is a Japanese professor of electrical engineering

Electrical engineering

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Dr. Hiyamizu won the 1982 Japanese Journal of Applied Physics

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics

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 Paper Award as lead author of a paper on mobility in two-dimensional electron gases

2DEG

A two-dimensional electron gas is a gas of electrons free to move in two dimensions, but tightly confined in the third. This tight confinement leads to quantized energy levels for motion in that direction, which can then be ignored for most problems. Thus the electrons appear to be a 2D sheet...

 while at Fujitsu

Fujitsu

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 Laboratories Limited, received the 1990 IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award

IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award

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 with Takashi Mimura "for outstanding contributions to the epitaxial growth

Epitaxy

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 of compound semiconductor

Semiconductor

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 materials and devices," and in 2001 was named an IEEE Fellow

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 "for contributions to the realization of the first high electron mobility transistor (HEMT)". He served as dean of the Osaka University

Osaka University

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Graduate School of Engineering from 2000 to 2002.