2025/12/2 Prof. Susumu Noda(our Plenary speaker) of KUIAS has won the Rank Prize (Optoelectronics) for the Photonic Crystal Surface Emitting Laser!

Past winners of the Rank Prize include I. Akasaki, H. Amano (our Plenary speaker), and S. Nakamura for the invention of Nitride-based Blue and green Diode Lasers.