Rainer Waser
{{Short description|German electrical engineer (born 1955)}}
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Rainer Waser (born 16 September 1955, in Frankfurt)[http://www.awk.nrw.de/akademie/klassen/ingenieurwirtschaft/ordentliche-mitglieder/waser-rainer.html CV] on the website of the North-Rhine Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts is a German professor of Electrical Engineering{{Cite web|url=https://www.elektrotechnik.rwth-aachen.de/cms/Elektrotechnik_und_Informationstechnik/Forschung/Menschen/~qsj/Professoren/lidx/1/|title=Chairs and Institutes – RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology – English|website=www.elektrotechnik.rwth-aachen.de}} at RWTH Aachen University. He is also director of the section Electronic Materials at the Peter Grünberg Institute which is located on the campus of Jülich Research Center (Forschungszentrum Jülich). His research and teaching is on solid-state chemistry and defect chemistry to electronic properties and modelling, the technology of new materials and the physical properties of construction components.
Important findings include insights in the functioning of the so-called memristors.{{Cite web|url=http://www.fz-juelich.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilungen/UK/EN/2013/13-04-23batterie.html|title=Forschungszentrum Jülich – Press releases – Battery and Memory Device in One|website=www.fz-juelich.de}}
Waser grew up in Heusenstamm near Frankfurt.[http://www.materialsviews.com/breadboard-getting-know-rainer-waser/ Interview] (8 September 2014) on the Materials Views website, retrieved 24 July 2015. He studied Physical Chemistry at Darmstadt University of Technology where he received a diploma degree in 1979. Then he went to the University of Southampton to conduct research at the Institute of Electrochemistry. After that he turned to Darmstadt and worked as scientific assistant until he completed his PhD.
Career
Waser joined the Philips research laboratories (research group Electronic Ceramics) at Aachen. In 1992, Waser accepted a Chair for Electronic Materials in the Faculty of Electrical Science and Information Technology at RWTH Aachen University. In 2012, Waser was elected to the post of Speaker of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at Aachen university. Waser was awarded the renowned Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 2014.{{Cite web|url=https://www.dfg.de/en/funded_projects/prizewinners/leibniz_prize/2014/waser/index.html|title=DFG, German Research Foundation – Prof. Dr. Rainer Waser|website=www.dfg.de}}
Awards and honors
A comprehensive list can be found in the cv on the institute's website.{{Cite web|url=http://www.emrl.de/h_leitung-d.html#RainerWaser|title=EMRL|website=www.emrl.de}}
- 2015 – Honorary doctorate from the University of Silesia in Katowice{{cite web | title=Profesor Rainer WASER | website=Uniwersytet Śląski | date=11 October 2019 | url=https://us.edu.pl/uczelnia/o-nas/historia/doktorzy-honoris-causa-uniwersytetu-slaskiego/profesor-rainer-waser/ | language=pl | access-date=15 December 2021}}
- 2014 – Tsungming-Tu Prize, awarded by the National Science Council in Taiwan (the country’s highest academic distinction which can be bestowed on non-Taiwanese citizens){{Cite web|url=https://www.fz-juelich.de/SharedDocs/Meldungen/PGI/PGI-7/EN/2015/2015-01-22-Waser-Tsung-Tu-Preis.html|title=Forschungszentrum Jülich – Hidden – Taiwan's Highest Scientific Accolade Goes to Rainer Waser|website=www.fz-juelich.de}}
- 2014 – Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
- 2007 – Masao Ikeda Award, Ikeda Memorial Foundation, Kyoto, Japan
- 2001 – Outstanding Achievements Award, International Symposium on Integrated Ferroelectrics (ISIF)
- 2000 – Ferroelectrics Recognition Award, IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society
Fellowships and Academy Membership
- Fellow of the North-Rhine Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts.{{Cite web|url=http://www.awk.nrw.de/akademie/mitglieder/ordentliche-mitglieder.html|title=AWK: Ordentliche Mitglieder|website=www.awk.nrw.de}}
- Spokesperson of the section Future information technology (FIT) within the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin[https://www.helmholtz-berlin.de/media/media/oea/aktuell/print//informationsbroschueren-und-flyer-des-hzb/101/141112_hzb_120x192_booklet_e_v2.pdf Helmholtz Berlin]
Other Functions
- Executive Advisory Board Member of the journal Advanced Functional Materials{{cite web | title=Getting to Know Rainer Waser | website=Advanced Science News | date=8 September 2014 | url=https://www.advancedsciencenews.com/breadboard-getting-know-rainer-waser/ | access-date=15 December 2021}}
Selected works
- {{cite journal | last1=Valov | first1=I. | last2=Linn | first2=E. | last3=Tappertzhofen | first3=S. | last4=Schmelzer | first4=S. | last5=van den Hurk | first5=J. | last6=Lentz | first6=F. | last7=Waser | first7=R. | title=Nanobatteries in redox-based resistive switches require extension of memristor theory | journal=Nature Communications | publisher=Springer Science and Business Media LLC | volume=4 | issue=1 | date=23 April 2013 | page=1771 | issn=2041-1723 | doi=10.1038/ncomms2784| pmid=23612312 | pmc=3644102 | arxiv=1303.2589 | bibcode=2013NatCo...4.1771V }}
- {{cite book | last=Waser | first=Rainer | title=Nanoelectronics and information technology : advanced electronic materials and novel devices | publisher=Wiley-VCH | publication-place=Weinheim | year=2003 | isbn=978-3-527-40363-9 | oclc=50056108}}
- {{cite journal | last1=Menzel | first1=Stephan | last2=Waters | first2=Matthias | last3=Marchewka | first3=Astrid | last4=Böttger | first4=Ulrich | last5=Dittmann | first5=Regina | last6=Waser | first6=Rainer | title=Origin of the Ultra-nonlinear Switching Kinetics in Oxide-Based Resistive Switches | journal=Advanced Functional Materials | publisher=Wiley | volume=21 | issue=23 | date=26 September 2011 | issn=1616-301X | doi=10.1002/adfm.201101117 | pages=4487–4492| s2cid=96936658 }}
- {{cite journal | last1=Tappertzhofen | first1=S | last2=Linn | first2=E | last3=Nielen | first3=L | last4=Rosezin | first4=R | last5=Lentz | first5=F | last6=Bruchhaus | first6=R | last7=Valov | first7=I | last8=Böttger | first8=U | last9=Waser | first9=R | title=Capacity based nondestructive readout for complementary resistive switches | journal=Nanotechnology | publisher=IOP Publishing | volume=22 | issue=39 | date=5 September 2011 | issn=0957-4484 | doi=10.1088/0957-4484/22/39/395203 | page=395203| pmid=21891857 | bibcode=2011Nanot..22M5203T | s2cid=12305490 }}
- {{cite book | last=Schmid | first=Günter | title=Nanotechnology | publisher=Wiley-VCH John Wiley, distributor | publication-place=Weinheim Chichester | year=2008 | isbn=978-3-527-31738-7 | oclc=212432089}}
References
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External links
- Website of the [http://www.emrl.de/h_.html Electronic Materials Research Laboratory] (Waser's Institute at RWTH Aachen)
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Category:German electrical engineers
Category:German physical chemists
Category:Academic staff of RWTH Aachen University
Category:Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners
Category:Technische Universität Darmstadt alumni