Awards

Awards Nominations Deadline: July 1, 2023

The North American MBE Conference sponsors the following awards to researchers in the field of molecular beam epitaxy:

• ART GOSSARD MBE INNOVATOR AWARD
• NAMBE YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD
• OUTSTANDING STUDENT PAPER AWARDS
• STUDENT TRAVEL ASSISTANCE

Please, see the instruction below for nominating qualified candidates for the first two awards. The nominations will be reviewed by a selection committee consisting of previous award recipients and the NAMBE Advisory Board.

Awards Contact

Yong-Hang Zhang
NAMBE Advisory Board Chair
School of Electrical, Computer, & Energy Engineering
Arizona State University
Electrical Eng. ERC 140
Tempe, AZ 85287-5706

Phone: 480-965-2562
Fax: 480-965-0775
E-mail: yhzhang@asu.edu

Art Gossard MBE Innovator Awards Nominations

We are now accepting nominations for the 2023 MBE Innovator Award and the NAMBE Young Investigator Award. The deadline for accepting nominations is July 1, 2023.

The North America MBE Advisory Board is proud to present The MBE Innovator Award, established in 2004.  It is to recognize individuals whose innovative work has significantly advanced the field of molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). Individuals must have outstanding credentials, and their innovative work must have had/or be having a significant impact on the advancement of MBE technology in one (or more) of the following four categories:

• Materials Research
• Device Development
• Device Commercialization
• Equipment Development

The award consists of a plaque and a check of $3,000.

Nomination Procedure
E-Mail this nomination form and supporting materials by the deadline to the Awards Contact above.

2023 Art Gossard MBE Innovator Awardee

Loren N. Pfeiffer, Princeton University, Monday, September 18, 2023, 8:00 a.m., Ballroom A

“Setting a New Quality Standard for Both Holes and Electrons in GaAs Ultra-high Mobility Quantum Wells”

The nomination of this annual award is solicited from the North America MBE community, and the winner is selected by the NAMBE Advisory Board. The award consists of a check of $3,000 from the NAMBE Advisory Board.

View Presentation’s by Loren

• MBE Growth of High Mobility Gallium Arsenide Structures – Loren Pfeiffer (Princeton) – YouTube
• Loren Pfeiffer – “Progress on improving the MBE sample quality of GaAs and AlAs quantum wells” – YouTube

Art Gossard MBE Innovator Awardees

• 2003: David Miller, Pennsylvania State University
• 2004: Art Gossard, University of California at Santa Barbara
• 2005: Tony Spring Thorpe, Bell Northern
• 2006: William Hoke, Raytheon
• 2007: Norman Cheng, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• 2008: James Harris, Stanford University
• 2009: Colin Wood, Texas State University
• 2010: Ted Moustakas, Boston University
• 2011: Charles W. Tu, University of California

• 2012: Darrell Schlom, Cornell University
• 2013: George Turner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 2015: Chris J. Palmstrøm, University of California, Santa Barbara
• 2016: Tom Tiedje, University of Victoria
• 2017: Maria Tamargo, City College New York
• 2018: Pallab Bhattacharya, University of Michigan
• 2019: Zbig Wasilewski, University of Waterloo
• 2022: Sanjay Krishna, Ohio State University
• 2023: Loren Pfeiffer, Princeton University

NAMBE Young Investigator Award

The North America MBE Advisory Board is proud to establish the Young Investigator Award to recognize individuals who have made significant contributions to the science and technology of MBE or enabled by MBE by the age of 40 and show promise of future leadership in the field.  The award shall consist of a plaque and a check of $1,000. The deadline for accepting nominations is July 1, 2023.

Administration
The NAMBE Advisory Board will manage the Young Investigator Award. It will be responsible for soliciting and evaluating the nominations and for final selection of the award recipient.

Nomination Procedure
E-Mail this nomination form and supporting materials by the deadline to the Awards Contact above.

2023 NAMBE Young Investigator Awardee

Stephanie Tomasulo, Naval Research Lab, Tuesday, September 19, 2023, 8:00 a.m., Ballroom A

Sponsored by the NAMBE Advisory Board, this award recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to the science and technology of MBE or enabled by MBE by the age of 40 and show promise of future leadership in the field. The award consists of a plaque and a check of $1,000.

Young Investigator Awardees

• 2006: Hock Ng, Bell Labs
• 2007: Sanjay Krishna, University of New Mexico
• 2008: Seth Bank, University of Texas, Austin
• 2009: Aaron Ptak, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
• 2009: Barry Wu, Agilent Technologies
• 2010: Zetian Mi, McGill University
• 2011: Joshua M.O. Zide, University of Delaware
• 2012: Minjoo Larry Lee, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• 2013: Mark Wistey, University of Notre Dame
• 2015: Ganesh Balakrishnan, University of New Mexico
• 2016: Stephanie Law, University of Delaware
• 2017: Siddharth Rajan, Ohio State University
• 2018: Paul Simmonds, Boise State University
• 2019: Jason Kawasaki, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 2022: Songrui Zhao, McGill University
• 2023: Stephanie Tomasulo, Naval Research Lab

Outstanding Student Paper Awards

Two will be given based on the quality of the presentations, either oral or poster, made at the Conference. The student awards will be judged by a selection committee consisting of Program Committee members and Advisory Board members at NAMBE 2023. The awards consist of a plaque and a check for $500.

Outstanding Student Talk Awards

• Corey White, University of Texas at Austin (GD-TuA1-1), “InSb-Based Dilute-Bismide Alloys Towards Long-Wave Infrared Sensing”
• Zach LaDuca, University of Wisconsin Madison (NM-TuM2-14), “Synthesis of Flexomagnetic GdAuGe Membranes via Van Der Waals Epitaxy on Graphene Terminated Germanium”
• Sreejith Nair, University of Minnesota (NM-MoA2-10), “Engineering Metal Oxidation Towards Epitaxial Growth of Complex Iridates using Molecular Beam Epitaxy”

Outstanding Student Poster Awards

• Andrew Messecar, Western Michigan University (NM-MoP-9), “Machine Learning Analysis and Predictions of PAMBE III–Nitride Growth”
• Stefania Isceri, Technische Universitat Wien (NM-MoP-20), “4.3 µm InAs/AlSb Quantum Cascade Detector Strain-Balanced to a GaSb Substrate”

Student Travel Assistance

This offer is only applicable to registered and paid students. The NAMBE Advisory Board has agreed to support every registered student with up to $400 credit toward their room and associated tax expenses. For those of you staying in the Hilton Madison Monona Terrace it will appear as a credit on your room charge at check-out. For those outside the conference block, please send your hotel/Airbnb receipt to events@avs.org to request the partial reimbursement. During the registration process you will be requested to provide the name of your hotel/Airbnb, the name on the reservation, and the hotel/Airbnb confirmation number.