Gérald Bastard (born 3 April 1950 in ParisBastard, Gerald
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. Accessed 2011-01-26) is a highly cited French physicist known for his work on semiconductor heterostructures. , he is a research director at the Department of Physics of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.

Education

Bastard completed his Ph.D. in 1974 at

Université Paris Diderot Paris Diderot University, also known as Paris 7 (french: Université Paris Diderot), was a French university located in Paris, France. It was one of the inheritors of the historic University of Paris, which was split into 13 universities in 197 ...

, titled ''Observation des effets de non-centrosymétrie et des niveaux accepteurs dans Hg Te par l'étude de la magnéto-absorption''.

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 The quantum-confined Stark effect (QCSE) describes the effect of an external electric field upon the light absorption spectrum or emission spectrum of a quantum well (QW). In the absence of an external electric field, electrons and holes within th ...

and Wannier–Stark localization)".

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Gerald Bastard
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