The IEEE Nanotechnology Council announces its 2024 Award Winners. Awards were presented at its 24th IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology (NANO 2024) held in Gijon, Spain on 9-11 July 2024.
The Chapter of the Year, TNANO Best Paper, INM Best Paper, Technical Committee, and Technical Achievement awards were featured.
CHAPTER OF THE YEAR AWARD
The IEEE Nanotechnology Council (NTC) Chapter of the Year Award is intended to encourage a successful and effective overall performance of the Chapter in terms of its activities.
The winner of the 2024 Chapter of the Year is the IIT Indore (Indian Institute of Technology-Indore) IEEE NTC Student Branch Chapter, Bombay Section.
Chair: Mayank Dubey
“For exceptional dedication to advancing nanotechnology, fostering innovation, and promoting collaboration for the betterment of society.”
T-NANO BEST PAPER AWARD
At the beginning of each year, T-NANO selects a paper that appeared in the Transactions during the previous calendar year for its Best Paper Award. Candidate papers are nominated by members of the Editorial Board. Evaluation is done by members of the Senior Editors Panel, with criteria including technical merit, originality, potential impact on the field, clarity of presentation, and practical significance for applications.
T-NANO 2023 Best Paper Award Recipients
“High Sensitive Metasurface Absorber for Refractive Index Sensing” in IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, Publication Year 2023, Volume: 22, pp. 328 – 335.
doi: 10.1109/TNANO.2023.3290953
Authors: Rajan Agrahari, Satyamitra Dwivedi, Pradip Kumar Jain and Manpuran Mahto, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering,National Institute of Technology Patna, Patna, Bihar, India
INM BEST PAPER AWARD
This award recognizes on a yearly basis a highly influential and impactful article of the highest quality published in the IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine (INM) in the preceding 2 calendar years. Any current member of the editorial board or past member within the last 3 years can submit a nomination for this award. Self-nominations are not allowed.
NTC Magazine 2023 Best Paper Award Recipients
“Memristor-Based Binarized Spiking Neural Networks: Challenges and applications”, in IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 14-23, April 2022.
doi: 10.1109/MNANO.2022.3141443
Authors: Jason K. Eshraghian; Xinxin Wang; Wei D. Lu,Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
TECHNICAL COMMITTEE AWARD
Each year the Council will provide an award for the best Technical Committee (TC) for the prior year.
The winner of the 2023 Technical Committee Award is TC-10 (Modeling and Simulation)
Chair: Roza Kotlyar
TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
This award recognizes on a yearly basis, individuals with outstanding and innovative contributions to the different areas of nanotechnology that are represented by technical committees (TCs) as organizational entities of the Nanotechnology Council (NTC), usually within the past 10 and not more than 15 years.
The winner of the 2024 Technical Achievement Award is Xinran Wang, School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, China.
“For contributions to the growth of 2D semiconductors and their electronic device applications.”