Graduate student Robert Koudelka, Electrical Engineering, has won the 2002 IEDM Roger A. Haken Best Student Paper Award for his paper "Novel Light Emitting Device with Ultrafast Color Switching."

The achievement is especially notable, because the competition is international and student papers compete on the same level as senior scientist submissions. Robert Koudelka's beaming Faculty Adviser is Prof. Jerry Woodall.

Koudelka will accept the plaque and a check at the 2003 IEDM Plenary Session at the Washington Hilton and Towers in December.