Office: 2360 NPB
352.392.6691

Lab: B025 NPB

hochan@phys.ufl.edu



































Ho-Bun Chan

Assistant Professor


Education

PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1999)

Research Group

Condensed Matter Experiment

Research Interest

Interests include micromechanics/microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), Casimir forces, fluctuation induced escape and subwavelength metallic structures.

Selected Publications

C. Stambaugh and H. B. Chan, “Supernarrow spectral peaks near a kinetic phase transition
in a driven, nonlinear micromechanical oscillator,” Physical Review Letters 97, 110602 (2006).

H. B. Chan and C. Stambaugh, “Fluctuation-enhanced frequency mixing in a nonlinear micromechanical oscillator,” Physical Review B 73, 224301 (2006).

C. Stambaugh and H. B. Chan, “Noise activated switching in a driven, nonlinear micromechanical oscillator,” Physical Review B 73, 172302 (2006).

H. B. Chan, Z. Marcet, Kwangje Woo, D. B. Tanner, D. W. Carr, J. E. Bower, R. A. Cirelli, E. Ferry, F. Klemens, J. Miner, C. S. Pai and J. A. Taylor, “Optical transmission through double-layer metallic subwavelength slit arrays,” Optics Letters 31, 516 (2006).

R. S. Decca, D. Lopez, H. B. Chan, E. Fischbach, D. E. Krause and C. R. Jamell, “Constraining new forces in the Casimir regime using the isoelectronic technique,” Physical Review Letters
94, 240401 (2005).