Hans-Joachim Queisser

Hans -Joachim Queisser ( born July 6, 1931 in Berlin ) is a German semiconductor physicist.

Life

Queisser studied physics at the Free University in West Berlin and at the University of Kansas and received in 1958 a Ph.D. in experimental solid state physics at the University of Göttingen. Since 1959 he worked and researched at the Shockley Transistor Corporation in Mountain View, the company of Nobel Prize winner (1956 ) William B. Shockley, who was also the start of the future Silicon Valley. Here he began silicon single crystals and solar cells.

In 1965, he joined Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, where he deals with the research of semiconductors, with a focus on the opto - electronics, employed. Here he invented a powerful super luminescent diode, which took the form of infrared LED application, for example in remote controls for electrical devices.

In 1966 he became professor of physics at the University of Frankfurt. In 1970 he was one of the founding directors of the new Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart and the associated High Magnetic Field Laboratory at the Institut Laue -Langevin in Grenoble. In 1998, he went into retirement.

From 1976 to 1977 Queisser was president of the German Physical Society. He was a member of the existing 1987-1990 Academy of Sciences in Berlin and is entpflichtetes full member of the Berlin- Brandenburg Academy of Sciences.

His doctoral heard Nobel Laureate Horst Ludwig Störmer.