Prof. Dr. Klaus von Klitzing is the Director Emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Germany.

He was born on 28th June 1943 in Schroda. Klaus von Klitzing studied Physics at the Technical University of Braunschweig. He continued his scientific career at the University of Würzburg, receiving his doctorate in 1972 and his habilitation in 1978. Subsequently, he was appointed professor at the Technical University of Munich (1980-1984), before becoming both Honorary Professor (part-time prof.) at the University of Stuttgart and Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in 1985.

In 1985, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Klaus von Klitzing "for the discovery of the quantized Hall effect".

 

Scientific Awards

1. Schottky Prize (1981)
2. Hewlett Packard Prize (1982)
3. Nobel Prize in Physics (1985)
4. Dirac Medal (1988)
5. Philipp Morris Preis (1990)
6. Eötvös Medal, Budapest (1994)
7. Award for a Life Time Achievement in Science, Birla Science Center (1999)
8. von Klitzing constant RK = h/e²
9. Bayerischer Maximiliansorden für Wissenschaft und Kunst
10. Carl Friedrich Gauß-Medaille (2005)
11. Österreichisches Ehrenzeichen für Wissenschaft und Kunst (2009)
12. Einstein Professorship of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2009)
13. TUM Distinguished Affiliated Professor (2011)
14. Richard E. Prange Prize (2014)
15. Orden Pour le mérite für Wissenschaft und Künste (2019)
16. Grande médaille d’or de la ville de Grenoble (2022)

 

Memberships

1. National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (1990)
2. Russian Academy of Sciences (1994)
3. Foreign Member of the Royal Society of London (2003)
4. Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) (2006)
5. Pontifical Academy of Sciences (2007)
6. Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (2007)
7. Ehrenmitglied Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (2000)
8. Honorary Member of the Russian Academy for Metrology
9. Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1985)
10. Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften (1995)
11. Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina (1996)
12. Fellow of The American Physical Society (1998)
13. Honorary Fellow of the Indian Cryogenics Council, Jadavpur University, Calcutta (1993)
14. Honorary Member Nepal German Academic Association (1999)
15. Honorary Member of the Nepal Physical Society (1999)
16. Honorary Foreign Member of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology
17. Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Physics UK (2003)
18. Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Physics Singapore
19. NTT - Basic Research Laboratory Advisory Board (2000)
20. Kuratorium Deutsches Museum München
21. EURAMET Research Council
22. Honorary Member of the Deutsche Hochschulverband (2010)
23. Academia Paraense de Ciências (APC), Seç ão de Ciências Fisicas (2012)
24. Scientific Council of ICTP-ECAR (2013)
25. Hall-of-Fame der deutschen Forschung (2013)
26. Honorary Research Fellow of the Korean Research Institute of Standards and Science (2014)
27. Ehrenmitglied Kuratorium der Physikalisch-Technischen Bundesanstalt (2014)
28. Foreign Member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (2014)
29. HKIAS Senior Fellow, City University of Hong Kong (2016)
30. Distinguished member of the KAIST Presidential Advisory Council (2017)
31. Honorary Member of the International Solvay Institutes (2018)
32. Honorary Fellow of the Metrology Society of India (2021)

 

