Awards

Call for 2021 SSDM Award Nomination

The SSDM Award was established to recognize outstanding contributions to academic or industrial development in the field of solid state devices and materials.
Papers to be nominated for the 2021 SSDM Award should be among those that have been presented between the 1st SSD conference in 1969 and the 47th SSDM conference in 2015.

The SSDM Award will ultimately be decided by the SSDM Organizing Committee after a recommendation is made by the SSDM Award Nomination Committee.

The recommendation will be in accordance with the following two criteria.

• 1) Originality

  The award-winning selection must be original, and must have had significant theoretical or practical impact in the field of solid state devices and materials.

• 2) Contribution

  The author(s) of the award-winning selection must have played or be playing a pioneering or leading role, with globally outstanding contributions in the technological field.

Candidate and Nominator Eligibility

• - Candidates Eligible for the Award

  All authors who presented papers between the 1st SSD conference in 1969 and the 47th SSDM conference in 2015, excluding papers written by this year’s Organizing Committee Chair and Award Nomination Committee Chair.

• - Persons Eligible for Nominating Candidates

  Anyone, excluding this year’s members of the SSDM Award Nomination Committee

Submission Process for SSDM Award Nominations

The following is the process for submitting nominations.

• - Before deciding on a candidate for the award, confirm the eligibility of nominators and candidates once again.
• - Download the Nomination Form.
  SSDM Award Nomination Form [MS-Word]
• - Fill out the Nomination Form and send it to the SSDM Secretariat by the nomination deadline.
  Nomination deadline: May 14, 2021