Axel Scherer
Axel Scherer is the Bernard Neches Professor of Electrical Engineering, Physics, and Applied Physics at the California Institute of Technology. He is also a distinguished visiting professor at Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College.2
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Born 1950.1
About
He is known for fabricating the world's first semiconducting vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) at Bell Labs. In 2006, Scherer was named the director of the Kavli Nanoscience Institute. He graduated from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in 1985. At Caltech, he teaches a very popular freshman lab course on semiconductor device fabrication, Applied Physics 9ab, for which he wrote the textbook.
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Companies
Early life and education
- Date not recordedNew Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology3
Career
Occupation: physicist.6
- Date not recordedWorked at California Institute of Technology4
- Date not recordedFounded Luxtera5
He is co-founder and an advisor to Luxtera, a California manufacturer of photonics devices, Helixis, a California manufacturer of molecular diagnostic devices that was acquired by Illumina in 2010, and ChromaCode, a California manufacturer of molecular diagnostic reagents.
Scherer is a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
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- 1WikidataAxel Scherer on Wikidata
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- 7WikidataLuxtera, Founder