Professor Raphael Tsu is a world leader in the areas of quantum properties of materials and device physics. An acknowledged authority in these subjects Professor Tsu has published nearly two hundred scholarly papers in scientific journals; an author of a monograph on quantum wells and superlattice materials and devices of which he is a co-inventor, and holder of several patents for his discoveries and invention.
Raphael Tsu emigrated from Shanghai, first to study physics in England and he later earned a PhD from Ohio State University. After several years working as a member of the Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories (BTL) at Murray Hill, NJ, he moved to the IBM, T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY as an associate to Dr. Leo Esaki, the inventor of Esaki diodes and Physics Nobel laureate in 1973. That was the beginning of his well known collaboration with Esaki, working on the theory of man-made quantum materials, superlattices and quantum wells.
Professor Tsu joined the Amorphous Semiconductors Institute (ASI) and directed energy research at Energy Conversion Devices (ECD) in MI near Detroit invited by Stan Ovshinsky. From 1985-1987 Professor Tsu was the amorphous silicon program group leader at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (then known as SERI, Solar Energy Research Institute) at Golden, Co. Dr. Tsu is currently holder of the position of Distinguished Professor of electrical engineering at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
In 1972, he organized a group and was invited by the Chinese Science Academy which resulted in the first report on the technology in China published in Scientific American. This led to his involvement through establishing the first Chinese Scientific delegation visit to the US, which was invited by the US-China Relations Committee of the US Academy of Science in November. During this visit, he worked with the US State Department for the program and logistics on the East Coast. This effort contributed to the opening of scientific exchange between United States and China.
Professor Raphael Tsu is a fellow of the American Physical Society and member International Advisory Board of the Microelectronic Journal, Elsevier; winner of: Outstanding Contribution Award -IBM 1975; Alexander von Humboldt Award – 1975; Co-winner Am. Phys. Soc. International New Materials Prize – 1985.
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