The Shoulders-Gray-Spindt (SGS) award, named after the founders of vacuum microelectronics/nanoelectronics, Ken Shoulders, Henry Gray, and Capp Spindt, has been created in IVNC to promote the work of young researchers in the field.
The SGS award is given for the best paper by a student or a postdoc at IVNC conferences. The selection will be based on a review of the extended abstracts of candidates by selected experts. Please see the application process below.
You can find the list of past SGS awardees here.
HOW TO APPLY
PREPARE SUBMISSION
Submit your short abstract to the conference before the deadline. If your short abstract is accepted (oral or poster), prepare your extended abstract.
RECOMMENDATION LETTER
Besides your extended abstract, a recommendation letter from your supervisor is necessary for the application.
SEND APPLICATION
Send your extended abstract together with the recommendation letter by the designated deadline to ivnc24@isibrno.cz. Don’t forget to indicate in the registration system that you want to be included in the SGS 2024 Award competition.
FOUNDERS OF VACUUM MICROELECTRONICS/NANOELECTRONICS
Kenneth R. Shoulders
Kenneth Radford Shoulders (1927 – 2013) was an experimental physicist and inventor. He has been attributed the title, ‘Father of Vacuum of Microelectronics’ and has been known as a founder of microelectronic field emission devices.
Henry F. Gray
Henry F. Gray (1937 – 1999), a Naval Research Laboratory physicist and senior research scientist was a pioneer in the field of vacuum microelectronics technology.
Capp Spindt
Capp Spindt (1931 – 2023) gave his name to the Spindt array, in which the individual field emitters are small sharp molybdenum cones (Spindt tips). He developed this technology at SRI International.