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Kin (Charles) Cheung (Fed)

Dr. Cheung is a physical scientist in the Nanoscale Imaging Group in the Nanoscale Device Characterization Division of the Physical Measurement Laboratory (PML) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Prior to joining NIST in 2007, Dr. Cheung was an associate professor in Rutgers University. Prior to Rutgers University, Dr. Cheung spent 18 Years as a member of the technical staff at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ. Dr. Cheung published over 140 refereed journal and conference papers. He has written a monograph entitled "Plasma Charging Damage" which published in 2000. He holds 6 patents. Dr. Cheung taught tutorials in many international conferences. He also served in the committees of many of these conferences. Dr. Cheung received the Bell Lab President's Gold Award in 1997, and the Outstanding Achievement Award from the International Symposium on Plasma Process-Induced Damage.

Publications

A non-defect precursor gate oxide breakdown model

Author(s)
Kin (Charles) Cheung
Understanding defect creation is central to efforts to comprehend gate dielectric breakdown in metal-oxide-semiconductor-field-effect-transistors (MOSFETs)

Patents (2018-Present)

Non-Resonant Electron Spin Resonant Probe And Associated Hardware

NIST Inventors
Jason Campbell , Jason Ryan , Kin (Charles) Cheung , Robert Gougelet and Pragya Shrestha
This invention details a non-resonant probe designed to measure changes in the density of broken bonds (unpaired electrons) in materials exposed to ionizing radiation. The probe functions to excite and detect electron spin resonance transitions in these materials. Accumulated radiation dose can then

Molecular Scrivener For Reading Or Writing Data To A Macromolecule

NIST Inventors
Joseph Robertson and Kin (Charles) Cheung
A molecular scrivener reads data from or writes data to a macromolecule and includes: a pair of shielding electrodes; a scrivener electrode between the first and second shielding electrodes and that electrically floats at a third potential that, in an absence of a charged or dipolar moiety of the
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Phase Shift Detector Process for Making and Use of Same

NIST Inventors
Kin (Charles) Cheung , Jason Ryan and Jason Campbell
The detector senses very small phase shifts in a highly balanced microwave bridge. An electric field optimized microwave probe, in close proximity to a sample, serves to perturb the degree of bridge balance due to a .change in effective dielectric constant of the sample. The major innovation
Created August 15, 2019, Updated December 8, 2022