôme Faist;Federico Capasso;Deborah L. Sivco;Albert L. Hutchinson

  • Quantum Cascade Lasers

    Federico Capasso;Claire Gmachl;Deborah L. Sivco;Alfred Y. Cho

  • Quantum cascade surface-emitting photonic crystal laser.

    Raffaele Colombelli;Raffaele Colombelli;Kartik Srinivasan;Mariano Troccoli;Oskar Painter

  • Observation of an electronic bound state above a potential well

    Federico Capasso;Carlo Sirtori;Jerome Faist;Deborah L. Sivco

  • Resonant tunneling in quantum cascade lasers

    C. Sirtori;F. Capasso;J. Faist;A.L. Hutchinson

  • Terahertz quantum-cascade-laser source based on intracavity difference-frequency generation

    Mikhail A. Belkin;Federico Capasso;Alexey Belyanin;Deborah L. Sivco

  • Ultra-broadband semiconductor laser.

    Claire F. Gmachl;Deborah L. Sivco;Raffaele Colombelli;Federico Capasso

  • Density of states and de Haas-van Alphen effect in two-dimensional electron systems.

    J. P. Eisenstein;H. L. Stormer;V. Narayanamurti;A. Y. Cho

  • Intersubband absorption at λ∼1.55 μm in well- and modulation-doped GaN/AlGaN multiple quantum wells with superlattice barriers

    Claire F. Gmachl;Hock M. Ng;S. N.George Chu;Alfred Y. Cho

  • Highly efficient light-emitting diodes with microcavities

    E. F. Schubert;N. E. J. Hunt;M. Micovic;R. J. Malik

  • Sequential resonant tunneling through a multiquantum well superlattice

    Federico Capasso;Khalid Mohammed;Alfred Y. Cho

  • VERTICAL TRANSITION QUANTUM CASCADE LASER WITH BRAGG CONFINED EXCITED STATE

    Jérôme Faist;Federico Capasso;Carlo Sirtori;Deborah L. Sivco

Frequent Co-Authors

Federico Capasso
Federico Capasso Harvard University
Deborah L. Sivco
Deborah L. Sivco Princeton University
Claire F. Gmachl
Claire F. Gmachl Princeton University
Albert L. Hutchinson
Albert L. Hutchinson Nokia (United States)
Jérôme Faist
Jérôme Faist ETH Zurich
Carlo Sirtori
Carlo Sirtori École Normale Supérieure
Alessandro Tredicucci
Alessandro Tredicucci University of Pisa
Yeong-Her Wang
Yeong-Her Wang National Cheng Kung University
Raffaele Colombelli
Raffaele Colombelli University of Paris-Saclay
Niloy K. Dutta
Niloy K. Dutta University of Connecticut

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