2024 Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal

From The College of Engineering News – "John Bowers Receives the 2024 Jun-ichi Nishizawa Prize"

John Bowers, a distinguished professor of ECE in the UCSB College of Engineering, the Fred Kavli Chair in Nanotechnology, and the director of the UCSB Institute for Energy Efficiency has been selected to receive the IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal for his “contributions to photonic integrated circuit technologies”

“This is a wonderful recognition of the silicon photonic integrated circuit (PIC) work that my group is doing,” said Bowers, an internationally renowned authority on optoelectronics whose research is focused on silicon photonics and optoelectronics, with the goals of developing energy-efficient technology for the next generation of optical networks. “It is particularly gratifying because Nishizawa, with over a thousand patents, is considered the father of Japanese microelectronics. He contributed important innovations in the fields of optical communications and semiconductor devices, including the graded-index fiber, avalanche photodiode, and many other devices.”