# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alfred-y-cho
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:03:04.390Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alfred-y-cho"
name: "Alfred Y. Cho"
slug: "alfred-y-cho"
description: "Alfred Yi Cho is a Chinese-American electrical engineer, inventor, and optical engineer. He is the Adjunct Vice President of Semiconductor Research at Alcatel-Lucent's Bell Labs. He is known as the \"father of molecular beam epitaxy\"; a technique he developed at that facility in the late 1960s. He is also the co-inventor, with Federico Capasso of quantum cascade lasers at Bell Labs in 1994."
tagline: "Chinese electrical engineer"
gender: "male"
country:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1937-07-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  historical:           12.01926
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump