Pioneer Award in Nanotechnology

Pioneer Award in Nanotechnology
Awarded for Individuals who by virtue of initiating new areas of research, development or engineering have had a significant impact on the field of nanotechnology.
Country United States
Presented by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Official website IEEE Nanotechnology Council

The IEEE Pioneer Award in Nanotechnology recognizes individuals who by virtue of initiating new areas of research, development or engineering have had a significant impact on the field of nanotechnology.[1] The Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is the world’s largest professional association dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity.[2] IEEE has more than 400,000 members in more than 160 countries, 45 percent of whom are from outside the United States. It consists of 38 societies and 7 technical councils representing the wide range of IEEE technical interests.

The award is given only to those persons who have well-established careers: according to the IEEE, nominees must be "at least 10 years beyond his or her highest earned academic degree".[1][3] Each year, the IEEE Nanotechnology Council grants one or two Pioneer Awards if the Awards Committee determines that the nominations are worthy[4] In the latter case, there may be one award for academics, i.e. persons employed by universities, and one for persons employed by industry or government organizations. The award consists of honorarium and a commemorative plaque. The main considerations for judging include distinction in long-term technical achievements, leadership, innovation, breadth, and impact on nanotechnology and engineering.

The Pioneer Award in Nanotechnology is administered by the IEEE Nanotechnology Council (NTC), a multi-disciplinary group related to nanotechnology research and applications which consists of 21 IEEE member societies.[5] Their purpose is to support and guide state-of-the-art research in the field of Nanotechnology.[6] The main considerations for judging include distinction in long-term technical achievements, leadership, innovation, breadth, and impact on nanotechnology and engineering.[7] In this sense, the Pioneer Award in Nanotechnology recognizes individuals whose technical achievements go beyond the borders of a particular technical society.

Recipients

Year Awardee Position/Institution Rationale
2007 Mark Reed Harold Hodgkinson Professor of Engineering and Applied Science and Electrical Engineering, Associate Director of the Institute for Nanoscience and Quantum Engineering, Yale University for contributions to “nano and molecular electronics”[8][9]
Pallab Bhattacharya Charles M. Vest Distinguished University Professor and James R. Mellor Professor of Engineering, University of Michigan for contributions to “quantum dot optoelectronic devices”[10]
2008 Sajeev John University Professor and Canada Research Chair, University of Toronto “for the invention of photonic crystals, pioneering contributions into the study of their light-trapping properties, and development of applications”[11]
2009 Susumu Noda Kyoto University “for pioneering contributions to photonic crystals and nanophotonics”[12]
2010 Phaedon Avouris IBM T.J. Watson Research Centre, Yorktown Heights, New York “for pioneering contributions to the science and technology of carbon-based electronics and photonics”[13]
2011 Alexander A. Balandin Professor of Electrical Engineering and Founding Chair of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Riverside “for pioneering contributions to nanoscale phonon transport with applications in nanodevices, graphene devices, thermoelectric and thermal management of advanced electronics”[14][15]

 Meyya Meyyappan NASA Ames Research Center "for carbon nanotube application development and leadership in nanotechnology"[14]
2012 Joseph W. Lyding Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign “for advances in atomic resolution nanofabrication and discovery of the giant deuterium isotope effect and its application to CMOS technology”[16]
2013 Charles M. Lieber Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Harvard University “For pioneering contributions to nanometer diameter wire synthesis and applications, and defining leadership in nanotechnology”[17]
2014 Stephen Y. Chou Princeton University “For seminal inventions, developments, and academic-industrial-impacts of new nanopatterning methods, especially nanoimprint; and new paradigm-shift electronic, optical, magnetic, biological nanodevices”[18]
2015 Chennupati Jagadish Australian National University “For pioneering and sustained contributions to compound semiconductor nanowire and quantum dot optoelectronics”[19]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Awards". IEEE Nanotechnology Council. Retrieved 29 June 2013.
  2. ↑ IEEE http://www.ieee.org/index.html
  3. ↑ http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?isnumber=5034972&arnumber=5036190&tag=1
  4. ↑ http://www.ausnano.net/index.php?page=newsitem&id=22
  5. ↑ "About". IEEE Nanotechnology Council. Retrieved 29 June 2014.
  6. ↑ IEEE NTC Newsletter http://ntc.uwaterloo.ca/IEEE_NTC_NEWSLETTER_June2010.pdf
  7. ↑ "Call for Award Nominations". IEEE Nanotechnology Council. Retrieved 29 June 2014.
  8. ↑ Mark Reed http://www.eng.yale.edu/reedlab/MarkReed.htm
  9. ↑ Mark Reed NTC Awardhttp://www.ausnano.net/index.php?page=newsitem&id=22
  10. ↑ Pallab Bhattacharya http://www.eecs.umich.edu/eecs/etc/fac/facsearchform.cgi?pkb+
  11. ↑ Sajeev John http://www.physics.utoronto.ca/~john/
  12. ↑ "Awards: 2009 Awardees". IEEE Nanotechnology Council. Retrieved 10 May 2012.
  13. ↑ "2010 Awardees". IEEE Nanotechnology Council.
  14. 1 2 "2011 Awardees". IEEE Nanotechnology Council. Retrieved 27 June 2014.
  15. ↑ Alexander Balandin: http://www.engr.ucr.edu/faculty/ee/balandin.html
  16. ↑ "2012 Awardees". IEEE Nanotechnology Council. Retrieved 29 June 2014.
  17. ↑ "2013 NTC Award Winners Announced". IEEE. 1 May 2013. Retrieved 2 August 2013.
  18. ↑ "2014 Awardees". IEEE Nanotechnology Council. Retrieved 29 June 2014.
  19. ↑ "2015 NTC Award Winners Announced". IEEE Nanotechnology Council. Retrieved 20 October 2015.

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