Gerhard Abstreiter was born in Allershausen, Bavaria. He graduated from Technische Universität München (TUM) in physics in 1973 and received his PhD in 1975 working on cyclotron resonance in Si inversion layers. From 1975 until 1979 he was postdoc and staff scientist at Max Planck Institut für Festkörperforschung in Stuttgart and Grenoble. He returned to TUM Physics Department as group leader in 1979 and became full professor and director of the newly founded Walter Schottky Institut in 1987. Abstreiter has held visiting professorships at University of Innsbruck, at UCSB, at Columbia University and at University of Tokyo since then. He is author or co-author of more than 550 publications which have been cited more than 13000 times. Among the various awards and honours which he received are the Walter Schottky Prize (DPG), the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (DFG), the Max Born Prize and Medal (DPG and IOP) and the von Schelling Prize (Bavarian Academy of Sciences). He became Fellow of the American Physical Society in1992 and was elected as member of the Bavarian Academy of Science in 2007 and as member of acatech in 2009. Since 2010 Abstreiter is Carl von Linde Senior Fellow of the TUM Institute for Advanced Study.
Selected Awards
2009, Member of acatech
2007, Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
1992, Fellow of the American Physical Society
Research Interests
His field of interest covers in general experimental semiconductor physics with special emphasis to structural, electronic and optical properties of nanostructures, molecular beam epitaxy for high purity hetero- and nanostructures, self-assembly and self-organisation of semiconductor quantum dots, and development of novel devices for nano-electronics, optoelectronics, quantum information technology, and bio-sensing.
Selected Publications
Fontcuberta i Morral, Anna; Spirkoska, Danče; Arbiol, Jordi; Heigoldt, Matthias; Morante, Joan Ramon; Abstreiter, Gerhard: Prismatic Quantum Heterostructures Synthesized on Molecular‐Beam Epitaxy GaAs Nanowires. Small 4 (7), 2008, 899-903.
Krenner, H. J.; Sabathil, M.; Clark, E. C.; Kress, A.; Schuh, D.; Bichler, M.; Abstreiter, G.; Finley, J. J.: Direct Observation of Controlled Coupling in an Individual Quantum Dot Molecule. Phys. Rev. Lett. 94 (5), 2005.
Rant, Ulrich; Arinaga, Kenji; Fujita, Shozo; Yokoyama, Naoki; Abstreiter, Gerhard; Tornow, Marc: Dynamic Electrical Switching of DNA Layers on a Metal Surface. Nano Letters 4 (12), 2004, 2441-2445.
Kroutvar, Miro; Ducommun, Yann; Heiss, Dominik; Bichler, Max; Schuh, Dieter; Abstreiter, Gerhard; Finley, Jonathan J.: Optically programmable electron spin memory using semiconductor quantum dots. Nature 432 (7013), 2004, 81-84.
Zrenner, A.; Beham, E.; Stufler, S.; Findeis, F.; Bichler, M.; Abstreiter, G.: Coherent properties of a two-level system based on a quantum-dot photodiode. Nature 418 (6898), 2002, 612-614.
Schedelbeck, G.: Coupled Quantum Dots Fabricated by Cleaved Edge Overgrowth: From Artificial Atoms to Molecules. Science 278 (5344), 1997, 1792-1795.
Brunner, K.; Abstreiter, G.; Böhm, G.; Tränkle, G.; Weimann, G.: Sharp-Line Photoluminescence and Two-Photon Absorption of Zero-Dimensional Biexcitons in a GaAs/AlGaAs Structure. Phys. Rev. Lett. 73 (8), 1994, 1138-1141.
Abstreiter, G.; Brugger, H.; Wolf, T.; Jorke, H.; Herzog, H. J.: Strain-Induced Two-Dimensional Electron Gas in Selectively Doped Si / Si x Ge 1 − x Superlattices. Phys. Rev. Lett. 54 (22), 1985, 2441-2444.
