Reona Esaki,also known as Leo Esaki,is a Japanese physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1973 with Ivar Giaever and Brian David Josephson for his work in electron tunneling in semiconductor materials which finally led to his invention of the Esaki diode,which exploited that phenomenon. This research was done when he was with Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo. He has also contributed in being a pioneer of the semiconductor superlattices.
Nick Holonyak Jr. was an American engineer and educator. He is noted particularly for his 1962 invention and first demonstration of a semiconductor laser diode that emitted visible light. This device was the forerunner of the first generation of commercial light-emitting diodes (LEDs). He was then working at a General Electric research laboratory near Syracuse,New York. He left General Electric in 1963 and returned to his alma mater,the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,where he later became John Bardeen Endowed Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics.
Alfred Yi Cho is a Chinese-American electrical engineer,inventor,and optical engineer. He is the Adjunct Vice President of Semiconductor Research at Alcatel-Lucent's Bell Labs. He is known as the "father of molecular beam epitaxy";a technique he developed at that facility in the late 1960s. He is also the co-inventor,with Federico Capasso of quantum cascade lasers at Bell Labs in 1994.
A resonant-tunneling diode (RTD) is a diode with a resonant-tunneling structure in which electrons can tunnel through some resonant states at certain energy levels. The current–voltage characteristic often exhibits negative differential resistance regions.
Isamu Akasaki was a Japanese engineer and physicist,specializing in the field of semiconductor technology and Nobel Prize laureate,best known for inventing the bright gallium nitride (GaN) p-n junction blue LED in 1989 and subsequently the high-brightness GaN blue LED as well.
Chih-Tang "Tom" Sah is a Chinese-American electronics engineer and condensed matter physicist. He is best known for inventing CMOS logic with Frank Wanlass at Fairchild Semiconductor in 1963. CMOS is used in nearly all modern very large-scale integration (VLSI) semiconductor devices.
Ann Catrina Coleman FIEEE FOSA is a Scottish electrical engineer and professor at the University of Texas at Dallas specialising in semiconductor lasers.
Kang Lung Wang is recognized as the discoverer of chiral Majorana fermions by IUPAP. Born in Lukang,Changhua,Taiwan,in 1941,Wang received his BS (1964) degree from National Cheng Kung University and his MS (1966) and PhD (1970) degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1970 to 1972 he was the Assistant Professor at MIT. From 1972 to 1979,he worked at the General Electric Corporate Research and Development Center as a physicist/engineer. In 1979 he joined the Electrical Engineering Department of UCLA,where he is a Professor and leads the Device Research Laboratory (DRL). He served as Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering at UCLA from 1993 to 1996. His research activities include semiconductor nano devices,and nanotechnology;self-assembly growth of quantum structures and cooperative assembly of quantum dot arrays Si-based Molecular Beam Epitaxy,quantum structures and devices;Nano-epitaxy of hetero-structures;Spintronics materials and devices;Electron spin and coherence properties of SiGe and InAs quantum structures for implementation of spin-based quantum information;microwave devices. He was the inventor of strained layer MOSFET,quantum SRAM cell,and band-aligned superlattices. He holds 45 patents and published over 700 papers. He is a passionate teacher and has mentored hundreds of students,including MS and PhD candidates. Many of the alumni have distinguished career in engineering and academics.
Jerry M. Woodall is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California,Davis who is widely known for his revolutionary work on LEDs and semiconductors. Over the course of his career,he has published close to 400 scientific articles and his work has directly contributed to the development of major technologies that are used around the world,such as TVs,optical fibers,and mobile phones. Woodall currently holds over 80 U.S. patents for a variety of inventions and has received prestigious awards from IBM,NASA,and the U.S. President for his contributions to science,technology,and humanity.
Interband cascade lasers (ICLs) are a type of laser diode that can produce coherent radiation over a large part of the mid-infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum. They are fabricated from epitaxially-grown semiconductor heterostructures composed of layers of indium arsenide (InAs),gallium antimonide (GaSb),aluminum antimonide (AlSb),and related alloys. These lasers are similar to quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) in several ways. Like QCLs,ICLs employ the concept of bandstructure engineering to achieve an optimized laser design and reuse injected electrons to emit multiple photons. However,in ICLs,photons are generated with interband transitions,rather than the intersubband transitions used in QCLs. Consequently,the rate at which the carriers injected into the upper laser subband thermally relax to the lower subband is determined by interband Auger,radiative,and Shockley-Read carrier recombination. These processes typically occur on a much slower time scale than the longitudinal optical phonon interactions that mediates the intersubband relaxation of injected electrons in mid-IR QCLs. The use of interband transitions allows laser action in ICLs to be achieved at lower electrical input powers than is possible with QCLs.
In 2002,the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) added a new award to its already existing program of awards. Each year,one or more nominees are honored with a medal in the name of Jun-ichi Nishizawa,considered to be the father of Japanese microelectronics. Nishizawa was professor,director of two research institutes and the 17th president at Tohoku University,Sendai,Japan,and contributed important innovations in the fields of optical communications and semiconductor devices,such as laser and PIN diodes and static induction thyristors for electric power applications.
Eby G. Friedman is an electrical engineer,and Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Rochester. Friedman is also a visiting professor at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. He is a Senior Fulbright Fellow and a Fellow of the IEEE.
Sanjay Banerjee is an American engineer at the University of Texas at Austin,director of Microelectronics Research Center,and director of the Southwest Academy of Nanoelectronics (SWAN) —one of three such centers in the United States funded by the Semiconductor Research Corporation to develop a replacement for MOSFETs as part of their Nanoelectronics Research Initiative (NRI).
Roger John Malik is a physicist,engineer and inventor.
Manijeh Razeghi is an Iranian-American scientist in the fields of semiconductors and optoelectronic devices. She is a pioneer in modern epitaxial techniques for semiconductors such as low pressure metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD),vapor phase epitaxy (VPE),molecular beam epitaxy (MBE),GasMBE,and MOMBE. These techniques have enabled the development of semiconductor devices and quantum structures with higher composition consistency and reliability,leading to major advancement in InP and GaAs based quantum photonics and electronic devices,which were at the core of the late 20th century optical fiber telecommunications and early information technology.
James J. Coleman is an electrical engineer who worked at Bell Labs,Rockwell International,and the University of Illinois,Urbana. He is best known for his work on semiconductor lasers,materials and devices including strained-layer indium gallium arsenide lasers and selective area epitaxy. Coleman is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of the US National Academy of Engineering.
Deji Akinwande is a Nigerian-American professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering with courtesy affiliation with Materials Science at the University of Texas at Austin. He was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2016 from Barack Obama. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society,the African Academy of Sciences,the Materials Research Society (MRS),and the IEEE.
Theda M. Daniels-Race is an American engineer and Michael B. Voorhies Distinguished Professor in the Division of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Louisiana State University. Her research is in nanoelectronics,specialising in the growth and characterization of nanomaterials and hybrid electronic devices based on compound semiconductors.
Sandip Tiwari is an Indian-born electrical engineer and applied physicist. He is the Charles N. Mellowes Professor of Engineering at Cornell University. His previous roles were Director of National Nanotechnology Users Network,Director of the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network,and research scientist at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. He is best known for his pioneer research in the fields of SiGe transistor and nanocrystal memory.
Hiroyuki Matsunami is a Japanese engineer,researcher and educator. He was awarded the IEEE Edison Medal in 2023 for his pioneering contributions to the development of silicon carbide material and its applications in electronic power devices. Currently,he holds the position of professor emeritus at Kyoto University and serves as a specially appointed professor at Kyoto University of Advanced Science.
