Yi-Chia Chou (周苡嘉)
Title：Professor
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Office：Room _452______ (Location: _ College of Engineering Bldg.)
Lab: _358____ (Location:_ College of Engineering Bldg. )
Lab homepage: https://yichiachou.wixsite.com/chou-group
Education:
2006.10 - 2010.06 | Ph.D. University of California at Los Angeles
2002.09 - 2006.06 | BSc. Dept. Material Sci. & Eng., National Tsing Hua University
Experience:
2022/02 - present | Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Taiwan University
2020.08 - 2022.01 | Professor, Professor, Department of Electrophysics, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
2015.08 - 2020.07 | Associate professor, Department of Electrophysics, National Chiao Tung University
2012.09 - 2018.09 | Visiting Scholar in summers, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
2012.08 - 2015.07 | Assistant professor, Department of Electrophysics, National Chiao Tung University
2010.07 - 2012.08 | Postdoctoral Researcher, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
2012.05 - 2012.08 | Guest Scientist, Group of Electron Microscopy, Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Lab
2019.10 – 2010.04 | Visiting Scholar, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, CA, USA
Honors & Awards:
2025 Taiwan Vacuum Society Young Scholar Award
2024, TACT Outstanding Young Scholar Award
2024, NSTC Excellent Young Scholars Fund
2023, EDMA Outstanding Young Scholar Award
2023, MRS-T Outstanding Young Scholar Award
2023, Academic Award of College of Engineering
2019, Taiwan Promising Women in Science
2019, Remarkable Teaching Award
2018, Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) Young Scholar Fellowship with Columbus Project
2017, IBM Faculty Award (Global award)
2017, The Junior Faculty Research Award in Science
2012, Microscopy Society of America Presidential Postdoctoral Award (USA)
2010, 4th TSMC Outstanding Graduate Student Award Commendation Prize (Global award)
2009, Dissertation Year Fellowship Award (USA)
2006, Fellowship Award (USA)
Research Highlight:
1. phase transformation and growth of low-dimensional semiconductor nanomaterials including Si, Ge based nanostructures, III-V materials, nitrides, silicides/germanides.
2. in situ and high performance transmission electron microscopy including the studies of silicide/germanide formation in nanostructures, kinetics of phase transformation in nanomaterials/nanoheterostructures, and vapor phase reactions.
Representative publications:
(1) Kuan-Hung Chen, Cheng-Chih Hsiang, Yu-Cheng Yeh, Chia-Yi Wu, Chang-Hsun Huang, Wei-Chih Chen, Yi-Chung Dzeng, Wen-Yueh Yu, Chi Chen, Yi-Chia Chou* ”Highly flexible van der Waals thin films from direct hetero-epitaxial growth” Materials Today Nano, 29, 100598 (2025).
(2) Chang-Hsun Huang, Chia-Yi Wu, Yi-Chia Chou* "Direct Growth of Wafer-Scale Self-Separated GaN on Reusable 2D Material Substrates" Advanced Science, 2406126 (2024).
(3) Chang-Hsun Huang, Chia-Yi Wu, Yen-Fu Lin, Yi-Chia Chou*, Ko-Tao Lee "Wet-Etching-Boosted Charge Storage in 1D Nitride-Based Systems for Imitating Biological Synaptic Behaviors" Advanced Functional Materials 2306030 (2023).
(4) Yuan-Wei Chang, Wei-Cih Yang, Wan-Rong Lo, Zheng-Xuan Lo, Chun-Hao Ma, Ying-Hao Chu, Yi-Chia Chou* "Direct Growth of Flexible GaN Film via van der Waals Epitaxy on Mica" Materials Today Chemistry 26, 101243 (2022).
(5) Yi-Chia Chou, Lih-Juann Chen, King-Ning Tu "Uphill Diffusion Induced Point Contact Reaction in Si Nanowires" Nano Letters 22, 17, 6895–6899 (2022).
(6) Y.-C. Chou, K. Hillerich, J. Tersoff, M. C. Reuter, K. A. Dick, F. M. Ross "Atomic-scale variability and control of III-V nanowire growth kinetics" Science, 343, 281-284, 2014.
