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nicolaas bloembergen puch , austria physics , electrical engineering mcgill communications research university of california , los angeles university of university california , berkeley harvard university bell telephone laboratories exxon bell 15 december 1946 photonic crystal eliyablonovitch.jpg eli yablonovitch
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eli yablonovitch

eli yablonovitch -lrb- born 15 december 1946 -rrb- is an american physicist and engineer who , along with sajeev john founded the field of photonic crystals in 1987 .
he and his team were the first to create a 3-dimensional structure that exhibited a full photonic bandgap , it is called yablonovite .
in addition to pioneering photonic crystals , he was the first to recognize that a strained quantum-well laser has a significantly reduced threshold current compared to its unstrained counterpart .
this technique is now applied to the majority of semiconductor lasers fabricated throughout the world .
he was a professor of electrical engineering at ucla and continues to study and develop photonic crystals and photonic bandgap materials .
as of july 2007 , he has joined the electrical engineering and computer sciences department at uc berkeley .
his other research topics includes silicon photonics , quantum computing , telecommunications , and surface plasmon optics .
he is a fellow of the ieee , the osa , and the aps .
he is also a member of the national academy of sciences , the national academy of engineering , and the american academy of arts and sciences .
in 2013 he was elected a foreign member of the royal society .
he is a recipient of adolph lomb medal , the julius springer prize , the r. w. wood prize , the w. streifer scientific achievement award , the mountbatten medal of the british iet , ieee photonics award , the harvey prize and the rank prize .
