Chen Xingbi

Chen Xingbi (; 28 January 1931 – 4 December 2019) was a Chinese electronics engineer and professor at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. Known for his invention of superjunction power semiconductor devices, he was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a life fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He was inducted into IEEE's ISPSD Hall of Fame in 2019.

Early life and education Chen was born on 28 January 1931 in Shanghai, Republic of China, with his ancestral home in Pujiang County, Zhejiang. His father, Chen Dezheng , was a Kuomintang politician who was dismissed for offending Chiang Kai-shek. His mother, Xu Hemei , studied literature at Shanghai University.

Chen entered primary school at the age of only three. When he was six, the Second Sino-Japanese War broke out and the Japanese attacked Shanghai. Chen's family fled the city for Chongqing, China's wartime capital. As a result of the Japanese bombing of Chongqing, the family fled again to the countryside in Hechuan, where he completed his primary and middle school education under harsh conditions. He also developed China's first VDMOS, LDMOS, insulated-gate bipolar transistor (IGBT), and other semiconductor devices. He published more than 200 research papers and held over 40 patents in China, the United States, and other countries.

He was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1999 and a life fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2019.