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Call for Award Nominations 2024

Tuesday, July 30th, 2024

The IEEE Nanotechnology Council (NTC) gives several awards yearly. Six are for individuals, two for the best papers published in the Transactions on Nanotechnology (T-NANO) and the IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine (INM), one is for the best Chapter, and one for the best Technical Committee.

Nomination for Awards Evaluated by the NTC Awards Committee (Nominations due 1-October)
A. Individual Awards information
B. Chapter Award information
C. Contact NTC Awards Chair for information

Nomination for Awards Evaluated by NTC Specific Award Committees (nominations due 1-March)
D. Best PhD Thesis Award information
E. Publication Awards information
F. Technical Awards information

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2024 Nanotechnology Council Awards Ceremony

Sunday, July 28th, 2024

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.”

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Announcing TNANO 2023 Best Paper Award

Saturday, June 29th, 2024

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 winner of the 2023 TNANO Best Paper Award is:

“High Sensitive Metasurface Absorber for Refractive Index Sensing,” published in: IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology (Volume: 22), Year: 2023, Page(s):328 – 335.

Co-authored by Rajan Agrahari, Satyamitra Dwivedi, Pradip Kumar Jain and Manpuran Mahto; Electronics and Communication Engineering Department, National Institute of Technology Patna, Patna, India

DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2023.3290953

To read the paper, go to https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10169113/

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2024 NTC Award Winners Announced

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2024

NTC Announces Winners of the 2024 Individual Awards

2024 Individual Awards will be presented at IEEE NANO 2024 in Gijon, Spain.

 

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.

Tony Heinz
Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Email: tony.heinz@stanford.edu

Proposed Award Citation:
For seminal contributions to elucidating the optical and electronic properties of carbon nanotubes, graphene,2D semiconductors, and their heterostructures.

 

Early Career Award

The Early Career Award recognizes individuals who have made contributions with a major impact on the field of nanotechnology.

Wei Yan
State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials,  the College of Materials Science & Engineering, Donghua University, China
Email: wei.yan@ntu.edu.sg

Proposed Award Citation:
For his pioneering and innovative contributions to nanotechnology enabled fiber, fabric and wearable electronics

 

Chapter of the Year Award

IIT Indore (Indian Institute of Technology-Indore IEEENTCl Student Branch Chapter, Bombay Section)

Chair: Mayank Dubey
Email: dubey.mayank@ieee.org

Proposed Award Citation:
For exceptional dedication to advancing nanotechnology, fostering innovation, and promoting collaboration for the betterment of society.

 

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Call for Award Nominations 2023

Tuesday, July 18th, 2023

The IEEE Nanotechnology Council (NTC) gives several awards yearly. Six are for individuals, two for the best papers published in the Transactions on Nanotechnology (T-NANO) and the IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine (INM), one is for the best Chapter, and one for the best Technical Committee.

Nomination for Awards Evaluated by the NTC Awards Committee (Nominations due 1-October)
A. Individual Awards information
B. Chapter Award information
C. Contact NTC Awards Chair for information

Nomination for Awards Evaluated by NTC Specific Award Committees (nominations due 1-March)
D. Best PhD Thesis Award information
E. Publication Awards information
F. Technical Awards information

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2023 Nanotechnology Council Awards Ceremony

Tuesday, July 18th, 2023

The IEEE Nanotechnology Council announces its 2023 Award Winners. Awards were presented at its 23rd IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology (NANO 2023) held in Jeju, Republic of Korea on 3-5 July 2023.

The Pioneer, Early Career, Chapter of the Year, TNANO Best Paper, Technical Committee, and Best PhD Thesis awards were featured.

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Meet 2023 IEEE Nano Early Career Award Recipient, Dr Deep Jariwala

Thursday, June 1st, 2023

Deep Jariwala is an Assistant Professor in Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn). His research interests broadly lie at the intersection of new materials, surface science and solid-state devices for computing, sensing, opto-electronics and energy harvesting applications. Deep completed his undergraduate degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University in 2010. Deep went on to pursue his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University working on charge transport and electronic applications of two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors, graduating in 2015. Deep then moved to Caltech as a Resnick Prize Postdoctoral Fellow from 2015-2017 working on nanophotonic devices and ultrathin solar cells, before joining Penn in 2018 to launch his independent career.

Deep’s research has earned him awards of multiple professional societies including the Russell and Sigurd Varian Award and Paul H. Holloway Award of the American Vacuum Society, The Richard L. Greene Dissertation Award of the American Physical Society, Johannes and Julia Weertman Doctoral Fellowship, the Hilliard Award, the Army Research Office and Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Awards, Nanomaterials Young Investigator Award, TMS Frontiers in Materials Award, Intel Rising Star Award, IEEE Young Electrical Engineer of the Year Award, IEEE Photonics Society Young Investigator Award, IUPAP Early Career Scientist Prize in Semiconductors, IEEE Nanotechnology Council Young Investigator Award in addition to being named in Forbes Magazine list of 30 scientists under 30, is an invitee to Frontiers of Engineering conference of the National Academy of Engineering as well as a recipient of the Sloan Fellowship. Recently, his work on ferroelectric diode memory was also awarded with the Bell Labs Prize. In addition, he has also received the S. Reid Warren Jr. award given to one faculty member every year at Penn Engineering for inspiring and motivating undergraduate students through teaching. He also serves as Associate Editor for IEEE Photonics Technology Letters as well as npj 2D materials and applications. He has published over 100 journal papers with more than 16000 citations and several patents. At Penn he leads a research group comprising more than ten graduate and postdoctoral researchers supported by a variety of government agencies, industries and private foundations.

