Iam-Choon Khoo receives international photonics award
February 2, 2024
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Iam-Choon Khoo, the William E. Leonhard Professor of Electrical Engineering in the Penn State School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, received the 2024 Maria Goeppert Mayer Award in Photonics from SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics.
Named after scientist, mathematician and 1963 Nobel Prize winner Maria Goeppert Mayer, this award recognizes “outstanding contributions to the field of photonics and the development of innovative, high impact technologies,” according to the SPIE website. Khoo was honored for his research in the linear and nonlinear optical properties of liquid crystals and their wide-ranging applications.
Khoo has authored or co-authored eight books, 15 book chapters and approximately 290 journal publications. He has three patents and has given more than 400 talks at international conferences.
This year, Khoo was one of two Penn State recipients of SPIE awards, with Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Evan Pugh University Professor and Charles G. Binder Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics, receiving the 2024 SPIE Gold Medal.
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Iam-Choon Khoo, the William E. Leonhard Professor of Electrical Engineering, received the 2024 Maria Goeppert Mayer Award in Photonics from SPIE. Credit: Penn State
