Professor Kazuhiko Hirakawa has been awarded the 21st Japan Society of Applied Physics(JSAP) Outstanding Achievement Award (Research Achievement). JSAP decided on the winner of the prize on Thursday 12 November 2020 and announced it on Monday 1 February 2021. The reason for the award was “Pioneering work on terahertz science and technologies of quantum nanostructures”. The award was given in recognition of the fundamental technological pioneering of terahertz electromagnetic waves, which are intermediate between light waves and radio waves, using quantum nanostructures such as semiconductor nanostructures and nanogap electrodes over many years. The award ceremony will be held online on the first day of the 68th Spring Meeting of JSAP in 2021, which starts on Tuesday, 16 March, and the award commemorative lecture is scheduled for Friday, 19 March.

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