Resume of Tien T

Resume of Tien T. Tsong

Current Position:

Distinguished Research Fellow Emeritus, Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica

Distinguished Professor of Physics Emeritus, Department of Physics, Penn State Univ.

Address:

Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
Tel: +886-2-2788-8933
Fax: +886-2-2789-9601
Email Addresses: tsongtt@yahoo.com, tsongtt@phys.sinica.edu.tw
Website: http://www.phys.sinica.edu.tw/~tsongtt/

Brief Resume:

B.S. in physics, National Taiwan Normal University (1959).
M.S. in physics, the Pennsylvania State University (1964).
Ph.D. in physics, the Pennsylvania State University (1966).
Postdoctor, Penn State Univ. (1967-1969).
Assistant professor to Distinguished Professor of Physics, the Pennsylvania State University (1969 to 1993).
Research Fellow and Director, Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica (1990-1993).
Distinguished Research Fellow and Director, Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica (1993-1999).
Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica (1999- 2007).
Joint Professor of Department of Physics, National Taiwan University; Department of Electronics, Beijing University.
Visiting Professor, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge University; Dep't of Phys., EPFL etc.

Editorial Board: Nanotechnology (Inst. Phys. Publ., UK, 2002 to 2005);

International J. Nanoscience (WS, Singapore)

President, Association of Asia Pacific Physical Societies (AAPPS) (2005-2007)

Fellow of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Fellow of Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science.
Distinguished Lecturer, and Distinguished Chair of the National Science Council of ROC.
Fellow of the American Physical Society, and the Chinese Physical Society (Taipei).
Elected Member of Academia Sinica (1992) (Academician, Taiwan).
The 1987 Outstanding Achievement Award in Physical Sci. & Engineering, Penn State Univ.
The 1994 E. W. Mueller Lectureship of The Pennsylvania State University.
The 1997 Achievement Award of the Taiwanese-American Foundation (Los Angels, USA).
The 1997 Sun Yet-Sen Lecture of Chong-Sun University, Gaw-Shuong, ROC.
The 1998 C. P. Liang Lecture of Chong-Hsin University, Taichung, ROC.
The 1999 National Outstanding Research Lectureship (Physical Science), Academia Sinica.

Elected Fellow of The Third World Academy of Sciences (2001).

The 2003 Distinguished Contribution Award of the Chinese Physical Society (Taiwan).

Elected Fellow of The Institute of Physics (Great Britain) (2004).

University System of Taiwan Master Lecturer (2005).

President Science Prize (Taiwan) (2007).

Research Interests:

Surface Physics, Atomic Resolution Microscopy, Surface Atomic and Molecular Dynamics, Nanostructured Materials and their Physical Properties, Microscopic and Mesoscopic Mechanisms of Growth of Crystals and Epitaxial Films, etc. Published three books (Elsevier & Cambridge U. P.) and over 300 papers, of them about 30 are in Phys. Rev. Lett. and 60 are in Phys. Rev. B.

Selected Recent Publications:

I-S. Hwang, R-L. Lo, and T. T. Tsong, "Site Hopping of Single Chemisorbed Oxygen Molecules on Si(111)-7x7 Surfaces", Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 4797-4800 (1997).
I-S Hwang, T-C Chang and T. T. Tsong, "Exchange-Barrier Effects on Nucleation and Growth of Surfactant-Mediated Epitaxy", Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 4229 (1998).
R-L Lo, I-S Hwang, M-S Ho and T. T. Tsong, "Diffusion of Single Hydrogen Atoms on Si(111)-7x7 Surfaces", Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 5584-5587 (1998).
I-S Hwang, M-S Ho, and T. T. Tsong, "Dynamic Behavior of Si Magic Clusters on Si(111) Surfaces", Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 120 (1999).
T-C Chang, I-S Hwang and T. T. Tsong, "Direct Observation of Reaction-Limited Aggregation on Semiconductor Surfaces", Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 1191 (1999).
C. S. Chang, W. B. Su, C. M. Wei and T. T. Tsong, "Large Fermi Density Waves on the Reconstructed Pt(001) Surface", Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2604 (1999).
T-Y Fu and T. T. Tsong, "Determination of Atomic Potential Energy Around Step Corner Sites of the Ir(111) Surface", Phys. Rev. B61, 4511 (2000).
M-S Ho, I-S Hwang and T. T. Tsong, “Direct Observation of Electromigration of Si Magic Clusters on Si(111) Surface”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5792 (2000).
W. B. Su, S. H. Chang, C. S. Chang, L. J. Chen and T. T. Tsong, "Quantum Size Effects in Low Temperature Growth of Pb Islands on Si(111)7x7 Surfaces", Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5116 (2001).
T. Y. Fu, L. C. Cheng, C. H. Nien and T. T. Tsong, "Mechanism and method of single atom pyramidal tip formation from a Pd covered W tip", Phys. Rev. B, 64, 113401 (2001).
I-S Hwang, S-H Chang, C-K Fang, L-J Chen and T. T. Tsong, “Observation of Finite-Size Effects on a Structure Phase Transition of 2D Nanoislands”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 106101 (2004).
H-S Kuo, I-S Hwang, T-Y Fu, J-Y Wu, C-C Chang and T. T. Tsong, “Preparation and Characterization of Single Atom-Tips”, Nano Letters 4, 2379-2382 (2004).
Y-P Chiu, L-W Huang, C-M Wei, C-S Chang and T. T. Tsong, “Magic Number of Atoms in Surface Supported Planar Clusters”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 165504 1-4 (2006).

Detailed Resume Writings in Chinese & Digital Photos http://tsongtt.blogspot.com/

Educational Materials: (Use is limited to non-profit educational purposes)

07-Global Warming (In Chinese)

Nano Science & Technology (In Chinese)

Science: Development, Methods and Achievements

50 Years of Seeing Atoms (Physics Today, March 2006)

Atom-Probe Field Ion Microscopy (Physics Today, May 1993)

Seeing & Experimenting with Single Atoms