Robert C. Miller
Robert Charles Miller (born February 2, 1925 in State College , Pennsylvania , † December 9, 2016 ) was an American physicist.
Miller grew up in Yonkers , New York State . From 1943 to 1946 he was a member of the US Army and took part in the hostilities in Europe during World War II . In 1948 he got a bachelor's degree in chemistry, in 1952 he earned a master's degree in physics from Cornell University . There he also received his doctorate in physics in 1956. From 1954 he worked at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill , where he was involved in the design of electronic devices, diagnostics for gas lasers, photovoltaic devices, micro-storage with lasers and semiconductors (e.g. diffusion in III-V semiconductors).
Together with Joseph A. Giordmaine in 1965 at Bell Laboratories, he developed the first tunable optical parametric oscillator . For this they both received the RW Wood Prize in 1986 . In 1975 he and his colleagues demonstrated for the first time how a special semiconductor laser , the semiconductor quantum well laser, works . In 1988 Miller retired.
literature
- Robin Storey: Robert C. Miller . In: Physics Today . February 21, 2017, doi : 10.1063 / PT.5.6266 .
Web links
- Contributors to the issue . In: Bell Systems Technical Journal . tape 61 , September 7, 1982, pp. 1551 ( archive.org ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Giordmaine, Miller: Tunable Coherent Parametric Oscillation in at Optical Frequencies, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 14, 1965, pp. 973-976
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| SURNAME | Miller, Robert C. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Miller, Robert Charles (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 2, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | State College (Pennsylvania) |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 9, 2016 |