United States National Committee of the International Union of Radio Science (USNC/URSI) has selected Associate Professor Mona Jarrahi for the 2014 Booker Fellowship for her achievements in the area of Terahertz Optoelectronics and Microwave Photonics. This award is presented by the USNC every three years at the URSI general assembly, bestowed upon an outstanding American researcher in the early years of his/her career, who has made outstanding contributions to radio science.
Professor Jarrahi specializes in the field of ultrafast electronic and optoelectronic devices and integrated systems for terahertz/millimeter-wave sensing, imaging, computing, and communication systems by utilizing novel materials, nanostructures, quantum well structures, electromechanical structures, as well as innovative nano-plasmonic and optical concepts.
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