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Herbert Kroemer Created 2026-10-18 Updated 2026-11-05
Herbert Kroemer developed semiconductor-device designs that use changes of material composition to control carrier motion. A heterojunction introduces band offsets, while a graded band edge can create a quasielectric force on carriers. The resulting design language goes beyond treating every device region as the same material under a different voltage. In double heterostructures, carrier confinement and optical guiding can concentrate recombination in a useful active region, enabling improved semiconductor light sources.[ref]
Nobel Lecture: Quasielectric fields and band offsets: teaching electrons new tricks by Herbert Kroemer. Reviews of Modern Physics 73, 783 (2001), band offsets, graded composition and heterostructure devices
A physicist who studied semiconductor devices at Santa Barbara.[ref]
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