Yang Liu
I received my B.S. degree from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1998, and the Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 2002. From 1999 to 2002, I was a research assistant in the Beckman Institute at UIUC under the supervision of Prof. Karl Hess, where my work was on the simulation of Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers (VCSELs) based on a comprehensive laser diode simulator MINILASE. Since 2003, I have been affiliated with Prof. Robert Dutton’s Stanford TCAD group as a research associate. My current research interests include the design and simulation of novel biosensors, digital/analog electronic devices and optoelectronic devices such as LEDs and laser diodes. The platform of my simulation work is a general Partial Differential Equation solver, PROPHET.
Selected Publications:
Biosensors:
· Y. Liu, J. Sauer, and R. Dutton, "Effect of electro-diffusion current flow on electrostatic screening in aqueous pores," Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 103, p.084701, 2008 (pdf)
· A. Talasaz, M. Nemat-Gorgani, Y. Liu, P. Stahl, R. Dutton, M. Ronaghi, and R. Davis, “Prediction of protein orientation upon immobilization on biological and nonbiological surfaces,” Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., Vol. 103, p.14773-8, 2006 (pdf)
Electronic Devices:
· C.-Y. Chen, Y. Liu, R. Dutton, J. Sato-Iwanaga, A. Inoue, H. Sorada, “Numerical study of flicker noise in p-type Si0.7Ge0.3/Si hetero-structure MOSFETs,” IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, Vol. 55, p.1741, 2008 (pdf);
· J. Hu, Y. Liu, C.Z. Ning, R. Dutton, and S.-M. Kang, “Fringing field effects on electrical resistivity of semiconductor nanowire-metal contacts,” App. Phys. Lett. Vol. 92, p.083503, 2008 (pdf)
· Y. Liu, S. Cao, and R. Dutton, “Numerical investigation of low frequency noise in MOSFETs with high-k gate stacks,” Proc. SISPAD, 2006 (pdf)
· Y. Liu, A. Shanware, L. Colombo, and R. Dutton, “Modeling of charge trapping induced threshold voltage instabilities in high-k gate dielectric FETs,” IEEE Electron Device Letters, Vol. 27, p.489-491, 2006 (pdf)
· J.-H. Chun, Y. Liu, C. Duvvury, and R.W. Dutton, “Implementation of temperature dependent contact resistance model for the analysis of deep submicron devices under ESD,” IEDM Tech. Dig., Dec., 2003 (pdf)
Optoelectronic Devices:
· Y. Liu, Z. Wang, M. Han, S. Fan, and R. Dutton, “Mode-locking of monolithic laser diodes incorporating coupled-resonator optical waveguides,” Optics Express, Vol. 13, p.4539-4553, 2005 (pdf)
· G. Veronis, W. Suh, Y. Liu, M. Han, Z. Wang, R.W. Dutton, and S. Fan, “Coupled optical and electronic simulations of electrically pumped photonic-crystal-based light-emitting diodes,” Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 97, p.044503, 2005 (pdf)
· Y. Liu, W.-C. Ng, K.D. Choquette, and K. Hess, “Numerical investigation of self-heating effects of oxide-confined vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers,” IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, Vol. 41, p. 15, 2005 (pdf)
· Y. Liu, K.D. Choquette, and K. Hess, “The electrical turn-on characteristics of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers,” Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 83, p.4104, 2003 (pdf)
· W.-C. Ng, Y. Liu, and K. Hess, “Resonant-wavelength control and optical-confinement analysis for graded SCH VCSELs using a self-consistent effective-index method,” Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 21, p. 555, 2003 (pdf)
· Y. Liu, W.-C. Ng, B. Klein, and K. Hess, “Effects of spatial non-uniformity of optical transverse modes on the modulation response of vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers,” IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, Vol. 39, p.99, 2003 (pdf)
· Y. Liu, W.-C. Ng, F. Oyafuso, B. Klein, and K. Hess, “Simulating the modulation response of VCSEL’s: the effects of diffusion capacitance and spatial hole-burning,” IEE Proc.-Optoelectronics, Vol. 149, p.182, 2002 (pdf)
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