Selected Publication

1. K. v. Klitzing, G. Dorda, and M. Pepper
   New Method for High-Accuracy Determination of the Fine-Structure Constant Based on Quantized Hall Resistance
   Phys. Rev. Lett. 45, 494–497 (1980)
2. D.Stein, K.v.Klitzing, and G.Weimann
   Electron Spin Resonance on GaAs-AlGaAs Heterostructures
   Phys. Rev. Lett. 51, 130-133 (1983)
3. G. Ebert, K. v. Klitzing, C.Probst, E.Schuberth, K.Ploog, and G. Weimann
   Hopping Conduction in the Landau-Level Tails in GaAs-AlGaAs Heterostructures at Low Temperatures
   Solid State Commun. 45, 625-628 (1983) 
4. R.J. Haug, R.R. Gerhardts, K. v. Klitzing, and K. Ploog
   Effect of Repulsive and Attractive Scattering Centers on the Magnetotransport Properties of a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas
   Phys. Rev. Lett. 59, 1349 (1987)
5. R.J. Nicholas, R.J. Haug, K. v. Klitzing, and G. Weimann
   Exchange Enhancement of the Spin Splitting in a GaAs-GaxAl1-xAs- Heterojunction
   Phys. Rev. B 37, 1294, (1988)
6. M. Dobers, K. v. Klitzing, J. Schneider, G. Weimann, and K. Ploog
   Electrical Detection of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance in GaAs-AlxGa1-x Heterostructures
   Phys. Rev. Lett. 61, 1650 (1988)
7. R. Haug and K. v. Klitzing
   Influence of edge currents on Shubnikov-deHaas oscillations in Two Dimensional Systems
   Europhys. Lett. 10, 489 (1989)
8. R.R. Gerhardts, D. Weiss, and K. von Klitzing
   Novel Magnetoresistance Oscillations in a Periodically Modulated Two-Dimensional Electron Gas
   Phys.Rev.Lett. 62, 1173 (1989)
9. G. Müller, D. Weiss, S. Koch, K. von Klitzing, H. Nickel, W. Schlapp, and R. Lösch
   Current Carrying Edge Channels and the Role of Contacts in the Quantum Hall Regime
   In Proc. 20th Int. Conf. on the Physics of Semiconductors, Thessaloniki, Greece, 1990,
   E.M. Anastassakis and J.D. Joannopoulos, eds., Vol. 2, World Scientific, 1990, pages 829–832
10. U. Klaß W. Dietsche, K. v. Klitzing, and K. Ploog
    Imaging of the Dissipation in Quantum-Hall-Effect Experiments
    Z. Physik B 82, 351–354 (1991)
11. S. Koch, R.J. Haug, K. von Klitzing, and K. Ploog
    Experiments on Scaling in AlGaAs/GaAs-Heterostructures under Quantum Hall Conditions
    Phys. Rev. B 43, 6828–6831 (1991)
12. V.T. Dolgopolov, A.A. Shashkin, N.B. Zhitenev, S.I. Dorozhkin, and K. v. Klitzing
    Quantum Hall Effect in the Absence of Edge Currents
    Phys. Rev. B 46, 12560–12567 (1992)
13. E. Vasiliadou, G. Müller, D. Heitmann, D. Weiss, K. v. Klitzing, H. Nickel, W. Schlapp, and R. Lösch
    Collective Response in the Microwave Photoconductivity of Hall Bar Structures
    Phys. Rev. B 48, 17145–17148 (1993)
14. N.B. Zhitenev, R.J. Haug, K. v. Klitzing, and K. Eberl
    Time-Resolved Measurements of Transport in Edge Channels
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 71, 2292–2295 (1993)
15. P.D. Ye, D.Weiss, R.R. Gerhardts, M. Seeger, K. von Klitzing, K. Eberl, and H. Nickel
    Electrons in a Periodic Magnetic Field Induced by a Regular Array of Micromagnets
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 3013–3016 (1995)
16. G. Ernst, R.J. Haug, J. Kuhl, K. v. Klitzing, and K. Eberl
    Acoustic Edge Modes of the Degenerate Two-Dimensional Electron Gas Studied by Time-Resolved Magnetotransport Measurements
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 77, 4245–4248 (1996)
17. Y.Y. Wei, J. Weis, K. v. Klitzing, and K. Eberl
    Edge Strips in the Quantum Hall Regime Imaged by a Single-Electron Transistor
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1674–1677 (1998)
18. S. Kronmüller, W. Dietsche, J. Weis, K. v. Klitzing, W. Wegscheider, and M. Bichler
    New Resistance Maxima in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect Regime
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 2526–2529 (1998)
19. S. Kronmüller, W. Dietsche, K. v. Klitzing, G. Denninger, W. Wegscheider, and M. Bichler
    New Type of Electron Nuclear-Spin Interaction in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect Regime
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 4070–4073 (1999)
20. J.H. Smet, S. Jobst, K. von Klitzing, D. Weiss, W. Wegscheider, and V. Umansky
    Commensurate Composite Fermions in Weak Periodic Electrostatic Potentials: Direct Evidence of a Periodic Effective Magnetic Field
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2620–2623 (1999)
21. P. Weitz, E. Ahlswede, J. Weis, K. von Klitzing, and K. Eberl
    Hall-Potential Investigations under Quantum Hall Conditions Using Scanning Force Microscopy
    Physica E 6, 247–250 (2000)
22. J. Schmid, J. Weis, K. Eberl, and K. v. Klitzing
    Absence of Odd-Even Parity Behavior for Kondo Resonances in Quantum Dots
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5824–5827 (2000)
23. C. Albrecht, J.H. Smet, K. von Klitzing, D. Weiss, V. Umansky, and H. Schweizer
    Evidence of Hofstadter’s Fractal Energy Spectrum in the Quantized Hall Conductance
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 147–150 (2001)
24. I.V. Kukushkin, J.H. Smet, K. von Klitzing, and W. Wegscheider
    Cyclotron Resonance of Composite Fermions
    Nature 415, 409–412 (2002)
25. R.G. Mani, J.H. Smet, K. von Klitzing, V. Narayanamurti, W.B. Johnson, and V. Umansky
