Gerhard Klimeck

Gerhard Klimeck ( born March 15, 1966 in Essen) is a German American scientist, university professor, an author in the field of molecular nanotechnology and electronics.

Life and work

Youth and Education

After leaving school at the Carl - Humann -Gymnasium in Essen, he began in 1985 to study at the Ruhr- University Bochum (RUB ). In 1988 he traveled as an exchange student ( Friedrich Ebert Foundation ) to Indiana and studied at Purdue University in West Lafayette, the Chair Prof. Supriyo Datta at. In 1990 he finished his studies in Bochum in Electrical Engineering ( Dipl. -Ing. ), Received his doctorate in 1994 at Purdue University for doctoral ( Ph.D.) and joined the research group Nanoelectronics at the Texas Instruments (TI ) to.

Work, research, teaching

Gerhard Klimeck is head of the Nanoelectronic Modeling Group since December 2003 and professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Purdue University. Since May 2009 he has been director of the National Science Foundation Network for Computational Nanotechnology ( NCN). He participated for at NASA at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory ( JPL ) of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech ) and is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE ) and the American Physical Society (APS ). Gerhard Klimeck filed for three patents and has published a number of relevant books and publications on nanoscience, quantum mechanics, semiconductors, electron transport chain, tunnel effect, field effect transistors and resonant tunneling diodes, etc. In recognition of his achievements he has been awarded several times.

Works

• Et al.: Quest user's manual. Purdue University, West Lafayette 1993.
• Electron - Photon and Electron - Electron Interactions in Quantum Transport. Purdue University, West Lafayette 1994.
• With Michael J. McLennan, Supriyo Datta: squalid - 2D. Version 1.0 and 1.1 a guide for the user. Purdue University, School of Electrical Engineering, West Lafayette, 1999.
• With Mark Lundstrom: IWCE -10, 2004 10th International Workshop on Computational Electronics. . Purdue University, West Lafayette, Institute of Electrical and Elektronics Enigineers ( IEEE), Piscataway Township, 2004.
• With Marek Korkusinski: Atomistic Simulations of Long - Range Strain and Spatial Asymmetry Molecular States of Seven quantum dots. Purdue University, West Lafayette, Defense Technical Information Center ( DTIC), Fort Belavoir ( Fairfax County) in 2006.
• With Sirni Chakravarthi, Reza Arghavani: Exenting Moore 's Law with advanced channel materials. Materials Research Cociety, Warrendale ( PA ) 2007, ISBN 978-1-55899-955-8.
• With Dragica Vasileska, Stephen M. Goodnick: Computational Elektronics. Semi Classical and Quantum Device Modeling and Simulation. CRC Press, Boca Raton, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4200-6483-4.

Patents

• 2002: U.S. 6490193 - Forming and Storing data in a memory cell.
• 2003: U.S. 6667490 - Method and system for generating a memory cell.
• 2012: U.S. 858 465 - Tunneling Field - Effect Transistor with low-leakage CurrentY.

Awards / Honors

• 2002: Dr. Edward C. Stone Award ( ceremony) ( Dr. Edward Stone Award for Outstanding Research Publication)
• 2004-2011: nine times the NASA Tech Briefs Award
• 2011: Gordon Bell price ( Gordon Bell Prize )