Karl Leo

Karl Leo (born 10 July 1960 Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German physicist.

Life

Leo began after graduating from high school in 1979 in St. Georgen in the Black Forest and his military service in 1980 at the University of Freiburg with the study of physics, from which he graduated in 1985 with a diploma thesis at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems. He went in 1986 for his doctoral thesis at the Max - Planck - Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart and his doctorate in 1988 at the University of Stuttgart. After two years as Otto Hahn Fellow at the AT & T Bell Laboratories in Holmdel (New Jersey ), he went to the Institute of Semiconductor Electronics, RWTH Aachen and his habilitation in 1993. Winter semester 1993/94 he received a C4 professor of optoelectronics at the Institute for Applied Photo Physics at the Technical University of Dresden, whose leadership he holds since then ( with an interruption from 2003 to 2006 ). From 2001 to 2013 he also worked for the Fraunhofer -Gesellschaft, most recently as director of the institute of the Fraunhofer Research Institution for organics, materials, and Electronic Devices COMEDD in Dresden.

He is married and has two children.

Services

Leo works in the field of semiconductor optics and physics of thin organic layers. 1992 he managed the production and proof of Blochoszillationen in a semiconductor superlattice, an effect which was considered not detectable long. With organic solids he realized new device concepts, including organic light emitting diodes with the lowest operating voltages. Leo was in 2002 awarded the Leibniz Prize, the most prestigious German research award. He is co-founder of the company Heliatek (Dresden / Ulm ), which is engaged in the development and production of organic solar cells.

Awards

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