Equipped with a wealth of solutions to improve the reliability of devices now found in every home and business, his particular expertise is in thin film materials for electronics.
LOS ANGELES, CA, April 05, 2018 /24-7PressRelease/ -- King-Ning Tu, PhD, has been included in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
After dedicating 25 years to the T.J. Watson Research Center of IBM as well as 23 years to the department of materials science and engineering at UCLA, Dr. Tu has left a legacy of advancements in computer hardware. Equipped with a wealth of solutions to improve the reliability of devices now found in every home and business, his particular expertise is in thin film materials for electronics, though his current research involves metal-silicon reactions, solder joint reactions, electromigration, and the kinetic theories surrounding interfacial relations. As an expert in sophisticated electronics, he has served the dual roles of distinguished emeritus professor with UCLA and TSMC chair professor with the National Chiao Tung University in Hsinchu, Taiwan.
Dr. Tu was always fascinated with basic research, safety, and reliability in the electronics, and earned a PhD in Applied Physics from Harvard University in 1968. He joined the physical science department of T.J. Watson early in his career, and concurrently served as senior manager of the thin film science and materials science departments there for 10 years. Dr. Tu entered UCLA in 1993 and was selected for several prestigious fellowships, notably granted by the American Physics Society and the Churchill College of Cambridge University in the United Kingdom, as well as membership with Academia Sinica as an academician.
Over his prolific career, Dr. Tu has published over 500 articles, and notably worked with Professor Andriy M. Gusak on a textbook "Kinetics and Nanoscale Materials" published by Wiley in 2014, as well as his sole authored textbook, "Electronic Thin Film Reliability," which was released by Cambridge University Press in 2011. The crux of Dr. Tu's research is achieving large degrees of control with small scale, and through various techniques he has been able to improve the reliability of electronics by leaps and bounds.
In recognition of his invaluable contribution to electronics engineering and applied physics, Dr. Tu was honored with a 2017 IEEE Components, Packaging, Manufacturing Technology Award. Even after all his accomplishments, he still dedicates his time to furthering the discipline of applied physics, and looks forward to sharing his expertise and knowledge to the next generations of scientists. To that end, Dr. Tu is working on his next books on applied physics, electronic packing science, and engineering. To follow Dr. Tu's research with UCLA, please visit http://www.seas.ucla.edu/eThinFilm/.
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