Titles

• Senior Global Futures Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory
• Associate Professor, School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering
• Director, NSF Center for Efficient Vehicles and Sustainable Transportation
• Faculty, Barretts Honors College

Biography

Dr. Yu joined the ASU faculty in 2005. He received his Ph.D. in Physics in 2001 from the University of Texas at Austin and his MS in Physics in 1996 from Peking University, P.R. China. He conducted post-doctoral research at California Institute of Technology and University of California at Los Angeles.

Education

• PhD, University of Texas-Austin, 2001
• MS, Peking University, 1996

Expertise

• materials analysis
• nanotechnology
• quantum size effect in metallic and semiconducting nanotechnology
• semiconductors
• surface and interface physics and chemistry
• transport in nanotechnology and molecules
• materials science
• energy efficiency
• solar energy
• thin film materials
• optical devices
• energy conservation