Gérald Bastard

Gérald Bastard (born 3 April 1950 in Paris^[1]) is a highly cited^[2] French physicist known for his work on semiconductor heterostructures. As of 2011^[update], he is a research director at the Department of Physics of the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.

Gérald Bastard
Scientific career
Thesis	Observation des effets de non-centrosymétrie et des niveaux accepteurs dans Hg Te par l'étude de la magnéto-absorption (1974)

Education

Bastard completed his Ph.D. in 1974 at Université Paris Diderot, titled Observation des effets de non-centrosymétrie et des niveaux accepteurs dans Hg Te par l'étude de la magnéto-absorption.^[3]

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 and Wannier–Stark localization)".^[4]

Books

• Bastard, Gerald (1991). Wave Mechanics Applied to Semiconductor Heterostructures. Wiley-Interscience. ISBN 978-0-470-21708-5.

References

1. Bastard, Gerald at ISIHighlyCited.com. Accessed 2011-01-26^{[dead link‍]}
2. "B - Research Analytics - Thomson Reuters". ISI Highly Cited. Retrieved 28 February 2014.
3. Bastard, Gérald (1974). Observation des effets de non-centrosymétrie et des niveaux accepteurs dans Hg Te par l'étude de la magnéto-absorption (Thesis). OCLC 708311121.
4. "Awards: phys. stat. sol. (c) 7/10". Physica Status Solidi C. 7 (10): 2353–2357. 2010. Bibcode:2010PSSCR...7.2353.. doi:10.1002/pssc.201090015.

External links

• Gerald Bastard. Homepage at Department of Physics, École Normale Supérieure