Nelson Tansu, Editor-in-Chief of Photonics, Hosts Visit for U.S. Congressman Charles Dent

Editor-in-Chief of Photonics, Nelson Tansu, recently hosted U.S. Congressman Charles W. Dent at the Lehigh University’s Center for Photonics and Nanoelectronics (CPN). Tansu is the Director of CPN and the Daniel E. ’39 and Patricia M. Smith Endowed Chair Professor, and he is also the Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).

Since 2005, said Tansu, 140 Lehigh students have received PhDs working in photonics-themed disciplines within the center. Many now hold positions of technical leadership with top academic institutions and industrial companies. Leveraging the vertically-integrated faculty and facilities within CPN, these faculty research projects have led to impactful activities in the areas of III-nitride semiconductors, 2D layered materials, terahertz sensors, optical coherence tomography, functional glass photonics and others. 

Congressman Dent said he was greatly impressed by the work being done at the CPN, and he highlighted that the CPN is “at the forefront of technologies that operate at scales often invisible to the human eye”.

Professor Nelson Tansu (left) and U.S. Congressman Charles Dent (right) discuss about the status and plans for the Center for Photonics and Nanoelectronics at Lehigh University. The meeting also includes CPN faculty members and other representatives of the photonics industry.