Federico Capasso#
| Membership Number: | 4109 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2015 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.seas.harvard.edu/capasso |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2003 - present Robert Wallace Professor of Applied Physics, Harvard University
- 2000 - 2002 Vice President of Physical Research, Bell Laboratories Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ
- 1997 - 2000 Department Head, Semiconductor Physics Research, Bell Laboratories Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ.
- 1987 - 1997 Department Head, Quantum Phenomena and Device Research, Bell Laboratories Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ
- 1984 - 1987 Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ
- 1977 - 1984 Member of Technical Staff, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ
- 1976 - 1977 Visiting Scientist, Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ, USA
- 1974 - 1976 Research Physicist, Fondazione Bordoni, Rome, Italy
Fields of Scholarship
- Quantum cascade lasers
- Bandstructure engineering: Quantum phenomena in nanostructures and novel heterostrcuture/quantum devices
- Physics of deformed laser resonators
- Plasmonics and metasurfaces
- Nanophotonics and flat optics
- Casimir forces (actuator and nonlinear oscillators based on Casimir forces)
- MicroElectroMechanicalSystems (MEMS) - Casimir-based nanomechanics
Honours and Awards
- 2016 Balzan Prize
- 2013 Gold Medal of SPIE
- 2013 European Physical Society Quantum Electronics and Optics Award
- 2013 Humboldt Research Award
- 2011 Jan Czochralski Award of the European Materials Research Society
- 2011 Galileo Galilei Medal of the Italian Society for Optics and Photonics
- 2010 Julius Springer Prize in Applied Physics
- 2010 Berthold Leibinger Zukunft Prize (Future prize)
- 2005 King Faisal International Prize for Science
- 2005 Gold Medal of the President of Italy for meritorious achievement in science
- 2004 Edison Medal, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
- 2004 Arhur Schawlow Prize in Laser Science, American Physical Society
- 2003 Goff Smith Prize and Lecture, University of Michigan
- 2002 Duddell Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics (London, UK)
- 2001 Robert Wood Prize of the Optical Society of America
- 2000 Willis E. Lamb Medal for Laser Physics and Quantum Optics
- 1998 IEEE/Laser & Electrooptics Society W. Streifer Award for Scientific Achievement
- 1995 Member, National Academy of Sciences
- 1996 Member, National Academy of Engineering
- 1998 Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1986 Fellow, American Physical Society
