Electronic devices, optoelectronics, high speed optical communications, optical antennas, solar photovoltaics, computational inverse electromagnetic design

• He contributed the 4(n squared) light-trapping factor "Yablonovitch Limit" to solar cells, used commercially in the almost all solar panels world-wide.
• He introduced the benefit of strained semiconductor lasers, employed in almost all telecommunication semiconductor lasers.
• He is regarded as a Father of the Photonic BandGap concept: He coined the term "Photonic Crystal", and the first experimental Photonic Bandgap is called “Yablonovite”.
• He has been elected to the NAE, NAS, NAI, Am. Acad.Arts & Sci., and as Foreign Member, UK Royal Society.  Among his honors is the OSA Ives/Quinn Medal, the Benjamin Franklin Medal, the IEEE Edison Medal, the Buckley Prize of the American Physical Society, and the Isaac Newton Medal of the UK Institute of Physics.
• 2014, Rank Prize (UK), for “the idea that strained semiconductor lasers would have superior performance due to reduced valence band (hole) effective mass. Almost all semiconductor lasers use this concept, including for optical telecommunications, in most mouse-clicks, for DVD players, and in the ubiquitous red laser pointers.”
• 2013, Elected as Foreign Member of the Royal Society of London
• 2012, Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 2012, Harvey Prize of Israel for “pioneering discoveries in photonics, optoelectronics and semiconductors, that impacted our lives.”
• 2012, IEEE Photonics Award for “pioneering contributions to photonic crystals, the photonic bandgap, and photonic bandgap engineering.”
• 2010, Mountbatten Medal of the British IET for “outstanding contributions to electronics.”
• 2005, Northrop Grumman Optoelectronics Chair in Electrical Engineering, UCLA
• 2004, Honorary Doctorate, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
• 2003-2004, Moore Distinguished Scholar, Caltech
• 2003, National Academy of Sciences
• 2003, National Academy of Engineering
• 2001, Julius Springer Prize in Applied Physics
• 1996, R.W. Wood Prize, Optical Society of America
• 1993, W. Streifer Achievement Award, IEEE Lasers & Electro-Optics Society
• 1992, Fellow, IEEE
• 1990, Fellow, American Physical Society
• 1990, Research and Development 100 Award
• 1982, Fellow, Optical Society of America
• 1978-1979, Alfred P. Sloan Fellow
• 1978, Adolf Lomb Medal, Optical Society of America