Hans-Joachim Queisser

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Hans-Joachim Queisser (born July 6, 1931 in Berlin ) is a German semiconductor physicist .

Life

Queisser studied physics at the Free University in West Berlin and at the University of Kansas and received his doctorate in experimental solid-state physics from the University of Göttingen in 1958 . From 1959 he worked and researched at the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory in Mountain View , the company of Nobel Prize winner (1956) William B. Shockley , which was also the starting point of the future Silicon Valley . Here he researched silicon single crystals and solar cells. His work with Shockley, in which an upper bound for the efficiency of pn-junction -based solar cells was derived, is considered to be one of the key contributions in solar cell research, but it did not attract broad attention until around 40 years after its publication.

In 1965 he moved to Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill , New Jersey , where he was engaged in research into semiconductors , with a focus on opto-electronics . Here he invented a powerful superluminescent diode that was used as an infrared LED, for example in remote controls for electrical devices.

In 1966 he became professor of physics at the University of Frankfurt . In 1970 he was one of the founding directors of the new Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart and of the associated high-field magnet laboratory at the Laue-Langevin Institute in Grenoble . In 1998 he retired.

From 1976 to 1977 Queisser was President of the German Physical Society . He was a member of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin, which existed from 1987 to 1990, and is a full member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences . In 1992 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society , in 1994 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina and since 2012 he has been an Honorary Fellow of the Japan Society of Applied Physics . In 1985 he received the first medal for scientific journalism from the DPG.

Nobel laureate Horst Ludwig Störmer is one of his doctoral students .

literature

Fonts

  • Editor: X-Ray Optics: Applications to Solids, Springer 1977
  • Information technology: Promotion of institutional research and development; Report of the Queisser Commission to the Federal Ministry for Research and Technology, Federal Ministry for Research and Technology, Bonn 1985
  • with Peter Wagner: Photoelectric solar energy use, technical status, economic efficiency, environmental compatibility, Kohlhammer 1985
  • Crystalline crises: microelectronics - ways of research, battle for markets, Piper, 1985, 2nd edition 1987

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ W. Shockley, HJ Queisser: Detailed balance limit of efficiency of pn junction solar cells . In: J. Appl. Phys. tape 32 , no. 3 , 1961, pp. 510-519 , doi : 10.1063 / 1.1736034 .
  2. ↑ Werner Marx: The Shockley-Queisser paper - A notable example of a scientific sleeping beauty . In: Annals of Physics . tape 526 , no. 5–6 , 2014, pp. A41 – A45 , doi : 10.1002 / andp.201400806 (English, wiley.com [PDF]).
  3. ↑ Hans Queisser. Computer History Museum, accessed February 18, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Former presidents or chairmen. DPG, accessed on February 18, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Prof. Dr. Drs. Hc Hans-Joachim Queisser. bbaw.de, accessed on February 18, 2018 .
  6. ↑ APS Fellow Archive. Retrieved January 25, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Queisser. In: Directory of Members. Leopoldina, accessed on February 18, 2018 .
  8. ↑ 2012 JSAP Fellow Award Recipients. JSAP, 2012, accessed February 18, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Queisser, Hans-Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German semiconductor physicist
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin