The 21st Annual Meeting of IEEE/Lasers & Electro-Optics Society (LEOS) taking place 9-13, November 2008 in Newport Beach, California, is pleased to announce the following Best Student Paper finalists:

“Large Cavity Single Layer Quantum Dot Laser Diodes”

K Shavitranuruk is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree at the College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida. His current interest is focused on large cavity single layer quantum dot semiconductor laser and mode-locking operation. He is presently the president of LEOS student chapter at the University of Central Florida.

“In vivo Intravital Imaging with a Dual-Axes Confocal Microscope in Skin”

Hyejun Ra received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Seoul National University, Korea, in 2001, and the M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 2004. She is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. Her research interests include developing optical systems and MEMS for biomedical imaging and sensing applications.

“Dipole Induced Transparency in Waveguide Coupled Photonic Crystal Cavities”

Andrei Faraon received his B.S. in Physics with honors from California Institute of Technology in 2004. Now he is a PhD student in the Applied Physics department at Stanford University where he works with Prof. Jelena Vuckovic on integrated photonic crystal devices for quantum and classical information processes. During his graduate years he published several high impact research articles in peer reviewed scientific journals including Nature and Science. Andrei Faraon is the recipient of the IEEE Ross N. Tucker Award for significant advancements in materials used for semiconductor electronics. Andrei is also interested in applying his research insights to industry, and won an award at the 2007 Stanford Business Plan Competition proposing ultra-fast, low cost photonic crystal lasers for optical communications. He is also a student member of IEEE/LEOS and the Optical Society of America (OSA).”

“Plasmonic Device in Si CMOS”

Liang (Luke) Tang received the B.Sc. (Honors) degree in Physics from Peking University, China, in 2002. He is currently a PhD candidate in Applied Physics and Office of Technology Licensing (OTL) Fellow at Stanford University. He is interested in the integration of optoelectronic devices with silicon electronics for interconnect applications. He is currently involved in the design, fabrication and characterization of nanoscale Si and Ge photodetectors enhanced by optical antennas.

“MOCVD Grown III-V Nanowires: In-Plane, Self-Aligned and Transfer-Printable”

Seth A. Fortuna received the B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, in 2003. From 2003 to 2007 he was at Intel Corporation where he worked on flash and SRAM memory reliability. Since 2007 he has been at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he is currently pursuing his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests include novel nanostructures for electronic and photonic applications; in particular, MOCVD grown III-V semiconductor nanowires.