Each year, the Electronics Division presents two best student presentation awards: best oral presentation and best poster presentation.

Each award consists of $250 and a certificate. In the event that there is more than one author, the award is given to the main author of the presentation. The awards will be given at the Electronic Materials and Applications (EMA) meeting in Orlando each January in the year following the actual presentation (i.e. if the presentation is made at EMA 2010, the award will be presented at EMA 2011).

List of Recipients:

2013

Best posters:
First place - Jonathan Mackey, Case Western Reserve University, for “Analytic Thermoelectric Device Optimization”

Second place - Ali Henriques, University of Florida, for “Structural changes in Lead Zirconate Titanate due to High Neutron Radiation Exposure”

Third place - Michelle Nolan, University of Florida, for “Phase equilibria, crystallographic structure, and piezoelectric properties of tetragonal Pb(1-1.5x)SmxZr(1-y)TiyO3”

Best oral presentations:
First place - Chris Shelton, North Carolina State University, for “Control of ZnO thin film polarity through interface chemistry”

Second place - Tedi-Marie Usher, University of Florida, for “Domain wall motion and electric-field-induced strains in NBT-xBT solid solutions from in situ neutron diffraction”

Third place - Jon Bock, the Pennsylvania State University, for “The Influence, Role, and Property Variations in Ferroelectricity at the Edge of the Metal-Insulator Transition and Its Influence on Thermoelectric Properties”

2012

Best poster: Elena Aksel, Univerity of Flsorida, for “Crystal Structure and Phase Transitions in Chemically Modified Sodium Bismuth Titanate”

Best oral presentation: Cassandra Llano, University of Florida, for “Development and Implementation of a Polarization and Strain Measurement System”

2011

Best poster: not awarded in 2011

Best oral presentation: Elena Aksel, University of Florida, for “Sodium Bismuth Titanate - Resolving Structural Contradictions”

2010

Best poster: Jin Woo Jung, Hoseo University, South Korea, for “Development of AZO-based Transparent, Thin Film Transistors on Transparent Structures”

Best oral presentation: Beverly B. Hinojosa, University of Florida, for “Developing the Link Between Atomic Structure and Macroscopic Properties of Cubic Pyrochlores”

2009
Best poster: not awarded in 2009

Best oral presentation: Anderson Prewitt, University of Florida for “Effects of Field & Temperature During Poling on the Ferroelectric Properties of Lead Zirconate Titanate”

2008

Best poster: Christopher T. Shelton, Oregon State University for “Epitaxial Piezoelectric Thin Films on Flexible Substrates”

Best oral presentation: Vivek Tomer, Penn State University for “Induced Anisotropy in Electrically Modified Polymer/Ceramic Nano-composites”

2007

Best oral presentation: Mark D. Losego, North Carolina State University, for “Engineering Oxide Interfaces to Gallium Nitride by Molecular Beam Epitaxy”

2006

Best poster: Weiqun Chen, University of California, Davis, for “Energetics of Cerium-Zirconium Substitution in the xCe0.8Y0.2O1.9-(1-x)Ze0.8 Y0.2O1.9 System”

Best oral presentation: Meagen A. Gillispie, Iowa State University, for “Crystal Chemistry and Electrical Properties of Delafossite Compounds”

2005

Best poster: Yusuke Tohdo, Nagoya Institute of Technology, for “Crystal Structur analusis of Homologous Compounds ALa4Ti4O15 and its Microwave Dielectric Properties”

Best oral presentation: Niall J. Donnelly, Pennsylvania State University, for “Investigation of Nonlinear and Relaxation Phenomena in PMN-0.07PT Films Under Large AC Field”