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  • noun physicist honored for advances in solid state electronics (born in Japan in 1925)

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  • Esaki is an IBM Fellow and has been engaged in semiconductor research at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, since 1960.

    Leo Esaki - Biography 1992

  • The rout was a "wake-up call, and a welcome pause and a warning to the market," Howard Esaki , head of structured-finance research at Standard & Poor's, wrote in a note citing views heard during the Commercial Real Estate Finance Council conference.

    CMBS Troubles Brewing? Some Observers Think So Al Yoon 2011

  • The rout was a "wake-up call, and a welcome pause and a warning to the market," Howard Esaki , head of structured-finance research at Standard & Poor's, wrote in a note citing views heard during the Commercial Real Estate Finance Council conference.

    CMBS Troubles Brewing? Some Observers Think So Al Yoon 2011

  • This time I went to the Esaki lab for internet research, and they showed us a lot about their distributed weather reporting system.

    Mt. Fuji magnio 2008

  • Ask a Ninja to make at least $300,000 this year at Ryan Esaki - Commentary on things of Interest

    Ask a Ninja Makes $300K 2007

  • Coincidentally I had the honour of meeting with Leo Esaki last week at a business conference in Kyoto where we both presented papers.

    Matz 2005

  • Chetan outlined a number of ways of doing this, involving very clever uses of Josephson junctions (another Nobel, 1973, with Esaki and Giaever) to have the various currents tunneling between various readouts to make gates, and the topological features are the paths the quasiparticles take around various trapped quasiparticles that have been prepared to make the q-bit.

    Aspen Report: New Strides on the Road to a Quantum Computer cjohnson 2005

  • Twenty years later, after the pathbreaking work of Esaki and Tsu on negative differential conductivity in superlattices, I realized that I had in fact anticipated their basic physics, albeit in a more primitive form: What was not possible in bulk semiconductors, appeared to become possible in superlattices with their much longer period.

    Herbert Kroemer - Autobiography 2001

  • Later, Leo Esaki developed the tunnel diode, an electronic component that has a negative differential resistance, a technically interesting property.

    The Nobel Prizes in Physics 1901-2000 2000

  • Giaever, who invented and studied the detailed properties of the "tunnel junction", an electronic component based on superconductivity, shared the second half with Leo Esaki for work on tunneling phenomena in semiconductors (see below).

    The Nobel Prizes in Physics 1901-2000 2000

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