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Call for 2023 NTC New Awards Nominations

Wednesday, February 1st, 2023

New Awards Nominations are due 1 MARCH 2023  APRIL 15, 2023

The Nanotechnology Council (NTC) has received approvals to offer these new awards starting in 2023:

The IEEE Nanotechnology Council (NTC) is soliciting nominations for these Awards. See the Awards page for  more information on all the NTC’s awards. To view the full detailed listing of each award please visit the Awards nominations page. Awards are presented at the IEEE-NANO conference.

Nominations for these awards are due on 1 MARCH 2023 APRIL 15, 2023. (Deadline for other NTC awards remains as 1 October.) Nominators should utilize the forms associated with each award description found on the website. Please make sure that nominators and references specifically address contributions, impact, and evidence related to the Basis for Judgment associated with each award.

Best PhD Thesis Award in Nanotechnology

Description: This annual award recognizes a PhD thesis in nanotechnology with remarkable technology innovation or excellence which should have led to publications in NTC venues including journals and conferences. Any member with no conflict of interest (i.e. advisor-advisee relationship) with any member of the NTC ExCom, NTC Education Committee, or NTC Technical Committees can submit a nomination to the Award Committee for this award. Self-nominations are not allowed. Requires three references.

Best-Paper Award for the IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine

Description: This annual award recognizes a highly influential and impactful article of the highest quality published in the IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine (INM) in the preceding 2 calendar years. (For example, the 2023 award recognizes a paper published in 2021 or 2022.) Note: Nominations accepted from any current or past member of the INM Editorial Board within the last 3 years ONLY. No self-nominations. Requires three references.

Test of Time Publication Award

Description: This annual award recognizes a highly influential, widely visible, and impactful article of the highest quality which appeared in any Nanotechnology Council managed journal, magazine, or financially sponsored conference proceedings between 10 years and 25 years ago. Note: Nominations from any Editorial Board member of any NTC publication within the last 25 years ONLY. No self-nominations. Requires three reference letters.

Technical Achievement Award(s)

Description: This annual award recognizes 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. Note: Nominations from any member of the NTC Technical Activities Committee within the last three years (including the nomination year) ONLY. No self-nominations. Up to 3 awards will be presented each year.  Requires three reference letters.

Best Paper Award for the IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology

Description: An annual best paper award to recognize a paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology (T-NANO) that is remarkable by its novelty, scientific merit, and potential impact. This award will encourage submission of excellent papers to the journal, and reward outstanding submissions. Note: Nominations by members of the T-NANO Editorial Board ONLY.

 

For further information please see the NTC Awards page or contact the Award Chair for each award on its Nomination page.

 

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2023 NTC Award Winners Announced

Thursday, December 8th, 2022

NTC Announces its 2023 Individual Award Winners.

2023 Individual Awards will be presented at IEEE NANO 2023 in Jeju Island, Korea.

 

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.

Professor Xiangfeng Duan

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California NanoSystems Institute, University of California, Los Angeles

Email: xduan@chem.ucla.edu

“For pioneering contribution to the synthesis and integration of nanoscale materials and devices, especially van der Waals heterostructures and devices.”

 

Early Career Award

The Early Career Award recognizes individuals who have made contributions with a major impact on the field of nanotechnology.

Professor Deep Jariwala

Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania

Email: dmj@seas.upenn.edu

“For breakthrough contributions in logic, memory and photonic devices from low-dimensional semiconductors.”

 

Chapter of the Year Award

University of Saskatchewan IEEE Nanotechnology Council Student Branch Chapter

Chair: José Alvim Berkenbrock

Email: j.alvim@usask.ca or berkenbrock@ieee.org

“For outstanding performance during adverse times and innovative and collaborative initiatives that engaged nanotechnology experts and IEEE volunteers”

 

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Call for Award Nominations 2022

Thursday, July 14th, 2022

Award Nominations are due 1 October 2022

More Information

The IEEE Nanotechnology Council (NTC) is soliciting nominations for its Individual and Chapter Awards. To view the full detailed listing of each award please visit the Awards nominations page. Awards are presented at the IEEE-NANO conference.

Nominations are due on 1 October 2022. Nominators should utilize the forms associated with each award description found on the website. Please make sure that nominators and references specifically address contributions, impact, and evidence related to the Basis for Judgment associated with each award.

For further information, please see the Awards page or contact the (new) Awards Committee Chair, Paul Weiss.

Pioneer Award
The Nanotechnology Council Pioneer Award in nanotechnology is to recognize individuals who by virtue of initiating new areas of research, development, or engineering have had a significant impact on the field of nanotechnology. The award is intended for people who are in the mid or late portions of their careers, i.e., at least 10 years beyond his or her highest earned academic degree on the nomination deadline date.

Early Career Award
The Nanotechnology Council has established an Early Career Award to recognize individuals who have made contributions with major impact on the field of nanotechnology.

Distinguished Service Award
The Nanotechnology Council established the Distinguished Service Award to recognize an individual who has performed outstanding service for the benefit and advancement of Nanotechnology Council.

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. Exemplary Chapters must have a high number of activities and creativity.  The Chapter must consistently be active in organizing activities throughout the year.

 

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