Chinese American Enters the National Inventors Hall of Fame

Chinese American expert in electrical engineering, Alfred Y. Cho. Cnsphoto

  Alfred Y. Cho (aka Zhuo Yihe) was recently inducted in the 2008 US Patent and Trademark Office's (USPTO) National Inventors Hall of Fame. The 72-year-old expert in electrical engineering is called the "father of molecular beam epitaxy" (MBE). The material he created was applied to produce a dozen high performance microwave electronic and photoelectronic instruments. MBE has also been used extensively in mobile phones and CD/DVD players.

  Born in 1937 in Beijing, Cho gained his doctorate at Illinois University in 1968, and is now Adjunct Vice President of Semiconductor Research at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs. The National Inventors Hall of Fame was created by the USPTO and the American Intellectual Property Law Association in 1973.