Alexey Ekimov
Alexey Ekimov or Aleksey Yekimov (Russian: Алексей Екимов; born 1945) is a Russian solid state physicist and a pioneer in nanomaterials research. He discovered the semiconductor nanocrystals known as quantum dots in 1981, while working at the Vavilov State Optical Institute. In 2023, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this discovery.
Alexey Ekimov | |
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Алексей Екимов | |
Ekimov in 2023 | |
| Born | 1945 (age 78–79) |
| Education | Leningrad State University (BS) Ioffe Institute (PhD) |
| Known for | quantum dots confinement energy |
| Awards | USSR State Prize (1976) R. W. Wood Prize (2006) Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2023) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Chemical physics Nanomaterials |
| Institutions | Ioffe Institute Vavilov State Optical Institute |
| Thesis | Quantum Dimensional Phenomena in Semiconductor Microcrystals Russian: Квантовые размерные явления в полупроводниковых микрокристаллах (1989) |
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