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Application for Admission and

Award in Academic Year 2009-2010

1. Male
_________ Lee
Last or Family name: ________________________ First: __________________
Chuan Middle: _______________________

Suffix: ________ Other Last /Family names under which academic records may be listed? (Maiden name)___________________

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2. Country of citizenship: ______________________________
Canada Foreign - In Need of Temporary Visa
Citizenship status: _______________________________________

3. 12/14/1980
Date of birth: _______________ N
Military status: _____________

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4. Race/National origin: _________________________________________
Asian

Further description or clarification (e.g., tribal affiliation): _________________________________________________________

5. chuan254@gmail.com
Electronic mail address: ____________________________________________________________________________________
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Address to which all correspondence concerning this application should be mailed *Valid until: ___________________________
08/15/2009

Street address: __________________________________________________________________________________________

2725 SW 27th Ave., Apt. Y2

City: _________________________
Gainesville State: ___________________
Florida Country: _______________________
United States Zip: ______________
32608
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6. Permanent home address: __________________________________________________________________________________

2725 SW 27th Ave., Apt. Y2

Gainesville
City: _________________________ Florida
State: ___________________ United States
Country: _______________________ Zip: ______________
32608
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614-595-5239
7. Current ph#: ______________________ Other ph#: _______________________ Perm. address ph#: ______________________

8. Proposed Department/Program/Degree: _______________________________________________________________________

Electrical and Computer Engineering - Ph.D.
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Specializations:_________________________________________________________________________________________
Microsystems, Signal Processing and Communications

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Circuits and Systems

Special field: ___________________________________________________________________________________________

Intended entry term: __________________________

Fall 2009 Attendance status: _______________________________
Full-Time

If seeking part-time study, list reasons: ______________________________________________________________________

Applying to another department: ___________________________________________________________________________

Previously applied (term and year): ____________________

9. Other schools to which applicant is applying:

Yes
10. Consideration for financial aid from Duke University (such as fellowships, scholarships, and assistantships)? _______

11. Financial resources (received or applied): I personally have limited fund; there is no other financing sources for me at
this time. Financial aid would be very helpful for my PhD degree at Duke.

If no financial aid is received from Duke University, will you still be able to attend? ______
Yes
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12. Educational history (Showing undergraduate degree school first, list degrees expected to be earned prior to attending Duke):
Name of Institution Dates (from and Degree or Diploma Date Rec’d
and Location: to): and Major: or Expected:
0005782 CORNELL UNIVERSITY Bachelor's

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ITHACA Electrical Engineeri 05/2004
08/2000 / 06/2004
NY
United States

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0008518 UNIVERSITY FL Non Degree
GAINESVILLE ECE
08/2008 / 08/2013 08/2013
FL
United States

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0007642 STANFORD UNIVERSITY Non Degree
STANFORD ECE
09/2007 / 12/2007
CA
United States
0005782 CORNELL UNIVERSITY Master's
ITHACA ECE
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08/2004 / 08/2005 08/2005
NY
United States

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Additional schools attended:

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IELTS (if native language is not English) TOEFL

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3.3
UGPA = _______ Other Scale: _______
Date taken or scheduled: ____________ Date taken or scheduled: ____________
3.7
GGPA = _______ Other Scale: _______
IELTS Composite score:_____________ Total TOEFL score: _________________

GMAT (Business only) TOEFL IBT (Internet based testing)

Date taken or scheduled: ____________ 05/16/2008

Date taken or scheduled: ____________

13. GRE test scores
GRE date: _________
01/26/2009
102
Total TOEFL score: ________________
Total GMAT score:
28
TOEFL Reading score: _____________
Subject test date: __________
24
TOEFL Listening score: _____________

Verbal Quantitative Analytical **New Analy. Subject Code: 26

TOEFL Speaking score: _____________
Writing**
Score 24
TOEFL Writing score: _______________
470 790
% % % % % %

14. Evaluators (Last Name or Family Name, First Initial) /position/address

Last Name First Name Title / Department City, State Online?

