The Nick Holonyak, Jr. Award is presented by Optica "to an individual who has made significant contributions to optics based on semiconductor-based optical devices and materials, including basic science and technological applications." The Award was established in 1997 to honor Nick Holonyak, who made distinguished contributions to the field of optics through the development of semiconductor-based light-emitting diodes and semiconductor lasers.
Recipients Source: Nick Holonyak, Jr. Award
1998 – M. George Craford 1999 – Dennis G. Deppe 2000 – Zhores Alferov 2001 – Shuji Nakamura 2002 – Pallab K. Bhattacharya 2003 – Joe Charles Campbell 2004 – Peter G. Eliseev 2005 – P. Daniel Dapkus 2006 – James J. Coleman 2007 – Constance J. Chang-Hasnain 2008 – Kam Yin Lau 2009 – John E. Bowers 2010 – Dan Botez 2011 – Yasuhiko Arakawa 2012 – Kent D. Choquette 2013 – Alessandro Tredicucci 2014 – Ching Wan Tang 2015 – Qing Hu 2016 – Chennupati Jagadish 2017 – Larry A. Coldren 2018 – Dieter Bimberg 2019 – Fumio Koyama 2020 – Kei May Lau 2021 – Martin D. Dawson 2022 – Marshall Nathan 2023 – Yeshaiahu Fainman 2024 – Theodore Moustakas 2025 – Zetian Mi 2026 – Steven DenBaars
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