Udo W. Pohl (2018)

Udo W. Pohl (born August 14, 1955 in Düsseldorf, Germany) is a German physicist and was professor at the Technical University of Berlin, recognized for his contributions to the field of quantum dots and for his books on epitaxy[1] and on semiconductor physics.[2]

Education and career

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Pohl received his physics education from the RWTH Aachen University, Germany, the Free University of Berlin, and the Technical University of Berlin, Germany.[3] There he received his PhD in 1988 in the field of optical spectroscopy of transition metal impurities in II-VI semiconductors.[4]

Pohl was PI at the Institute of Solid State Physics of the Technical University of Berlin, supervising studies on quantum dots based on compound semiconductors.[5] Highly cited publications focused on electronic properties,[6][7] structural properties,[8] and novel devices.[9] In 2009 Pohl was appointed adjunct professor for experimental physics at Technical University of Berlin.[10]

In 2013 Pohl published the first edition of the textbook Epitaxy of Semiconductors.[11] With Karl Wolfgang Boer he wrote the reference work Semiconductor Physics, the first edition published in 2018.[12] He additionally authored 13 book chapters, over 200 journal articles on optical and structural properties of semiconductors,[13] and two patents.[14]

Pohl is member of the German Physical Society, has given keynote addresses at international conferences, and participated in their program committees. He is co-editor of the Springer Series in Materials Science.[15] Besides his activities in physics Pohl is member of the supervisory board of the Pumacy Technologies AG and is trustee of the foundation Intakt Umweltstiftung.

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  1. Epitaxy of Semiconductors, 2nd edn. 2020, Springer Nature.
  2. Semiconductor Physics, 2nd edn. 2023, Springer Nature.
  3. Kürschners Deutscher Gelehrten-Kalender, 36th edn. 2024: [Print + Online], De Gruyter, 2024 (in German).
  4. U. W. Pohl, H.-E. Gumlich, Optical transitions of different Mn-ion pairs in ZnS, Physical Review B 40, 1194-1201 (1989).
  5. Funding earned from the German Science Foundation DFG and the European Commission.
  6. R. Seguin, A. Schliwa, S. Rodt, K. Pötschke, U. W. Pohl, D. Bimberg, Size-dependent exciton fine-structure splitting in self-organized InAs/GaAs quantum dots, Physical Review Letters 95, 257402 (2005).
  7. V. Türck, S. Rodt, O. Stier, R. Heitz, R. Engelhardt, U. W. Pohl, D. Bimberg, R. Steingrüber, Effect of random field fluctuations on excitonic transitions of individual CdSe quantum dots, Physical Review B 61, 9944 (2000).
  8. A. Lenz, R. Timm, H. Eisele, Ch. Hennig, S. K. Becker, R. L. Sellin, U. W. Pohl, D. Bimberg, M. Dähne, Reversed truncated cone composition distribution of In0.8Ga0.2As quantum dots overgrown by an In0.1Ga0.9As layer in a GaAs matrix, Applied Physics Letters 81, 5150-5152 (2002).
  9. D. Bimberg, U. W. Pohl, Quantum dots: promises and accomplishments, Materials Today 14, 388 (2011).
  10. Press release Technical University of Berlin (in German).
  11. Epitaxy of Semiconductors. Springer, Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London, 2013. ISBN 978-3-642-32969-2.
  12. Semiconductor Physics. Springer International Publishing AG, Cham, Switzerland, 2018. ISBN 978-3-319-69148-0.
  13. Google Scholar , Research Gate
  14. Ms. Straßburg, O. Schulz, U. W. Pohl, D. Bimberg, Contact structure for an electrically operated II / VI semiconductor component and method for its production, German Patent 19955280 (1999).
    A. Strittmatter, A. Schliwa, T. D. Germann, U. W. Pohl, V. Gaysler, J.-H. Schulze, Layer Assembly, US. Pat. 8,349,712 B2 (2013).
  15. Springer Series in Materials Science.