Yan Zhang

 

PhD candidate

Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Amherst, MA 01002

                                                            

Office: Room Marcus 02

Phone: (413)545-4762

E-mail:yazhang@ecs.umass.edu

                                                           

Expected graduation date: Dec. 2009

 

 
                                

                                                  

 

 


v          OBJECTIVE

            Seeking a Postdoc or full-time R&D position in solid-state/semiconductor device physics, semiconductor device modeling and simulation, applied electromagnetics.

v          RESEARCH INTERESTS

          Electronic Transport in Semiconductors, Monte Carlo Simulation, Solid-state/Semiconductor Device Physics, Applied Electromagnetics.

v          AFFILIATED RESEARCH LABORATORY

            Emerging Electronics Laboratory

 

v          CURRICULUM VITAE

            Yan Zhang (pdf)

 

v          PUBLICATIONS

 

1.   Y. Zhang, M. V. Fischetti, B. Sor´ee, W. Magnus, “Physical Modeling of Strain-dependent Hole Mobility in Ge p-channel Inversion Layers”,  J. Appl. Phys., Vol. 106, Issue 8, Oct. 2009.

2.      Y. Zhang, M. V. Fischetti, “Comparison of Hole Mobility in Ge and III-V p-channels”, International Workshop on Computational  Electronics (IWCE), Beijing, China, May. 2009.

3.      Y. Zhang, M. V. Fischetti, B. Soree, W. Magnus, “Calculating the hole mobility in Ge and GaAs p-channels with SiO2 insulator”, IMEC Newsletter 54, pp. 4, Oct. 2008.

4.      Y. Zhang, J. Kim and M. V. Fischetti, “Self-consistent Calculation for Valence Band Structure and Hole Mobility in P-channel Inversion Layers”, Journal of Computational Electronics 7, pp. 176-180, 2008.

5.      M. V. Fischetti, T. O’Regan, S. Narayanan, C. Sachs, S. Jin, J. Kim, and Y. Zhang, “Theoretical Study of Some Physical Aspects of Electronic Transport in nMOSFETs at the 10 nm Gate-Length”, IEEE Trans. Electron Devices, Vol. 54, No. 9, pp. 2116-2136, Sep. 2007.

6.      Y. Zhang, J. Kim. and M. V. Fischetti, “Self-consistent Calculation for Valence Band Structure and Hole Mobility in P-channel Inversion Layers”, International Workshop on Computational Electronics (IWCE), Amherst, MA, Oct. 2007.

7.      Y. Zhang and M. V. Fisschetti, “Self-Consistent Calculation of Valence Band Structure and Hole Mobility in PMOS Inversion Layer”, TECHON, Austin, TX, Sep. 2007.

8.      Y. Zhang, Z. N. Chen, and M. Y. W. Chia, Effects of finite ground plane and dielectric substrate on planar dipoles for UWB applications, IEEE Int. Symp. Antennas Propagat., Monterey, California, USA, Jun. 20-26, 2004, pp. 2512-2515.

9.      Y. Zhang and W. B. Dou, “E-plane Forked T-junction Analyzed by FDTD Method”, International Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves, Vol. 24, Issue 2, pp.217-229, Feb. 2003.

 

v          PRESENTATIONS AND POSTERS

 

1.      International Workshop on Computational Electronics (IWCE), Beijing, China, May. 2009.

2.      2009 Materials Structures and Devices (MSD) Annual Review, MIT, MA, May. 2009.

3.      SRC Nonclassical CMOS Research Center Review, Santa Barbara, CA, Apr. 2009.

4.       Edinburgh Fringe Poster Session, ESSDERC-ESSCIRC, 2008 Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, Sep. 2008.

5.       The 22nd General Conference of the Condensed Matter Division of the European Physical Society (EPS-CMD22), Rome, Italy, Aug. 2008.

6.       International Workshop on Computational Electronics (IWCE), Amherst, MA, Oct. 2007.

7.       TECHON, Austin, TX, Sep. 2007.

8.       SRC GRC Modeling and Simulation/Compact Modeling Review, The Solution Center, Research Triangle Park, NC, Jun. 2007

9.      IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society International Symposium and USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, Jun. 2004.