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IEEE Honors Transistor, Laser Pioneer Kroemer

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PISCATAWAY, N.J., Dec. 27 -- Herbert Kroemer, professor of electrical and computer engineering and of materials at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has been named the 2002 recipient of the IEEE Medal of Honor. He is being honored for his pioneering work in heterostructure-based transistors and LEDs. The transistor portion of Kroemer's heterostructure research played a key role in the development of the cell phone and other wireless communications technologies. Kroemer applied the heterostructure principle to LEDs, which allowed them to operate continuously at room temperature....Read full article

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    Published: December 2001
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