2026 Dieter Bimberg: Electronics and Electrical Engineering Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Electronics and Electrical Engineering	109	107	104	2	2	1444	55483
Physics	116	937	884	7	7	1629	65786

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Germany Leader Award
2026 - Research.com Physics in China Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Germany Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in China Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Physics in China Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in China Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Physics in China Leader Award
2019 - IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal “For contributions to the development and commercialization of quantum dot lasers.”
2016 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
2014 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For innovations in nanomaterials, nanophysics, and nanodevices.
2010 - IEEE Fellow For advancement of semiconductor nanostructures, and development of self-organized quantum dot lasers
2006 - Max Born Medal and Prize, German Physical Society, Institute of Physics
2004 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Physics
2004 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For pioneering work in the basic understanding, development and first demonstration of selfassembled quantumdot heterostructures for novel lasers and amplifiers

Overview

Dieter Bimberg is affiliated with the Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics in China. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Physics and Astronomy, with a detailed focus on Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, alongside contributions in Surfaces, Coatings and Films, Biomedical Engineering, and Materials Chemistry.

The main topics of their work include Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices, Photonic and Optical Devices, Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices, Optical Coatings and Gratings, Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures, Optical Network Technologies, and Advanced Materials Characterization Techniques.

Bimberg has contributed to several publication venues, frequently appearing in Photonics, Journal of Physics Photonics, Light Science & Applications, Optics Express, and Applied Physics Letters.

Their recent papers include:

Long-Wavelength VCSELs: Status and Prospects, 2023, Photonics
Demonstration of electrically injected vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with post-supported high-contrast gratings, 2022, Photonics Research
Optimization of VCSEL photon lifetime for minimum energy consumption at varying bit rates, 2020, Optics Express
Single-Mode High-Speed 1550 nm Wafer Fused VCSELs for Narrow WDM Systems, 2023, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Structural and compositional analysis of (InGa)(AsSb)/GaAs/GaP Stranski-Krastanov quantum dots, 2021, Light Science & Applications

Frequent coauthors include Si-Cong Tian, A. V. Babichev, I. I. Novikov, S. A. Blokhin, and L. Ya. Karachinsky.

The scientist has received multiple awards throughout their career:

IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal, 2019, for contributions to the development and commercialization of quantum dot lasers
Fellow, National Academy of Inventors, 2016
Member of the National Academy of Engineering, 2014, for innovations in nanomaterials, nanophysics, and nanodevices
IEEE Fellow, 2010, for advancement of semiconductor nanostructures, and development of self-organized quantum dot lasers
Max Born Medal and Prize, German Physical Society, Institute of Physics, 2006
Fellow of American Physical Society, 2004, citation for pioneering work in the basic understanding, development and first demonstration of self-assembled quantumdot heterostructures for novel lasers and amplifiers
German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2004, in Physics

Best Publications

Quantum dot heterostructures

Dieter Bimberg;Marius Grundmann;Nikolai N. Ledentsov

4566
Citations
INAS/GAAS PYRAMIDAL QUANTUM DOTS: STRAIN DISTRIBUTION, OPTICAL PHONONS, AND ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE

M. Grundmann;O. Stier;D. Bimberg

1682
Citations
Electronic and optical properties of strained quantum dots modeled by 8-band k⋅p theory

O. Stier;M. Grundmann;D. Bimberg

1529
Citations
Spontaneous ordering of nanostructures on crystal surfaces

Vitaliy A. Shchukin;Dieter Bimberg

1348
Citations
Ultralong Dephasing Time in InGaAs Quantum Dots

Paola Borri;Wolfgang Werner Langbein;S. Schneider;U. Woggon

1256
Citations
Low threshold, large To injection laser emission from (InGa)As quantum dots

N. Kirstaedter;N.N. Ledentsov;M. Grundmann;D. Bimberg

1134
Citations
Ultranarrow Luminescence Lines from Single Quantum Dots.

M. Grundmann;J. Christen;N. N. Ledentsov;J. Bohrer

979
Citations
Spontaneous ordering of arrays of coherent strained islands.

V. A. Shchukin;N. N. Ledentsov;P. S. Kop'ev;D. Bimberg

788
Citations
InGaAs-GaAs quantum-dot lasers

D. Bimberg;N. Kirstaedter;N.N. Ledentsov;Zh.I. Alferov

743
Citations
Direct formation of vertically coupled quantum dots in Stranski-Krastanow growth.

N. N. Ledentsov;V. A. Shchukin;M. Grundmann;N. Kirstaedter

652
Citations
Energy relaxation by multiphonon processes in InAs/GaAs quantum dots

R. Heitz;M. Veit;N. N. Ledentsov;A. Hoffmann

642
Citations
InAs/InGaAs quantum dot structures on GaAs substrates emitting at 1.3 μm

V. M. Ustinov;N. A. Maleev;A. E. Zhukov;A. R. Kovsh

518
Citations
Consistent set of band parameters for the group-III nitrides AlN, GaN, and InN

Patrick Rinke;Momme Winkelnkemper;Abdallah Qteish;Dieter Bimberg

503
Citations
Quantum dot heterostructures: Fabrication, properties, lasers (Review)

N. N. Ledentsov;V. M. Ustinov;V. A. Shchukin;P. S. Kop’ev

468
Citations
Theory of random population for quantum dots

M. Grundmann;D. Bimberg

467
Citations
Optical and crystallographic properties and impurity incorporation of GaxIn1−xAs (0.44<x<0.49) grown by liquid phase epitaxy, vapor phase epitaxy, and metal organic chemical vapor deposition

K.‐H. Goetz;D. Bimberg;H. Jürgensen;J. Selders

466
Citations
Epitaxy of Nanostructures

Vitaly A. Shchukin;Nikolai N. Ledentsov;Dieter Bimberg

443
Citations
Gain and differential gain of single layer InAs/GaAs quantum dot injection lasers

N. Kirstaedter;O. G. Schmidt;N. N. Ledentsov;D. Bimberg

426
Citations
Size-dependent fine-structure splitting in self-organized InAs/GaAs quantum dots.

R. Seguin;A. Schliwa;S. Rodt;K. Pötschke

422
Citations
RADIATIVE RECOMBINATION IN TYPE-II GASB/GAAS QUANTUM DOTS

F. Hatami;N. N. Ledentsov;M. Grundmann;J. Böhrer

412
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

V. M. Ustinov Russian Academy of Sciences

Marius Grundmann Leipzig University

N. N. Ledentsov Ioffe Institute

A. R. Kovsh Arista (United States)

A. E. Zhukov National Research University Higher School of Economics

Mikhail V. Maximov Alferov Federal State Budgetary Institution of Higher Education and Science Saint Petersburg National Research Academic University of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Alois Krost Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg

Peter Werner Max Planck Society

Axel Hoffmann University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Jürgen Christen Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg

External Links

Personal website of Dieter Bimberg Google Scholar page

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