Awards

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2022 SPIE George W. Goddard Award in Space and Airborne Optics - Michelle Stephens

Michelle Stephens received the 2022 SPIE George W. Goddard Award in Space and Airborne Optics in recognition of technical innovation

2021 - Silver Medal Award---Varun Verma, Adriana Lita, Richard Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, Thomas Gerrits, Martin Stevens, Robert Horansky

For advancing quantum communication and imaging applications by creating novel high-efficiency single-photon detectors and kilopixel arrays

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Physics World 2021 Breakthrough of the Year

The Physics World 2021 Breakthrough of the Year goes to two independent teams for entangling two macroscopic vibrating drumheads, thereby

2022 IEEE Fellow - Sae Woo Nam

For pioneering development of superconducting single-photon detectors with applications to quantum communications and quantum computing.

2022 Optica Fellow - Kristan Corwin

For pioneering research in gas-filled hollow fibers for lasers and frequency metrology, technical leadership, and service to the scientific

2021-2022 Fulbright Finland Foundation Grantee - Timo Dönsberg

The topic for the application was Photon Momentum - New Technology for High Power Laser Measurements. The main scientific goal is the

2022 Special Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation - John Lehman

The topic for the application is that of thermal detectors for space-based measurements of the earth radiation budget. The main scientific

Kathryn Keenan Named 2021 Scialog Advanced Bioimaging Fellow

Kathryn Keenan has been named a 2021 Scialog Advanced Bioimaging Fellow. Scialog Fellows collaborate in high-risk discovery research and

Figure 1 from "Microscopic origin of inhomogeneous transport in four-terminal tellurene devices"

Featured Article in APL 2D Transistors Collection

The Quantitative Nanostructure Characterization group's recent paper titled "Microscopic origin of inhomogeneous transport in four-terminal

2020 - Bronze Medal Award---Matt Brubaker, Alexana Roshko, Todd Harvey, Kris Bertness

For developing nanoscale UV light-emitting diodes with the breakthrough efficiency and intensity needed for a broad range of industry applications.

HALO Takes Runner-Up in OPN Photo Contest

The High Amplification Laser pressure Optic (HALO) was developed by NIST to measure kilo-watts of laser power with best-in-class accuracy

2020 APS Fellow - Sae Woo Nam

For the pioneering development of high-quantum-efficiency photon detectors and of number-resolving photon detectors; and for the application

2020 SPIE Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award in Photonics - John H. Lehman

John H. Lehman is the 2020 recipient in recognition of the development of innovative tools for laser power and energy measurements spanning

2019 - Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers---Varun Verma

For pioneering devices that detect and count single particles of light, and for serving the community through professional leadership, mentoring and helping others.

2019 - Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers---Kathryn Keenan

For development of a world-first suite of standards for magnetic resonance imaging and providing leadership in the medical and scientific community through technology transfer and mentoring.

2019 - Bronze Medal Award---Matthew Pufall, William Rippard, Stephen Russek, Michael Schneider

For demonstrating novel magnetic-superconducting devices that enable dramatic power and speed improvements in neuromorphic computing

John Lehman Elected OSA Fellow

John Lehman is recognized for outstanding work on laser radiometry and applications, with a focus on accurate laser power measurements and

2019 PECASE - Varun Verma

For pushing the frontiers of quantum physics through pioneering new devices that detect and count single particles of light, and for serving

2019 PECASE - Kathryn Keenan

For transforming magnetic resonance imaging into a quantitative tool to diagnose and treat cancer and neurodegenerative diseases through the

2019 Gears of Government Award - Lehman, Stephens, Tomlin, Vayshenker and Yung

Established the first primary standard to measure optical fiber-based laser power by exploiting the team’s innovative coatings, which are

Kristan Corwin Receives the 5 Sigma Physicist Award

Kristan Corwin was awarded the 2019 5 Sigma Physicist Award for the writing of an op-ed in The Topeka Capital-Journal on the impact of NSF

2018 - Silver Medal Award---José Aumentado, Konrad Lehnert, Raymond Simmonds, John Teufel

For creating the fundamental, enabling components of future quantum networks that will process information much faster than current computer networks.

2018 - Gold Medal Award---John Lehman, Michelle Stephens, Nathan Tomlin, Igor Vayshenker, Christopher Yung

For revolutionizing optical power metrology through the world's first primary fiber-based standard to support telecommunications, sensing and defense.

2018 - Bronze Medal Award---Dustin Hite, Dietrich Leibfried, David Pappas, Andrew Wilson

For innovations in surface-science and material-preparation technology that overcame a longstanding barrier to implementing ion-trap quantum computing.

2018 - Edward Uhler Condon Award---Pavel Kabos, T. Mitch Wallis

For making a complex topic accessible through their foundational textbook on measurement techniques for radio frequency nanoelectronics.

Advanced communications
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Nanotechnology
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