Tse-Ming Chen is a Professor in Physics and also serves as the Director of QFort at National Cheng Kung University, where he joined the faculty in 2010. Tse-Ming received his BS and MS degrees from National Taiwan University in Taiwan and PhD from Cambridge University in UK, all in physics.

Tse-Ming’s research interests cover a wide range of mesoscopic physics, quantum electronics and spintronics, and engineering quantum systems. His expertise includes design, nanofabrication, and precision low-temperature electrical measurements of quantum devices based on such diverse materials as semiconductor, superconductor, graphene, topological materials, and complex oxides. He is recognized as a pioneer of utilizing quantum point contacts for coherent spin control, which gave rise to the world’s first all-electric spin transistor, spatial spin separation and their coherent manipulation, zigzag Wigner spin chains, etc. Tse-Ming is a receipt of Kwoh-Ting Li Honorary Scholar Award (2023), NSTC Outstanding Research Award (2023 & 2019), MOST Ta-You Wu Memorial Award (2016), Academia Sinica Research Award for Junior Research Investigators (2016), Innovation Award for Junior Research Investigators from the Foundation for the Advancement of Outstanding Scholarship (2016), etc. 

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Employment

2023 – present   Director, Center for Quantum Frontiers of Research & Technology (QFort), National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

2019 – present    Distinguished Professor, Department of Physics, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

2020 – 2023        Deputy Director and Co-Founder, Center for Quantum Frontiers of Research & Technology (QFort), National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

2016 – 2019        Professor, Department of Physics, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

2013 – 2016         Associate Professor, Department of Physics, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

2010 – 2013         Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

2009 – 2010         Postdoctoral Research Associate, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge
 

Education

2009                      PhD in Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK

2004                      MSc in Physics, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

1999                      BS in Physics, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Selected Recent Publications
Sheng-Chin Ho, Ching-Hao Chang, Yu-Chiang Hsieh, Shun-Tsung Lo, Botsz Huang, Thi-Hai-Yen Vu, Carmine Ortix & Tse-Ming Chen*, Hall effects in artificially corrugated bilayer graphene without breaking time-reversal symmetry, Nature Electronics 4, 116-125 (2021).

Sheng-Chin Ho, Heng-Jian Chang, Chia-Hua Chang, Shun-Tsung Lo, Graham Creeth, Sanjeev Kumar, Ian Farrer, David Ritchie, Jonathan Griffiths, Geraint Jones, Michael Pepper* & Tse-Ming Chen*, Imaging the zigzag Wigner crystal in confinement-tunable quantum wires, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 106801 (2018).  [Featured in Physics]  [Editors’ Suggestion]
See also: Synopsis by Michael Schirber in Physics

Shun-Tsung Lo, Chin-Hung Chen, Ju-Chun Fan, L. W. Smith, G. L. Creeth, Che-Wei Chang, M. Pepper, J. P. Griffiths, I. Farrer, H. E. Beere, G. A. C. Jones, D. A. Ritchie & Tse-Ming Chen*, Controlled spatial separation of spins and coherent dynamics in spin-orbit-coupled nanostructures, Nature Communications 8, 15997 (2017).

Pojen Chuang, Sheng-Chin Ho, L. W. Smith, F. Sfigakis, M. Pepper, Chin-Hung Chen, Ju-Chun Fan, J. P. Griffiths, I. Farrer, H. E. Beere, G. A. C. Jones, D. A. Ritchie & Tse-Ming Chen*, All-electric all-semiconductor spin field-effect transistor, Nature Nanotechnology 10, 35 (2015).
See also: News & Views by Marc Cahay in Nature Nanotechnology 10, 21-22 (2015); Research Highlights by David Ciudad in Nature Materials 14, 134 (2015).