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Call for 2019 Award Nominations

Tuesday, August 13th, 2019

Nominations are being solicited for the IEEE Nanotechnology Council’s 2019 Awards.

Award categories are Early Career, Pioneer and Distinguished Service.

1. PIONEER AWARD IN NANOTECHNOLOGY

The NTC 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.

2. EARLY CAREER AWARD IN NANOTECHNOLOGY

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

3. DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD

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

See the NTC Award Nominations page for full description and nomination form. Nominations are due by October 1st.

Awards will be presented at the IEEE NANO 2020 conference. Pioneer and Early Career awardees will be invited to make a presentation at the conference.

 

NTC 2019 Award Winners

Friday, August 9th, 2019

NTC 2019 Awardees

The IEEE Nanotechnology Council announces its 2019 Award Winners. Awards were presented at its 19th IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology (IEEE-NANO 2019) held in Macau, China on 22-26 July 2019. The Council recognized recipients for  its Pioneer, Early Career  and Distinguished Service Awards, presented by the Council President, Prof. Tommy Tzeng.

The recipient of the 2019 IEEE Nanotechnology Council Pioneer Award in Nanotechnology, is Paul S. Weiss, UC Presidential Chair and Distinguished Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry and of Materials Science & Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. The recipient for the 2019 IEEE Nanotechnology Council Early Career Award is Professor Han Wang at the University of Southern California. The recipient for the 2019 IEEE Nanotechnology Council Distinguished Service Award is Professor Fabrizio Lombardi at Northeastern University, Boston.

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T-NANO Best Paper of the Year 2018 Award

Friday, August 9th, 2019

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 award was presented at the 19th IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology (IEEE-NANO 2019) held in Macau, China by Prof. Fabrizio Lombardi, EiC of T-NANO.

The winner of the 2018 TNANO Best Paper Award is:

“Planarization, Fabrication, and Characterization of Three-Dimensional Magnetic Field Sensors”
Published in the IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 11-25, January 2018.

Co-authored by Van Su Luong, Yu-Hsin Su, Chih-Cheng Lu, Jen-Tzong Jeng, Jen-Hwa Hsu, Ming-Han Liao, Jong-Ching Wu, Meng-Huang Lai, and Ching-Ray Chang

V. S. Luong and C.-C. Lu, Institute of Mechatronic Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan.
Y.-H. Su, Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
J.-T. Jeng, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
J.-H. Hsu and C.-R. Chang, Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
M.-H. Liao, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
J.-C. Wu, Department of Physics, National Changhua University of Education, Changhua, Taiwan.
M.-H. Lai, iSentek Inc., Taipei, Taiwan.

To read the paper go to https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7835300/

INSPEC Accession Number: 17454605
DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2017.2660062

 

Announcing Nanotechnology Council 2018 Technical Committee Award

Sunday, July 14th, 2019

 

Nanotechnology Council 2018 Technical Committee Award

Dr. M. F. Fréchette, NTC Vice-president Technical Activities

It is my pleasure to announce that the 2018 IEEE Nanotechnology Council (NTC) TC AWARD was given to the Technical Committee (TC) on Nano-acoustic devices, Processes and Materials. This committee was chosen based on their 2018 achievements. During that time, the committee’s work was guided by Professors Xiaoning Jiang and James Spicer.

The main objective of this technical committee is to promote the activities associated with the emerging and interdisciplinary frontier of nanoscale acoustics, promoting scientific discoveries and engineering developments in materials, design, fabrication, and device applications. This committee has now been renewed for the next 4 years.

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Call for Nominations for Chapter of the Year Award-2019

Thursday, March 14th, 2019

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.

All nomination materials must reach the NTC Awards Committee by March 31st , 2019. Nominations may be made by any full IEEE member, or by a representative of the nominee chapter.

For details on nomination process and criteria, see the Chapter Award information page.

 

2018 Awards Ceremonies

Monday, November 19th, 2018

The IEEE Nanotechnology Council announces its 2018 Award Winners. Individual Awards were presented at its 13th Nanotechnology Materials & Devices Conference (NMDC 2018) held in Portland, Oregon, USA on 14-17 October 2018. The T-NANO Paper of the Year Award was presented at IEEE-NANO held 24-26 July 2018 in Cork , Ireland.

PIONEER AWARD IN NANOTECHNOLOGY

The NTC 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.

2018 Pioneer Award Recipient

Professor Nader Engheta at the University of Pennsylvania has been selected as the recipient of the 2018 IEEE Nanotechnology Council Pioneer Award in Nanotechnology, with the citation: “For his transformative contributions to the nanoscience and nanotechnology of photonic metamaterials and for the development of optical nanocircuits”

Professor Engheta is known for founding the field of optical nanocircuits (“optical metatronics”) and his pioneering development and contributions to this field, which has merged the fields of nanoelectronics and nanophotonics. He is also known for developing epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) materials with near zero electric permittivity. Through this work he has opened many new frontiers, including optical computation at the nanoscale and scattering control for cloaking and transparency. Professor Engheta’s work has far reaching implications in various branches of materials science, optics, microwaves, and quantum electrodynamics.

