# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eli-yablonovitch
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:34:08.256Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eli-yablonovitch"
name: "Eli Yablonovitch"
slug: "eli-yablonovitch"
description: "Eli Yablonovitch is an American physicist and engineer who, along with Sajeev John, founded the field of photonic crystals in 1987. He and his team were the first to create a 3-dimensional structure that exhibited a full photonic bandgap, which has been named Yablonovite. In addition to pioneering photonic crystals, he was the first to recognize that a strained quantum-well laser has a significantly reduced threshold current compared to its unstrained counterpart. This is now employed in the majority of semiconductor lasers fabricated throughout the world. His seminal paper reporting inhibited spontaneous emission in photonic crystals is among the most highly cited papers in physics and engineering."
tagline: "American physicist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Eli_Yablonovitch_at_Purdue%2C_2024_-_img_02.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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birthDate: "1946-12-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  historical:           12.22106
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump