Federico Capasso was born on 1949 and is an Italian-American applied physicist and is one of the inventors of the quantum cascade laser during his work at Bell Laboratories.
12 Facts About Federico Capasso
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Federico Capasso is currently on the faculty of Harvard University.
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Federico Capasso applied it to novel low noise quantum well avalanche photodiodes, heterojunction transistors, memory devices and lasers.
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Federico Capasso's group showed that suitably designed plasmonic interfaces consisting of optically thin arrays of optical nano-antennas lead to a powerful generalization of the centuries-old laws of reflection and refraction.
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Federico Capasso has made major contributions to the study of quantum electrodynamical forces known as Casimir forces.
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Federico Capasso used the Casimir effect to control the motion of MicroElectroMechanical Systems.
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Federico Capasso demonstrated novel devices, setting limits to the scaling of MEMs technology and with his collaborators Jeremy Munday and Adrian Parsegian was the first to measure a repulsive Casimir force.
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Federico Capasso's honors include membership in the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the European Academy of Sciences and honorary membership in the Franklin Institute.
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Federico Capasso was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to solid-state electronics and optoelectronics through semiconductor 'bandgap engineering.
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SPIE, the international society of optics and photonics, selected Federico Capasso to receive the 2013 SPIE Gold Medal, the highest honor the society bestows.
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Federico Capasso received the Matteucci Medal in 2019 from the Italian National Academy of Sciences for his invention of the quantum cascade laser.
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Federico Capasso holds honorary doctorates from Lund University, Sweden, the Diderot University, France, the University of Bologna, Italy and the University of Torvergata, Italy.