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  • Congratulations to CHTM Prof. Sanjay Krishna for two recent awards. He received both the ISCS2013 Young Scientist Award as well as Albuquerque Business First's inaugural BizTech Innovation award. UNM press release
  • Patent 8,404,123 B2 (Mar 26, 2013) has been issued for Fabrication of Enclosed Nanochannels Using Silica Nanoparticles
  • Patent 8,379,285 B1 (Feb 19, 2013) has been issued for Radio Frequency Self-Regenerated Locked Optical Oscillator.
  • Patent 8,377,390 B1 (Feb 19, 2013) has been issued for Anisotropic Wetting Behavior on One-Dimensional Patterned Surfaces for Applications to Microfluidic Devices.
  • Patent 8,343,823 B2 (Jan 1, 2013) has been issued for Nanowire and Larger GaN Based HEMTs.
  • Patent 8,338,818 B1 (Dec 25, 2012) has been issued for Nanowires, Nanowire Networks and Methods for their Formation and Use.
  • CHTM faculty members Ladan Arissian and Jean-Claude Diels have won a 2012 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title award for the book Lasers: The Power and Precision of Light, a text on the fundamental principles and diverse applications of lasers. Read the full CHOICE review here.
  • CHTM made a splash in the Albuquerque business news for its research towards creating the next generation of infrared detectors. The work has attracted the notice of Raytheon Vision systems, as well as Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratories. Click the Albuquerque Journal article for more info.
  • Congratulations to Dr. Luke Lester, who has been named a Fellow of both IEEE (the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and SPIE, the Society for Optics and Photonics. Dr. Lester was recognized by both organizations for his work in quantum dot lasers. See the UNM news release here.
  • Patent 8,312,967 (Nov 20, 2012) has been issued for Cubic Phase, Nitrogen-Based Compound Semiconductor Films Epitaxially Grown on a Grooved Si<001> Substrate.
  • Congratulations to Dr. Majeed Hayat, Associate Director of CHTM, who has been elected a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA). OSA recognized Dr. Hayat "for pioneering the dead-space formulation of impact ionization and noise in avalanche photodiodes and developing non-uniformity correction algorithms for infrared sensors." The OSA Fellow is awarded to OSA Members who have served with distinction in the advancement of optics. This honor is reserved to no more than 10% of the total membership.
  • Professor Marek Osinski has been appointed Associate Editor of IEEE Photonics Journal, a new online-only journal that offers an open-access option and fast processing times. The Journal is published by the IEEE Photonics Society, formerly known as the Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS). Further description of the journal scope is available at http://www.photonicsjournal.org/scope.html. CHTM congratulates Professor Osinski for this achievement, which demonstrates his visibility and solid reputation in the photonics community worldwide.
  • CHTM recently co-sponsored the first annual Filament Science Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (FS MURI), funded by the US Army Research Office. UNM has pioneered this area of physics, and the workshop brought together a world-class team of participants equipped with the tools and expertise to elevate filamentation to a precision engineering discipline.
  • CHTM Professor recognized for innovative cancer research: Prof. Sanjay Krishna and his wife Sanchita were recognized for their innovative research in possible early detection of skin cancer using non-invasive infrared imaging instead of the current method of biopsy. The couple were cited in an Albuquerque Journal article about research at UNM.
  • UNM Collaborates on NSF Nanoscale Manufacturing Research Center: UNM will participate on a National Science Foundation grant to develop nanoscale manufacturing systems for mobile computing. CHTM director Distinguished Professor Steven R. J. Brueck will lead the UNM activities under the $18.5 million multi-year grant, and a testbed for nanomanufacturing metrology will be built at CHTM. Read the full NSF news release on this exciting research. The UNM news release is here.
  • Patent 8,203,782 B2 (Jun 19, 2012) has been issued for Imaging Interferometric Microscopy.
  • Patent 8,115,992 B2 (Feb 14, 2012) has been issued for Structural Illumination and Evanescent Coupling for the Extension of Imaging Interferometric Microscopy.
  • Congratulations to professor Majeed Hayat for his election to SPIE Fellow in recognition of his "pioneering work in modeling and understanding impact ionization and noise in avalanche-photodiode devices well as seminal contributions to image processing for reducing noise in infrared focal-plane arrays.”
  • Congratulations to professor Luke Lester for being named the SPIE 2012 Harold E. Edgerton Award winner in recognition of his pioneering contributions to the development, characterization, and integration of quantum dot mode-locked lasers as high-speed optical sources.
  • Patent 8,105,471 B1 (Jan 31, 2012) has been issued for Nanofluidics for bioseparation and analysis.
