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• Email: chow@mail.ucf.edu
• Phone: 407-823-2333
• Fax: 407-823-5112
• Department of Physics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816-2385

Present Position: Professor & Associate Chair

Education

• Ph.D. - Clark University, 1981
• B.S. - National Central University , 1972

Professional Activities

• Member, American Physical Society

Teaching

• Courses Taught
  

  • PHY2053, College Physics I
  • PHY2054, College Physics II
  • PHY2049H, Honors Physics for Scientists and Engineers II
  • PHY3323, Electricity and Magnetism I
  • PHY4324, Electricity and Magnetism II
  • PHY3802, Intermediate Physics Laboratory
  • PHY4803, Advanced Physics Laboratory
  • PHY3930, Introduction to Nanophysics
  • PHZ5405, Condensed Matter Physics
  • PHY6938, Physics Summer Research Seminar
  • PHY6839, Nuclear Condensed Matter Physics


• Dissertations and Theses Supervised
  

  • Fatma Salman, Ph.D. 2007, "Experimental Study of Profiles of Implanted Species into Semiconductor Materials using Secondary Mass Spectrometry".
  • Guangyu Chai, Ph.D., 2004, "Focused Ion Beam Assisted Fabrication of individual Carbon Nanotubes".
  • Peng Zhang, MS, 2001, "Diffusion Profiles of Cr and V ions Implanted into (100) single crystalline Silicon".
  • Clay Inman, MS, 2000, "Mossbauer Studies of LaMnO₃ Compounds"
  • Perry Heard, M. S. 2000, "Applications of Random Walks".
  • Stephen Kleckley, Ph.D.,Aug. 1999,"Synthesis of Novel Carbon Materials"
  • Isaiah O. Oladeji, Ph.D. May, 1999, "Chemical Bath Deposition of II-VI Compounds"
  • Asoka Peiris, MS, 1994, " Pressure and Temperature Dependence of Hyperfine Fields in Fe-Ni Alloys"
  • Alan Horner, MS, 1992, "CVD Diamond Thin Films on a Silicon Substrate in a Microwave Plasma"
  • Michael Steffancin, MS, 1992, " Mossbauer Student of Fe-Ni Alloys"
  • Xin Zhou, MS, 1991, "Pressure and Temperature Dependence of the Cd Hyperfine Fields in Ni"
  
  
• Current Graduate Students



• Hani Khallaf, Ph.D. Student, "Chemical Bath Deposition of Solar cell thin films"
• Current Undergraduate Student

• Jade Isom, Physics, "Implantation and Diffusion of Transition Metal Ions in Silicon"

Research

• Focused Ion Beam Fabrication of Carbon Nanotube and ZnO nano-devices
• Diffusion in Silicon
• Thin Films Deposition



• Recent Publications (Click here for full publication list)
  
