HONOURS AND AWARDS

  • Hong Kong RGC Senior Research Fellow, 2024
  • Fellow of IEEE, 2014
  • Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Electron Device Society, 2008~2014
  • ISPSD’17 Charitat Award (sole winner) for the paper entitled “High-Performance Fully-Recessed Enhancement-mode GaN MIS-FETs with Crystalline Oxide Interlayer,” by M. Hua, Z. Zhang, Q. Qian, J. Wei, Q. Bao, G. Tang and K. J. Chen, in 2017 Int. Symp. On Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs (ISPSD’17), May 28-June 1, 2017, Sapporo, Japan.
  • Best student paper award (sole winner) for the paper entitled “Stability and Temperature Dependence of Dynamic RON in AlN-Passivated AlGaN/GaN HEMT on Si Substrate,” Z. Tang, S. Huang, and K. J. Chen, CS MANTECH Conference, Denver, Colorado, USA, May 19-22, 2014.
  • Best student paper award (sole winner) for the paper entitled “600 V high-performance AlGaN/GaN HEMTs with AlN/SiNx passivation,” Z. Tang, S. Huang, Q. Jiang, S. Liu, C. Liu, and K. J. Chen, 2013 Compound Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology Conference CS MANTECH, New Orleans, USA, May. 13-16, 2013.
  • Outstanding Poster Award for paper entitled Degradation of OFF-State Leakage Current in AlGaN/GaN HEMTs Induced by an ON-State Gate Overdrive,” B. Li, K. J. Chen, Q. Jiang, S. Liu, and C. Liu, in the 10th Int. Conf. on Nitride Semiconductors (ICNS-10), Washington, DC, USA, Aug. 25-30, 2013.
  • ISPSD’13 Charitat Award (sole winner) for the paper entitled “High-voltage enhancement/depletion-mode AlGaN/GaN HEMTs on modified SOI substrates,” by Q. Jiang, C. Liu, Y. Lu, and K. J. Chen, in 2013 Int. Symp. On Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs (ISPSD’13), May 26-30, 2013, Kanazawa, Japan.
  • ISPSD’10 Charitat Award (sole winner) for the paper entitled “Self-Protected GaN Power Devices with Reverse Drain Blocking and Forward Current Limiting Capabilities,” C. Zhou, W.J. Chen, E. L. Piner and K. J. Chen, The 22nd Int. Symp. on Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs (ISPSD10), Hiroshima, Japan, June 6-10, 2010.
  • ISPSD’09 Charitat Award (sole winner) for paper entitled “Integrated Voltage Reference and Comparator Circuits for GaN Smart Power Chip Technology,” K. –Y. Wong, W. J. Chen, and K. J. Chen, 2009 Int. Symp.. on Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs (ISPSD’09), Barcelona, Spain, June 14-17, 2009.
  • Performance Award, Nighthawk Project, Wireless Semiconductor Division, Agilent Technologies, Q2’2000
  • Distinctive Contributed Paper Award for the paper “A literal gate using resonant tunneling devices,” by T. Waho, K. J. Chen and M. Yamamoto, 26th IEEE Int. Symp. on Multiple-Valued Logic (ISMVL’96),  pp. 68-73, Saintiago de Compostela, Spain, May 29-31, 1996.
  • CUSPEA (China-US Physics Examination and Application) Fellow, 1988   
  • Top Student (ranked 1st among 102 students) Award of Department of Electronics, Peking University, China, 1985