“Semiconductor nanostructures and quantum phenomena”
Professor Sir Michael Pepper FRS
Pender Chair in Nanoelectronics
University College London
Dirac Lecture and Medal Presentation
Professor Pepper was also presented with an Honorary Degree from UNSW after his lecture.
Thursday 21 November 2013
Law Theatre, UNSW
Industry innovation has developed a combination of electron beam lithography and advanced semiconductor growth. This has stimulated interest in discovering more about the basic properties of semiconductor nanostructures.
The Lecture showed how advanced semiconductor growth technology, which was developed for the information technology industry, has allowed the creation of new types of structures for investigating the quantum aspects of electron transport. It also showed how the dimensionality which is experienced by the electrons can be reduced from 3 to 2 to 1 and then to 0.
History of the Dirac Lecture:
The Dirac Medal for the Advancement of Theoretical Physics is awarded by the UNSW and the Australian Institute of Physics. The Lecture and the Medal commemorate the visit to the university in 1975 of Professor Dirac, who gave five lectures. The lectures were subsequently published as a book Directions of Physics. Professor Dirac donated the royalties from this book to the University for the establishment of the Dirac Lecture and Prize. The prize includes a silver medal and honorarium. It was first awarded in 1979.