The Paul Rappaport Award is given each year to honor the author(s) of the best paper that has appeared in an EDS publication in the preceding calendar year. The recipient(s) is awarded a certificate and check for $2,500, presented at the International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM).
The paper entitled "Back-gated CMOS on SOIAS for Dynamic Threshold Voltage Control" by D.A. Antoniadis, A. Chandrakasan, C. Vieri and I.Y. Yang was recognized as the best paper appearing in an EDS publication in 1997. The paper was published in the May 1997 issue of IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices. The 1997 award will be presented at the IEDM on 6 December, 1998 in San Francisco, CA. The following are brief biographies of the four winners.
Dimitri A. Antoniadis
Dimitri A. Antoniadis received a B.S. in Physics from the National University of Athens (1970), and an M.S.E.E. (1973) and Ph.D. (1976) in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He has worked with semiconductor devices and integrated circuit technology since 1976, developing the SUPREM process simulator. At present, his research focuses on the physics and technology of extreme-submicron Si and Si/SiGe MOSFET's, SOI devices and technology for sub-0.25 CMOS, Technology CAD and applications for advanced device design, and quantum-effect electronic devices. Prof. Antoniadis joined MIT in 1978 and is a chaired Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of the SRC Center of Excellence in Microsystems Technologies.
Anantha Chandrakasan
Anantha Chandrakasan received the Ph.D. degree in EECS from U.C. Berkeley in 1994. He is currently an associate professor of EECS at MIT. He has received various awards including the 1993 IEEE Communications Society's best tutorial paper award, the NSF Career award in 1995, the IBM Faculty Development award in 1995, and the National Semiconductor Faculty Development award in 1996. He is a co-author of "Low Power Digital CMOS Design" and a co-editor of "Low Power CMOS design". He has served as a program chair for various conferences including the 1997 ISLPED, VLSI Design '98 and SiPS '98.
Carlin Vieri
Carlin Vieri is currently pursuing his doctorate at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He received bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1993 and a master's degree from MIT in 1995. He is also currently a Senior VLSI Engineer at the MicroDisplay Corporation. He has worked on high performance/low power parallel computing, the development of specialized integrated circuits employing power management techniques, and his main interest is in reversible computation structures.
Isabel Y. Yang
Isabel Y. Yang (M'93) received the B.S degree in material science and engineering in 1990. She received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees, while on an AT&T graduate fellowship, in electrical engineering in 1993 and 1996, respectively, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. From September 1996 to July 1997, she has been a member of the technical staff at the Advanced Products Research and Development Laboratory of Motorola, Austin, TX. Since July 1997, she has been a member of the technical staff in the Networking and Computing Systems Group of Motorola. She is working on CMOS device design and process integration for embedded platform applications.
Steven J. Hillenius
Lucent Technologies, Inc.
Murray Hill, NJ