Federico Capasso
Federico Capasso | |
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Capasso in 2016 | |
| Born | 1949 (age 76–77) Rome, Italy |
| Education | University of Rome |
| Known for | Quantum cascade laser; band gap engineering; repulsive Casimir forces; Wavefront engineering using plasmonics |
| Awards | IEEE David Sarnoff Award (1993) Newcomb Cleveland Prize (1993) John Price Wetherill Medal (1997) Rank Prize for Optoelectronics (1998) R. W. Wood Prize (2001) Duddell Medal and Prize (2002) Arthur L- Schawlow Prize (2004) Edison Medal (2004) King Faisal Prize (2004) Tomassoni award (2004) Berthold Leibinger Zukunftspreis (2010) SPIE Gold Medal (2013) Balzan Prize (2016) Enrico Fermi Prize (2018) Matteucci Medal (2019) Frederic Ives Medal (2019) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Applied physics |
| Workplaces | Fondazione Ugo Bordoni Bell Laboratories Harvard University |
Federico Capasso (born 1949) is an Italian-American applied physicist and is one of the inventors of the quantum cascade laser during his work at Bell Laboratories. He is currently on the faculty of Harvard University.