Yook-Kong Yong

Yook-Kong Yong

Professor

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Phone:848-445-3219
Fax:732-445-0577
Email:yyong@soe.rutgers.edu
Office:RWH 322D
Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday 2:00-3:00 pm
Website: Yook-Kong Yong

Professor Yong received the B.S. degree in civil engineering(1979) from Lafayette College, Pennsylvannia, U.S.A., the M.A.(1981) and Ph.D.(1984) degrees in structures/mechanics from Princeton University, New Jersey, U.S.A. He is a registered Professional Engineer in New Jersey. He serves as an associate editor for the journal IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control. He is a member of the IEEE society. At the IEEE Society, he serves as the chair of Technical Program Committee for the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium 2011, and as a member of the Technical Program Committee for the IEEE Ultrasonics Symposia, and IEEE Frequency Control Symposia in the years 1989 to present. He has served as a University Senator, and a member of the New Brunswick Faculty Council.

Education

   Ph.D. Princeton, 1984
   M.S. Princeton, 1981
   B.S. Lafayette College, 1979

Honors

  • Carrol Phillips Bassett Civil Engineering Prize from Lafayette College, Chi Epsilon Civil Engineering and Tau Beta Pi Honor societies

Professional Affiliations

  • Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
  • Registered Professional Engineer (NJ)

Selected Publications

Recent Publications

  • “Reduction of Frequency Deviations in Quartz Resonators by Electric Potentials of Plate Electrodes”, Jian Feng Chen, Yook-Kong Yong, Randall Kubena, Deborah Kirby and Davit Chang, Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, Chicago, Illinois, 2014
  • “Langatate and Langasite Microacoustic Gyro Sensors”, Gobong Choi, and Yook-Kong Yong, , Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, Chicago, Illinois, 2014
  • “Special Amplitude-Frequency Effects in VHF Quartz Resonators”, Randall Kubena, Richard Joyce, Brian Rose and Yook-Kong Yong, Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium, Taipei, Taiwan, 2014
  • “Modeling Approach to Analyze Bonding Stress in UHF Quartz Resonators”, Yook-Kong Yong, Randall Kubena, Deborah Kirby, Raviv Perahia, and David Chang, Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium, Prague, Czech Republic, 2013
  • “Optimizing UHF Quartz MEMS Resonators for High Thermal Stability”, D.J. Kirby, Y.K. Yong, R.L. Kubena, R. Perahia, D.T. Chang, H. Nguyen, F.P. Stratton, R.J. Joyce, H.P. Moyer R.G. Nagele & P.D. Brewer, Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium, Prague, Czech Republic, 2013
  • “UHF Quartz MEMS Oscillators for Dynamics-Based System Enhancements”, R.L. Kubena, D.J. Kirby, Yook-Kong Yong, D.T. Chang, F.P. Stratton, H.D. Nguyen, R.J. Joyce, R. Perahia, H.P. Moyer, and R.G. Nagele, Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium, Prague, Czech Republic, 2013
  • "SH-SAW propagation in layered functionally graded piezoelectric material structures loaded with viscous liquid", Jianke Du, Kai Xian, Yook-Kong Yong, and Ji Wang, Acta Mechanica, 04/2012, Vol. 212, No.3, pp. 217-281.
  • "A New Nonlinear Coupling of the Fundamental and its Harmonic Overtone Thickness Shear Modes for Improvement of Resonator Q", Yook-Kong Yong, Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, Dresden, Germany, 2012.
  • "Resonator Q Increase and Noise Reduction in Third Overtone Thickness Shear Resonators", Yook-Kong Yong, Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium, Baltimore, Maryland, 2012
  • "Nonlinear Behavior of an UHF Quartz Resonator in an Oscillating System", H. Moyer, R. Nagele, R. Kubena, R. Joyce, D. Kirby, P. Brewer, D. Chang, Y-K Yong, Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium, Baltimore, Maryland, 2012
  • "Nonlinearities for Parametric Pumping of Quartz UHF Oscillators", R.L. Kubena, Y-K Yong, D.J. Kirby and R.J. Joyce, Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium, San Francisco, California, 2011.
  • "Investigation of Lithium Niobate (LN) and Lithium Tantalate (LT) for Ultra-High Frequency (UHF) Monolithic BAW Filter Applications", Mihir S Patel and Yook-Kong Yong, Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, San Diego, California, 2010
  • "Effects of electromagnetic radiation on the Q of quartz resonators", Yook-Kong Yong, Mihir Patel, John Vig, and Arthur Ballato,  IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, Vol. 56, No. 2, 2009, pp. 353-360.
  • "Conceptual Design of a High-Q, 3.4 GHz Thin Film Quartz Resonator", Mihir Patel and Yook-Kong Yong, IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, Vol. 56, No. 5, 2009, pp. 912-920.
  • "Drive Level Dependency in Quartz Resonators", Mihir Patel, Yook-Kong Yong and Masako Tanaka, International Journal of Solids and Structures, Volume 46, Issue 9, 2009,  pp. 1856-1871.
  • "SH-SAW propagation in layered functionally graded piezoelectric material structures loaded with viscous liquid " Jianke Du, Kai Xian, Yook-Kong Yong and Ji Wang, Acta Mechanica, December 19, 2009, ISSN 0001-5970 (Print) 1619-6937 (Online), DOI 10.1007/s00707-009-0258-0
  • "Effect of dissipation on a shear horizontal surface acoustic wave in a functionally graded piezoelectric material structure" Jianke Du, Kai Xian, and Yook-Kong Yong 2009 Smart Material Structures 18 095012 (7pp)   doi: 10.1088/0964-1726/18/9/095012
  • "Eigen-frequency and Frequency response Calculation of Piezoelectric Resonator Parameters", Yook-Kong Yong, Frank Fang, Shih Chuang, Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, Rome, Italy, 2009.
  • "The Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis of Quartz Crystal Resonators", Ji Wang, Leping Chen, Jianke Du, Yook-Kong Yong and Lihong Wang, Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, Rome, Italy, 2009.
  • "Effects of electrode inertia on vibration of piezoelectric plate with dissipation" Jianke Du, Xin Yin, Yook-Kong Yong, Kai Xian, and Ji Wang, Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium, Besancon, France, 2009.
  • "An analysis of vibrations of quartz crystal plates with nonlinear Mindlin plate equations", Ji Wang, Rongxing Wu, Yook-Kong Yong, Jianke Du, Dejin Huang, Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium, Besancon, France, 2009.
  • "Love waves in functionally graded piezoelectric material structures loaded with viscuous liquid", Jianke Du, Kai Xian, Yook-Kong Yong, and Ji Wang,  Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium, Besancon, France, 2009.
  • “Propagation of Love waves in prestressed piezoelectric layered structures loaded with viscous liquid", Jianke Du, Kai Xian, Ji Wang and Yook-Kong Yong:, Acta Mechanica Solida Sinica, Vol. 21, No. 6, December, 2008.
  • "Love wave propagation in layered piezoelectric structure with dissipation", Jianke Du, Kai Xian, Ji Wang and Yook-Kong Yong, Ultrasonics, (2008), doi:10.1016/j.ultras.2008.10.001
  • "Dedicated Finite Elements for Electrode Thin Films on Quartz Resonators", Sonal A Srivastava, Yook-Kong Yong, Masako Tanaka, and Tsutomu Imai, IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, Vol. 55, No. 8, August 2008, pp. 1686-1697.
  • “A Finite Element Analysis of Frequency-Temperature Relations of AT-cut Quartz Crystal Resonators with Higher-Order Mindlin Plate Theory”, J. Wang, J-D Yu, Y-K Yong and T. Imai, Acta Mechanica, ISSN: 0001-5970, Vol: 199, Issue: 1-4, Date: 2008-8, pp. 117-130.