Professor Herbert Kroemer
2000 Nobel Physics Laureate

Selected Early Publications:
[1] H. Kroemer, “Quasi-Electric and Quasi-Magnetic Fields in Non-Uniform Semiconductors,” RCA Review, vol. 18, pp. 332-342, 1957.
—, “Theory of a Wide-Gap Emitter for Transistors,” Proc. IRE, vol. 45, pp. 1535-1537, 1957.

[2] H. Kroemer, “A Proposed Class of Heterojunction Injection Lasers,” Proc. IEEE, vol. 51, pp. 1782-1783, 1963.

[3] H. Kroemer, “Solid State Radiation Emitters,” U.S. Patent 3,309,553, March 14, 1967. (Filed Aug. 16, 1963).

[4] H. Kroemer, “Theory of the Gunn Effect,” Proc. IEEE, vol. 52, p. 1736, 1964.

[5] H. Kroemer, “Heterostructures for Everything: Device Principle of the 1980’s?,” Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., vol. 20 (Supplement 20-1), pp. 9-13, 1981.

[6] H. Kroemer, “Heterostructure Bipolar Transistors and Integrated Circuits,” Proc. IEEE, vol. 70, pp. 13-25, 1982.

Selected Recent Publications

[7] M. Thomas, H.-R. Blank, K. C. Wong, H. Kroemer, and E. Hu, “Current-voltage characteristics of semiconductor-coupled superconducting weak links with large electrode separations,” Phys. Rev. B, vol. 58, pp. 11676-11684, 1998.

[8] H. Kroemer, “Quasiparticle dynamics in ballistic weak links under weak voltage bias: an elementary treatment,” Superlattices and Microstructures, vol. 25: pp, 877-889, 1999.

[9] H. Kroemer, “Large-amplitude oscillation dynamics and domain suppression in a superlattice Bloch oscillator,” cond-mat/0009311, Sept. 2000.

[10] H. Kroemer, “Nobel Lecture: Quasi-electric fields and band offsets: Teaching electrons new tricks,” Reviews of Modern Physics, vol. 73, pp. 783-793, 2001.

[11] H. Kroemer, “Speculations about Future Directions,” J. Crystal Growth, vol. 207, pp. 17-22, 2003.

[12] H. Kroemer, “Wave Packet Dynamics in a Biased Finite-Length Superlattice,” cond-mat/0310019, Oct. 2003

[13] H. Kroemer, “The Thomas precession factor in spin-orbit interaction,”
Am. .f Physics, vol. 72, pp. 51-52 2004.

[14] H. Kroemer, “The 6.1 Angstrom family (InAs, GaSb, AlSb) and its heterostructures: a selective review,” Physica E, vol. 20, pp. 196-203, 2004.

[15] H. Kroemer, “Nano-whatever: Do we really know where we are heading?” Physica Status Solidi (a), vol. 202, pp. 957-964, 2005.