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Physical Measurement Laboratory

Nanoscale Device Characterization Division

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2024 - Distinguished Mentoring Award---Christina Hacker

For outstanding mentorship and guidance of numerous postdoctoral associates and early-career staff.

2024 APS Fellow - Curt A. Richter

For pioneering studies of nanoelectronic devices based on advanced materials, including semiconducting, molecular, quantum, and topological materials, and for exceptional leadership of the broader nanoelectronics research community across government...

2023 IEEE EDS Leo Esaki Award

For recognizing the best paper appearing in a fast turnaround archival publication of the IEEE Electron Devices Society, targeted to the IEEE Journal of Electron Devices Society. For their paper: Ultrafast ID-VG Technique for Reliable Cryogenic...

JQI Researchers Win 2023 UMD Quantum Invention of the Year Award

This year Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), a research partnership between the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland, researchers and their colleagues have won in the quantum category for a new method for...

2022 RMS Scientific Achievement Award - Andrea Centrone

Andrea is an exceptional scientist whose work has contributed to overcoming one of the main shortcomings of atomic force microscopy (AFM) – its inability to conclusively identify chemical species in the nanoscale resolution maps the AFM provides. He...

2022 Distinguished Career Award in Chemistry - Ted Heilweil

In recognition for seminal contributions to the advancement of vibrational spectroscopy and mentoring an entire generation of scientists to build a strong, diverse, and vibrant scientific community.

2021 - Samuel Wesley Stratton Award---Mark Stiles

For seminal research on theoretical nanoscale magnetism, enabling development of spintronic read heads and nonvolatile magnetic memory for computers.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Andrei Kolmakov

For pioneering scanning-electron-beam imaging and spectroscopy of materials in gas and liquid media.

2021 - Bronze Medal Award---Joshua Pomeroy, Michael Stewart, Jr., Jonathan Wyrick

For developing new techniques to successfully manufacture atomic-scale electronic and quantum devices.

2022 IEEE Fellow - Mark Stiles

For contributions to spintronics devices and data storage.

2020 Distinguished Associate Award - Son T. Le

For developing novel, best-in-class electronic biosensors being used to test and quantify therapeutics developed at NIH for Alzheimer's disease.

2020 - Bronze Medal Award---Arvind Balijepalli, Curt Richter

For developing novel, best-in-class electronic biosensors that are being used to test and quantify therapeutics developed at NIH for Alzheimer’s disease.

2020 - Bronze Medal Award---Denis Bergeron, Jeffrey Cessna, Ryan Fitzgerald, Dean Jarrett, Shamith Payagala, Neil M. Zimmerman

For developing an SI-traceable self-calibrating system for radioactivity measurement services that reduces the need to handle radioactive sources.

2019 - Bronze Medal Award---Andrea Centrone

For pioneering a novel tool that provides first-ever multi-modal imaging of significant biomolecules such as those relevant to Alzheimer's disease

2019 - Jacob Rabinow Applied Research Award---Jabez McClelland

For innovations in laser cooling of atoms resulting in the commercialization of new methods for performing ion beam fabrication and microscopy.

2019 American Vacuum Society Early Career Award - Wei-Chang (David) Yang

American Vacuum Society (AVS) Nanometer-Scale Science and Technology Division Early Career Award. Columbus, Ohio, October 2019.

2019 ANSI Meritorious Service Award - Angela Hight Walker

Angela Hight Walker was selected to receive this award by the Board of Directors Awards Committee in recognition of her many contributions to the ANSI Federation and the voluntary standardization community.

2019 Fellow of the Royal Chemical Society - Yaw Obeng

2019 Fellow of the Royal Chemical Society, Awarded August 2019

2019 IEEE Fellow - Kin Ping (Charles) Cheung

for contributions to plasma process-induced damage in integrated circuits

2018 - Bronze Medal Award---Brian Alberding, Joshua Hadler, Edwin Heilweil

For developing the rigorous measurements needed to assess the efficacy of commercial laser-protective eyewear in common laboratory conditions.

2018 Excellence in Research in Physical Sciences Award - Mark D. Stiles

In recognition of his outstanding contributions to the understanding of nanoscale magnetic phenomena through ground-breaking theoretical studies of exchange coupling, exchange bias, magnetic damping, and spin transfer torques.

2017 - Bronze Medal Award---Emily G. Bittle, David J. Gundlach

For accelerating the emergence of a new generation of flexible electronic devices by improving flawed standard measurement practices.

2017 - Silver Medal Award---Sushama Singh, Richard Silver, Johannes A. Soons, Xiaoyu A. Zheng

For launching the first open-access research database of forensic topography data to improve the scientific basis of firearm evidence in court.

2018 Joseph F. Keithley Award for Advances in Measurement Science - Joseph A. Stroscio

Stroscio was recognized "for the design and construction of a series of highly sophisticated scanning probe instruments, including the development of inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy at the single atom and single spin limit, that provided...

2017 Grand Heinrich Rohrer Medal - Joseph A. Stroscio

For his pioneering achievements on spectroscopic capability of scanning tunneling microscopy opening novel perspectives for revealing the quantum nature of the nano-world.

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