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About Alexey Ekimov
- Alexey I.
- Ekimov is a Russian solid state physicist who discovered the semiconductor nanocrystals known as quantum dots, while working at the Vavilov State Optical Institute.
- He was awarded the 1975 USSR State Prize in Science and Engineering for work on electron spin orientation in semiconductors.
- He is co-recipient of the 2006 R.
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- Wood prize of the Optical Society of America for "discovery of nanocrystal quantum dots and pioneering studies of their electronic and optical properties".
- He currently works for Nanocrystals Technology Inc.
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