IEEE Council on Superconductivity Van Duzer Prize

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The IEEE Council on Superconductivity sponsors the Van Duzer Prize, awarded to the best-contributed paper published in IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity during each volume year.

The award is restricted to regular submissions to the IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity to encourage authors to prepare well written and comprehensive contributions which may have exceptional archival values and are likely to be cited frequently by other authors. Papers submitted for publication through scientific conference special issues are not eligible.

Candidates for the Prize may be nominated by the Editors of the Transactions and judged by the Editor in Chief. Papers are scored on the following criteria:

  1. Expectation that the paper will be highly cited by future authors,
  2. Technical excellence of the work described, and
  3. Completeness of the paper as an archival record of a finished body of research.

The recipients are announced in the year following the volume year in which the paper appears. Photos of the recipients will be featured in the front of the Transactions issue containing the announcement.


Prize Description

The Van Duzer Prize consists of a certificate and an honorarium of $1,000, funded by the Council on Superconductivity. For papers with multiple authors, the honorarium is divided equally among the authors. When possible, the recipients receive their certificate and honorarium at a scientific conference such as the Applied Superconductivity Conference or Magnet Technology Conference during an award ceremony sponsored by the Council on Superconductivity.

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Prize Background

The award is named in honor of Professor Theodore Van Duzer, founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity. Professor Van Duzer (M'60-SM'75-F'77-LF'93) received the Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1960. He has been on the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, since 1961. He is a co-author of two textbooks, Principles of Superconductive Devices and Circuits, and Fields and Waves in Communication Electronics, and has published widely in the research literature on superconductor electronics. His current research interests focus on Josephson devices and multi-gigahertz digital superconductor circuits, including hybrids with cryogenic semiconductor components. Dr. Van Duzer is a Life Fellow of the IEEE and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering.


2017 VAN DUZER PRIZE WINNERS

Jay M. Gambetta
Conal E. Murray
Y.-K.-K. Fung
Douglas T. McClure
Oliver Dial
William Shanks
Jeffrey W. Sleight
Matthias Steffen
IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
 

For their paper:

Investigating Surface Loss Effects in Superconducting Transmon Qubits
IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
Vol. 27, No. 1, January 2017, Paper 1700205

PRESENTATION OF THE 2017 VAN DUZER PRIZE
To be updated following the ASC 2018 awards presentation. 


2016 VAN DUZER PRIZE WINNERS

Maxwell T. Dylla
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Samuel E. Schultz
Matthew C. Jewell
University of Wisconsin — Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI, USA
 

For their paper:

Fracture Strength Distribution of Individual Nb3Sn Filaments
IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
Vol. 26, No. 8, December 2016, Paper 6001907

PRESENTATION OF THE 2016 VAN DUZER PRIZE
To be updated following the ASC 2018 awards presentation.


2015 VAN DUZER PRIZE WINNERS

Samuel P. Benz
Anna E. Fox
Paul D. Dresselhaus
Alain Rüfenacht
Jason M. Underwood
Robert E. Schwall
Charles J. Burroughs, Jr.

NIST, Boulder, CO, USA
Steven B. Waltman
High-Speed Circuit Consultants, Boulder, CO, USA
Logan A. Howe
Univ. of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
 

For their paper:

One-Volt Josephson Arbitrary Waveform Synthesizer
IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
Vol. 25, No. 1, February 2015, Paper 1300108


PRESENTATION OF THE 2015 VAN DUZER PRIZE
Shown in back row from left to right, are Alan Kleinsasser (CSC Vice-President, Publications), Jason Underwood,
Robert E. Schwall, Paul D. Dresselhaus, Steven B. Waltman, and Sam Benz
Front row from left to right, Charles J. Burroughs, Jr., Alain Rüfenacht, Logan Howe, Anna Fox,
and Deep Gupta (Chair, ASC Best Student Paper Contest). 

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2014 VAN DUZER PRIZE WINNERS

Francesco Grilli
Inst. for Tech. Phys., Karlsruhe Inst. of Technol., Karlsruhe, Germany
Enric Pardo
Inst. of Electr. Eng., Bratislava, Slovakia
Antti Stenvall
Tampere Univ. of Technol., Tampere, Finland
Doan N. Nguyen
Los Alamos Nat. Lab., Los Alamos, NM, USA
Weijia Yuan
Univ. of Bath, Bath, UK
Fedor Gömöry
Inst. of Electr. Eng., Bratislava, Slovakia
 

For their paper:

Computation of Losses in HTS Under the Action of Varying Magnetic Fields and Currents
IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
Vol. 24, No. 1, February 2014, Paper 8200433


PRESENTATION OF THE 2014 VAN DUZER PRIZE
Shown from left to right, are Alan Kleinsasser (CSC Vice-President, Publications), Doan N. Nguyen, Fedor Gömöry, and Deep Gupta (Chair, ASC Best Student Paper Contest). Authors not present when the photograph was taken include Francesco Grilli, Enric Pardo, Antti Stenvall, and Weijia Yuan.

