CHANG-HASNAIN GROUP NEWS

• The paper titled "GaAs nanoneedles grown on sapphire" is featured on the cover of March 21 2011 issue of Applied Physics Letters.

  Linus C. Chuang, Michael Moewe, Kar Wei Ng, Thai-Truong D. Tran, Shanna Crankshaw, Roger Chen, Wai Son Ko, and Connie Chang-Hasnain, "GaAs nanoneedles grown on sapphire", Appl. Phys. Lett. 98, 123101 (2011)

  March 21, 2011

• Prof. Chang-Hasnain was presented with the IEEE David Sarnoff Award at the 2011 OFC/NFOEC for her pioneering work on VCSELs.

  Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition, Los Angeles, March 8, 2011

• The paper titled "Nanolasers grown on silicon" is featured on the cover of March 2011 issue of Nature Photonics.

  Roger Chen, Thai-Trung D. Tran, Kar Wei Ng, Wai Son Ko, Linus C. Chuang, Forrest G. Sedgwick and Connie Chang-Hasnain, "Nanolasers grown on silicon", Nature Photonics 5, 170-175 (2011)

  February 26, 2011

• The Wall Street Journal reports on the discovery of nanolasers grown on silicon in an article titled "Berkeley Researchers Hope to Light Way with Tiny Laser".

  February 9, 2011

• UC Berkeley News Center press release on "Engineers grow nanolasers on silicon, pave way for on-chip photonics".

  February 6, 2011

• Prof. Connie Chang-Hasnain has won the IEEE David Sarnoff Award 2011 "for pioneering contributions to vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) arrays and tunable VCSELs." This award requires a singular outstanding achievement, originality, and recent impact (within five years).


• Roger Chen won Best Student Award at 2010 IEEE Photonics Society Annual Meeting, Denvor, CO.

  Roger Chen, Thai-Truong D. Tran, Kar Wei Ng, Wai Son Ko, Linus C. Chuang, Forrest G. Sedgwick and Connie Chang-Hasnain, "All-Semiconductor Nanolasers on Silicon", Annual Meeting of IEEE Photonics Society, Denver CO, Nov. 8-11, 2010

• Roger Chen won ISCS Student Award, 2010 International Symposium on Compound Semiconductors (ISCS ’10), Kagawa, Japan.

  Roger Chen, Linus C. Chuang, Forrest G. Sedgwick, Wai Son Ko, Kar Wei Ng, Thai-Truong D. Tran, Connie Chang-Hasnain, "Monolithic Integration of InGaAs/GaAs Nanopillar LEDs on a Silicon Substrate", 2010 International Symposium on Compound Semiconductors (ISCS ’10), Kagawa, Japan, May 31 – June 4, 2010.



• Prof. Connie Chang-Hasnain has been awarded the Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

  The award is granted in recognition of a researcher's entire achievements to date to academics whose fundamental discoveries, new theories, or insights have had a significant impact on their own discipline and who are expected to continue producing cutting-edge achievements in future.

  October 13, 2009

• Prof. Connie Chang-Hasnain has been awarded a 2009 Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.

  Guggenheim Fellows are appointed on the basis of stellar achievement and exceptional promise for continued accomplishment in their field and were chosen from a group of almost 3,000 applicants.

  April 7, 2009

• Prof. Connie Chang-Hasnain has been selected as one of the new National Security Science and Engineering Fellows.

  DoD Names Two Additional National Security Science And Engineering Fellows
  DoD Names Inaugural Class of National Security Science and Engineering Fellows

  This is a very prestigious recognition, honoring 8 distinguished scientists and engineers in its inaugural round. Selected from over 350 applicants from all fields of sciences and engineering, the eight researchers from the first NSSEFF competition "are expected to make considerable discoveries in the core science and engineering disciplines underpinning the technology of future DoD systems".

  "Every NSSEFF award--up to $3 million in total direct research support for up to five years--provides DoD with top-tier researchers from U.S. universities, each conducting long-term, unclassified, basic research on challenging technical problems of strategic national security importance," said William Rees, Jr., deputy under secretary of defense for laboratories and basic sciences. "It also affords significant opportunities for Fellows to contribute to research programs within the DoD laboratories."

  November 07, 2008

• Xiaoxue Zhao wins the 2007-08 Leon Chua Award.
  The Leon Chua award is presented to a graduate student or undergraduate student or recent alumnus for outstanding research in the area of nonlinear science. The award was made possible by a donation from a former student of Professor Chua, Professor S.M. Kang, when he was Head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In January 2001, Dr. Kang was named Dean of the Jack Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Since March 2007, Prof. Kang is the Chancellor of the University of California, Merced. Please attend the Department's Student Awards Ceremony at 3:00 p.m. on Friday, May 9th in the Hewlett-Packard Auditorium, room 306 Soda Hall, where Wendy will receive recognition for the award. A reception will follow in the Wozniak Lounge, room 430-438 Soda Hall.


• M.C.Y. Huang Huang & Ye Mervin Zhou won the 65th Annual Device Research Conference, 2007
  http://drc.ee.psu.edu/studentaward.asp
  One Best Student Paper Awards is selected at each DRC. Papers that are based on the independent research of the graduate student who is presenting the work are eligible for the Best Student Paper Award. The award is made based on the quality of the written abstract and the oral or poster presentation. The awardee will be presented with a certificate and monetary award check at the 66th Annual Device Research Conference, June 23-25, 2008.


• Xiaoxue Zhao received B.U. Chen Memorial Scholarship given by the Photonic Society of Chinese Americans, 2008.


• Ye Zhou and M.C.Y. Huang won the Best Student Paper, Optical Society of America Frontiers in Optics Conference, 2007.
  Ye Zhou, M.C.Y. Huang and C.J. Chang-Hasnain, "Very Large Fabrication Tolerance of VCSELs Using High-Contrast Subwavelength Grating," Frontiers in Optics Conference, San Jose, CA, 17-20 September 2007.


• Bala Pesala, Best Paper of Topical Meeting, OSA, 2007.
  Bala Pesala, Forrest G. Sedgwick, Alexander V. Uskov, Connie Chang-Hasnain, Tony H. Lin, "THz Tunable Slow Light and Fast Light of Ultrashort Pulses in Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers", OSA Topical Meeting on Slow and Fast light, Salt Lake City, Utah, 8-11 July 2007.
  

• Prof. Chang-Hasnain has been selected for the 2007 Nick Holonyak Jr. Award by the Optical Society of America. The award was given to her for significant contributions to the control of diode lasers: vertical cavity surface emitting laser arrays, injection locking and slow light".


• Prof. Chang-Hasnain was recently honored as a Gilbreth Lecturer from the National Academy of Engineering in 2005.


• In 2005, Prof. Chang-Hasnain was made an Honorary Member of the A. F. Ioffe Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia.


• Prof. Chang-Hasnain won the 2003 Miller Research Professorship from the Adolph C. and Mary Sprague Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science.


• Prof. Chang-Hasnain won the 2003 William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award given by the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society. She received a citation: "for pioneering contributions to vertical cavity surface emitting lasers and VCSEL arrays for wavelength-division-multiplexing applications."


• Graduate student Pei-Cheng Ku won the 2004 Ross Tucker AIME Electronic Materials Award.


• Graduate student Lukas Chrostowski won the Demetri Angelakos Award, EECS, University of California, Berkeley in 2004.


• Graduate student Chih-Hao Chang won the 2003 PSC Bor U.Chen scholarship.