Alfred Y. Cho

Alfred Y. Cho
卓以和
Born (1937-07-10) July 10, 1937 (age 87)
Beiping, China
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
AwardsIEEE Medal of Honor (1994)
National Medal of Science (1993)
Elliott Cresson Medal (1995)
National Medal of Technology (2007)
National Inventors Hall of Fame
Scientific career
FieldsElectrical engineering
Optical engineering

Alfred Yi Cho (Chinese: 卓以和; pinyin: Zhuó Yǐhé; born July 10, 1937[1]) is a Chinese-American electrical engineer, inventor, and optical engineer. He is the Adjunct Vice President of Semiconductor Research at Alcatel-Lucent's Bell Labs. He is known as the "father of molecular beam epitaxy"; a technique he developed at that facility in the late 1960s. He is also the co-inventor, with Federico Capasso of quantum cascade lasers at Bell Labs in 1994.

Cho was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in (1985) for his pioneering development of a molecular beam epitaxy technique, leading to unique semiconductor layer device structures.