UT Arlington nanophotonics professor to become IEEE fellow

The prestigious Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers has named The University of Texas at Arlington’s Robert Magnusson as one of its 2014 fellows. Magnusson, professor of electrical engineering and the Texas Instruments Distinguished University Chair in Nanoelectronics at UT Arlington, is being recognized by the IEEE for contributions to the invention of a new class of nanophotonic devices that employ light at a nanometer scale. Magnusson’s devices are used as biosensors, lasers, tunable filters and optical components. His research has applications in a variety of fields,