Herbert Kroemer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Herbert Kroemer

Nobel laureate in physics

Date of Birth: 25-Aug-1928

Place of Birth: Weimar, Thuringia, Germany

Profession: physicist, university teacher

Nationality: United States, Germany

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Herbert Kroemer

  • Herbert Kroemer (born August 25, 1928), a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, received his Ph.D.
  • in theoretical physics in 1952 from the University of Göttingen, Germany, with a dissertation on hot electron effects in the then-new transistor, setting the stage for a career in research on the physics of semiconductor devices.
  • In 2000, Kroemer, along with Zhores I.
  • Alferov, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed- and opto-electronics".
  • The other co-recipient of the Nobel Prize was Jack Kilby for his invention and development of integrated circuits and micro-chips. He worked in a number of research laboratories in Germany and the United States and taught electrical engineering at the University of Colorado from 1968 to 1976.
  • He joined the UCSB faculty in 1976, focusing its semiconductor research program on the emerging compound semiconductor technology rather than on mainstream silicon technology. Kroemer was elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1997 and the National Academy of Sciences in 2003.
  • He always preferred to work on problems that are ahead of mainstream technology.
  • In the 1950s, he invented the drift transistor and was the first to point out that advantages could be gained in various semiconductor devices by incorporating heterojunctions.
  • Most notably, in 1963 he proposed the concept of the double-heterostructure laser, which is now a central concept in the field of semiconductor lasers.
  • Kroemer became an early pioneer in molecular beam epitaxy, concentrating on applying the technology to untried new materials. Along with Charles Kittel he co-authored the popular textbook Thermal Physics, first published in 1980, and still used today.
  • He is also the author of the textbook Quantum Mechanics for Engineering, Materials Science and Applied Physics.Kroemer is an atheist.

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