Awards

Nominations are sought for the Young Scientist Prizes in Semiconductor Physics awarded by the IUPAP C8 Commission on Semiconductors. Two prizes are awarded biennially for outstanding contributions to semiconductor physics and its applications, made by early career scientists with, at the application deadline of Dec. 31, 2019, a maximum of 8 years of research experience (excluding career interruption) following the award of the PhD. The prizes will be awarded during the 35th International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors to be held in Sydney, Australia from August 9 to August 14, 2020. The Prizes include commemorative IUPAP medals and 1000 Euros each, and invited oral presentations at ICPS 2020.

Nomination procedure (as at: https://www.iupap.org)

Nominees for the Young Scientist Prizes must be nominated by a senior member of the research community. Self-nominations are not accepted. A nomination for the prizes must contain:
• A cover letter of not more than 1000 words by the nominator evaluating the nominee’s contributions to semiconductor physics and identifying the specific work to be recognized (up to 4 publications).;
• A citation for the prize (not more than 25 words);
• A short CV of the nominee (not more than 3 pages);
• A list of publications;
• Two further letters of endorsement of the nomination, at least one of which is not from a former supervisor of the nominee.

The nomination must be prepared in English and combined into a single consolidated PDF file, which is to be sent as an email attachment to the IUPAP-C8 Commission secretary at: ydkim@khu.ac.kr, with a copy to the Commission Chair at: haug@nano.uni-hannover.de.

The deadline for submissions of nominations is December 31, 2019.

Selection procedure
The winners of the competition will be selected by the members of the IUPAP C8 Commission.

Previous Winners
2018 Heejun Yang and Jean-Christophe Blancon
2016 Kimberly Dick Thelander and Samuel Stranks
2014 Xiaodong Xu and Rahul Nair
2012 Alberto Amo and Young Woo Son
2010 Pablo Jarillo-Herrero and Yuanbo Zhang
2008 Lieven Vandersypen

The recipient of this award will be selected by the Program Committee.

To be eligible you:

• Must nominate one of the following presentation types at the time of submission:

            –  Mini Oral Presentation + Digital Poster
            –  Digital Poster Only
            –  Hardcopy Poster

• Must be the first author
• Must be registered to attend the ICPS 2020 Conference.

Please note that the quality of the abstract will be used to select and rank award nominees. If necessary, abstracts that do not meet the required minimum standard will be removed from the list to ensure the judging process is manageable.

The recipient of this award will be selected by the Scientific Program Committee.

To be eligible you:

• Must nominate ‘Traditional oral’ presentation type at the time of submission.
• Must be the presenter and the first author.
• Must be registered to attend the ICPS 2020 Conference.

Please note that the quality of the abstract will be used to select and rank award nominees. If necessary, abstracts that do not meet the required minimum standard will be removed from the list to ensure the judging process is manageable.