Jagdeep Shah

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Jagdeep Shah (born September 3, 1942 in Surat ) is an Indian-American physicist.

Life

Shah graduated from Bombay University with a bachelor's degree in 1962, was teaching assistant in physics at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for two years, and received his doctorate in 1967 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . From 1967 he became a member of Bell Laboratories , where he became Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff in 1985. In 2001 he left Bell Labs and went to DARPA as a project manager in the microsystem technology department.

At Bell Laboratories, he dealt with the optical and electronic properties of semiconductors, ultrafast dynamics of semiconductors and nanostructures and the understanding of the dynamics of ultrafast electronic, optoelectronic and photonic components.

In 1990 he received the Humboldt Research Award . From 1996 to 1998 he received a Distinguished Traveling Lecturer Award from the American Physical Society . In 2000 he received the Max Born Award . He is a member of the Solid State Sciences Committee of the National Academy of Sciences .

He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America .

Fonts

  • Ultrafast spectroscopy of semiconductors and semiconductor nanostructures . Springer Verlag, 1996; 2nd edition 1999
  • as editor: Hot carriers in semiconductor nanostructures: physics and applications . Academic Press, 1992

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Life data according to American Men and Women of Science . Thomson Gale, 2004