Friday, November 15, 2013

2013 Dirac Medal Awarded to Sir Michael Pepper- Abstract Semiconductor Nanostructures and Quantum Phenomena



Congratulations to Professor Sir Michael Pepper
http://www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/research/2013-dirac-medal-awarded              
2013 Dirac Medal Awarded
Professor Sir Michael Pepper will be awarded the 2013 Dirac Medal and present a public lecture at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) on 21 November at 6pm.
Professor Pepper will present his lecture on "Semiconductor Nanostructures and Quantum Phenomena" and will also be awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University on the night.


Abstract:
Industry innovation has developed a combination of electron beam lithography and advanced semiconductor growth. This has stimulated interest in discovering more about the basic properties of semiconductor nanostructures.
Professor Pepper will give the Dirac Lecture on advanced semiconductor growth technology. The Lecture will show how this technology, which was developed for the information technology industry, has allowed the creation of new types of structures for investigating the quantum aspects of electron transport. It will also show how the dimensionality which is experienced by the electrons can be reduced from 3 to 2 to 1 and then to 0.

History of the Dirac Lecture:
The Dirac Medal for the Advancement of Theoretical Physics is awarded by the UNSW and the Australian Institute of Physics. The Lecture and the Medal commemorate the visit to the university in 1975 of Professor Dirac, who gave five lectures. The lectures were subsequently published as a book Directions of Physics. Professor Dirac donated the royalties from this book to the University for the establishment of the Dirac Lecture and Prize. The prize includes a silver medal and honorarium. It was first awarded in 1979.

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