Awards
The ISCS 2016 Awards
Nomination for the ISCS awards has been closed.
The award winners will be announced at the award ceremony on June 27th.
The International Symposium on Compound Semiconductors is the venue for presentation of three prestigious prizes. The awards to be made are:
- The Welker Award
- The Quantum Devices Award
- The Young Scientist Award
The recipients of all three Awards will be selected by the ISCS Award Committee.
The Welker Award was established in 1976 by Siemens AG in honor of Heinrich Welker, the pioneer in the field of III-V compound semiconductors. The award is now supported by Osram GmbH and given away for outstanding research in the area of III-V compound semiconductors. The list of the recipients includes three Nobel Laureates.
The Quantum Devices Award was initiated by Fujitsu Quantum Devices Ltd. in 2000, and is now sponsored by the Japanese section of the ISCS steering committee. The Award honors pioneering contributions to the field of compound semiconductor devices and quantum nanostructure devices including physics and epitaxial growth.
The Young Scientist Award is supported by the Symposium. Established in 1986, the Award acknowledges technical achievements in the field of compound semiconductors by a scientist younger than 40 years on the first day of the Symposium.
Nominations for the Awards
Please submit nominations for the three awards to the Chair of the ISCS Award Committee, Prof. Yasuhiko Arakawa, by May 1st, 2016.
E-mail: arakawa@iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp
The nominations must include:
- All of the information requested on the nomination form (see the file below)
- Candidates' full resume
- Letters of endorsers (maximum of three). Endorsement letters should be sent by the nominator together with the nomination form and the candidates' full resume. Any letters sent separately will not be received.
Previous Recipients of the Welker Award
| 1976 Nick Holonyak, Jr | 1978 Cyril Hilsum | 1980 Hisayoshi Yanai |
| 1981 Gerald L. Pearson | 1982 Herbert Kroemer | 1984 Izuo Hayashi |
| 1985 Heinz Beneking | 1986 A.Y. Cho | 1987 I. Alferov |
| 1988 Jerry M. Woodall | 1989 Don W. Shaw | 1990 Greg Stillman |
| 1991 Lester F. Eastman | 1992 Harry C. Gatos | 1993 James Turner |
| 1994 Federico Capasso | 1995 Isamu Akasaki | 1996 Ben G. Streetman |
| 1997 M. George Craford | 1998 Takashi Mimura | 1999 Claude Weisbuch |
| 2000 James S. Harris | 2001 Karl Hess | 2002 Hiroyuki Sakaki |
| 2003 Klaus Ploog | 2004 James J. Coleman | 2005 Hans Melchior |
| 2006 Marc Ilegems | 2007 Kenichi Iga | 2008 Gunter Weimann |
| 2009 Daniel Dapkus | 2010 Pallab Bhattacharya | 2011 Yasuhiko Arakawa |
| 2012 Umesh K. Mishra | 2013 Tom Foxon | 2014 Gerald Bastard |
| 2015 Dieter Bimberg | 2016 Joe C. Campbell |
Previous Recipients of the Quantum Devices Award
| 2000 Emilio E. Mendez and Gerald Bastard | 2001 Leo P. Kouwenhoven, Mark A. Reed and Seigo Tarucha |
| 2002 Yasuhiko Arakawa | 2003 Pallab Bhattacharya |
| 2004 Jean-Pierre Leburton | 2005 Pierre Petroff |
| 2006 Carlo Sirtori | 2007 Umesh K. Mishra and James S. Speck |
| 2008 Jean-Michel Gerard | 2009 Joe Charles Campbell |
| 2010 Chennupati Jagadish | 2011 Alan C. Seabaugh |
| 2012 David Gershoni | 2013 Yoshiro Hirayama |
| 2014 Connie Chang-Hasnain | 2015 Marius Skolnick |
| 2016 Kazuhiko Hirakawa |
Previous Recipients of the Young Scientist Award
| 1986 Russell D. Dupuis | 1987 Naoki Yokoyama | 1988 W.T. Tsang |
| 1989 Russ Fischer | 1990 Yasuhiko Arakawa | 1991 Sandip Tiwari |
| 1992 Umesh K. Mishra | 1993 Kai Chang | 1994 Michael A. Haase |
| 1995 John D. Ralston | 1996 Nikolai Ledentsov | 1997 Fred Kish |
| 1998 Steven P. DenBaars | 1999 Jerome Faist | 2000 Kohki Mukai |
| 2001 Masahiko Kondow | 2002 Diana Huffaker | 2003 Mike Larson |
| 2004 Toshihide Kikkawa | 2005 Nils Weimann | 2006 Andrea Fiore |
| 2007 Masataka Higashiwaki | 2008 Jonathan J. Finley | 2009 Seth R. Bank |
| 2010 Tomás Palacios | 2011 Yoshitaka Taniyasu | 2012 Debdeep Jena |
| 2013 Sanjay Krishna | 2014 Huili (Grace) Xing | 2015 Zetian Mi |
| 2016 Srabanti Chowdhury |
The CSW Best Student Paper Award
The CSW Best Student Paper Award was established for students who present their work as speakers or poster presenters. The awards are open only to students who are officially registered at a university by the abstract submission deadline. Awardees will be selected by members of the program committee based on abstract content and presentation quality. Student award applicants are strongly encouraged to attend the award ceremony in the closing session.
The CSW2016 Program Committee has selected the following three students as the recipients of the CSW2016 Best Student Award. Congratulations!
Takuya InoueKyoto University
"Two-wavelength Switchable Narrowband Thermal Emitters"
Bernhard Loitsch
Walter Schottky Institut, Technical University of Munich
"Quantum Confinement Phenomena in Ultrathin GaAs Nanowires"
Daisuke Inoue
Tokyo Institute of Technology
"10 Gbps Operation of Membrane DFB Laser on Silicon with Record High Modulation Efficiency"