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Chris G. Van de Walle
NAE
Herbert Kroemer Professor
Materials Science
Contact
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Member of :
National Academy of Engineering
Fellow of:
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Materials Research Society, American Physical Society, American Vacuum Society
Materials Theory Award, Materials Research Society (MRS); Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship, U.S. Department of Defense; John Bardeen Award, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS); Medard W. Welch Award, American Vacuum Society (AVS); David Adler Award, American Physical Society (APS); Humboldt Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany; Highly Cited Researcher, Clarivate Analytics
Research
His research interests lie in novel electronic materials, including wide-band-gap semiconductors (III-V nitrides, II-VI compounds), transparent conductors, and complex oxides; loss mechanisms in light emitters; two-dimensional conductors; quantum information science; and physics and chemistry of hydrogen interactions with solids. First-principles computational techniques are used to study atomic and electronic structure of crystalline, polycrystalline and amorphous materials; interfaces, surfaces, and defects; and heterojunctions and superlattices.
PhD Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
Ir., Rijksuniversiteit Gent, Belgium