News -  February 26, 2020

IAS Senior Fellow Prof. Kei May LAU receives the 2020 Nick Holonyak Jr. Award from the Optical Society

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IAS Senior Fellow Prof. LAU Kei May, Fang Professor of Engineering and Chair Professor of Electronic and Computer Engineering, has been named the recipient of the 2020 Nick Holonyak Jr. Award from the Optical Society for her contributions to “hetero-epitaxy of compound semiconductors on silicon for future integrated lasers and advancing the field of light-emitting diode microdisplays.” Prof. Lau is the second female scientist to receive Nick Holonyak Jr. Award since its establishment in 1997. The past recipients include IAS Senior Visiting Fellow Prof. Shuji NAKAMURA (2001) and IAS Bank of East Asia Professor Ching W. TANG (2014).

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