The principal applications of any sufficiently new and inno… - Herbert Kroemer

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The principal applications of any sufficiently new and innovative technology always have been—and will continue to be—applications created by that technology.

Herbert Kroemer

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About Herbert Kroemer

Herbert Kroemer (August 25, 1928 – March 8, 2024) was a German-American professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 2000, along with Zhores I. Alferov, he was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics "for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed- and opto-electronics".

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Native Name: Herbert Krömer

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Ultimately, progress in applications is not deterministic, but opportunistic, exploiting for new applications whatever new science and technology happen to be coming along.

If, in discussing a semiconductor problem, you cannot draw an Energy Band Diagram, this shows that you don't know what you are talking about,

If you can draw one, but don't, then your audience won't know what you are talking about.

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