Klaus Ploog

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Klaus H. Ploog (born September 27, 1941 ) is a German chemist and materials scientist . From 1992 to 2006 he was director of the Paul Drude Institute for Solid State Electronics .

Life and education

Ploog's school time lasted from 1948 to 1961. From 1961 to 1963 he studied chemistry at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel and then moved from 1964 to 1967 to the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), where he graduated in 1967 as a chemist graduated. Then doctorate Ploog 1967-1969 at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and completed his doctorate in 1970 with summa cum laude from. This was followed by positions at the LMU (1970–1971 with tenure track ), from 1971 to 1973 at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and the Forschungszentrum Jülich and from 1974 to 1987 as a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart . From 1987 to 1991 Ploog worked here as an associate professor , before he was appointed professor at the Technical University of Darmstadt from 1991 to 1993 .

In 1992 Ploog became director of the Paul Drude Institute for Solid State Electronics in Berlin . He held this office until 2006. In 1993 he was appointed professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In 2001 Ploog was a visiting professor at the Technical University of Eindhoven . In 2004 he became a Fellow of the Institute of Physics . Over the years, many guest stays at various universities and institutes followed. In 2006, Ploog retired, after which he moved to the Tokyo Institute of Technology as a visiting professor .

Ploog is one of the 100 most cited scientists in physics worldwide. He has written more than 1500 publications and has been cited over 30,000 times.

Research priorities

Klaus Ploog was one of the pioneers of molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) in Europe as early as the 1970s . He used the MBE technique for the production of layered semiconductor structures . Since the thickness and the interfaces can be adjusted at the atomic level, it was possible to design defined electronic properties. In the 1980s, complicated III-V compound semiconductors were manufactured by Ploog . This made it possible to demonstrate experimentally quantum phenomena that had been predicted theoretically.

Awards and honors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Curriculum Vitae. Retrieved May 23, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e A pioneer of nanostructures. December 20, 2006, accessed May 23, 2016 .
  3. ↑ a b Welker Prize for Prof. Dr. Klaus H. Ploog. August 26, 2003, accessed May 23, 2016 .
  4. ↑ a b FEATURE: New award aims to inspire bright young academics. Taipei Times, December 11, 2007, accessed May 23, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Eugen and Ilse Seibold Prize 2007. DFG, accessed on May 23, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Ploog, Klaus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ploog, Klaus H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German university professor, physicist and chemist
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1941