About Herbert Kroemer
Herbert Kroemer was a German–American solid-state physicist who, along with Zhores Alferov, received the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics "for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed- and opto-electronics." He was Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research into transistors was a stepping stone to the later development of mobile phone technologies. Herbert Kroemer was born on August 25, 1928, in Weimar, Germany. Patent 5067828 Transferred electron effective mass modulator (Herbert Kroemer) U.S. Kroemer became an early pioneer in molecular beam epitaxy, concentrating on applying the technology to untried new materials.
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