Laurens W. Molenkamp

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Laurens W. Molenkamp

Laurens W. Molenkamp (* 1956 in Garrelsweer ) is a Dutch experimental solid-state physicist .

Life

Molenkamp received his intermediate diploma in 1977 and his diploma in physical chemistry in 1980 from the University of Groningen , where he dealt in particular with coherent optical spectroscopy. After obtaining his doctorate in Groningen in 1985, he worked at the Philips research laboratories in Eindhoven , where he worked on quantum transport in semiconductor nanostructures. From 1994 he was professor at RWTH Aachen University and from 1999 professor and holder of Chair III for experimental physics at the University of Würzburg . There he heads the molecular beam epitaxy group (II-VI MBE) and deals with quantum transport and spintronics .

Act

After Andrei Bernevig and Shoucheng Zhang suggested the existence of the quantum spin Hall effect (the prototype of topological insulators ) in quantum wells (sandwich structure of a mercury telluride layer between two cadmium telluride layers), the effect was demonstrated by the Molenkamp group in Würzburg in 2007.

In 2012, he was Senior Editor at Physical Review B . Previously, he was co-editor of Physical Review Letters and Semiconductor Science and Technology, and he is co-editor of European Physics Journal-Applied Physics .

Awards

In 2010 Molenkamp received the Europhysics Prize. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and the American Physical Society . He is one of the few scientists in Europe to have received two ERC Advanced Research Grants. In 2011 he received it for research on topological insulators. In 2017 he will receive another 2.5 million euros from the European Research Council. In the new project, the so-called “exotic” superconductivity is to be researched. This occurs when a topological insulator is brought into contact with normal superconductors.

In 2012 he received the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize with Shoucheng Zhang and Charles L. Kane . In 2013 he received the Physics Frontiers Prize endowed with 300,000 euros , and in 2014 the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize . For 2017 he was awarded the Stern-Gerlach-Medal of the German Physical Society and the König-Faisal-Preis . In 2018 Molenkamp received the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art , and in 2019 he was elected to the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ University of Würzburg, Molenkamp Senior Editor Physical Review B, 2012 ( Memento of the original from December 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de
  2. ↑ BA Bernevig, Taylor L. Hughes, SC Zhang Quantum Spin Hall Effect and Topological Phase Transition in HgTe Quantum Wells , Science, Volume 314, 2006, p. 1757
  3. ↑ Markus König, Steffen Wiedmann, Christoph Brüne, Andreas Roth, Hartmut Buhmann, Laurens W. Molenkamp, ​​Xiao-Liang Qi, Shou-Cheng Zhang Quantum Spin Hall Insulator State in HgTe Quantum Wells , Science, Volume 318, 2007, p. 766
  4. ^ University of Würzburg: Top prices for chemistry and physics. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 26, 2017 ; accessed on May 10, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-wuerzburg.de
  5. ^ University of Würzburg: Another ERC grant for Laurens Molenkamp. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on May 10, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de  
  6. ↑ Laudation Oliver Buckley Prize
  7. ↑ Top prize for Würzburg physicists at the Science Information Service (idw-online.de); Retrieved December 11, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Molenkamp, ​​Laurens W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Garrelsweer