| NSF’s Extreme Ultraviolet
(EUV) Science and Technology Engineering Research Center (ERC) graduate
students garnered multiple international awards in 2008. Winning
the 2008 “Oscar of Innovation” – a coveted R&D 100 award, Center students
Courtney Brewer, Fernando Brizuela, Dale Martz and Michael Grisham were
among researchers recognized for their work in development of a compact
ultra-high resolution microscope based on an EUV laser.
Graduate student Richard
Sandberg was named the 2008 New Focus/Bookham Student Award winner at the
conference on Lasers and Electro Optics and International Quantum Electronics
Conference (CLEO/QELS) meeting. This student award was established
in 1997 to encourage research excellence, presentation prowess, and leadership
in the optics community among Optical Society of America (OSA) student
members. Selection is based on a three-part competition, and the
award is accompanied by a $5,000 prize. Amy Lytle, another EUV Center
student, was one of the finalists for the award.
At the International X-Ray
Microscopy meeting, XRM 2008, in Zurich, Switzerland, Center student Anne
Sakdinawat, along with co-recipient Pierre Thibault of the Paul Scherrer
Institute, was presented with the prestigious Werner Meyer-Ilse Award.
The award is presented every third year for contributions to the development
of x-ray microscopy. Anne was honored for her work on the development
of modified zone plates, phase contrast, and high depth-of-focus applications.
Graduate Student Chris Anderson
received the Best Paper Award at the 2008 International Symposia on EUV
Lithography organized by SEMATECH, Inc., the Semiconductor Manufacturing
Technology consortium, in which the majority of the papers are presented
by experts from industry. He and fellow Center student Ryan Miyakawa
shared the 2008 Meltwater Group International Entrepreneurial Competition
Award.
Other ERC graduate students
who earned awards in 2008 included Matt Seaberg and Paul Arpin, who were
awarded NSF Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT)
Fellowships in Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging. Also in
2008, the professional Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers
(SPIE) honored Center graduate students Michael Grisham and Scott Heinbuch
for their research. Finally, Center graduate Dr. Nick Wagner was
awarded an NRC postdoctoral fellowship. |
