Prof. Dr. Klaus von Klitzing is heading the department "Low Dimensional Electron Systems" 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 Honorarprofessor (part-time prof.) at the University of Stuttgart and Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in 1985.

During his scientific career, Klaus von Klitzing had research stays at the University of Oxford, England, at the High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Grenoble, France, and at the IBM Research Lab in the Yorktown Heights, USA.

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

Scientific Awards / Honours / Memberships (selection)

• Nobel Prize for Physics (1985)
• Designation of the fundamental constant R_K = h/e² as von Klitzing constant
• Honorary Member German Physical Society
• Numerous Honorary Doctorates

Research Keywords (selection)

• Experimental semiconductor physics
• Low dimensional electron systems
• Nanoelectronics
• Molecular quantum structures

Selected Publication

• 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)
  
• D.Stein, K.v.Klitzing, and G.Weimann
  Electron Spin Resonance on GaAs-AlGaAs Heterostructures
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 51, 130-133 (1983)
  
• 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) 
  
• 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)
  
• 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)
  
• 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)
  
• R. Haug and K. v. Klitzing
  Influence of edge currents on Shubnikov-deHaas oscillations in Two Dimensional Systems
  Europhys. Lett. 10, 489 (1989)
  
• 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)
  
• 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
  
• 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)
  
• 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)
  
• 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)
  
• 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)
  
• 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)
  
• 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)
  
• 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)
  
• 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)
  
• 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)
  
• 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)
  
• 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)
  
• 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)
  
• 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)
  
• 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)
  
• I.V. Kukushkin, J.H. Smet, K. von Klitzing, and W. Wegscheider
  Cyclotron Resonance of Composite Fermions
  Nature 415, 409–412 (2002)
  
• 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)
  
• 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)
  
• 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)
  
• 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)
  
• 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)
  
• 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)
  
• 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)
  
• 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)
  
• 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)
  
• 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)
  
• 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)
  
• 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)
  
• 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)
  
• 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)
  
• 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)
  
• X. Huang, W. Dietsche, M. Hauser, and K. von Klitzing
  Coupling of Josephson Currents in Quantum Hall Bilyers
  Physical Review Letters 109, 156802 (2012)
  
• 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)