NTC Announces Winners of the 2025 Awards
Pioneer Award
The Pioneer Award recognizes individuals who have had a significant impact on the field of nanotechnology by virtue of initiating new areas of research, development or engineering.
Yu Sun
University of Toronto, Canada
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Proposed Award Citation:
For pioneering contributions to robotic nanomanipulation and cell surgery.
Distinguished Service Award
The Distinguished Service Award is to recognize an individual who has performed outstanding service for the benefit and advancement of Nanotechnology Council. The NTC Awards Committee will review the proposed candidates for selection of the awardee.
Yonhua Tommy Tzeng
National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
For 21 years of sustained service to the IEEE NTC and especially for the successful rescue of NMDC 2015.
TNANO 2024 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.
The recipient of the 2024 TNANO Best Paper Award is:
“A High-Accuracy and Low-Power Emerging Technology-Based Associative Memory”
in IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, Publication Year 2024, Volume: 23, pp. 293 – 298.
Co-authored by Mahan Rezaei, Abdolah Amirany, Mohammad Hossein Moaiyeri, Kian Jafari
DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2024.3380368
To read the paper, go to: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10477605
NTC Magazine 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 in the preceding 2 calendar years. (For example, the 2023 award recognizes a paper published in 2021, 2022.) 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 2024 Best Paper Award Recipient:
“A Review on Hybrid Bonding Interconnection and Its Characterization” in IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 41-50, April 2024.
Co-authored by Chien-Kang Hsiung and Kuan-Neng Chen
DOI: 10.1109/MNANO.2024.3358714
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 2024-2025 Technical Committee Award:
TC-03 Nanofabrication
Chair: Xiaogan Liang
For contributions on technical activities.
