Gérald Bastard
French physicist
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Gérald Bastard (born 3 April 1950 in Paris[1]) is a highly cited[2] French physicist known for his work on semiconductor heterostructures. As of 2011[update], he is a research director at the Department of Physics of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.
Gérald Bastard | |
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| Scientific career | |
| Thesis | Observation des effets de non-centrosymétrie et des niveaux accepteurs dans Hg Te par l'étude de la magnéto-absorption (1974) |
Education
Bastard completed his Ph.D. in 1974 at Université Paris Diderot, titled Observation des effets de non-centrosymétrie et des niveaux accepteurs dans Hg Te par l'étude de la magnéto-absorption.[3]
Awards
In 2000, Bastard and Emilio E. Mendez won the International Symposium on Compound Semiconductors Quantum Device Award "for pioneering work on electric-field induced optic effects in quantum wells and superlattices (quantum-confined Stark effect and Wannier–Stark localization)".[4]
Books
- Bastard, Gerald (1991). Wave Mechanics Applied to Semiconductor Heterostructures. Wiley-Interscience. ISBN 978-0-470-21708-5.
