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Lars
Samuelson
Professor, Lund University Sweden |
Lars Samuelson obtained his Ph.D. in Solid State Physics at Lund University in 1977. After a post-doc at IBM Research Laboratories in San José, California, he returned to Lund in 1979 and a year later became Docent at Lund University. In 1986 he became Professor in Semiconductor Physics at Chalmers/Göteborg University and returned to the Physics Department of Lund University in 1988 to take up the Professorship in Semiconductor Electronics. He is the director of the Nanometer Structure Consortium, started in 1988, and today the primary center for Nanoscience in Sweden. He is the scientific leader of a Strategic Research Center “Nanowires for emerging nanoelectronics and life-science applications”, and of a major European R&D Integrated Project called NODE, “Nanowire-based One-Dimensional Electronics”, with participation by leading European electronics industries, research institutes and academic research teams.
Lars Samuelson is internationally recognized for his research on low-dimensional structures and the physics and applications made possible by these structures. In the 1990s this primarily involved: (i) studies of self-assembly of quantum dots and studies of physical phenomena via single-quantum-dot spectroscopy, and (ii) the realization of quantum devices by manipulation of pre-fabricated nanostructures. In recent years his research has been directed towards new ways for the formation of ideal one-dimensional nanowires through self-assembly, studies of their physical properties, as well as applications of semiconductor nanowires in electronics, photonics and the life-sciences. He has published about 450 papers in refereed journals and given about 200 invited/plenary talks at international conferences.
In 2005, the research program “Nanowires for Fundamental Materials Science and Quantum Physics and for Applications in Electronics, Photonics and in Life-sciences”, directed by Lars Samuelson, was selected by the Swedish Research Council as one of 10 top research environments among all areas of science in Sweden. In 2008 he was awarded as “Einstein Professor” by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
He is Fellow of the Institute of Physics, FinstP, in the United Kingdom, Fellow of the American Physical Society (Materials Physics), a Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, KVA (Physics) and of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, IVA.