1. HUNG TIN-FONG, SILAS
Email: silashung@vtc.edu.hk, mobile:9457 8151, office: 37579198
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES:
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Management, administration and industry networking experiences (Oct 2005 – Mar 2009):
- Managed two commercial laboratories (Materials Analysis Lab and Solid State Lighting Lab) at
HKSTP for over three years from Oct 2005 to Mar 2009, maintain daily operation, achieved
business target including income/expense budget and resources utilization, supervised a team of
engineers, assisted in the formulation and implementation of growth strategies, developed
applications to address potential market and analytical requirements, developed working
partnership with testing laboratories, equipment vendors and research institutes to enhance the
service quality.
- Experienced in consultancy services for industries.
- Experienced in coordinating parties in business community to explore potentials of collaborative
ventures and to secure research and development contracts, consultancy agreements.
- Experiences in working with Mainland professional body, academia, and organization in order to
push forward collaborations.
- As speaker on technical seminars, workshops, university guest lectures and symposia with partial
listing as follows:
- As speaker in “Wonders of Optoelectronics: Applications of LEDs in Backlighting”, 10
March 2006, event organized by ASTRI, HKOEA, HK PolyU, and HKSTP.
- As speaker in “Applications of LED”, 26 June 2006, event organized by ASTRI, HKOEA, and
HKSTP.
- As speaker in “Workshop on LED Applications in Information Displays”, 24 November, 2006,
event organized by SID, ASTRI, HKOEA, HKSTP, and HKUST.
- As speaker in 固态照明测试技术研讨会, 深圳高新区和香港科技园, 2007.4.19 日.
- As a guest lecturer at EE department of CUHK to give lecture on “Photonic Devices Testing”,
on 19 March 2007, lecture was invited by Prof. Chester Shu (EE department, CUHK).
Projects and technical experiences:
Worked in Material Characterization and Preparation Centre (MCPC), Hong Kong University of Science
and Technology from Jul. 1993 to Dec. 2002, experienced in AFM, SEM, TEM, step profiler,
spectroscopic ellipsometer, optical thin film test, SIMS, XPS, Auger, and many other e-beam, x-ray and
ion probe technologies, low temperature testing techniques like Hall measurement, and test various of
materials in internal research and external industrial projects in the areas of micro-devices,
nano-materials, photonics and magnetic devices, and sample preparation skill in thin film technologies
(hands-on in PVD, e-beam, sputtering), these works leading to co-authored over 20 technical papers

2. published in international journal, proceedings and conferences.
To highlight several projects:
1. Paper co-author with Prof. W. H. Mow in nano-magnetic devices
2. Paper co-author with Prof. Andrew Poon in nano-photonic devices,
3. Assist the establishment of Magnetic Innovation Centre funded by ITF, new magnetic storage
methods were explored.
I had developed nano-magnetic particles applied in solid state memory technique, worked with Prof.
W. H. Mow (EEE, HKUST) for two years and leading to the improvement magnetic random access
memory with publications including:
Edward K. S. Au, Wing-Hung Ki, Wai Ho Mow, Silas T. Hung, Catherine Y. Wong, “A
binary-search switch switched current sensing scheme for 4-state MRAM”, ACM Great
Lakes Symposium on VLSI 2004, pp. 304-307.
Edward K. S. Au, Wing-Hung Ki, Wai Ho Mow, Silas T. Hung, Catherine Y. Wong, “A
Switched-Current Sensing Architecture for a 4-State Per Cell Magnetic Tunnel Junction
MRAM”, IEEE Transactions on Circuit and Systems – Part I: Regular Papers, Vol. 51, No.11,
Nov 2004, pp. 2113-2122.
Edward K. S. Au, Wing-Hung Ki, Wai Ho Mow, Silas T. Hung, Catherine Y. Wong, “A Novel
Current-Mode Sensing Scheme for Magnetic Tunnel Junction MRAM”, IEEE Transactions on
Magnetics, Vol. 40, No. 2, March 2004, pp. 483-488.
