Yasuhiko Arakawa

Institution
University of Tokyo

Country
Japan

Field
Materials Sciences

Arakawa won the 2017 Japan Academy Prize for his pioneering research on quantum dots, which are semiconductor nanostructures that are now being used in lasers and photonic devices.

(Photo: International Commission for Optics)

AWARDS
  • 2017 Japan Academy Prize

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