Wen – Cheng (Roger) Kuo

 

 

 

 

 

 

136-93 Caltech
Moore Laboratory
Pasadena, CA 91125
U.S.A.

e-mail: rkuo@mems.caltech.edu
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Education

2001-2006     Ph.D. degree in Jan., 2006.

Advisor: Prof. Yao-Joe Yang. (received Ph.D. degree in EE from MIT in 1999)

Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan ROC.

1991-1993   Master degree, Advisor: Prof. Ray-Quan Hsu. (received Ph.D. degree in ME from Tokyo University in 1989)

Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan ROC.

1987-1991   B.S. in Mechanical and Electro-Mechanical Engineering, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan ROC.

Research

·           Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS)

·           Micro-fabrication

·           Optical switch design and fabrication

·           Compressor design and fabrication

 

Publications

1. Yao-Joe Yang, Wen-Cheng Kuo and Kuang-Chao Fan, “Single-Run Single-Mask Inductively Coupled Plasma-Reactive Ion Etching Process for Fabricating Suspended High-Aspect-Ratio Micro Electro Mechanical Structures”, Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 45, No. 1A, 2006, pp. 305-310. (SCI, Impact Factor: 1.142)

2. Yao-Joe Yang and Wen-Cheng Kuo, “A Novel Fabrication Method for Suspended High-Aspect-Ratio Microstructures”, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, Vol. 15, 2005, pp. 2184-2193. (SCI, Impact Factor: 2.048)

3. Wu-Lang Lin, Kuang-Chao Fan, Li-Hung Chiang, Wen-Cheng Kuo, and Yao-Joe Yang, “A Novel Micro/Nano 1×4 Mechanical Optical Switch”, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, Vol. 16, 2006, pp. 1408-1415. (SCI, Impact Factor: 2.048)

4. Yao-Joe Yang, Bo-Ting Liao, and Wen-Cheng Kuo, “A Novel 2X2 MEMS Optical Switch Using the Split-Cross-Bar (SCB) Design”, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering (Accepted).

 

Papers submitted

1. Yao-Joe Yang, Wen-Cheng Kuo, and Kuang-Chao Fan, “A 1X2 optical switch using a dual-thickness SOI process”, submitted to Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering (finished the revision).

 

 

Conference papers

1. Wen-Cheng Kuo and Yao-Joe Yang, “Design and fabrication of 1X2 optical fiber switch”, 7th International Conference on Mechanics Technology (ICMT 2003), Taipei, Taiwan R.O.C, Dec. 2005, pp. 421-424. (Oral presentation)

2. Wen-Cheng Kuo and Yao-Joe Yang, "A novel fabrication method for suspended high-aspect-ratio microstructures", in Proceedings 8th Conference on Nanotechnology and Micro System, Hsinchu, Taiwan ROC, Dec. 2004, pp. 17-20. (in Chinese) (Oral presentation)

3. Wen-Cheng Kuo and Yao-Joe Yang, "A novel fabrication method for suspended high-aspect-ratio MEMS structures", in Proceedings 13th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors and Actuators and Microsystems (Transducers ’05), Seoul, South Korea, Jun. 2005, pp. 1126-1129. (Oral presentation)

4. Kuang-Chao Fan,Wu-Lang Lin , Li-Hung Chiang and Wen-Cheng Kuo, "A novel micro/nano 1×4 mechanical optical switch", 22nd National Conference on Mechanical Engineering (The Chinese Society of Mechanical Engineers, CSME 2005), Jhong-Li, Taiwan ROC, Nov. 2005, pp. 609-613. (in Chinese)

5. Wen-Cheng Kuo and Yao-Joe Yang, “Design and fabrication of 1X2 optical fiber switch”, 9th International Conference on Mechanics Technology (ICMT 2005) , Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur , Dec. 2005. (Oral presentation)

6. Bo-Ting Liao, Wen-Cheng Kuo and Yao-Joe Yang, “Development of a new micromachined 2X2 optical switch without optical misalignment”, Asia-Pacific Conference of Transducers and Micro-Nano Technology (APCOT), Singapore, Jun. 2006.

7. Wen-Cheng Kuo and Yao-Joe Yang, "Design and fabrication of 1X2 optical fiber switch", in Proceedings 10th Conference on Nanotechnology and Micro System, Hsinchu, Taiwan ROC, Dec. 2006. (Oral presentation)

 

 

 

Patent

Yao-Joe Yang, Kuang-Chao Fan and Wen-Cheng Kuo, “MEMS fiber-to-fiber optical switches”, Taiwan Patent No. M 252940. (in Chinese)