Fox Robert Associate Professor and Associat Gainesville Yes

Florida
Kan Edwin Associate Professor Ithaca Yes
New York
Porshnev Peter Senior Manager Santa Clara Yes
California

Additional evaluators:
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________________________First Name: Chuan
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15. Dismissed or placed on probation (if so details): N

16. Charges of ethnical/professional misconduct (if yes see separate document); Yes n No ✔

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17. Convicted of a criminal offense, or pending charges (if yes see separate document): Yes No ✔

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18. Employment history (chronological order):
Firm or Organization Job Title/Type of Work Inclusive Dates
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Maxim Integrated Products Customer Applications Engineer 11/2006 / 05/2008

Applied Materials Electrical Engineer 08/2005 / 11/2006

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19. Courses in progress (not listed on transcripts):
Course Title Instructor Inclusive Dates Credit
Radio Frequency (RF) Integrated Circuit Jenshan, Lin 01/2009 / 05/2009 3

Introductory Quantum Mechanics for Nano Ural, Ant 01/2009 / 05/2009 3

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MOS Analog IC Design Fox, Robert M. 01/2009 / 05/2009 3

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20. Languages and proficiency:

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Language Rating What is your native (or first) language?

English Excellent Mandarin

21. List honors, distinctions, prizes, or scholarships received:

22. Applicant is Phi Beta Kappa:

23. Research programs:

-Participated at the beginning phase of a project led by Professor Ken O at UFL, but latter withdrew from it because of reduction
of scope of the project. Funded by DARPA.
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Last Name: ________________________ First Name: Chuan
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24. Please tell us how you learned about Duke graduate program.
I talked to faculties at UFL; in my memory, Duke has a good ECE program as I learned from faculties at Cornell. Duke's ECE
indeed has faculties in my research interest.

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25. List of documents (term papers, theses, scientific or literary articles, or other creative work):
-Co-design/build a class-D commercial high power(kW) amplifier. (At Applied Materials)
-"Application of double-gated MOSFET in 6-T Cell SRAM" (undergrad independent research)

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-"Bandgap Characterization of Degeneratively Doped Indium-Nitride(InN)" (M.Eng Report).
-"Designing and Building a DDS" (final project of "Radio Frequency Circuits and Systems" @ Cornell).
-"A Parametric Study of Supply Voltage and Gate Length Scaling in RF CMOS" (final project "Silicon Device Fundamentals" @
Cornell).
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26. Person to be contacted in case of emergency:

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Name: _________________________________________________________
Ming Lee
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Relationship: Brother

Telephone (day): 614-596-7880 (night): 614-596-7880

Address: 2444 Lakeshore Blvd. Apt. 926, Ypsilanti MI 48198

lming@lming.net
E-mail address (if available): ______________________________________

27. Authorization for the person named below to receive information regarding the status of this application:

First Name: Last Name:

Relationship:

I certify that the information contained in this application, in the statement of purpose, and in the supporting documents is complete and
accurate, and I understand that submission of inaccurate information may be sufficient cause for denial of admission or termination of
enrollment. I further authorize Duke University to contact recommenders, institutions attended, or employers to obtain any information
related to this application for graduate study.

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Dear Sir,

Stanford cannot provide official transcript in time. This title page is typed up by me with my
grade earned and the following material is from my account at Stanford’s SCPD (Stanford
Center for Professional Development). This is the closest material I can provide regarding the
course I took at SCPD since there was not enough time to acquire official transcript (it
usually takes 6 weeks or more) at the time Professor Reynolds encouraged me to apply to
Duke to meet deadline of 2/1.

