Electronics

Izuo Hayashi

Japan / May 1, 1922-2005
Physicist; Member, The Engineering Academy of Japan

"Success in continuous operation of semiconductor lasers at room temperature - a pioneering step in optoelectronics"
Dr. Alferov, Dr. Hayashi and Dr. Panish have made pioneering contributions to the development of optoelectronics as we know it today with the achievement of continuous wave operation of semiconductor lasers at room temperature. They have thus paved the way for commercial use of electronic devices that play an essential role in the building of information infrastructures supporting the worldwide IT revolution.

BRIEF BIOGRAPHY

1922	Born in Tokyo, Japan
1946	M.S., Physics Department, the University of Tokyo
1955	Associate Professor, the Institute for Nuclear Study, the University of Tokyo
1962	Ph.D. in Science, the University of Tokyo
1963	Researcher, MIT
1964-1971	Member of Technical Staff, Bell Telephone Laboratories (now Bell Laboratories)
1971	Fellow, NEC
1982-1987	Head Scientist, Optoelectronics Joint Research Laboratories
1987-1994	Director, Optoelectronics Technology Research Laboratory, Tsukuba
1994-1996	Advisor, the same Laboratory
1996	Retired from the same Laboratory

AWARDS AND HONORS

1946	Fujiwara Prize, Japan
1975	Prize from Institute of Electronics and Communication Engineers, Japan
1976	IEEE Fellow
1984	GaAs Simposium Award
1984	IEEE Electron Device Award (J. J. Ebers)
1986	Asahi Prize, Japan
1986	C&C Prize (with Panish), Japan
1988	IEEE David Sarnoff Award
1993	The Marconi International Award, U. S. A.
2001	Applied Physics Society Prize, Japan

MAJOR WORKS

1968	Effect of Band Shapes on Carrier Distribution at High Temperature. IEEE J. Quantum Electronics QE-4 (4).
1969	A Low Threshold Room-Temperature Injection Laser. IEEE J. Quantum Electron, QE-5 (4). (with M. B. Panish and P. W. Foy)
1970	Double Heterostructure Injection Lasers with Room-Temperature Thresholds as low as 2300 A/cm². Appl. Phys. Lett. 16 (8). (with M. B. Panish and S. Sumski)
1970	Junction Lasers Which Operate Continuously at Room-Temperature. Appl. Phys. Lett. 17 (3). (with M. B. Panish and others)
1971	GaAs-AlGaAs Double Heterostructure Injection Lasers. J. Appl. Phys. 42 (5). (with M. B. Panish and F. K. Reinhart)

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