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Ching Tang Appointed Doris Johns Cherry
     Professor of Chemical Engineering

    (Professor Ching Tang, Chemical Engineering and Chemistry)

December 27, 2006: Ching W. Tang recently joined the University of Rochester as the Doris Johns Cherry Professor of Chemical Engineering. Dr. Tang is known internationally for his pioneering work on organic solar cells and organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs). His invention of the organic bi-layer heterojunction structure forms the basis of modern organic electronics.

Dr. Tang obtained a B.Sc. degree in chemistry from the University of British Columbia in 1970 and a Ph.D. degree, also in chemistry, from Cornell University in 1975. He joined the Kodak Research Laboratories in Rochester, New York immediately after graduating from Cornell, and he left Kodak in 2006 to join the University of Rochester as Professor of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry.

In addition to his groundbreaking research on organic solar cells and organic light emitting diodes, Dr. Tang has been credited with a number of key innovations leading to the commercialization of a new flat-panel display technology. These include the development of robust transport and luminescent materials, improved device architectures, novel color pixilation methods, and fabrication processes for the manufacture of passive-matrix OLED displays; and the adaptation of active-matrix backplane technology for high-definition OLED displays.

Dr. Tang is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a Fellow of the Society for Information Display. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2006. He holds more than 70 U.S. patents and has published 70 papers, including three highly cited papers based on his original work on solar cells and OLEDs. Dr. Tang has received a number of awards, including the Eastman Innovation Award (2000) from Eastman Kodak Company, the Carothers Awards (2001) from ACS, the Jan Rajchman Prize (2001) from the Society for Information Display, the Team Innovation Award (2003) from ACS, the Humboldt Research Award (2005), and the Daniel E. Noble Award (2007) from IEEE.

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