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Grade earned from EE214 Advanced Analog Integrated Circuit Design: B

Best Regards,

Chuan Lee

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Advanced Analog Integrated Circuit Design

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Analysis and design of MOS analog integrated circuits, emphasizing quantitative measures of performance and circuit 2599596
limitations. Evaluation of circuit performance by means of hand calculations and computer-aided circuit simulations. Design
of operational transconductance amplifiers, biasing circuits, and voltage references. Feedback amplifier design.

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EE214 - 014 At Stanford, Online

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Statement of Purpose Chuan Lee
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Dear Reviewer,

In the University of Florida Ph.D. program, I am trying to search for a new Ph.D.
research topic due to down sizing of the original funded project. I have communicated
with Professor Mattew S. Reynolds at Electrical & Computer Engineering Department,
and this application is the result of his encouragement.

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=== Purposes and Objectives in Undertaking Graduate Study ===

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My goal is to pursue advanced research in the area of analog mixed-signal/RF circuits
that leads to Ph.D. degree. My future career interest is inclined toward academia
positions. Industrial positions are profit driven while academia positions are research
driven; that is the motivation.

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In my Ph.D. research, I want to build upon the foundation of analog circuit design skill
set and further explore the realm of CMOS analog mixed-signal circuitry. The digital
circuitry is expanding its territory from microprocessor towards antenna/sensor, but there
must be some analog circuitry in between, and the analog circuitry must catch up with the
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ever increasing speed, information quantity and quality, while maintaining low enough
manufacturing cost in order to make the circuitry useful.

My research interest lies in pushing the limit of CMOS analog circuitry in low power
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applications, including RF circuitry and/or antenna if possible, so as to cover the whole

analog territory. Within this area, focus will be on integrated CMOS circuit, and the rest
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will be supplemental. The potential of the development/research of this area is also

popular according to the trend of consumer electronics. I believe this direction of research
will continue, even after a replacement of CMOS transistor is found.
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=== Special Interests and Plans; Strengths and Weaknesses in Your Chosen Field ===
My academic and work/internship background is a good blend of design/measure of
different kind of circuits (analog/microwave/RF); layout experience is also part of my
skill set; plus transistor physics that is essential to circuit design, is also included in my
foundation.

However, these experiences have not had a chance to come together as a flow for tapping
out a chip and verifying the result, but this is a matter of obtaining an opportunity and put
them together and I have confidence in carrying out the elemental tasks to tape out in the
research. Besides this, I also would like to strengthen my muscle in high level
electromagnetism and signal processing in order to expand my horizon for the long run in
future research activities; these two are not essential, but they are important to know.

=== Research Projects or Any Independent Research ===

Out of my interest in device physics, I had the opportunity to independently investigate
double-gate transistor characteristics with Professor S. Tiwari in undergraduate program.
I used SILVACO of ATLAS with reasonable device parameters and confirmed its device
characteristics such as high current density region and 60mV/dec of sub-threshold slope.
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I also worked with Dr. Schaff (William Schaff) in M.Eng program to investigate
degeneratively doped InN bandgap. I did research to understand InN bandgap
characterization history and the present status from the first relevant paper till the most
recent papers, and developed a good understanding of the goal and methods that was
needed to carry out the characterizations. Dr. Schaff and I produced enough data points
for his further research work and publications.

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I had the opportunity to be laboratory teaching assistant in M.Eng. program for two

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courses: “Silicon Device Fundamentals” and “RF Circuits and Systems.” Being a
laboratory TA help refreshing my memory and provided me a second chance to look at
the material, this was very rewarding.

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=== What Distinguishes Me from Other Candidates ===
I have fresh experience in industry’s two leading companies, which gives me a
comprehensive view of today’s industry needs in the respective area of the two positions.
Instead of drifting between topics and viewing graduate program as a mere degree-
making process, I apply to graduate school because I am stimulated by what I saw and
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worked on, and this gives me a strong sense and urge of researching and learning. This
industry-stimulated sense of direction, combined with my multi-discipline, well-prepared
academic background for research, distinguishes me from other candidates.
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