On opto-electronic research, I will also highlight my works will Prof. Andrew Poon (EEE, HKUST), we
have explored research works with direction to combining magnetic, optics, and electronics together,
our joint work summarized in below conference paper:
K. M. Tsia, C. L. Cheng, Silas T. Hung, and A. W. Poon, “Magneto-optical Kerr effect and
Photonic band gap in cobalt nanodisc array”, in Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 5280, Materials
Active Devices, and Optical Amplifiers, Asia-Pacific Optical and Wireless Communications
2003, Wuhan, China, 2-6 Nov 2003.
Publication (partial list)
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[1] E. K. Au, Wing-Hung Ki, Wai Ho Mow, Silas T. Hung, C. Y. Wong, “A binary –search switch –

3. current sensing scheme for 4-state MRAM”, ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI pp.304-307, 2004.
[2] E. K. Au, Wing-Hung Ki, Wai Ho Mow, Silas T. Hung and C. Y. Wong, “A Switch-current Sensing
Architecture for a 4-State Per Cell Magnetic Tunnel Junction MRAM”, IEEE Transactions on Circuits
and Systems – Part I: Regular Papers, Vol. 51, No. 11, pp. 2113-2122, Nov, 2004.
[3] E. K. Au, Wing-Hung Ki, Wai Ho Mow, Silas T. Hung and C. Y. Wong, “A Novel Current-Mode
Sensing Scheme for Magnetic Tunnel Junction MRAM”, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 40, No. 2,
pp. 483-488, March 2004.
[4] K. M. Tsia, C. L. Cheng, Silas T. Hung, and A. W. Poon, “Magneto-optical Kerr effect and Photonic
band gap in cobalt nanodisc array,” in Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 5280, Materials, Active Devices, and
Optical Amplifiers, Asia-Pacific Optical and Wireless Communications 2003, Wuhan, China, 2-6 Nov
2003.
[5] S. G. Yang, A. B. Pakhomov, Silas T. Hung, C. Y. Wong, "Room-temperature magnetism in
Cr-doped AlN semiconductor films", Applied Phys. Lett., Vol. 81, No. 13, pp. 2418-2420, 2002.
[6] Silas T. Hung, R. Bordeos, L. Z. Zhang, C. Y. Wong, "Magnetoresistive Sensitivity Mapping (MSM)
and Dynamic ELectrical Test (DET) Correlation Study on GMR sensor induced by Low Threshold ESD
Stress", Electrical Overstress/Electrostatic Discharge Symposium Proceedings (EOS/ESD), 2002.
[7] S. G. Yang, Silas T. Hung, H.Y. Sung, A. B. Pakhomov, C.Y. Wong, "Room Temperature Magnetism
in Sputtered (Zn, Co)O Films", IEEE Trans. Magn., vol. 38, No. 5, pp. 2877-2879, 2002
[8] A. B. Pakhomov, S. K. Wong, Silas T. Hung, S.G. Yang, C.Y. Wong, "Memory effects in a
submicrometre metal-dielectric composite system", J. of Phys. Condens. Matter, 14, No. 21, pp.
5355-5366, 2002.
[9] Silas T. Hung, Y. J. Tang, C. Y. Wong "Vortex Domain Structure of Submicron Co Dots by Electron
Beam Lithography", Intermag, Netherland, April, 2002
[10] S. K. Wong, A. B. Pakhomov, S. G. Yang, Silas T. Hung, and C. Y. Wong, “Novel Magnetic Memory
Device with Controlled Switching Current”, International Conference on Materials for Advanced
Technologies (ICMAT), Session E8-14, 2001.
[11] S. G. Yang, Silas T. Hung, Y. J. Tang, C. Y. Wong, “SPM Study of Cobalt Nanowire Arrays”,
International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies (ICMAT), Session E8-20, 2001.
[12] Silas T. Hung, Y. J. Tang, C. Y. Wong, S. K. Wong, and A. B. Pakhomov, “Vortex Domain Structure
of Submicron Cobalt Islands By Electron Beam Lithography”, International Conference on Materials
for Advanced Technologies (ICMAT), Session E5-02, 2001.
[13] Silas T. Hung, C. Y. Wong, M. Osborn, J. Kagaoan, L. Z. Zhang, R. Bordeos, "A Study of GMR read
sensor induced by soft ESD using Magnetoresistive Sensitivity Mapping (MSM)", EOS/ESD Symposium
Proceedings, September, pp. 175-181, 2001.