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2013 VAN DUZER PRIZE WINNERS

Sasha Ishmael
Frank Hunte
X.T. Liu
Haojun Luo
John F. Muth
Golsa Naderi
Justin Schwartz
Liyang Ye
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
and
Andrew T. Hunt
Natalia Mandzy
Marvis White
nGimat, Lexington, KY, USA

For their paper:

Enhanced Quench Propagation in Bi2Sr2CaCu2Ox and YBa2Cu3O 7−x Coils via a Nanoscale Doped-Titania-Based Thermally Conducting Electrical Insulator
IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
Vol. 23, No. 5, October 2013, Paper 7201311


PRESENTATION OF THE 2013 VAN DUZER PRIZE
Dr. Martin Nisenoff, Vice President , Awards and Recognitions, IEEE Council on Superconductivity (left), and Dr. Alan Kleinsasser, Vice President, Publications, IEEE Council on Superconductivity (right), present the 2013 van Duzer Prize to Golsa Naderi (second from left), Sasha Ishmael (third from left), Justin Schwartz (third from right) and Liyang Ye (second from right). The other co-authors, Frank Hunte, X. T. Liu, Haojun Luo and John F. Muth, were not present at the Awards Ceremony.

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View the video of the presentation of the 2013 Van Duzer Prize here: http://ieeecsc.org/pages/ieee-csc-awards-asc-2014-videos


2012 VAN DUZER PRIZE WINNERS (Tie)

D. C. van der Laan 
Advanced Conductor Technologies LLC, Boulder, CO, USA
and
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
J. F. Douglas
Advanced Conductor Technologies LLC, Boulder, CO, USA
L. F. Goodrich
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO, USA
R. Semerad
ceraco ceramic coating GmbH, Ismaning, Germany
M. Bauer
THEVA Dünnschichttechnik GmbH, Ismaning, Germany
 
For their paper:

Correlation Between In-Plane Grain Orientation and
the Reversible Strain Effect on Flux Pinning in
RE-Ba2Cu3O7−δ Coated Conductors

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
Vol. 22, No. 1, February 2012, Paper 8400707


PRESENTATION OF THE FIRST 2012 VAN DUZER PRIZE
Dr. Martin Nisenoff, Vice President , Awards and Recognitions, IEEE Council on Superconductivity (left), and Dr. Alan Kleinsasser, Vice President, Publications, IEEE Council on Superconductivity (right), present the first ot two 2012 van Duzer Prizes to D. C. van der Laan (second from left), and M. Bauer (second from right). The other co-authors, J. F. Douglas, L. F. Goodrich, and R. Semerad, were not present at the awards ceremony.

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View the video of the presentation of the 2012 Van Duzer Prize here: http://ieeecsc.org/pages/ieee-csc-awards-asc-2014-videos


2012 VAN DUZER PRIZE WINNERS (Tie)

Wan Kan Chan
Justin Schwartz
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA

For their paper:

A Hierarchical Three-Dimensional Multiscale
Electro–Magneto–Thermal Model of Quenching in
REBa2Cu3O7−δ Coated-Conductor-Based Coils

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
Vol. 22, No. 5, October 2012, Paper 4706010


PRESENTATION  OF THE SECOND 2012 VAN DUZER PRIZE
Dr. Martin Nisenoff, Vice President , Awards and Recognitions,  IEEE Council on Superconductivity (left), and Dr. Alan
Kleinsasser, Vice President, Publications,  IEEE Council on Superconductivity (right), present the second 2012 van Duzer Prize to Wan Kan Chan (second from left), and Justin Schwartz
 (second from right). 

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View the video of the presentation of the 2012 Van Duzer Prize here: http://ieeecsc.org/pages/ieee-csc-awards-asc-2014-videos


2011 VAN DUZER PRIZE WINNERS

M. A. Tarasov
Kotelnikov Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics,
Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
L. S. Kuzmin
S. Mahashabde
Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
V. S. Edelman
P. L. Kapitza Institute for Physical Problems,
Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
P. de Bernardis
University of Rome “La Sapienza,” Rome, Italy

For their paper:

Optical Response of a Cold-Electron Bolometer Array
Integrated in a 345-GHz Cross-Slot Antenna

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
volume 21, number 6, pages 3635 -3639 December 2011


Presentation of 2011 Van Duzer Prize
Dr. Alan Kleinsasser, Vice President for Publications, IEEE Council on Superconductivity (left),
and Dr. Elie K.Track, President of the IEEE Council on Superconductivity (right), present the 2011 Van Duzer Prize to Prof. Leonid S. Kuzmin (center). The other co- authors,
Prof. Mikhail A. Tarasov, Dr. Sumedh Mahashabde, Prof. Valerian S. Edelman and
Dr. Paolo de Bernardis, did not attend the Awards Ceremony.

