Luyao Xu wins departmental thesis award

Luyao Xu wins departmental thesis award

Luyao Xu has been awarded the UCLA EE Department “Distinguished PhD Dissertation Award in Physical & Wave Electronics” for 2016-17. Congratulations! Her thesis reported the first realization of a metasurface laser and: the quantum-cascade metasurface THz VECSEL...
A bright future for lasers

A bright future for lasers

Prof. Williams’ Terahertz and Infrared Photonics group is featured in UCLA Engineer Magazine. Link
Prof. Williams wins PECASE!

Prof. Williams wins PECASE!

Prof. Williams is awarded a 2013 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The ceremony for all of the winners took place at the White House in May 2016....
Luyao Xu wins Best Student Presentation at 2016 SPIE Photonics West

Luyao Xu wins Best Student Presentation at 2016 SPIE Photonics West

Congratulations to Luyao Xu for winning the Best Student Presentation Award in the VECSEL Conference at SPIE Photonics West 2016! Her presentation was entitled “Terahertz quantum cascade VECSEL” and was co-authored by Luyao Xu, Christopher A. Curwen, Philip W....

Amir Ali Tavallaee wins 2013 departmental thesis award!

Congratulations to Amir Ali Tavallaee, for winning the EE department’s “Distinguished PhD Dissertation Award in Physical & Wave Electronics” for 2012-13! His thesis on “Terahertz Quantum-Cascade Transmission-Line Metamaterials” includes a report of the...
Electrical engineers win IEEE best paper award

Electrical engineers win IEEE best paper award

Electrical engineering professors Tatsuo Itoh and Ben Williams, with graduate student co-authors Philip Hon, Amir Tavallace and collaborator Qi-Sheng Chen from Northrop Grumman, have been awarded the 2013 IEEE Transactions on THz Science and Technology Best Paper...