Yves Chabal

Professor Emeritus in MSE

chabal@utdallas.edu
Phone: 972-883-5751
Office: RL 3.744

800 West Campbell Rd.
Mailstop: RL10
Richardson, TX 75080-3021

Curriculum Vitae

Education

Postdoc, Surface Physics Department, Bell Labs, 1980-81
PhD, Physics, Cornell University, 1980
AB, Physics, Princeton University, 1974

Awards

• Chaire d’Attractivité for the IDEX project of the Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
• American Physics Society’s Davisson-Germer Prize, 2009
• American Chemical Society Award for Encouraging Women into Careers in Chemical Sciences, 2012
• AVS Medard W. Welch Award, 2012

Overview

In our laboratory, we use and in some cases, develop optical spectroscopic and imaging techniques to explore elementary processes at surfaces and interfaces of technologically important electronic, photonic, organic and more recently, biological heterostructures. For instance, we have been leading the implementation of infrared absorption spectroscopy to develop a detailed mechanistic understanding of semiconductor surface cleaning (both by wet and dry techniques), passivation and chemical functionalization. In particular, we have devised sensitive insitu methods to probe the interaction of chemical species with surfaces and the formation of thin dielectric films using a variety of methods based on wet chemistry, ultra-high vacuum (UHV) and vapor deposition. We are also probing the interaction of hydrogen in a variety of environments, most recently in storage materials for the hydrogen fuel economy.

Research Interests

• Microelectronics.
• Optoelectronics.
• H₂ storage for hydrogen fuel economy.
• Organic electronics.
• Nanoelectronics.
• Biosensors and graphene.