Milton Feng



Milton Feng co-created the first transistor laser, working with Nick Holonyak Jr. Endowed Chair Professorship.

Inventions

World's fastest transistor

In 2003, Milton Feng and his graduate students Walid Hafez and Jie-Wei Lai broke the record for the world's fastest transistor. Their device, made of Celsius degrees.

Light emitting transistor

Reported in the January 5 issue of the journal Applied Physics Letters in 2004, Milton Feng and photons from the base layer.

Transistor laser

Described in the Novermeber 15 issue of the journal Applied Physics Letters in 2004, Milton Feng, Celsius degrees.

Within a year, though, the researchers finally fabricated a transistor laser operating at room temperature by using metal organic chemical vapor deposition (aluminium gallium arsenide optical confining layers and indium gallium arsenide quantum wells. The emitting cavity was 2,200nm wide, 0.85mm long, had continuous modes at 1,000nm. Plus, it had threshold current of 40mA and direct modulation of the laser at 3GHz.

Recognition

  • In 2006, Transistor laser was the most popular top 10-science story (rank #4) on EurekAlert by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
  • In 2006, American Institute of Physics selected "Room Temperature Continuous Wave Operation of a Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor Laser" as top 5 paper published in the 43 years history of Applied Physics Letters.
  • In 2005, Discover Magazine selected Transistor Laser as top 100 most important discovery.

See also

  • Nick Holonyak
  • UIUC College of Engineering
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

References

  • http://www.news.uiuc.edu/NEWS/06/1211transistor.html
  • http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/05/0411transistor.html
  • http://www.news.uiuc.edu/scitips/03/1106feng.html
  • http://www.forbes.com/technology/2004/03/04/cz_jw_0304soapbox.html
  • http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/04/0105LET.html
  • http://compoundsemiconductor.net/cws/article/news/18827
  • http://www.aip.org/mgr/png/2003/210.htm
  • http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/06/0531papers.html
  • http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/05/0926transistorlaser.html
  • http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/04/1115transistor.html
  • http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2005/09/28/36452/practical+hbt+laser+runs+at+room+temp.htm
  • http://www.ece.uiuc.edu/faculty/profile.asp?mfeng
 
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