His current research activities span a broad range of areas including photonics, metamaterials, nano-optics, graphene optics, electrodynamics, imaging and sensing inspired by eyes of animal species, microwave and optical antennas, and physics and engineering of fields and waves. He has received several awards for his research including the 2017 William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award from the IEEE Photonics Society, the 2015 Gold Medal from SPIE, the 2015 Fellow of US National Academy of Inventors (NAI), the 2014 Balthasar van der Pol Gold Medal from the International Union of Radio Science (URSI), the 2017 Beacon of Photonics Industry Award from the Photonics Media, the 2015 Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship Award from US Department of Defense, the 2012 IEEE Electromagnetics Award, the 2015 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Distinguished Achievement Award, the 2015 Wheatstone Lecture in King’s College London, the 2013 Inaugural SINA Award in Engineering, 2006 Scientific American Magazine 50 Leaders in Science and Technology, the Guggenheim Fellowship, and the IEEE Third Millennium Medal.

 

 

EARLY CAREER AWARD IN NANOTECHNOLOGY

The Nanotechnology Council has established an Early Career Award to recognize individuals who have made contributions with major impact on the field of nanotechnology. Up to two awards may be given per year. There may be one award for academics (persons employed by colleges or universities) and one for persons employed by industry or government organizations.

Early Career Award Recipient

Professor Can Bayram at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been selected as the recipient for the 2018 IEEE Nanotechnology Council Early Career Award, with the citation: “For seminal contributions to III-V quantum devices and their hetero-integration on silicon and graphene platforms through nanotechnology.”

Bayram is a leader in the design, growth, and fabrication of III-V quantum devices. He has engineered novel quantum structures that have enabled the development of LEDs, lasers, photodetectors and solar cells covering the spectral range from deep ultraviolet to terahertz. This work includes the growth of cubic phase GaN on nanopatterned silicon, and the invention of GaN-on-Graphene technology that enables the production of low defect wafer-scale GaN-based devices on inexpensive and reusable substrates.

Prof. Bayram received the Ph.D. degree from Prof. Manijeh Razeghi, Center for Quantum Devices, EECS of Northwestern University, IL, USA with a focus on Solid State and Photonics in 2011. His thesis work has demonstrated the first ultraviolet regime single photon detection, the first hybrid LED, and the first GaN intersubband devices. He received IEEE Electron Devices and IEEE Photonics Societies’ fellowship awards and the Laser Technology, Engineering and Applications Award from SPIE. He was an IBM and Link Foundation PhD fellow and the recipient of Boeing Engineering and Dow Sustainability Innovation awards.

 

 

T-NANO PAPER OF THE YEAR AWARD 2017

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 2017 TNANO Best Paper Award is

“Negative Capacitance for Boosting Tunnel FET performance”
by Masaharu Kobayashi; Kyungmin Jang; Nozomu Ueyama; and Toshiro Hiramoto, Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2017.2658688).

To read the paper go to https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7833118/

 

 

T-NANO Best Paper of the Year 2017 Award

Monday, August 13th, 2018

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 2017 TNANO Best Paper Award is

Negative Capacitance for Boosting Tunnel FET performance

by Masaharu Kobayashi; Kyungmin Jang; Nozomu Ueyama; and Toshiro Hiramoto, Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

To read the paper go to https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7833118/

Profs. Toshiro Hiramoto and Masaharu Kobayashi of The University of Tokyo accepting the TNANO 2017 Best Paper Award from NTC President Tzeng (right) at IEEE-NANO 2018 banquet.

 

Call for 2018 Award Nominations

Thursday, May 17th, 2018

Nominations are being solicited for the IEEE Nanotechnology Council’s 2019 Awards.

Award categories are Early Career, Pioneer and Distinguished Service.

1. PIONEER AWARD IN NANOTECHNOLOGY

The NTC 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.

2. EARLY CAREER AWARD IN NANOTECHNOLOGY

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

3. DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD

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

 

See the NTC Award Nominations page for full description and nomination form. Nominations are due by October 1st.

2018 NTC Award Winners Announced

Monday, March 26th, 2018

The IEEE Nanotechnology Council announces its 2018 Award Winners. Awards will be presented at its 13th Nanotechnology Materials & Devices Conference (NMDC 2018) which will be held in Portland, Oregon, USA on 14-17 October, 2018.

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Call for Nominations for NTC Chapter of the Year Awards-2018

Tuesday, February 27th, 2018

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.

All nomination materials must reach the NTC Awards Committee by March 31st , 2018. Nominations may be made by any full IEEE member, or by a representative of the nominee chapter.

For details on nomination process and criteria, see the Chapter Award information page.