Awards

Awards Nominations Deadline: June 2, 2025

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

• ART GOSSARD MBE INNOVATOR AWARD
• JAMES S. HARRIS MBE SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY AWARD
• NAMBE YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD
• OUTSTANDING STUDENT PAPER AWARDS

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.

Art Gossard MBE Innovator Awards Nominations

We are now accepting nominations for the 2024 MBE Innovator Award and the NAMBE Young Investigator Award. The deadline for accepting nominations is June 2, 2025.

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.

2025 Art Gossard MBE Innovator Awardee

TBD

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.

Art Gossard MBE Innovator
Award Contact

Prof. Zbig Wasilewski
Chair, Nomination Committee for Art Gossard MBE Innovator Award
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

University of Waterloo
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1

E-mail: zbig.wasilewski@uwaterloo.ca

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
• 2024: Debdeep Jena, Cornell University
• 2025: TBD

James S. Harris MBE Scientific Discovery Award Nominations

The North American MBE Advisory Board is proud to present the James S. Harris MBE Scientific Discovery Award.  This award recognizes individuals who have outstanding credentials and have made impactful scientific discoveries that were enabled by MBE or have utilized MBE processes. The deadline for accepting nominations is June 2, 2025. The discoveries must be in at least one of the following categories:

• Novel materials
• New material properties
• New physics
• Invention of a device with novel functionalities

The award was newly established in 2024 and is named in honor of James S. (Jim) Harris, Professor Emeritus at Stanford University.  Jim has had a long and distinguished career leading and guiding many scientific discoveries utilizing MBE during his tenure at Stanford University and Rockwell International.  Jim’s former PhD students, who number over 135 and affectionately call him “Coach,” have contributed to a permanent endowment that provides the winner of this award with a plaque and a check for $3,000.

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

2025 James S. Harris MBE Scientific Discovery Awardee

TBD

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.

James S. Harris MBE Scientific Discovery Award Contact

Dr. Richard Mirin
NIST

E-mail: richard.mirin@nist.gov
Use Subject Line: Harris Scientific Discovery Award Nomination

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 June 2, 2025.

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.

2025 NAMBE Young Investigator Awardee

TBD

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.

NAMBE Young Investigator
Award Contact

Prof. Yong-Hang Zhang
Chair, NAMBE Advisory Board
School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering

Arizona State University
Electrical Eng. ERC 140
Tempe, AZ 85287-5706

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

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
• 2024: Kunal Mukherjee, Stanford University
• 2025: TBD

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 2025. The awards consist of a certificate and a check for $500.

Outstanding Student Talk Awards

• TBD

Outstanding Student Poster Award

• TBD

Outstanding Student Paper Awardees

Student Oral Awardees

• • 2009: Michael Moseley, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • 2010: Michael Moseley, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • 2011: Elizabeth Steenbergen, Arizona State University
  • 2011: Jason Kawasaki, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • 2011: H.P.T Nguyen, McGill University
  • 2012: Jason Kawasaki, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • 2012: Songrui Zhao, McGill University
  • 2013: M.G. Kibria, McGill University
  • 2013: Alan Liu, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • 2013: Jing Lu, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • 2015: Joseph Faucher, Yale University
  • 2015: Sean Harrington, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • 2016: Brelon May, Ohio State University
  • 2017: Christopher Schuck, Boise State University
  • 2017: Margaret Stevens, Tufts University
  • 2018: Chris Deimert, University of Waterloo
  • 2018: Brelon May, Ohio State University
  • 2019: Pankul Dhingra, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • 2019: Nidhin Kurian Kalarickal, Ohio State University
  • 2021: Ido Levy, The City College of New York
  • 2021: Tomoki Hotta, University of Tokyo
  • 2021: Pankul Dhingra, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • 2022: Eamon Hughes, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • 2022: Pooja Reddy, Stanford University
  • 2022: Corey White, University of Texas at Austin
  • 2023: Zach LaDuca, University of Wisconsin – Madison
  • 2023: Sreejith Nair, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
  • 2023: Cory White, University of Texas at Austin
  • 2024: Abigail Jiang, Harvard University
  • 2024: Zachary LaDuca, University of Wisconsin
  • 2024:   Gregory Grant, University of Chicago
  • 2025: TBD

Student Poster Awardees

• • 2009: Chandani Rajapaksha, University of Houston
  • 2010: Stephanie Tomasulo, Yale University
  • 2011: John Watson, Purdue University
  • 2012: X.-M. Shen, Arizona State University
  • 2013: Cheng-Ying Huang, UC Santa Barbara, Best poster presentation
  • 2013: Connie T. Ashfiqua, McGill University, Best poster
  • 2015: Guopeng Chen, City College of New York
  • 2015: Nhung Hong Tran, McGill University
  • 2015: Thor Axtmann Garcia, City College of New York
  • 2017: Brelon May, Ohio State University
  • 2017: Choonghee Lee, Ohio State University
  • 2019: Trent Garrett, Boise State University
  • 2022: Amanda Lemire, Tufts University
  • 2023: Stefania Isceri, Technische Universität Wien, Austria
  • 2023: Andrew Messecar, University of Western Michigan
  • 2024: Milosavljevic Marko, Arizona State University
  • 2025: TBD

Student Awardees (Unknown Poster or Oral)

• • 2014: Sahil Patel, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • 2014: Zhiyi Chen, The City College of New York
  • 2014: Kuaile Zhao, The City College of New York
  • 2014: Bin H. Le, McGill University
  • 2018: Justin Norman, University of California, Santa Barbara