  • Congratulations to CHTM student Nathan Withers for being presented the 2012 Ocean Optics Young Investigator Award for his paper entitled "Effects of LaF3:Ce nanoparticles capped with polyethylene glycol on human astrocytoma cells in vitro" at the Colloidal Nanocrystals for Biomedical Applications VII conference.
  • Former CHTM student Andreas Velten, currently a researcher at the MIT Media Lab, is one of the co-authors of the paper "Picosecond Camera for Time-of-Flight Imaging," otherwise referred to as the "Trillion Frames per Second Camera," as in this ABC News video. More video and information can be seen at the project website.
  • Patent 8,071,945 B2 has been issued for Infrared Retina (2007-079-02 UNM-0830) more...
  • The US Patent office has issued over 100 patents to CHTM Researchers since the Center was founded in the early 1980s, 45 of which have been licensed by companies wishing to use the technology. Read more about the history of CHTM and this important milestone on UNM's website, or via PDF here. A full list of patents (as of August 2011) is available here.
  • Professor Sanjay Krishna has been selected for the International Editorial Advisory board of Opto-electronics Review.
  • Former CHTM student Pravin Patel was part of the team at Emcore that launched a solar cell experiment into low earth orbit on the last space shuttle mission. Read the press announcement.
  • Patent 7,978,403 has been issued for Imaging Interferometric Microscopy (UNM826 issued 7/12/2011). more...
  • Congratulations to CHTM Professor Luke Lester who has agreed to serve as interim chair of the UNM ECE department for the current fiscal year beginning July 2011. more...
  • Patent 7,959,861 B2 has been issued for Integrated Affinity Microcolumns and Affinity Capillary Electrophoresis (UNM 782 issued 6/14/2011). more...
  • Congratulations to graduate student Nutan Gautam for being awarded the 2011 John Kiel Scholarship by SPIE, the International Society for Optics and Photonics. This scholarship is granted to students that the SPIE Board of Directors feel have the potential for important long-term contributions to the field of optics and optical engineering.
  • Congratulations to graduate student Ajit Barve for three prestigious awards. For 2011, Ajit has received an ECE Outstanding Graduate Student award from the UNM School of Engineering, an SPIE scholarship for Academic Excellence, and an award from Sigma Xi for Outstanding Graduate Researcher.
  • CHTM Associate Director Prof. Sanjay Krishna has been promoted to SPIE Fellow for achievements in quantum dot-in-a-well and strained layer superlattice infrared photodetectors. The full press release can be seen here.
  • Prof. Hossein-Zadeh has received a 2011 National Science Foundation Career Award for his proposal entitled "Radiation Pressure Based Optomechanical RF Signal Processing for Communication and Sensing." Read more about it on the UNM/ECE website here. The NSF award info is here.
  • Patent Number 7,825,037 B2 has been issued for "Fabrication of Enclosed Nanochannels Using Silica Nanoparticles" as of November 2, 2010.  more...
  • CHTM Director and UNM Distinguished Professor Steven Brueck chaired the National Academies committee that just released a report about emerging visible and infrared technologies with the potential for military utility. For a pre-publication version from the National Academies Press webpage click here. For the full news release from the UNM Electrical and Computer Engineering dept. website, click here.
  • Researchers at CHTM in collaboration with a researcher at the University of Arizona have demonstrated the first multi-watt quantum dot VECSEL (vertical external-cavity surface-emitting laser). You can read more about the significance of the research and about the researchers themselves here and here, and a copy of the paper itself is here.
  • Congratulations to Sanjay Krishna, Associate Director of CHTM, who has been selected as a 2009-2010 recipient of the UNM Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award, to be presented by the Deputy Provost in a ceremony on Thursday May 6th at 2pm in SUB Ballroom C. more...
  • Congratulations to Steve Brueck, Director of CHTM, honored as the first annual Innovation Fellow at the 7th Annual STC.UNM Creative Awards Reception at UNM. At the same awards ceremony, 23 faculty and students who have been issued patents in the last year were honored, 8 of them from CHTM. more...
  • 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! To mark the occasion, a technical symposium and open house were held on August 14, 2009 to highlight the innovative research performed at the Center and showcase its many unique capabilites. You can read an article in UNM Today which details the Center's beginnings and research here.
  • Patent Number 7,521,274 B2 has been issued for "Pulsed Growth of Catalyst-Free Growth of GaN Nanowires and Application in Group III Nitride Semiconductor Bulk Material " as of April 21, 2009.  more...
  • 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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