"Nobel Prize in Physics" Herbert Kroemer Hand Signed Announcement. 2000 for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed. Kroemer is professor emiretus of electrical and. Germany, with a dissertation on.
His research into transistors was a stepping stone. To the later development of. Kroemer worked in a number of. He joined the UCSB faculty in 1976, focusing its semiconductor.
Research program on the emerging compound semiconductor technology rather than. First published in 1980, and still used today. Also the author of the textbook. Materials Science and Applied Physics.Kroemer was later elected as a member of. He always preferred to work on. Problems that are ahead of. The 1950s and being the first to point out that advantages could be gained in. Various semiconductor devices by incorporating.
Most notably, though, in 1963 he proposed the. Which is now a central concept in the field of semiconductor lasers. Became an early pioneer in. Concentrating on applying the technology to untried new materials.