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Vurgaftman, Igor

Igor Vurgaftman received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, in 1995.,He has been with the Optical Sciences Division, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Washington, DC, USA, since then, where he is currently the Head of the Quantum Optoelectronics Section. At NRL, he has investigated mid-infrared lasers based on interband and intersubband transitions, type-II superlattice photodetectors, as well as the physics of various plasmonic and polaritonic devices. He has authored over 270 refereed articles in technical journals, cited more than 11 000 times (H-index of 45), as well as more than 20 patents.,Dr. Vurgaftman is a fellow of the Optical Society and the American Physical Society. He is a recipient of the IEEE Photonics Society Engineering Achievement Award (2012).(Based on document published on 3 February 2019).Show Less