The IEEE Council on Superconductivity sponsors the Van Duzer Prize, awarded to the best contributed paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity during each volume year.
The award is restricted to regular submissions to the IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity to encourage authors to prepare well written and comprehensive contributions which may have exceptional archival values and are likely to be cited frequently by other authors. Papers submitted for publication through scientific conference special issues are not eligible.
Candidates for the Prize may be nominated by the Editors of the Transactions and judged by the Editor-in-Chief.
Papers are scored on the following criteria:
- Expectation that the paper will be highly cited by future authors.
- Technical excellence of the work described.
- Completeness of the paper as an archival record of a finished body of research.
The award is named in honor of Professor Theodore Van Duzer, founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity. Professor Van Duzer (M’60-SM’75-F’77-LF’93) received the Ph. D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1960 and has been on the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, since 1961.
The recipients are announced in the year following the volume year in which the paper appears.
The Recipients of the 2012 IEEE Council on Superconductivity Van Duzer Prize
D. C. van der Laan
Advanced Conductor Technologies LLC, Boulder, CO USA
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
J. F. Douglas
Advanced Conductor Technologies LLC, Boulder, CO USA
L. F. Goodrich
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO USA
R. Semerad
ceraco ceramic coating GmbH, Ismaning, Germany
M. Bauer
THEVA Dünnschichttechnik GmbH, Ismaning, Germany
for their paper:
“Correlation Between In-Plane Grain Orientation and the Reversible Strain Effect on Flux Pinning in RE-Ba2Cu3O7−δ Coated Conductors”
IEEE Trans. Appl. Superconductivity, Vol. 22, No. 1, February 2012, 8400707
AND
Wan Kan Chan
Justin Schwartz
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC USA
for their paper:
“A Hierarchical Three-Dimensional Multiscale Electro–Magneto–Thermal Model of Quenching in RE-Ba2Cu3O7−δ Coated-Conductor-Based Coils”
IEEE Trans on Appl. Superconductivity, Vol. 22, No. 5, October 2013, 4706010
The Recipients of the 2013 IEEE Council on Superconductivity Van Duzer Prize
Sasha Ishmael
Haojun Luo
Frank Hunte
X. T. Liu
John F. Muth
Natalia Mandzy
Golsa Naderi
Liyang Ye
Justin Schwartz
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC USA
and
Marvis White
Natalia Mandzy
Andrew T. Hunt
nGimat, Lexington, KY USA
for their paper:
“Enhanced Quench Propagation in Bi2Sr2CaCu2Ox and YBa2Cu3O7−x Coils via a Nanoscale
Doped-Titania-Based Thermally Conducting Electrical Insulator”
IEEE Trans. Appl. Superconductivity, vol. 23, no. 5, October 2013, 7201311
Prize Description
The Van Duzer Prize consists of a certificate and an honorarium of U.S. $1,000, funded by the Council on Superconductivity. For papers with multiple authors, the honorarium is divided equally among the authors. When possible, the recipients receive their certificate and honorarium at a scientific conference such as the Applied Superconductivity Conference or Magnet Technology Conference during an award ceremony sponsored by the Council on Superconductivity.