The Aron Kressel Award is given to recognize those individuals who have made important contributions to opto-electronic device technology. The device technology cited is to have had a significant impact on their applications in major practical systems. The intent is to recognize key contributors to the field for developments of critical components, which lead to the development of systems enabling major new services or capabilities. These achievements should have been accomplished in a prior time frame sufficient to permit evaluation of their lasting impact. The work cited could have appeared in the form of publications, patents, products, or simply general recognition by the professional community that the individual cited is the agreed upon originator of the advance up which the award decision is based. The award may be given to an individual or group, up to three in number. The deadline for nominations is 30 April.
Dr. Henryk Temkin joined DARPA in July 2005. Prior to arriving at DARPA he has been a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Texas Tech and Colorado State Universities (1992-2005) where his research focused on large bandgap semiconductors, carrier dynamics in lasers, and integrated optics. Between 1977 and 1992, Dr. Temkin was a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories and a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories at Murray Hill, NJ. In this position, he made a number of contributions to studies of optical and electrical properties of semiconductors, physics and technology of semiconductor lasers, development of quantum well lasers for optical communications, and development of advanced epitaxial growth methods. Dr. Temkin received a M.A. degree in Physics from Yeshiva University in New York City in 1972 and a Ph.D. in Physics from Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ, in 1975. He is a Fellow of IEEE and has more than 400 technical publications, including one monograph and one edited book.
Dr. Temkin is the author of numerous publications in the field of optoelectronics.