Awards

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Overview of the kilopixel thermally coupled imager (TCI)

2023 APL Rising Stars Collection - Adam McCaughan, Bakhrom Oripov and Sae Woo Nam

The Rising Stars Collection features notable APL papers by emerging investigators. These papers were identified by the editors and Rising

Photomicrograph of the linear ion trap with integrated SNSPD

2023 APL Rising Stars Collection - Benedikt Hampel, Daniel Slichter, Dietrich Leibfried, Richard Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, Varun Verma

The Rising Stars Collection features notable APL papers by emerging investigators. These papers were identified by the editors and Rising

2021 - Silver Medal Award---Varun Verma, Adriana Lita, Richard Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, Thomas Gerrits, Martin Stevens, Robert Horansky

For advancing quantum communication and imaging applications by creating novel high-efficiency single-photon detectors and kilopixel arrays

2022 IEEE Fellow - Sae Woo Nam

For pioneering development of superconducting single-photon detectors with applications to quantum communications and quantum computing.

2020 APS Fellow - Sae Woo Nam

For the pioneering development of high-quantum-efficiency photon detectors and of number-resolving photon detectors; and for the application

2019 - Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers---Varun Verma

For pioneering devices that detect and count single particles of light, and for serving the community through professional leadership, mentoring and helping others.

2019 PECASE - Varun Verma

For pushing the frontiers of quantum physics through pioneering new devices that detect and count single particles of light, and for serving

2017 - Presidential Rank Award---Sae Woo Nam

For his breakthrough research in the field of quantum information science for over a decade, enabled by his invention of record-breaking photon detectors.

Bell Prize goes to scientists who proved “spooky” quantum entanglement is real

Sae Woo Nam’s team at NIST is honored for a landmark experiment which, in conjunction with related results elsewhere, put to rest a debate

Adam McCaughan & Varun Verma Awarded Nancy Grace Roman Technology Fellowship in Astrophysics

Adam McCaughan and Varun Verma have both been awarded the Nancy Grace Roman Technology Fellowship in Astrophysics in 2017.

Sae Woo Nam, Lita, Shalm, Verma, Mirin, Allman, Stevens, Bierhorst, Glancy, Gerrits, Migdall, Bienfang, Wayne

2016 - Gold Medal Award---Physical Measurement Laboratory (PML), Information Technology Laboratory (ITL)

For being the first in nearly 50 years of attempts to achieve a loophole-free test of Bell’s theorem, confirming the predictions of quantum mechanics. Nearly 20 NIST employees and associates from PML and ITL contributed to this achievement.

Paul Ehrenfest Best Paper Award for Quantum Foundations for the Year 2015

The Paul Ehrenfest Best Paper Award for Quantum Foundations for the year 2015 was awarded jointly to three publications by groups at the TU

Sae Woo Nam Elected OSA Fellow

Sae Woo Nam is recognized for seminal contributions to the development of superconducting single-photon detectors and photon-number

PopSci's 2nd Annual Brilliant 10

He's harnessed the bizarre quantum world and made it do his bidding. A century after the discovery of quantum mechanics, physicists are

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