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HRL Scientist Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society

Dr. Joel Schulman
Dr. Joel N. Schulman of HRL Laboratories, LLC has been named Fellow to the American Physical Society.
Los Angeles, March 22, 2006—Joel N. Schulman, a Principal Research Scientist at HRL Laboratories, LLC, Malibu, CA has been elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Fellowship is bestowed on those individuals who "have made advances in knowledge through original research and publication or significant and innovative contributions in the application of physics to science and technology."  The honor is extended annually to no more than one half of one percent of the Society's membership. Specifically cited were "seminal contributions to the understanding of the electronic and optical properties of semiconductor heterostructures, ranging from the physics of band mixing in superlattices to devices for millimeter wave imaging."

Most recently, Dr. Schulman has been credited with leading the effort to develop a new millimeter-wave detector diode made from antimonide compound-semiconductor-based quantum tunneling structures. This device has enabled approximately a ten-times sensitivity improvement in RF power radiometry and is becoming the standard detector in millimeter-wave imaging cameras.

Dr. Schulman received his BA degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1973 and his PhD in Physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1979.He subsequently became an associate professor at the University of Hawaii.Dr. Schulman joined what is now HRL Laboratories (formerly Hughes Research Labs) in 1985. His field of research is the application of semiconductor quantum nanostructure physics to new electronic materials and devices. Dr. Schulman is also an adjunct professor in Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

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HRL Laboratories, LLC, Malibu, California,  is a corporate R&D laboratory owned by Boeing and General Motors. HRL provides custom R&D and performs additional R&D contract services for its three LLC Members, for the U.S. government, and for other commercial entities.

 

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