Jerome Faist

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Jérôme Faist (born January 23, 1962 in Geneva ) is a Swiss physicist and has been a professor at the Institute for Quantum Electronics at ETH Zurich since 2007 .

Scientific career

Jérôme Faist studied at the EPF Lausanne under Franz-Karl Reinhart , where he obtained his bachelor's degree in 1985 and his doctorate in the field of optoelectronics in 1989.

He then went to IBM in Rüschlikon near Zurich , before moving to the Bell Laboratories in 1991 in Federico Capasso's group . There he succeeded in 1994 together with Capasso, Deborah Sivco, Carlo Sirtori, Albert Hutchinson and Alfred Y. Cho to experimentally implement a quantum cascade laser with the help of molecular beam epitaxy . This earned him various prizes, such as the IEE premium price 1995, the IEEE / LEOS William Streifer Award 1998, the Michael Lunn Award 1999, the ISCS Young Scientist Award 1999 and the Swiss National Latsis Award 2002. For 2019 he was awarded the Julius -Springer Award for Applied Physics .

In 1997 he was appointed professor at the University of Neuchâtel , where he stayed until 2007. Here he founded the Alpes Lasers company to market the quantum cascade laser he helped develop. In that year he was offered a position at ETH Zurich, where he has held the chair for quantum electronics since then. Here Jérôme Faist is also head of the FIRST Center for Micro- and Nanoscience at the ETH Zurich.

In 2012, together with Federico Capasso, he reached the finals of the European Inventor Prize awarded by the European Patent Office for their development of the quantum cascade laser in the “Non-European countries” category.

His current research focus is on the development of high-power quantum cascade lasers in the infrared range , as well as the physics of coherent intersubband transitions in strong magnetic fields .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jérôme Faist: High Power Room Temperature Emission Quantum Cascade Lasers at λ = 9µm (PDF; 7.4 MB)
  2. ↑ Jerome Faist, Federico Capasso, Deborah L. Sivco, Carlo Sirtori, Albert L. Hutchinson and Alfred Y. Cho: Quantum Cascade Laser. In: Science. Volume 264, No. 5158, pp. 553–556 ( digitized version )
  3. ^ Supélec: "125th Birthday of the International Society SEE - A Future in Light" , 26./27. March 2009, accessed December 26, 2012
  4. ↑ Swiss National Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research: “The physicist Jérôme Faist receives the National Latsis Prize 2002” Bern, January 16, 2003
  5. ↑ ISLC-IEEE: "Jérôme Faist"
  6. ↑ EPO: "A new class of semiconductor laser"
personal data
SURNAME Faist, Jerome
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss physicist
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva