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  • Terabit/second communications is just one of many benefits that may result from a metamaterial device with a demonstrated switching time of 600-fs.  The metamaterial is the result of a collaboration between the University of New Mexico and the Los Alamos National Laboratory.  more...
  • Congratulations to Professor Sanjay Krishna for being chosen as the School of Engineering's next UNM Regents' Lecturer, in recognition of his extraordinary accomplishments and leadership in teaching, research, and service. The title of UNM Regents' Lecturer is held by only two faculty members in the School at any one time. (Oct 2009)
  • Patent Number 7,583,715 B2 has been issued for "Semiconductor Conductive Layers" as of September 1, 2009.  more...
  • Professor Steven Brueck will be a plenary speaker at the European Optical Society 3rd Topical Meeting on Optical Microsystems (OµS '09) held in Capri, Italy on September 27-30, 2009. Professor Brueck will be speaking on "Imaging Interferometric Microscopy - Resolution to the Linear Systems Limits". More details on the meeting can be found at the conference website here.
  • Congratulations to CHTM Director Steven Brueck, who has been named as a member of the NM Business Weekly's 2009 Who's Who in Technology in the category of Technologists. Read all about it in the UNM press announcement here, or visit the New Mexico Business Weekly website here.
  • The Center for High Technology Materials turns 25 this year! To mark the occasion, we are holding a technical symposium and open house on August 14, 2009 to highlight the innovative research performed at the Center and showcase its many unique capabilites. You can visit the CHTM Silver site here, for information and registration. There is also an article in UNM Today which details the Center's beginnings and research, which you can read here.
  • Ganesh Balakrishnan is now an Assistant Professor in UNM's School of Engineer, formerly the Technical Director at the Integrated NanoMaterials Core Facility at California NanoSystems Institute, UCLA.  His post-doctoral research was performed at UNM's Center for High Technology Materials, with research interests including compound semiconductor based optoelectronics and novel epitaxial processes.
  • Assistant Prof Mani Hossein-Zadeh has joined UNM's School of Engineering.  His main research area is photonics and is interested in RF/microwave- photonics devices and systems, optomechanical oscillators, ultra high-Q optical microresonators and bio/chemical photonic sensors.  He was a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology with a PhD from the University of Southern California.
  • Prof Steve Hersee will be UNM's lead for the NSF's newly established Engineering Research Center to advance "Smart Lighting".  more...
  • Prof Sanjay Krishna will be a plenary speaker at the SPIE "Optical Engineering + Applications 2008" Conference, August 10-14, 2008 in San Diego, California.  more...
  • Prof Ralph Dawson will be the plenary speaker at the 50th anniversary of the Electronic Materials Conference, June 25-27, 2008 in Santa Barbara, California.  more...

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