2024 CS MANTECH Conference Awards

Congratulations to the following 2024 CS MANTECH Conference Awards Winners, chosen by the community:

• Best Paper: 
  • Paper number: 2.2.1 
  • Title: High Power Nitrogen-polar GaN/InAlN HEMT with Record Power Density of 12.8 W/mm at 28 GHz 
  • Authors: S. Yoshida, K. Makiyama, A. Hayasaka, A., Mukai, I. Makabe, and K. Nakata, Transmission Devices Laboratory, Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd., Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan 
• Best Paper Honorable Mention: 
  • Paper Number: 6.1.3 
  • Title: SmartSiC™ 150 & 200mm engineered substrate: increasing SiC device current density up to 30% 
  • Authors: Daniel Eric Guiot¹, Frédéric Allibert¹, Jürgen Leib², Tom Becker², Oleg Rusch², Alexis Drouin¹, Walter Schwarzenbach¹, ¹SOITEC S.A., Bernin, France, ²Fraunhofer IISB, Erlangen, Germany 
• Best Student Paper: 
  • Paper Number: 8.1.2  
  • Title: Design, Fabrication, and Characterization of GaN-Based Single Drift Region IMPATT Diodes 
  • Authors: Zhongtao Zhu¹, Lina Cao², Yu Duan1, Wesley Turner¹, Jinqiao Xie³, and Patrick Fay¹, ¹University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA, ²Keysight Technologies, Pasadena, CA, USA, ³Qorvo, Richardson, TX, USA