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Physical Measurement Laboratory

Applied Physics Division

Awards

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Michelle Stephens Receives 2024 Arthur S. Flemming Award

Michelle Stephens is being recognized in the Leadership-Management category for advancing the accurate measurement of infrared and optical

2025 Optica Fellow - David Plusquellic

For pioneering advances in electro-optic frequency comb technology from ultraviolet to terahertz frequencies for spectroscopy, molecular

2024 Distinguished Associate Award - Benedikt Hampel

Related to the Bronze Medal “For the realization of the first single-photon detector integrated with an ion trap for the high-fidelity state

2025 SPIE Fellow - Jeeseong Hwang

For distinguished contributions in optics, photonics, and imaging.

2024 - Presidential Rank Award---Nada Golmie

Recognized with a Distinguished Rank for sustained extraordinary accomplishments.

2024 - Bronze Medal Award---Brian Simonds

For advancing intelligent manufacturing through accurate characterization of laser-metal coupling during the additive manufacturing process.

2024 - Gold Medal Award---Adriana Lita, Sae Woo Nam, Thomas Gerrits

For developing high-efficiency, low-noise, superconducting transition-edge sensors able to count single photons for photonic quantum computers.

2024 - Judson C. French Award---Matthew Spidell

For reducing the uncertainty in calibration of the world network of gravitational wave observatories.

2024 - Presidential Rank Award---John Lehman

Recognized with a Distinguished Rank for sustained extraordinary accomplishments.

2024 - Bronze Medal Award---Daniel Slichter, Varun Verma, Dietrich Leibfried, Richard Mirin

For the realization of the first single-photon detector integrated with an ion trap for the high-fidelity state readout of a trapped-ion quantum bit.

2025 IEEE Fellow - Hans Nembach

For contributions to the development of novel magnetodynamic measurements of thin films and nanostructures.

2024 Presidential Rank Award - John Lehman

John Lehman is a senior research scientist whose team leads the world in carbon-nanotube based coatings for detectors used in earth and

Sae Woo Nam Posthumously Receives Ho-Am Prize

The Ho-Am Prize is presented each year to individuals who have contributed to academics, the arts, and social development, or who have

2023 Distinguished Associate Award - Bryce Primavera

For the monolithic integration of superconducting single-photon detectors with Josephson junctions for advanced computing and single-photon

2023 Distinguished Associate Award - Saeed Kahn

For the monolithic integration of superconducting single-photon detectors with Josephson junctions for advanced computing and single-photon

2023 - Edward Uhler Condon Award---Gary Zabow

For authorship of "Reflow Transfer for Conformal Three-Dimensional Microprinting," on a novel method to deposit microstructures on complex surfaces.

2023 - Bronze Medal Award---Martin Stevens, Ralph Jimenez, Charles H. Camp Jr., Thomas Gerrits

For refuting published claims about quantum-enhanced microscopy by careful measurements of molecular absorption of photon pairs.

2023 - Bronze Medal Award---Jeffrey Shainline, Jeffrey Chiles, Adam McCaughan, Sonia Buckley, Adriana Lita, Anna Fox, John Biesecker, Manuel Castellanos-Beltran, Richard Mirin, Sae Woo Nam

For the monolithic integration of superconducting single-photon detectors with Josephson junctions for advanced computing and single-photon metrology.

2023 - Gold Medal Award---John Lehman, Michelle Stephens, Nathan Tomlin, Christopher Yung

For the invention of compact, durable, and inexpensive sensors that are providing highly accurate space-based measurements of the Sun's radiation.

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