Faculty
Chang-Chyi Tsuei
Chair Professor
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, USA
Biography
Experience
Expertise
Interest
Publications
Awards
Dr. Tsuei received his B.S. in 1960 from the National Taiwan University and both his M.S. (1963) and Ph.D. (1966) from the California Institute of Technology.
After seven years on the faculty of Caltech, he joined IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in 1973 as a Research Staff Member and held several research manager positions in the Physical Sciences Department during the period of 1974 to 1993. Since 1993, he returned to the position of Research Staff Member to devote his full time to the experiments of phasesensitive tests of pairing symmetry in various superconductors and to the theoretical study of the microscopic mechanism responsible for hightemperature superconductivity in cuprates. More recently, he has focused his entire research effort on what hinders the discovery of definitive evidence for Majorana fermions in solids. He retired from IBM at the end of the year 2015 and has been an IBM Emeritus since then.
  1. Condensed Matter Physics
  2. Superconductive Physics

His main research interests include: tricrystal experiments for the phasesensitive determination of pairing symmetry in cuprate superconductors, half flux quantum states in d-wave pi-SQUIDs and large-scale arrays of pi-loops, quantum-dot arrays for simulating strongly correlated systems, and the microscopic pairing mechanism of high-temperature superconductivity. Currently he is working on the search for Majorana fermions in d-wave superconductor-based heterostructures, and the theoretical study on chiral pwave superconductivity.

  1. C. –T. Chen, C. C. Tsuei, M. B. Ketchen, Z. –A. Ren and Z. X. Zhao, “Integer and half-integer flux-quantum transitions in a niobium/ironpnictide loop”, Nature Physics 6, 260 (2010).
  2. D. M. Newns and C. C. Tsuei, “Fluctuating Cu-O-Cu bond model of high-temperature superconductivity,” Nature Physics 3, 184-191 (2007).
  3. J. R. Kirtley, C. C. Tsuei, Ariando, C. J. M. Verwijs, S. Harkema, H. Hilgenkamp, “Angle-resolved phase sensitive determination of the inplane
    gap in YBa2Cu3O7-δ,” Nature Physics 2, 190-194 (2006).
  4. C. C. Tsuei, J. R. Kirtley, G. Hammerl, J. Mannhart, H. Raffy, and Z. Z. Li, “Robust dx2-y2 pairing symmetry in hole-doped cuprate superconductors,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 187004 1-4 (2004).
  5. Hans Hilgenkamp, Ariando, Henk-Jan H. Smilde, Dave H. A. Blank, Guus Rujnders, Horst Rogalla, John R. Kirtley, and Chang C. Tsuei, “Ordering and manipulation of the magnetic moments in large-scale-loop arrays,” Nature 422, 50-53 (2003).
  6. C. C. Tsuei and J. R. Kirtley, “Pairing symmetry in cuprate superconductors,” Rev. Mod. Phys. 72, 969-1016 (2000).
  7. J. R. Kirtley, C. C. Tsuei, and K. A. Moler, “Temperature dependence of the half-integer magnetic flux quantum,” Science 285, 1373-1375 (1999).
  8. C. C. Tsuei, J. R. Kirtley, Z. F. Ren, J. H. Wang, H. Raffy, and Z. Z. Li, “Pure dx2-y2 order parameter symmetry in the tetragonal superconductor Tl2Ba2CuO6+δ,” Nature 387, 481-483 (1997).
  9. C. C. Tsuei, J. R. Kirtley, M. Rupp, J. Z. Sun, A. Gupta, M. B. Ketchen, C. A. Wang, Z. F. Ren, J. H. Wang, and M. Bhushan, “Pairing symmetry in single-layer tetragonal Tl2Ba2CuO6+δ superconductors,” Science 271, 329-332 (1996).
  10. J. R. Kirtley, C. C. Tsuei, J. Z. Sun, C. C. Chi, Lock-See Yu-Jahnes, A. Gupta, M. Rupp, and M. B. Ketchen, “Symmetry of the order parameter in the high-Tc superconductor YBa2Cu3O7-δ,” Nature 373, 225-228 (1995).
  11. C. C. Tsuei, J. R. Kirtley, C. C. Chi, Lock-See Yu-Jahnes, A. Gupta, T. Shaw, J. Z. Sun, and M. B. Ketchen, “Pairing symmetry and flux quantization in a tricrystal superconducting ring of YBa2Cu3O7-δ,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 73, 593-596 (1994).
  12. C. C. Tsuei, D. M. Newns, C. C. Chi, and P. C. Pattnaik, “Anomalous isotope effect and van Hove singularity in superconducting Cu oxides,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 65, 2724-2727 (1990).
  13. P. H. Kes and C. C. Tsuei, “Collective flux-pinning phenomena in amorphous superconductors,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 47, 1930-1934 (1981).
  14. C. C. Tsuei and H. Lilienthal, “Magnetization distribution in an amorphous ferromagnet,” Phys. Rev. B 13, 4899-4906 (1976).
  15. C. C. Tsuei, “Ductile superconducting copper-base alloys,” Science 180, 57-58 (1973).

 

 

2009
Linnaeus Colloquium, Goteborg Mesoscopic Lecture, Chalmers, University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.(Oct. 29)
2007
Ehrenfest Colloquium Lectureship, Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratorium, Universiteit in Leiden, the Netherlands.(June 13)
2007
Distinguished Research Chair Professor, Department of Physics, National Taiwan University.
2006
Honorary Chair Professor, Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University.
2001
Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
2000
Asian American Dynamic Achievement Award, Organization of Chinese Americans.
2000
IBM Corporate Award.(June)
1998
Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize of the American Physical Society, for his work on pairing symmetry in hightemperature superconductors; co-recipient.
1998
Bodo von Borries Lectureship, University of Tuebingen, Germany.
1996, 1997
Invited Professor, Université Paris-Sud (Orsay, France).
1996
Elected to the Academia Sinica, Taiwan.
1995
IBM Innovation Achievement Award.
1992
Max Planck Research Prize, Max Planck Society and Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany.
1974
Elected Fellow, American Physical Society.