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2010 VAN DUZER PRIZE WINNERS

Frank N. Werfel
Uta Floegel-Delor
Thomas Riedel
Rolf Rothfeld
Dieter Wippich
Bernd Goebel
Adelwitz Technologiezentrum GmbH, Adelwitz, Germany
and
Gerhard Reiner
Niels Wehlau
L-3 Communications Magnet-Motor GmbH, Starnberg, Germany

For their paper:

Towards High-Capacity HTS Flywheel Systems
IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
volume 20, number. 4, pages 2272-2275, August 2010


Presentation of 2010 Van Duzer Prize
Dr. Alan Kleinsasser, Vice President for Publications, IEEE Council on Superconductivity (left),
and Dr. Elie K. Track, President of the IEEE Council on Superconductivity (right),
present the 2010 Van Duzer Prize to Ms. Uta Floegel-Delor, and Dr. Frank N. Werfel.
The other co-authors, Thomas Riedel, Rolf Rothfeld, Dieter Wippich, Bernd Goebel, Gerhard Reiner and Niels Wehlau did not attend the Awards Ceremony.

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2009 VAN DUZER PRIZE WINNERS

Sergey Ryabchun
The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA USA
Now with Moscow State Pedagogical University, Moscow, Riussia
Cheuk-Yu Edward Tong
The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, USA
Raymond Blundell
The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, USA
Gregory Gol’tsman
Moscow State Pedagogical University, Moscow, Russia

For their paper:

Stabilization Scheme for Hot-Electron Bolometer Receivers
Using Microwave Radiation

IEEE Transaction on Applied Superconductivity,
vol. 19, no. 1, pages 14-19 (February 2009)


Presentation of 2009 Van Duzer Prize
Dr. Elie K. Track, ,Vice President of the IEEE Council on Superconductivity and Chair of the Council’s Publication Committee (left) and Dr. John Spargo, President of the IEEE Council on Superconductivity, (right), present the 2009 Van Duzer Prize to Prof. Gregory Gol’tsman (second from left) and Dr. Cheuk-Yu Edward Tong (second from right). The two other co- authors, Dr. Sergey Ryabchun and Dr. Raymond Blundell, did not attend the Awards Ceremony.

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2008 VAN DUZER PRIZE WINNERS

François Roy
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Bertrand Dutoit
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Francesco Grilli
The Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM USA
Now with École Polytechnique de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
Frédéric Sirois
École Polytechnique de Montréal, Montréal, Canada

For their paper:

Magneto-Thermal Modeling of Second-Generation HTS for
Resistive Fault Current Limiter Design Purposes

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity,
vol. 18, no. 1, pages 29-35 (March 2008)


Presentation of 2008 Van Duzer Prize
Dr. Elie K. Track, ,Vice President of the IEEE Council on Superconductivity and Chair of the Council’s Publication Committee (left) and Dr. John Spargo, President of the IEEE Council on Superconductivity, (right) present the 2008 Van Duzer Prize to Dr. Bertrand Dutoit ( (second from left), Dr. François Roy (third from left) and Prof. Frédéric Sirois (second from right). The other co-author, Dr. Francesco Grilli, did not attend the Awards Ceremony.

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2007 VAN DUZER PRIZE WINNERS

Xiao-Fan Gou
Hohai University, Nanjing, China
Xiao-Jing Zheng
You-He Zhou
Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, China

For their papers:

Drift of Levitated/Suspended Body in High-Tc Superconducting
Levitation Systems Under Vibration

Part I: “A Criterion Based on Magnetic Force-Gap Relation for Gap Varying With Time
IEEE Transaction on Applied Superconductivity,
vol.17, no.3, pp. 3795-3802, (September 2007)
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Part II: “Drift Velocity for Gap Varying With Time”
IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity,
vol.17, no.3, pp. 3803-3808, (September 2007)
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2006 VAN DUZER PRIZE WINNERS

Nicolas Hadacek
Paul D. Dresselhaus
Samuel P. Benz
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO, USA

For their paper:

Lumped 50 Ohm Arrays of SNS Josephson Junctions
IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity,
vol.16, no.4, pp. 2005 -2010, (December. 2006)
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2005 VAN DUZER PRIZE WINNERS

Lei Yu
Nathan Newman
John M. Rowell
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
and
Theodore Van Duzer
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA

For their paper:

Incorporation of a Frequency-Dependent Dielectric Response for
the Barrier Material in the Josephson Junction Circuit Model

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity,
vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 3886-3900 (September 2005)
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