Abstreiter, Gerhard: Electronic properties of the two-dimensional system at GaAs/AlxGa1−xAs interfaces. Surface Science 98 (1-3), 1980, 117-125.
Abstreiter, Gerhard; Kotthaus, J. P.; Koch, J. F.; Dorda, G.: Cyclotron resonance of electrons in surface space-charge layers on silicon. Phys. Rev. B 14 (6), 1976, 2480-2493.
Hutmacher, Dietmar Werner; Holzapfel, Boris Michael; De-Juan-Pardo, Elena Maria; Pereira, Brooke Anne; Ellem, Stuart John; Loessner, Daniela; Risbridger, Gail Petuna: Convergence of regenerative medicine and synthetic biology to develop standardized and validated models of human diseases with clinical relevance. Current Opinion in Biotechnology 35, 2015, 127-132 more…BibTeX
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2014
Ardelt, Per-Lennart; Hanschke, Lukas; Fischer, Kevin A.; Müller, Kai; Kleinkauf, Alexander; Koller, Manuel; Bechtold, Alexander; Simmet, Tobias; Wierzbowski, Jakob; Riedl, Hubert; Abstreiter, Gerhard; Finley, Jonathan J.: Dissipative preparation of the exciton and biexciton in self-assembled quantum dots on picosecond time scales. Physical Review B 90 (24), 2014 more…BibTeX
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Moriya, Rai; Sawano, Kentarou; Hoshi, Yusuke; Masubuchi, Satoru; Shiraki, Yasuhiro; Wild, Andreas; Neumann, Christian; Abstreiter, Gerhard; Bougeard, Dominique; Koga, Takaaki; Machida, Tomoki: Cubic Rashba Spin-Orbit Interaction of a Two-Dimensional Hole Gas in a Strained-Ge/SiGeQuantum Well. Physical Review Letters 113 (8), 2014 more…BibTeX
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Rudolph, D.; Schweickert, L.; Morkötter, S.; Loitsch, B.; Hertenberger, S.; Becker, J.; Bichler, M.; Abstreiter, G.; Finley, J. J.; Koblmüller, G.: Effect of interwire separation on growth kinetics and properties of site-selective GaAs nanowires. Applied Physics Letters 105 (3), 2014, 033111 more…BibTeX
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Wang, Xiaodong; Zardo, Ilaria; Spirkoska, Danče; Yazji, Sara; Ng, Kar Wei; Ko, Wai Son; Chang-Hasnain, Connie J.; Finley, Jonathan J.; Abstreiter, Gerhard: Valence Band Splitting in Wurtzite InGaAs Nanoneedles Studied by Photoluminescence Excitation Spectroscopy. ACS Nano 8 (11), 2014, 11440-11446 more…BibTeX
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Weiß, Matthias; Kinzel, Jörg B.; Schülein, Florian J. R.; Heigl, Michael; Rudolph, Daniel; Morkötter, Stefanie; Döblinger, Markus; Bichler, Max; Abstreiter, Gerhard; Finley, Jonathan J.; Koblmüller, Gregor; Wixforth, Achim; Krenner, Hubert J.: Dynamic Acoustic Control of Individual Optically Active Quantum Dot-like Emission Centers in Heterostructure Nanowires. Nano Letters 14 (5), 2014, 2256-2264 more…BibTeX
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Yazji, Sara; Zardo, Ilaria; Hertenberger, Simon; Morkötter, Stefanie; Koblmüller, Gregor; Abstreiter, Gerhard; Postorino, Paolo: Pressure dependence of Raman spectrum in InAs nanowires. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 26 (23), 2014, 235301 more…BibTeX
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2013