    Zero-Resistance-States Induced by Electromagnetic-Wave-Excitation in GaAs/AlGaAs Heterostructures
    Nature 420, 646–650 (2002)
26. J. H. Smet, R. A. Deutschmann, F. Ertl, W. Wegschneider, G. Abstreiter, and K. von Klitzing
    Anomalous-Filling-Factor-Dependent Nuclear-Spin Polarization in a 2D Electron System
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 086802/1–4 (2004)
27. I.V. Kukushkin, Akimov I. V., M. Yu., J.H. Smet, S.A. Mikhailov, K. von Klitzing, I.L. Aleiner, and V.I. Falko
    New type of B-periodic magneto-oscillations in a two-dimensional electron system induced by microwave irradiation
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 236803 (2004)
28. J. Huels, J. Weis, J. Smet, and K. v. Klitzing
    Long Time Relaxation Phenomena of a Two-Dimensional Electron System within Integer Quantum Hall Plateau Regimes after Magnetic Field Sweeps
    Phys. Rev. B 69, 085319 (2004)
29. A. Siddiki and R.R. Gerhardts
    Incompressible strips in dissipative Hall bars as origin of quantized Hall plateaus
    Physical Review B 70, 195335/1–12 (2004)
30. I.V. Kukushkin, J.H. Smet, L. Hoeppel, U. Waizmann, and M. Riek
    Ultrahigh-frequency surface acoustic waves for finite wave-vector spectroscopy of twodimensional electrons
    Applied Phys. Letters 85, 4526–4528 (2004)
31. I.V. Kukushkin, J.H. Smet, D.S. Lyne Abergel, V.I. Fal’ko, W. Wegscheider, and K. von Klitzing
    Detection of Electron Spin Resonance of Two-Dimensional Electrons at LargeWave Vectors
    Physical Review Letters 96, 126807/1–4 (2006)
32. J. Martin, N. Akerman, G. Ulbricht, T. Lohmann, J. H. Smet, and K. von Klitzing
    Observation of electron-hole puddles in graphene using a scanning single-electron transistor
    Nature Physics 4, 144 – 148 (2008)
33. L. Tiemann, J.G.S. Lok, W. Dietsche, K. von Klitzing, K. Muraki, D. Schuh, and W. Wegscheider
    Exciton condensate at a total filling factor of one in Corbino two-dimensional electron bilayers
    Physical Review B 77, 033306 (2008)
34. I.V. Kukushkin, J. H. Smet, V.W. Scarola, V. Umansky, and K. von Klitzing
    Dispersion of the Excitations of Fractional Quantum Hall States
    Science 324, 1044–1047 (2009)
35. J. Martin, N. Akerman, G. Ulbricht, T. Lohmann, K. von Klitzing, J.H. Smet, and A. Yacoby
    The nature of localization in graphene under quantum Hall conditions
    Nature Physics 5, 669 – 674 (2009)
36. L. Tiemann, Y. Yoon, W. Dietsche, K. von Klitzing, and W. Wegscheider
    Dominant parameters for the critical tunneling current in bilayer exciton condensate
    Physical Review B 80, 165120 (2009)
37. F. Dahlem, E. Ahlswede, J. Weis, and K. von Klitzing
    Cryogenic scanning force microscopy of quantum Hall samples: Adiabatic transport originating in anisotropic depletion at contact interfaces
    Physical Review B 82, 121305 (2010)
38. S.I. Dorozhkin, L. Pfeiffer, K. West, K. von Klitzing, and J.H. Smet
    Random telegraph photosignals in a microwave-exposed two-dimensional electron system
    Nature Physics 7, 336–341 (2011)
39. J. Weis and K. v. Klitzing
    Metrology and microscopic picture of the integer quantum Hall effect
    Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A - Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, 369, 3954-3974 (2011)
40. X. Huang, W. Dietsche, M. Hauser, and K. von Klitzing
    Coupling of Josephson Currents in Quantum Hall Bilyers
    Physical Review Letters 109, 156802 (2012)
41. D. Zhang, S. Schmult, V. Venkatachalam, W. Dietsche, A. Yacoby, K. v. Klitzing and J. Smet
    Local compressibility measurement of the nu tot=1 quantum Hall state in a bilayer electron system
    Physical Review B 87, 205304  (2013)
42. B. Friess, V. Umansky, L. Tiemann, K. von Klitzing, and J. Smet
    Probing the Microscopic Structure of the Stripe Phase at Filling Factor 5/2,
    Physical Review Letters 113, 076803 (2014).
43. K. Panos, R.R. Gerhardts, J. Weis, and K. von Klitzing
    Current distribution and Hall potential landscape towards breakdown of the quantum Hall effect: a scanning force microscopy investigation,
    Physical Review Letters 113, 076804 (2014).
44. Klaus von Klitzing
    Metrology in 2019
    Nature Physics, Volume 13, 198 (2017)
45. Klaus von Klitzing
    Quantum Hall Effect: Discovery and Application
    Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics 8, 13-30 (2017) –
46. Joseph Falson, Daniela Tabrea, Ding Zhang, Inti Sodemann, Yusuke Kozuka, Atsushi Tsukazaki, Masashi Kawasaki, Klaus von Klitzing, and Jurgen H. Smet
    A cascade of phase transitions in an orbitally mixed half-filled Landau level
    Science Advances, Vol. 4, no. 9, eaat8742 (2018)
47. Klaus von Klitzing
    Quantum Hall Effect and the New International System of Units
    Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 200001 (2019)
48. P. Haremski, M. Mausser, A. Gauß, K. von Klitzing, and J. Weis
    Electrically induced breakdown of the quantum Hall effect at different Hall bar widths: Visualizing the edge- and bulk-dominated regimes within a quantum Hall plateau
    Phys. Rev. B 102, 205306 (2020)
49. Klaus von Klitzing
    Quantum Hall Effect and modern-day metrology
    Encyclopedia of Condensed Matter Physics (Second Edition)
    Volume 1, 2024, Pages 1-8
    Elsevier