  
  1. "Crossed Zinc Oxide Nanowires for Ultraviolet Radiation Detection" G. Chai, O. Lupan, L. Chow, and H. Heinrich. Sensors and Actuators A, 150, 184-187 (2009).
  2. "Self-assembly of Denselt Packed and Aligned Bylayers ZnO Nanorods", L. Chow, O. Lupan, G. Chai, and H. Heinrich. Appl. Phys. Lett. 94, 163105 (2009).
  3. "Synthesis of one dimensional SnO2 nanorods via a hydrothermal Technique", O. Lupan, L. Chow, G. Chai. Physica E, 41, 533-536 (2009).
  4. "In-situ Boron doping of chemical bath deposited CdS thin films", H. Khallaf, G. Chai, O. Lupan, L. Chow, S. Park, and A. Schulte. Physica Status Solidi, (a), 206,256-266 (2009).
  5. "Characterization of Gallium-doped CdS thin films grown by chemical bath deposition", H. Khallaf, G. Chai, O. Lupan, L. Chow, S. park, and A. Schulte, Appl. Surf. Sci. 255, 4129-4134 (2009).
  6. "NanostructuredZnO films synthesized by successive chemical solution deposition for gas sensor applications" O. Lupan, L. Chow, S. Shishiyanu, E. Monaico, T. Shishiyanu, V. Sonteal, B. Roldan, A. Naitabdi, S. Park, and A. Schulte. Material Research Bulletin, 44, 63-69, (2009)
  7. "A rapid hydrothermal synthesis of Rutile SnO2 nanowires", O. Lupan, G. Chai, and L. Chow, Materials Science and Engineering B, 157 101-104 (2009).
  8. "Nanometric Size Effect on Atom Diffusion" A. Portavoce, G. Chai, L. Chow, and J. Bernardini. J. Appl. Phys., 104,104910 (2008).
  9. "Magnetism and Microstuctures of Cr-implanted Silicon", J. Gao, R. Vanfleet, L. Chow, K. Lin, Z. H. Zhang, and B. R. Zhao. Solid State Comm., 148122-125 (2008).
  10. "Growth of tetragonal SnO2 micro-cubes and their Chracterization", O. Lupan, L. Chow, G. Chai, H. Heinrich, S. Park, and A. Schulte. J. of Crystal Growth, 311, 152-155 (2008).
  11. "Fabrication and Characterization of Zn-ZnO Core-Shell Microspheres from Nanorods" , O.Lupan, G. Chai, L. Chow, and H. Heinrich, Chemical Physics Letters, 465, 249-253 (2008).
  12. "Aluminum and Indium in-situ doping of chemical bath deposited CdS thin films" H. Khallaf, G. Chai, O. Lupan, L. Chow, S. Park, and A. Schulte. J. of Phys. D, 41, 185304 (2008).
  13. "Novel UV sensors based on a single ZnO nanorods", O. Lupan and L. Chow, Microelectronic Engineering Journal, 85, 2220-2225 (2008).
  14. "Focused ion beam fabrication of ZnO nanorods based UV photodetectors using in-situ lift-out technique", O. Lupan, L. CHow, G. Chai, L. Chernyak, O. Lopatiuk-Tirpak, and H. Heinrich. Physica Status Solidi (a) 205, 2673-2678 (2008).
  15. "Effect of synthesis conditions on the growth of ZnO nanorods via hydrothermal method", D. Polsongkram, P. Chamninok, S. Pukird, L. Chow, O. Lupan, G. Chai, H. Khallaf, S. Park, and A. Schulte, Physica B, 403, 3713-3717 (2008).
  16. "Nanostructured ZnO thin films gas sensors by successive ionic adsorption and reaction method and rapid photothermal processing", O. Lupan, S. Shishiyanu, L. Chow, T. Shishiyanu. Thin Solid Films,516 3338-3345 (2008).
  17. "Properties of Si:Cr Annealed under Enhanced Stress Conditions", A. Misiuk, A. Barcz, L. Chow, B. Surma, J. Bak-Misiuk, and M. Prujszczyk. Solid State Phenomena, 131-133, 375-380 (2008).
  18. "Bio-polymer-assisted self-assembly of ZnO spheres from nanorods", O. Lupan, L. Chow, G. Chai, A. Schulte, O. Lopatiuk-Tirpak, and L. Chernyak. Superlattices and Microstructures, 43, 292-302 (2008).
  19. "Optimization of Chemical Bath Deposited CdS Thin Films Using NTA as a Complexing Agent", H. Khallaf, I. Oladeji, and L. Chow. Thin Solid Films, 516, 5967-5973 (2008).
  20. "Diffusion Profiles and Magnetic Properties of Mn-Implanted Silicon after Thermal Annealing", L. Chow, J. C Gonzalez; E. Del Barco; R. Vanfleet; A. Misiuk; M. Prujszczyk; A. Shunmugavelu; G. Chai; J. Bak-Misiuk, J. Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, In Press.
  21. "Characterization of CdS thin films grown by chemical bath deposition using four different Cadmium sources", H. Khallaf, Isaiah O. Oladeji, G. Chai, and L. Chow. Thin Solid Films, 516, 7306 - 7312 (2008).
  22. "Electron transport through a single, well aligned Carbon Nanotubes", G. Chai, H. Heinrich, L. Chow, and T. Schenkel, Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, 103101 (2007).


• Patents
  
  
  1. "Method for Growing a Diamond Thin Film on a substrate" US patent No. 5,240,749, August 31, 1993.
  2. "CVD method of Growing and doping of Fullerenes" US patent No. 5,510,098, April 23, 1996.
  3. "Carbon Nanotube with a graphitic outer layer: Process and Applications" US patent No.6,582,673, June 24, 2003.
  4. "Electrochemical Deposition of Carbon Nanoparticles from Organic Solutions" US patent No. 6,758,957 , July, 6, 2004
  5. "Nano Scale Temperature Sensors and Heaterss" US patent No.6,905,736, June 14, 2005.
  6. "Fabrication of nano-scale temperature sensors and heaters" US patent No.7,009,487, March 7, 2006.
  7. "Carbon Nanotube with a Graphitic Outer Layer: Part II" US patent No.7,011,884, March 14, 2006.
  8. "Electrochemical Deposition of Carbon Nanoparticles from Organic Solutions, Part II" US patent No. 7,422,667, Sept. 9, 2008.
  9. "Method to attach carbon nanotube probe to scanning probe microscopy tips", SN#: US 10/961,929. Filed Oct. 8th, 2004.
  10. "A multiwall carbon nanotube field emitter fabricated by FIB", US 11/098,247, Filed July 16, 2006.
  11. "Electron emission from the sidewall of Curved CNT: Device and Application", SN# US 11/487,543. Filed Filed utility application 7/16/07.

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