Chen Xingbi
Chen Xingbi | |
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陈星弼 | |
Born | ISPSD Pioneer Award (2015) ISPSD Hall of Fame (2019) | 28 January 1931
Scientific career | |
Fields | Power semiconductor devices |
Institutions | University of Electronic Science and Technology of China |
Chen Xingbi (
Early life and education
Chen was born on 28 January 1931 in Shanghai, Republic of China, with his ancestral home in Pujiang County, Zhejiang.[1][2] His father, Chen Dezheng (陈德徵), was a Kuomintang politician who was dismissed for offending Chiang Kai-shek. His mother, Xu Hemei (徐呵梅), studied literature at Shanghai University.[3]
Chen entered primary school at the age of only three. When he was six, the
After the end of the
Career
Upon graduation from Tongji University in 1952, Chen was assigned to teach at the Department of Electrical Engineering of Xiamen University. A year later, he was transferred to the faculty of radio electronics at Nanjing Institute of Technology (now Southeast University).[3]
In 1956, Chen furthered his studies at the Institute of Applied Physics of the
During the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), Chen was persecuted because of his family's Kuomintang background and performed manual labour at a May Seventh Cadre School. After the end of the period he went to the United States in 1980 as a visiting scholar[3] at Ohio State University and the University of California, Berkeley.[4]
Upon returning to China in 1983, Chen was appointed a department chair at UESTC. He soon established the Institute of Microelectronics at the university and focused his research on
Chen died on 4 December 2019 in Chengdu, aged 88.[1][5]
Contributions and honours
Chen was a leading expert on
He was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1999 and a life fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2019.[1] In 2015, he won the Pioneer Award from IEEE's International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs (ISPSD), the first awardee from the Asia-Pacific region.[5] In May 2019, he was inducted into the ISPSD Hall of Fame "for contributions to superjunction power semiconductor devices".[7][8]
References
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- ^ "Biography of Chen Xingbi". China Vitae. Archived from the original on 18 September 2015. Retrieved 5 December 2019.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "陈星弼". Jiusan Society. Archived from the original on 17 May 2012. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
- ^ a b c "Chen Xingbi". University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. Archived from the original on 14 November 2019. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
- ^ a b c d "China's power semiconductor pioneer dies at 89". China.org.cn. 5 December 2019. Archived from the original on 5 December 2019. Retrieved 5 December 2019.
- University of Electronic Science & Technology of China
- ^ "ISPSD Hall of Fame". ISPSD. May 2019. Archived from the original on 18 November 2019. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
- ISBN 978-1-7281-0580-2.