Gerhard Lutz (physicist)

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Gerhard Lutz (born October 29, 1939 in Klagenfurt ; † April 28, 2017 in Vienna ) was an Austrian physicist . He dealt with semiconductor detectors in particle physics.

Lutz received his doctorate in 1967 at the University of Hamburg ( coherent bremsstrahlung and pair formation on diamond single crystals ). In 1967 he received the Röntgen Prize from the University of Giessen . Together with Lothar Strüder, he was head of the semiconductor laboratory (HLL) of the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich, where he worked from 1972 until his retirement in 2004.

In 2011 he received the TNPSS Radiation Instrumentation Outstanding Achievement Award from the IEEE . In 2017, together with Erik HM Heijne and Robert Klanner, he received the High Energy and Particle Physics Prize for the development of the silicon strip detectors, which have been used in large accelerator experiments such as the Atlas detector at the LHC since the late 1970s and early 1980s . In the late 1970s, based on the work of Josef Kemmer (1938–2007, TU Munich) and Robert Klanner , he demonstrated the production of silicon strip detectors using planar technology (and independently of a group around Erik Heijne). They were used in the NA11 detector (active 1978 to 1982) and NA32 detector (active 1982 to 1986) at CERN . This was a technological breakthrough at the time. Lutz also played an essential role in the silicon vertex detector of the ALEPH experiment at the LEP with double-sided silicon strip detectors and CAMEX64 readout chips in CMOS technology. He was co-developer of the DEPFET sensor with integrated signal amplifier, which is used for high-precision measurements of the collision point, for example in the KEK's Belle II experiment , and contributed to the development of silicon pixel detectors and silicon drift detectors . A standard work on semiconductor detectors comes from him.

Lutz co-founded the company PNSensor in 2002 and PNDetector in 2007.

Fonts

  • Semiconductor Radiation Detectors, Springer 2007

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Lutz, obituary notice, Süddeutsche Zeitung . Retrieved May 20, 2017.
  2. ↑ Personalalien, Physik Journal, No. 8/9, 2004, p. 38.
  3. ↑ a b c d Siegfried Bethke , Allen Caldwell, Robert Klanner, Lothar Strüder: Obituary for Gerhard Lutz . In: Physics Journal . tape 16 , no. 7 , 2017, p. 66 .
  4. ↑ Laudation High Energy and Particle Physics Prize 2017 , here on the occasion of the award ceremony to Heijne am Nikhef
personal data
SURNAME Lutz, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian physicist
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Klagenfurt
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 2017
Place of death Vienna