Chao Shen
PhD Student
"Consultant at KAUST, with KAUST Innovation and Economic Development."
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Introduction
Chao received his PhD in Electrical Engineering at KAUST. His research interests include III-nitride photonic integrated circuit, GaN-based laser diodes, superluminescent diodes (SLDs), micro-LEDs, and VCSELs, laser-based solid state lighting (SSL), free-space visible light communication (VLC), and underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC).
Research Interests
GaN optoelectronics
III-nitride diode lasers
Photonic integrated circuits
Laser based solid-state lighting and visible-light communications
Selected Publications
Chao Shen, Changmin Lee, Edgars Stegenburgs, Jorge Holguin Lerma, Tien Khee Ng, Shuji Nakamura, Steven P. DenBaars, Ahmed Y. Alyamani, Munir M. El-Desouki, and Boon S. Ooi, “Semipolar III-nitride quantum well waveguide photodetector integrated with laser diode for on-chip photonic system", Applied Physics Express, 10(4), 042201 (2017). DOI: 10.7567/APEX.10.042201
Chao Shen, Tien Khee Ng, John T. Leonard, Arash Pourhashemi, Shuji Nakamura, Steven P. DenBaars, James S. Speck, Ahmed Y. Alyamani, Munir M. El-desouki, and Boon S. Ooi. “High-brightness semipolar (2021) blue InGaN/GaN superluminescent diodes for droop-free solid-state lighting and visible-light communications”. Optics Letters, 41(11), 2608-2611 (2016). DOI: 10.1364/OL.41.002608
Chao Shen, Tien Khee Ng, John T. Leonard, Arash Pourhashemi, Hassan M. Oubei, Mohd S. Alias, Shuji Nakamura, Steven P. DenBaars, James S. Speck, Ahmed Y. Alyamani, Munir M. Eldesouki, and Boon S. Ooi. “High-modulation-efficiency, integrated waveguide modulator-laser diode at 448 nm”. ACS Photonics, 3 (2), pp 262–268, (2016). DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.5b00599
Changmin Lee, Chao Shen, Hassan M. Oubei, Michael Cantore, Bilal Janjua, Tien Khee Ng, Robert M. Farrell, Munir M. El-Desouki, James S. Speck, Shuji Nakamura, Boon S. Ooi, and Steven P. DenBaars. “2 Gbit/s data transmission from an unfiltered laser-based phosphor-converted white lighting communication system”. Optics Express, 23(23), 29779-29787 (2015). DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.029779
Chao Shen, Tien Khee Ng, Boon S. Ooi. “Enabling area-selective potential-energy engineering in InGaN/GaN quantum wells by post-growth intermixing”. Optics Express, 23(6), 7991-7998 (2015). DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.007991
Chao Shen, Gaoshan Huang, Yingchun Cheng, Ronggen Cao, Fei Ding, Udo Schwingenschlögl, Yongfeng Mei, "Thinning and functionalization of few-layer graphene sheets by CF4 plasma treatment". Nanoscale Res Lett. 2012 May 24;7(1):268 DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-7-268
Education
2013 - 2017 PhD Electrical Engineering, KAUST
2011 - 2013 MSc. Materials Science and Engineering, KAUST
2007 -2011 BSc. Materials Physics, Fudan University
Professional Profile
Jun 2012 - Aug 2012 Internship at Compound Semiconductor Technology Lab, Lehigh University
Sep 2010 - Dec 2010 Internship at National Microanalysis Center, Shanghai
Sep 2010 - Jul 2011 Founding Member of Nanomembrane Group, Fudan University
Scientific and Professional Memberships
Student Member of IEEE, IEEE Photonics Society, IEEE Electron Devices Society
Student Member of OSA and SPIE
Awards
Fudan-at-Yale Summer Session Merit Scholarship
KAUST Affiliations
Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering | Electrical Engineering
