A.G.U. Perera - Recognitions

"Outstanding Faculty Scholarship Award - 2008-2009 " College of Arts and Sciences, Georgia State University
"Outstanding Faculty Achievement Award - 1999" Georgia State University.
"Outstanding Junior Faculty Award - 1995" Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Georgia State University.
Our work on dual band (NIR & FIR) detectors (APL, 2005. Vol. 86. 143510) is reported as a featured article in the June, 2005 issue of the Photonics Spectra Magazine Technology news.
Our work on 70 µm heterojunction interfacial workfunction internal photoemission (HEIWIP) detector (APL, 2000, Vol. 78, pp. 2241-2243) is reported in the June, 2001 issue of the Laser Focus World.
Our work on 35 µm cutoff quantum-well infrared detectors (APL, 2000, Vol. 77, pp. 741-743 ) is reported in the November issue of the "Photoics Spectra" Technology World Briefs, a technical publication covering optoelectronic breakthroughs in the world.
Our work on interfacial workfunction IR detectors (APL, 1992, Vol. 60, pp. 3168-3170) was featured in the August 1992 issue of the LASER FOCUS WORLD, NEWSBREAKS, a technical magazine devoted to the advances in optics, electro-optics and optoelectronics.
Our results on search for fractional charge impurities in semiconductors (PRL, 1993, Vol. 70, pp. 1053-1056) is recorded in the "Review of Particle Properties", compiled by the particle data group at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.
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"First Year Science Student Fellowship - 1978 / 1979" University of Colombo , Sri Lanka
Justin Samarasekara Medal for "The Most Outstanding Science Student of the Year - 1981", University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.