Shu-Jung Tang:  Shu-Jung completed his BA degree at Tamkang University in Taipei, Taiwan, before coming to graduate school at UTK.  His Ph.D thesis research involved the use of synchrotron radiation to study the surfaces of metals and was titled “The Role of Surface States in Electron-Phonon Coupling on the Open Surfaces of Simple Metals.”  Most of his thesis work was carried out at the Center for Advanced Materials and Devices on the campus of LSU with Professor Phil Sprunger acting as co-advisor.  Three of Shu-Jung’s papers from his thesis are:

• The electron phonon coupling and the temperature dependent initial  energy shifts of the surface states on Be .  S. -J. Tang, Ismail, P. T. Sprunger, E. W. Plummer, Phys. Rev. B 65, 235428 (2002).
• Direct extraction of the Eliashberg function for electron-phonon  coupling: A case study of Be . Junren Shi, S.-J. Tang, Biao Wu, P. T. Sprunger, W. L. Yang, V. Brouet, X. J. Zhou, Z. Hussain, Z.-X. Shen, Zhenyu Zhang, and E. W. Plummer, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 186401 (2004).
• A spectroscopic view of electron phonon coupling at metal surfaces, S.-J. Tang, Junren Shi, Biao Wu, P. T. Sprunger, W. L. Yang, V. Brouet, X. J. Zhou, Z. Hussain, Z.-X. Shen, Zhenyu Zhang, and E. W. Plummer, Physica Status Solidi (b) 241,  2345 (2004).

After graduation Shu-Jung spent three years as a postdoctoral fellow at the university of Illinois working with Professor Tai Chiang, publishing three Physical Review Letters and one Science article.  He is now an associate professor in the Department of Physics at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan, with an adjunct scientist appointment at the National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center.