Professor
Department of Physics
Brooklyn College of CUNY
2900 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11210
Phone: (718) 951-5000 (Ext. 2863)
Fax: (718) 951-4407
kshum@brooklyn.cuny.edu
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Education
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The City College of NY
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Ph.D., Electrical Engineering
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1987
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The City College of NY
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M.S., Electrical Engineering
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1984
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Suzhou University, China
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B.S., Physics
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1982
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Professional Experience
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Associate Professor, Physics
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Brooklyn College
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2005 - Present
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Guest Professor
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Institute of Semiconductor,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
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1993 - Present
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Senior Design/Validation Engineer
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TriQuint Semiconductor, PA
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2003 - 2005
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Distinguished member Technical Staff
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Agere Systems, PA
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2002 - 2003
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Distinguished member Technical Staff
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Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies, PA
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2000 - 2002
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Professor, Electrical Engineering
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The City College of NY
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1998 - 2001
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Visiting Scientist
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Thomas J. Watson Research Center of IBM
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1996 - 2000
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Visiting Scientist
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AT&T Bell Laboratories, NJ
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1995 - 1996
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Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering
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The City College of NY
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1993 - 1997
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Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering
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The City College of NY
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1987 - 1992
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Research Interests
- Quantum bit implementation for quantum computers using semiconductor nanostructures
- Infrared photodetectors
- Low cost and high efficient solar cells
Selected Publications (Total of 51 papers and 3 provisional patent applications)
- Demonstration of III-V Semiconductor-based nonvolatile memory devices, Zhongwei Pan and Kai Shum, Appl. Phys. Lett. 76, 505 (2000).
- Quantum indistinguishability effects of confined polyexcitons, Kai Shum, P. M. Mooney, and J. O. Chu, Phys. Rev. B 60, 5786 (1999).
- Dynamics of recombination-enhanced defect reaction in a ZnCdSe single quantum well, Minxue Tang, Kai Shum, L. Zeng, and M. C. Tamargo, Appl. Phys. Lett, 73, 1541 (1998).
- A concept for nonvolatile memories, Kai Shum, Jianqin Zhou, Wei Zhang, L. Zeng, and M. C. Tamargo, Appl. Phys. Lett. 71, 2487 (1997).
- Room temperature differential negative resistance in an Al/Zn0.61Cd0.39Se/n+-InP device, Kai Shum, J. Zhou, W. Zhang, L. Zeng, and M. C. Tamargo, Appl. Phys. Lett. 71, 815 (1997).
- Quantum confined biexcitons in SiGe grown on Si(001), Kai Shum, P. M. Mooney, L. P. Tilly, and J. O. Chu, Phys. Rev. B 55, 13058 (1997).
Selected Grants
(Total: $ 1.5 Million - average funding per year = $125,000 over the time period of 1988 - 2000)
- Theoretical study on quantum entangled states in coupled quantum dots, PSC-CUNY, 2006 - 2007.
- High density solid state memory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 1998 – 2001.
- Photo-receivers based on SiGe grown on Si substrates, IBM, 1999 – 2001.
- Optical interconnect for high performance computers, NEC, 1997 - 1999.
- Hot electron SiGe laser, Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), 1994 – 1997.
- Quantum transport of femtosecond photo-excited carriers in semiconductor hetero-structures of GaAs and Si, National Science Foundation (NSF), 1992 - 1995.
