PROFESSIONAL HONORS, AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

HONORS

• Fellow: American Physical Society (APS)
• Fellow: American Physical Society, South Eastern Section (SEAPS)
• Fellow: Society of Photo Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)
• Fellow: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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AWARDS

• “Distinguished Lecturer Award – 2020-2022”: IEEE Photonics Society Distinguish Lecture Award 2020-2021.
• "2010 Alumni Distinguished Professor Award " College of Arts and Sciences, Georgia State University
• "Carl R. Nave Award for Outstanding Teaching in Physics - 2009-2010 " The Society of Physics Students (SPS), Georgia State University
• "Outstanding Faculty Scholarship Award - 2008-2009 " College of Arts and Sciences, Georgia State University
• "Outstanding Faculty Achievement Award - 1999" Georgia State University.
• "Outstanding Junior Faculty Award - 1995" Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Georgia State University.

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NEWS

· spectroscopyNOW.com

· Medical News Today, 27th April 2016

· Nature Photonics Interview

· Second Light Source Primes Semiconductors to See IR

· Research finds 'tunable' semiconductors will allow better detectors, solar cells

· New technique enables low-energy light detection, extending range from 4μm to at least 55μm

· Tunable Semiconductors Offer Better Detectors, Solar Cells

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RECOGNITIONS

• Our work on “QUANTUM-DOT DETECTORS: Dual-band QDIP is wavelength-selectable" is reported in Vol. 46, Issue 1, January 2010 of the Laser Focus World

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• Our work on dual band (NIR & FIR) detectors (APL, 2005. Vol. 86.  143510) is reported as a featured article in the June, 2005 issue of the Photonics Spectra Magazine Technology news. 
• Our work on 70 µm heterojunction interfacial workfunction internal photoemission (HEIWIP) detector (APL, 2000, Vol. 78, pp. 2241-2243) is reported in the June, 2001 issue of the Laser Focus World. 
• Our work on 35 µm cutoff quantum-well infrared detectors (APL, 2000, Vol. 77, pp. 741-743 ) is reported in the November issue of the "Photoics Spectra" Technology World Briefs, a technical publication covering optoelectronic breakthroughs in the world.
• Our work on interfacial workfunction IR detectors (APL, 1992, Vol. 60, pp. 3168-3170) was featured in the August 1992 issue of the LASER FOCUS WORLD, NEWSBREAKS, a technical magazine devoted to the advances in optics, electro-optics and optoelectronics.
• Our results on search for fractional charge impurities in semiconductors (PRL, 1993, Vol. 70, pp. 1053-1056) is recorded in the "Review of Particle Properties", compiled by the particle data group at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.
• Marquis Who's Who.

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ACADEMIC HONORS

• "First Year Science Student Fellowship - 1978 / 1979" University of Colombo , Sri Lanka
• Justin Samarasekara Medal for "The Most Outstanding Science Student of the Year - 1981", University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.

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