CHEN Chung Kit, George
Associate Professor of School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Division of Microelectronics

Phone: (65) 6790 4439, Fax: (65) 6792 0415
Office: S2.2-B2-01
Email: eckchen@ntu.edu.sg

Biography

George Chen received his BS and MS in Physics from University of California, Los Angeles in 1982 and 1984 respectively, and received MS in Electrical Engineering (OPTICS) from University of Southern California in 1987. He was with Respironics (H.K.) Ltd. from 1988 to 1990 where he started out as a testing engineer and then promoted to be the department head in Quality Control. At the same time, he was a visiting lecturer in Hong Kong Polytechnic teaching Semiconductor Physics. From 1991-1996 he was an optical designer in Avimo Electro-Optics, Singapore where he designed various kinds of optical systems for military, commercial and medical applications, and a development engineer with Avimo Group from 1996-1999. He received his PhD degree from Nanyang Technological University in 2000, and was a research associate there from 1999-2000 researching in Diffused IR Wireless Communication. In 2001, he joined the faculty of School of EEE, NTU and is now an associate professor there teaching courses related to Photonics. He has published more than 50 international papers and serves as a reviewer for journals including Optical Engineering, Optics Communication, Photonics Technology Letters, and Optics Express.

Research Interest

Bio-imaging and Response, Diffused Infrared Wireless Communication, Thermal Conductivity Measurement and Modeling of Thin Film, Optical design.

Selected Research Projects

  • Principle Investigator, “Patterned Thermoelectric Nanostructures- Setting-up an in-plane thermal conductivity measurement system”, $172K, June 2009 -June 2011. Funded by DSO
  • Principle Investigator, Development of Photothermal Imaging System for Imaging Sub-Cellular Organelles”, $815.506K, April 2008-March 2011. Funded by SBIC, A*STAR.
  • Principle Investigator, Development of Photothermal Imaging System, $50K, November 2004-November 2006. Funded by Centre of Signal Processing Research Funding.
  • Principle Investigator, development of Infrared Wireless Indoor Network Technology, $277.6K, March 2000 to March 2004. Funded by Ministray of Education.

Selected Publications

  • Srivathsan Vasudevan, George Chen, “Integration of laser tweezers for continuous and selective monitoring of photothermal response of single micro-particle” Optics Letters, Volume 33 No 23, 2779-2781, December 2008. This paper has been selected for the January 1, 2009 Issue of Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research.
  • Damon W.K. Wong, George Chen. “Optical design and multipath analysis for broadband optical wireless in an aircraft passenger cabin application”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 57 (6), 3598-3606, November 2008.
  • Damon W.K. Wong, George Chen and Jianping Yao, “Optimization of Spot Pattern in Indoor Diffuse Optical Wireless Local Area Networks” Optics Express Vol. 13, No.8, 3000-3014 (2005).
  • Da Jiang Yang, Qing Zhang, George Chen, S.F. Yoon, J. Ahn, S.G. Wang, Q. Zhou, Q. Wang, and J.Q. Li, “Thermal Conductivity of multiwalled carbon nanotubes”, Physical Review B 66, 165440 (2002).
  • George Chen and Ping Hui, ‘Thermal conductivities of evaporated gold films on silicon and glass’, Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 74, No.20, 2942-2944, (1999).