Bruce Deal & Andy Grove Young Author Award

Nomination: The Young Author Awards Selection Committees review all qualified papers published in the prior JSS volume year.
Presented: Yearly

The Bruce Deal & Andy Grove Young Author Award was established in May 2013 to recognize the best paper published in the ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology (JSS) by a young author or co-authors for the volume year preceding the award.

Recipient qualifications

Eligible authors are under 31 years of age at the date of receipt of the paper. All technical papers published in JSS for the volume year preceding the award are eligible.

Award

The award consists of: 

• Scroll;
• USD $1,500 divided among the winning paper’s eligible authors;
• Additional USD $1,000 shared among the eligible authors for travel to the ECS meeting where the award is presented;
• Complimentary one-year ECS membership beginning on June 1. 

About Bruce E. Deal & Andy Grove

The award honors Andy Grove and Bruce Deal, co-authors on a  Journal of The Electrochemical Society paper reporting the Deal-Grove model which mathematically describes the growth of an oxide layer on the surface of a material. The model, used to analyze thermal oxidation of silicon in semiconductor device fabrication, has had a lasting influence on the semiconductor technology industry.

Questions

For more information or questions, contact awards@electrochem.org.

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