Funk, Stefan; Royo, Miguel; Zardo, Ilaria; Rudolph, Daniel; Morkötter, Stefanie; Mayer, Benedikt; Becker, Jonathan; Bechtold, Alexander; Matich, Sonja; Döblinger, Markus; Bichler, Max; Koblmüller, Gregor; Finley, Jonathan J.; Bertoni, Andrea; Goldoni, Guido; Abstreiter, Gerhard: High Mobility One- and Two-Dimensional Electron Systems in Nanowire-Based Quantum Heterostructures. Nano Letters 13 (12), 2013, 6189-6196 more…BibTeX
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Funk, Stefan; Royo, Miguel; Zardo, Ilaria; Rudolph, Daniel; Morkötter, Stefanie; Mayer, Benedikt; Becker, Jonathan; Bechtold, Alexander; Matich, Sonja; Döblinger, Markus; Bichler, Max; Koblmüller, Gregor; Finley, Jonathan J.; Bertoni, Andrea; Goldoni, Guido; Abstreiter, Gerhard: High Mobility One- and Two-Dimensional Electron Systems in Nanowire-Based Quantum Heterostructures. Nano Letters 13 (12), 2013, 6189-6196 more…BibTeX
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Koblmüller, Gregor; Abstreiter, Gerhard: Growth and properties of InGaAs nanowires on silicon. physica status solidi (RRL) - Rapid Research Letters 8 (1), 2013, 11-30 more…BibTeX
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Mayer, Benedikt; Rudolph, Daniel; Schnell, Joscha; Morkötter, Stefanie; Winnerl, Julia; Treu, Julian; Müller, Kai; Bracher, Gregor; Abstreiter, Gerhard; Koblmüller, Gregor; Finley, Jonathan J.: Lasing from individual GaAs-AlGaAs core-shell nanowires up to room temperature. Nature Communications 4, 2013 more…BibTeX
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Mayer, Benedikt; Rudolph, Daniel; Schnell, Joscha; Morkötter, Stefanie; Winnerl, Julia; Treu, Julian; Müller, Kai; Bracher, Gregor; Abstreiter, Gerhard; Koblmüller, Gregor; Finley, Jonathan J.: Lasing from individual GaAs-AlGaAs core-shell nanowires up to room temperature. Nature Communications 4 (1), 2013 more…BibTeX
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Morkötter, Stefanie; Funk, Stefan; Liang, Mengyu; Döblinger, Markus; Hertenberger, Simon; Treu, Julian; Rudolph, Daniel; Yadav, Anandi; Becker, Jonathan; Bichler, Max; Scarpa, Giuseppe; Lugli, Paolo; Zardo, Ilaria; Finley, Jonathan J.; Abstreiter, Gerhard; Koblmüller, Gregor: Role of microstructure on optical properties in high-uniformity In1−xGaxAs nanowire arrays: Evidence of a wider wurtzite band gap. Physical Review B 87 (20), 2013 more…BibTeX
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Rudolph, Daniel; Funk, Stefan; Döblinger, Markus; Morkötter, Stefanie; Hertenberger, Simon; Schweickert, Lucas; Becker, Jonathan; Matich, Sonja; Bichler, Max; Spirkoska, Danĉe; Zardo, Ilaria; Finley, Jonathan J.; Abstreiter, Gerhard; Koblmüller, Gregor: Spontaneous Alloy Composition Ordering in GaAs-AlGaAs Core–Shell Nanowires. Nano Letters 13 (4), 2013, 1522-1527 more…BibTeX
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Rudolph, Daniel; Schweickert, Lucas; Morkötter, Stefanie; Hanschke, Lukas; Hertenberger, Simon; Bichler, Max; Koblmüller, Gregor; Abstreiter, Gerhard; Finley, Jonathan J: Probing the trapping and thermal activation dynamics of excitons at single twin defects in GaAs–AlGaAs core–shell nanowires. New Journal of Physics 15 (11), 2013, 113032 more…BibTeX
