Hao-Chung Kuo
Title
Director, Semiconductor Research Center
About
Dr. Hao-Chung Kuo has over 20 years of applied research experience in III-V high-speed semiconductors (GaAs, InP, GaN, etc.), optoelectronic devices, and laser technologies. Since 2004, Dr. Kuo has focused on high-efficiency optoelectronic semiconductor devices, particularly addressing issues such as diode efficiency degradation. He successfully developed the world’s first electrically pumped GaN vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL), pioneering the research field of GaN VCSELs.
Dr. Kuo has received numerous international honors and recognitions, including fellowships from OSA, IET, SPIE, IEEE, and IAAM between 2012 and 2021.
He has also served as Chair of the IEEE Photonics Society Taipei Chapter, Guest Editor for IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics (JSTQE), and Associate Editor for OSA/IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology and OSA Photonics Research.
Expertise
Materials, optoelectronic devices, and laser technologies of III-V high-speed semiconductors (GaAs, InP, GaN, etc.), MOCVD epitaxy, gallium nitride vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (GaN VCSEL), gallium nitride light-emitting diodes (GaN LED), gallium nitride high-electron-mobility transistors (GaN HEMT), nanophotonic materials and devices
Education
Ph.D., Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois-Urbana
M.S., Department of Electrical Engineering (Electronics), Rutgers University at New Brunswick
B.S., Department of Physics, National Taiwan University
Experience
Chair Professor, Department of Photonics, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
Director, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Solid State Lighting Ltd.
Management of Laser Department, LuxNet Corporation
Senior R&D Engineer/Project management, Agilent Technologies (now Avago/Broadcom)
Research Assistant, Heterostructure Electronics Department Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
Awards
Outstanding Engineering Professor Award, Chinese Institute of Engineers, 2021
MOST Taiwan Future Technology Award, 2020
Appreciation Award, Photonics Industry & Technology Development Association, 2020
MOST Taiwan Excellent Research Award, 2020, 2017
Google Research Award, 2017
Outstanding Electrical Engineering Professor, The Chinese institute of electrical Engineering, 2014
Publications
2023
Modified Distributed Bragg Reflectors for Color Stability in InGaN Red Micro-LEDs
2022
High-speed visible light communication based on micro-LED: A technology with wide applications in next generation communication
2022
29 GHz single-mode vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers passivated by atomic layer deposition
2022
Investigation of InGaN-Based Green Micro-Photonic-Crystal- Light-Emitting-Diodes with Bottom, Nanoporous, Distributed Bragg Reflectors
2022
Buffer Traps Effect on GaN-on-Si High-Electron-Mobility Transistor at Different Substrate Voltages
2022
High-Reliability Perovskite Quantum Dots Using Atomic Layer Deposition Passivation for Novel Photonic Applications
2022
Recent Advances In Silicon Carbide Chemical Mechanical Polishing Technologies
2022
Design of High-Power Red VCSEL on a Removable Substrate
2022
Highly luminescent perovskite quantum dots for light-emitting devices: photopatternable perovskite quantum dot–polymer nanocomposites
2022
A Simple Method to Build High Power PCSEL Array with Isolation Pattern Design
2022
State-of-the-Art β-Ga2O3 Field-Effect Transistors for Power Electronics
2022
Silicon Quantum Dots with Large Stokes Shift and Long Photoluminescence Lifetime for Energy and Biomedical Applications
2022
Performance Analyses of Photonic-Crystal Surface-Emitting Laser: Toward High-Speed Optical Communication
2022
Design of High Peak Power Pulsed Laser Diode Driver
2022
Modulating Light Emission Performance of PCSEL via GaN HEMT Driving Circuit
2022
Technology and Applications of Micro-LEDs: Their Characteristics, Fabrication, Advancement, and Challenges
2022
Enhancement-Mode High-Frequency InAlGaN/GaN MIS-HEMT Fabricated by Implementing Oxygen-Based Digital Etching on the Quaternary Layer
2022
High-efficiency InGaN red micro-LEDs for visible light communication
2022
Improved Modulation Bandwidth of Blue Mini-LEDs by Atomic-Layer Deposition Sidewall Passivation
2022
Toward high-bandwidth yellow-green micro-LEDs utilizing nanoporous distributed Bragg reflectors for visible light communication
2022
Luminescence-guided and visibly transparent solar concentrators based on silicon quantum dots
2022
Beyond 66-Gbps Error-Free NRZ-OOK Encoded Dual-Mode VCSEL Back-to-Back Data Link
2022
The impacts of sidewall passivation via atomic layer deposition on GaN-based flip-chip blue mini-LEDs
2022
Nearly 70 Gbit/s NRZ-OOK encoding of a dual-mode 850 nm VCSEL with a highly In-doped and small Zn-diffused emission area
2022
Progress of Photonic-Crystal Surface-Emitting Lasers: A Paradigm Shift in LiDAR Application
2022
Perovskite-Gallium Nitride Tandem Light-Emitting Diodes with Improved Luminance and Color Tunability
2022
Lensed MMF and SMF coupling of tri-mode VCSEL for 62-Gbps OOK and 164-Gbps OFDM transmission
2022
Increase in the efficiency of III-nitride micro LEDs by atomic layer deposition
2022
Thermal behavior of AlGaN-based deep-UV LEDs
2022
Comparing the Dual-Mode VCSEL in OM4-MMF and GI-SMF Links for NRZ-OOK and 16-QAM-OFDM Transmissions
2022
Study of High Polarized Nanostructure Light-Emitting Diode
2022
Improving Mini-LED Pattern Quality by Using Distributed Bragg Reflector and Digital Twin Technology
2022
Ultracompact Nanophotonics: Light Emission and Manipulation with Metasurfaces
2022
Effect of power density on compositional and structural evolution of ITO thin film by HiPIMS method
2022
Recent Advances in Colloidal Quantum Dots or Perovskite Quantum Dots as a Luminescent Downshifting Layer Embedded on Solar Cells
2022
Defect Inspection Techniques in SiC
2022
Growth and characterization of Si-doped Ga2O3 thin films by remote plasma atomic layer deposition: Toward UVC-LED application
2022
Review of Silicon Carbide Processing for Power MOSFET
2022
Gateway towards recent developments in quantum dot-based light-emitting diodes
2022
Micro-LED backlight module by deep reinforcement learning and micro-macro-hybrid environment control agent
2021
Advanced Atomic Layer Deposition Technologies for Micro-LEDs and VCSELs
2021
Enhanced external quantum efficiencies of AlGaN-based deep-UV LEDs using reflective passivation layer
2021
High-Speed and High-Power 940 nm Flip-Chip VCSEL Array for LiDAR Application
2021
High-Uniform and High-Efficient Color Conversion Nanoporous GaN-Based Micro-LED Display with Embedded Quantum Dots
2021
Highly stable full-color display device with VLC application potential using semipolar μLEDs and all-inorganic encapsulated perovskite nanocrystal
2021
Ultrafast 2 × 2 green micro-LED array for optical wireless communication beyond 5 Gbit/s
2021
Development of GaN HEMTs Fabricated on Silicon, Silicon-on-Insulator, and Engineered Substrates and the Heterogeneous Integration
2021
Visible Light Communication System Technology Review: Devices, Architectures, and Applications
2021
Visible Light Communication System Technology Review: Devices, Architectures, and Applications
2021
The Evolution of Manufacturing Technology for GaN Electronic Devices
2021
Recent Advances in Two-Dimensional Quantum Dots and Their Applications
2021
Perspectives on UVC LED: Its Progress and Application