2021 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Awardees


Isamu
Akasaki
M. George
Craford
Russell
Dupuis
Nick
Holonyak Jr.
Shuji
Nakamura

To recognize and honor these winners and their tremendous accomplishment, we curated a collection of the most important articles written by them and published in Optica Publishing Group's journals and magazine, Optics and Photonics News (OPN).

More about the winners can be found in this OPN article or in our press release on the prize.

M. George Craford

JOURNAL ARTICLES
  1. Michael R. Krames, Oleg B. Shchekin, Regina Mueller-Mach, Gerd O. Mueller, Ling Zhou, Gerard Harbers, and M. George Craford, "Status and Future of High-Power Light-Emitting Diodes for Solid-State Lighting," J. Display Technol. 3, 160-175 (2007)
  2. M. S. Chang, W. S. C. Chang, B. L. Sopori, H. R. Vann, M. W. Muller, M. G. Craford, D. Finn, W. O. Groves, and A. H. Herzog, "GaAs optical waveguide structures at 10.6-μm wavelength," Appl. Opt. 14, 1572-1578 (1975)

Russell Dupuis

JOURNAL ARTICLES
  1. Md. Mahbub Satter, Zachary Lochner, Jae-Hyun Ryou, Shyh-Chiang Shen, Russell D. Dupuis, and Paul Douglas Yoder, "Polarization Matching in AlGaN-Based Multiple-Quantum-Well Deep Ultraviolet Laser Diodes on AlN Substrates Using Quaternary AlInGaN Barriers," J. Lightwave Technol. 30, 3017-3025 (2012)
  2. Russell D. Dupuis, "The Diode Laser: The First 30 Days, 40 Years Ago," Optics & Photonics News 15(4), 30-35 (2004)
  3. X. Li, S. Sundaram, P. Disseix, G. Le Gac, S. Bouchoule, G. Patriarche, F. Réveret, J. Leymarie, Y. El Gmili, T. Moudakir, F. Genty, J-P. Salvestrini, R. D. Dupuis, P. L. Voss, and A. Ougazzaden, "AlGaN-based MQWs grown on a thick relaxed AlGaN buffer on AlN templates emitting at 285 nm," Opt. Mater. Express 5, 380-392 (2015)
  4. Wonseok Lee, Jae Limb, Jae-Hyun Ryou, Dongwon Yoo, Mark Andrew Ewing, Yair Korenblit, and Russell D. Dupuis, "Nitride-Based Green Light-Emitting Diodes With Various p-Type Layers," J. Display Technol. 3, 126-132 (2007)
  5. Tobias S. Mansuripur, Stefan Menzel, Romain Blanchard, Laurent Diehl, Christian Pflügl, Yong Huang, Jae-Hyun Ryou, Russell D. Dupuis, Marko Loncar, and Federico Capasso, "Widely tunable mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers using sampled grating reflectors," Opt. Express 20, 23339-23348 (2012)
  6. Xiaohang Li, Russell D. Dupuis, and Tim Wernicke, "Semiconductor UV photonics: feature introduction," Photon. Res. 7, SUVP1-SUVP2 (2019)
  7. Russell D. Dupuis and Michael R. Krames, "History, Development, and Applications of High-Brightness Visible Light-Emitting Diodes," J. Lightwave Technol. 26, 1154-1171 (2008)
  8. Yinan Zhang, Christoph Hamsen, Jennifer T. Choy, Yong Huang, Jae-Hyun Ryou, Russell D. Dupuis, and Marko Loncar, "Photonic crystal disk lasers," Opt. Lett. 36, 2704-2706 (2011)

Nick Holonyak Jr.

JOURNAL ARTICLES
  1. Milton Feng and Nick Holonyak Jr., "The Metamorphosis of the Transistor into a Laser," Optics & Photonics News 22(3), 44-49 (2011)

