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Biographical Sketch
Prof. Tang received his B.S in Chemistry from the University of British Columbia in 1970 and his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry form Cornell in 1975. He joined Eastman Kodak in 1975 as a Research Scientist, was promoted to Senior Research Scientist in 1981, to Research Associate in 1990, and to Senior Research Associate in 1998. In 2003 he was named Distinguished Fellow of the Kodak Research Laboratories, Eastman Kodak Company. He joined the University of Rochester as the Doris Johns Cherry Professor of Chemical Engineering in 1996, and has joint appointments in the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
Tang was elected fellow of the American Physical Society in 1998, and Fellow of the Society for Information Display in 2002. He has received honorary degrees from Shaghai University, and South China Technology University. He has received numerous awards including the Eastman Kodak Distinguished Inventor (1994), the Eastman Kodak Team Achievement Award (1999), the Eastman Kodak Innovation Award (2000), the Jack Rajchman Prize of the Society of Information Display (2001), the Carothers Award of the American Chemical Society (2001), the Northeast Regional Innovation Award of the American Chemical Society (2001), the Rochester Law Association Inventor of the Year Award (2002), the American Chemical Society Award for Team Innovation (2003), the Humboldt Research Award (2005), and the 2007 IEEE Daniel E. Noble Award.
Tang was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2006 for "the invention of the organic light-emitting device and organic bilayer solar cell, the bases of modern organic electronics.".
Research
Prof. Tang's research interests lie in the general areas of Chemical, and Condensed Matter Physics, and in particular in organic electronics. Tang has been recognized for the invention of the high-efficiency Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLED). Based on this key invention, a superior flat-panel display technology has been developed for electronics display applications from cellular phones to large-area high-definition television screens. He has also been recognized for the discovery of the organic hetero-junction diode. This discovery has been recognized as a milestone contribution to the field of organic electronics and opto-electronics. The hetero-junction device structure has been found to be the key to obtaining high performance in organic-based, thin film devices including OLED and solar cells.
His recent research projects include applications of organic electronic devices , organic light emitting diodes, solar cells, photoconductors, image sensors, photoreceptors. Basic studies of organic thin-film devices: charge injection, transport, recombination and luminescence properties. Metal-organic and organic-organic junction phenomena. Development of flat-panel display technology based on organic light emitting diodes.
Recent Publications
- High-Efficiency Tandem Organic Light Emitting Diodes
L. S. Liao, K. P. Klubek, C. W. Tang
Appl. Phys. Lett. 84 (2), 167 (2004)
- Fermi Level Pinning in CS doped CuPc
Li Yan, N. J. Watkins, C. W. Tang, Yongli Gao
Synthetic Metals 137 (1-3), 1037 (2003)
- Electroluminescence of Doped Thin Films
C. W. Tang, S. A. Van Slyke, C. H. Chem
J. Appl. Phys. 65, 3610 (1989)
- Organic Electroluminescent Diodes
C.W. Tang, S. A. Van Slyke
Appl. Phys. Lett. 51, 913 (1987)
- Two Layer Organic Photovoltaic Cell
C. W. Tang
Appl. Phys. Lett. 48, 183 (1986)
For further details, go to Prof. Tang's home page at: http://www.che.rochester.edu/tang.htm
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