Zhores Ivanovich Alferov

Zhores Ivanovich Alferov (also Alfyorov) (Russian: Жоре́с Ива́нович Алфёров) (born March 15, 1930) is a Russian physicist who contributed significantly to the creation of modern heterostructure physics and electronics. Image File history File links Alferov_jores. ... March 15 is the 74th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (75th in Leap years). ... 1930 (MCMXXX) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... A physicist is a scientist trained in physics. ...

Alferov was born in Vitebsk, Belarus, in belorussian - jewish family. In 1952 he graduated from V. I. Ulyanov (Lenin) Electrotechnical Institute in Leningrad (abbreviated to LETI). Since 1953 he has worked in the Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences (Russian Academy of Sciences since 1991). From the Institute he earned several scientific degrees: a Candidate of Sciences in Technology in 1961 and a Doctor of Sciences in Physics and Mathematics in 1970. He has been director of the Institute since 1987. He was elected a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1972, and a full member in 1979. From 1989 he has been Vice-President of the USSR (Russian since 1991) Academy of Sciences and President of its Saint Petersburg Scientific Center. Categories: Belarus-related stubs | Towns in Belarus ... Belarusian can refer to: the Belarusian language the Belarusian people adjective for Belarus This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ... 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and Petrograd (Петрогра́д, 1914–1924), is a city located in Northwestern Russia on the delta of the river Neva at the east end of the Gulf of Finland... 1953 (MCMLIII) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute is one of Russias largest research centers specialized in physics and technology. ... Russian Academy of Sciences (Росси́йская Акаде́мия Нау́к) is the national academy of Russia. ... Russian Academy of Sciences: main building Russian Academy of Sciences (Росси́йская Акаде́мия Нау́к) is the national academy of Russia. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Russian Academy of Sciences (Росси́йская Акаде́мия Нау́к) is the national academy of Russia. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1972 calendar). ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and Petrograd (Петрогра́д, 1914–1924), is a city located in Northwestern Russia on the delta of the river Neva at the east end of the Gulf of Finland...

Research area

Since 1962 he has been working in the area of semiconductor heterostructures. His contributions to physics and technology of semiconductor heterostructures, especially investigations of injection properties, development of lasers, solar cells, LED's, and epitaxy processes have led to the creation of modern heterostructure physics and electronics. 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... A semiconductor is a material with an electrical conductivity that is intermediate between that of an insulator and a conductor. ... Lasers range in size from microscopic diode lasers (top) with numerous applications, to football field sized neodymium glass lasers (bottom) used for inertial confinement fusion, nuclear weapons research and other physics experiments. ... A solar cell, or photovoltaic cell, sometimes called sun battery is a semiconductor device consisting of a large-area p-n junction diode, which in the presence of sunlight is capable of generating usable electrical energy. ... External links LEd Category: TeX ... Epitaxy is the growth of crystals of one material on the crystal face of another (heteroepitaxy) or the same (homoepitaxy) material, such that the two materials have a defined relative structural orientation. ...

Awards

• Lenin Prize (1972)
• USSR State Prize (1984)
• Ioffe Prize (Russian Academy of Sciences, 1996)
• He is a Nobel laureate in physics for 2000 together with Herbert Kroemer and Jack Kilby.
• Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology (2001)

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External links

• Biography, on the website of Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute
• Autobiography, on the website of Nobel Foundation web group in Stockholm
• Zhores I. Alferov, Autobiography in English