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March 4, 2002

Quasi-Electric Fields and Band Offset: Teaching Electrons New Tricks

Dr. Herbert Kroemer
University of California, Santa Barbara

Darwin 103
3:00 PM

Award Recipient: Nobel Prize

Dr. Herbert Kroemer of the University of California, Santa Barbara will discuss the ideas behind semiconductor heterostructures, which are dominating compound-semiconductor devices, and even much of semiconductor basic physics research.