Shuji Nakamura

JOURNAL ARTICLES
  1. Changmin Lee, Chong Zhang, Michael Cantore, Robert M. Farrell, Sang Ho Oh, Tal Margalith, James S. Speck, Shuji Nakamura, John E. Bowers, and Steven P. DenBaars, "4 Gbps direct modulation of 450 nm GaN laser for high-speed visible light communication," Opt. Express 23, 16232-16237 (2015)
  2. Benjamin P. Yonkee, Erin C. Young, Changmin Lee, John T. Leonard, Steven P. DenBaars, James S. Speck, and Shuji Nakamura, "Demonstration of a III-nitride edge-emitting laser diode utilizing a GaN tunnel junction contact," Opt. Express 24, 7816-7822 (2016)
  3. Hiroaki Ohta, Steven P. DenBaars, and Shuji Nakamura, "Future of group-III nitride semiconductor green laser diodes [Invited]," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27, B45-B49 (2010)
  4. Tomas K. Uždavinys, Daniel L. Becerra, Ruslan Ivanov, Steven P. DenBaars, Shuji Nakamura, James S. Speck, and Saulius Marcinkevičius, "Influence of well width fluctuations on recombination properties in semipolar InGaN quantum wells studied by time- and spatially-resolved near-field photoluminescence," Opt. Mater. Express 7, 3116-3123 (2017)
  5. Michael Cantore, Nathan Pfaff, Robert M. Farrell, James S. Speck, Shuji Nakamura, and Steven P. DenBaars, "High luminous flux from single crystal phosphor-converted laser-based white lighting system," Opt. Express 24, A215-A221 (2016)
  6. Abdullah I. Alhassan, Robert M. Farrell, Burhan Saifaddin, Asad Mughal, Feng Wu, Steven P. DenBaars, Shuji Nakamura, and James S. Speck, "High luminous efficacy green light-emitting diodes with AlGaN cap layer," Opt. Express 24, 17868-17873 (2016)
  7. Chao Shen, Tien Khee Ng, John T. Leonard, Arash Pourhashemi, Shuji Nakamura, Steven P. DenBaars, James S. Speck, Ahmed Y. Alyamani, Munir M. El-desouki, and Boon S. Ooi, "High-brightness semipolar (2021¯) blue InGaN/GaN superluminescent diodes for droop-free solid-state lighting and visible-light communications," Opt. Lett. 41, 2608-2611 (2016)
  8. Matthew S. Wong, David Hwang, Abdullah I. Alhassan, Changmin Lee, Ryan Ley, Shuji Nakamura, and Steven P. DenBaars, "High efficiency of III-nitride micro-light-emitting diodes by sidewall passivation using atomic layer deposition," Opt. Express 26, 21324-21331 (2018)
  9. Changmin Lee, Chao Shen, Clayton Cozzan, Robert M. Farrell, James S. Speck, Shuji Nakamura, Boon S. Ooi, and Steven P. DenBaars, "Gigabit-per-second white light-based visible light communication using near-ultraviolet laser diode and red-, green-, and blue-emitting phosphors," Opt. Express 25, 17480-17487 (2017)
  10. Hisashi Masui, Natalie N. Fellows, Hitoshi Sato, Hirokuni Asamizu, Shuji Nakamura, and Steven P. DenBaars, "Direct evaluation of reflector effects on radiant flux from InGaN-based light-emitting diodes," Appl. Opt. 46, 5974-5978 (2007)
  11. Won Bin Im, Yoann Fourré, Stuart Brinkley, Junichi Sonoda, Shuji Nakamura, Steven P. DenBaars, and Ram Seshadri, "Substitution of oxygen by fluorine in the GdSr2AlO5:Ce3+ phosphors: Gd1-xSr2+xAlO5-xFx solid solutions for solid state white lighting," Opt. Express 17, 22673-22679 (2009)
  12. Ezzah A. Alias, Muhammad E. A. Samsudin, Norasmida Ibrahim, Asad J. Mughal, Steven P. Denbaars, James S. Speck, Shuji Nakamura, and Norzaini Zainal, "Highly efficient InGaN-based LED with pre-roughening backside of GaN substrate," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 37, 1614-1619 (2020)
  13. Changmin Lee, Chao Shen, Hassan M. Oubei, Michael Cantore, Bilal Janjua, Tien Khee Ng, Robert M. Farrell, Munir M. El-Desouki, James S. Speck, Shuji Nakamura, Boon S. Ooi, and Steven P. DenBaars, "2 Gbit/s data transmission from an unfiltered laser-based phosphor-converted white lighting communication system," Opt. Express 23, 29779-29787 (2015)
  14. Yuji Zhao, Qimin Yan, Daniel Feezell, Kenji Fujito, Chris G. Van de Walle, James S. Speck, Steven P. DenBaars, and Shuji Nakamura, "Optical polarization characteristics of semipolar (303¯1) and (303¯1¯) InGaN/GaN light-emitting diodes," Opt. Express 21, A53-A59 (2013)
  15. Mounir D. Mensi, Daniel L. Becerra, Ruslan Ivanov, Saulius Marcinkevičius, Shuji Nakamura, Steven P. DenBaars, and James S. Speck, "Properties of near-field photoluminescence in green emitting single and multiple semipolar (2021) plane InGaN/GaN quantum wells," Opt. Mater. Express 6, 39-45 (2016)
  16. Hisashi Masui, Shuji Nakamura, and Steven P. DenBaars, "Analytical light-ray tracing in two-dimensional objects for light-extraction problems in light-emitting diodes," Appl. Opt. 47, 88-92 (2008)
  17. Chao Shen, Changmin Lee, Tien Khee Ng, Shuji Nakamura, James S. Speck, Steven P. DenBaars, Ahmed Y. Alyamani, Munir M. El-Desouki, and Boon S. Ooi, "High-speed 405-nm superluminescent diode (SLD) with 807-MHz modulation bandwidth," Opt. Express 24, 20281-20286 (2016)
  18. Yuji Zhao, Houqiang Fu, George T. Wang, and Shuji Nakamura, "Toward ultimate efficiency: progress and prospects on planar and 3D nanostructured nonpolar and semipolar InGaN light-emitting diodes," Adv. Opt. Photon. 10, 246-308 (2018)
  19. Christian J. Zollner, Abdullah S. Almogbel, Yifan Yao, Michael Wang, Michael Iza, James S. Speck, Steven P. DenBaars, and Shuji Nakamura, "Superlattice hole injection layers for UV LEDs grown on SiC," Opt. Mater. Express 10, 2171-2180 (2020)
  20. Houqiang Fu, Zhijian Lu, Xin-Hao Zhao, Yong-Hang Zhang, Steven P. DenBaars, Shuji Nakamura, and Yuji Zhao, "Study of Low-Efficiency Droop in Semipolar ( $20\bar{2}\bar{1}$ ) InGaN Light-Emitting Diodes by Time-Resolved Photoluminescence," J. Display Technol. 12, 736-741 (2016)
  21. Daniel F. Feezell, James S. Speck, Steven P. DenBaars, and Shuji Nakamura, "Semipolar (20-2-1) InGaN/GaN Light-Emitting Diodes for High-Efficiency Solid-State Lighting," J. Display Technol. 9, 190-198 (2013)