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Treu, Julian; Bormann, Michael; Schmeiduch, Hannes; Döblinger, Markus; Morkötter, Stefanie; Matich, Sonja; Wiecha, Peter; Saller, Kai; Mayer, Benedikt; Bichler, Max; Amann, Markus-Christian; Finley, Jonathan J.; Abstreiter, Gerhard; Koblmüller, Gregor: Enhanced Luminescence Properties of InAs–InAsP Core–Shell Nanowires. Nano Letters 13 (12), 2013, 6070-6077 more…BibTeX
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Zabel, Thomas; Sircar, Narayan; Hauke, Norman; Zweck, Josef; Döblinger, Markus; Kaniber, Michael; Finley, Jonathan J.; Abstreiter, Gerhard; Arakawa, Yasuhiko; Bougeard, Dominique: Laterally self-ordered silicon-germanium islands with optimized confinement properties. Applied Physics Letters 103 (6), 2013, 063105 more…BibTeX
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Zardo, Ilaria; Yazji, Sara; Hörmann, Nicolas; Hertenberger, Simon; Funk, Stefan; Mangialardo, Sara; Morkötter, Stefanie; Koblmüller, Gregor; Postorino, Paolo; Abstreiter, Gerhard: E1(A) Electronic Band Gap in Wurtzite InAs Nanowires Studied by Resonant Raman Scattering. Nano Letters 13 (7), 2013, 3011-3016 more…BibTeX
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2012
Erhard, Nadine; Seifert, Paul; Prechtel, Leonhard; Hertenberger, Simon; Karl, Helmut; Abstreiter, Gerhard; Koblmüller, Gregor; Holleitner, Alexander W.: Ultrafast photocurrents and THz generation in single InAs-nanowires. Annalen der Physik 525 (1-2), 2012, 180-188 more…BibTeX
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Hertenberger, S.; Funk, S.; Vizbaras, K.; Yadav, A.; Rudolph, D.; Becker, J.; Bolte, S.; Döblinger, M.; Bichler, M.; Scarpa, G.; Lugli, P.; Zardo, I.; Finley, J. J.; Amann, M.-C.; Abstreiter, G.; Koblmüller, G.: High compositional homogeneity in In-rich InGaAs nanowire arrays on nanoimprinted SiO2/Si (111). Appl. Phys. Lett. 101 (4), 2012, 043116 more…BibTeX
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Yang, Tao; Hertenberger, Simon; Morkötter, Stefanie; Abstreiter, Gerhard; Koblmüller, Gregor: Size, composition, and doping effects on In(Ga)As nanowire/Si tunnel diodes probed by conductive atomic force microscopy. Appl. Phys. Lett. 101 (23), 2012, 233102 more…BibTeX
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2011
Hauke, N.; Lichtmannecker, S.; Zabel, T.; Laussy, F. P.; Laucht, A.; Kaniber, M.; Bougeard, D.; Abstreiter, G.; Finley, J. J.; Arakawa, Y.: Correlation between emission intensity of self-assembled germanium islands and quality factor of silicon photonic crystal nanocavities. Phys. Rev. B 84 (8), 2011 more…BibTeX
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Hertenberger, S.; Rudolph, D.; Bolte, S.; Döblinger, M.; Bichler, M.; Spirkoska, D.; Finley, J. J.; Abstreiter, G.; Koblmüller, G.: Absence of vapor-liquid-solid growth during molecular beam epitaxy of self-induced InAs nanowires on Si. Appl. Phys. Lett. 98 (12), 2011, 123114 more…BibTeX
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Rudolph, Daniel; Hertenberger, Simon; Bolte, Stefanie; Paosangthong, Watcharapong; Spirkoska, Danĉe; Döblinger, Markus; Bichler, Max; Finley, Jonathan J.; Abstreiter, Gerhard; Koblmüller, Gregor: Direct Observation of a Noncatalytic Growth Regime for GaAs Nanowires. Nano Letters 11 (9), 2011, 3848-3854 more…BibTeX
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