Papers on the Applied Physics Letters

I've found some interesting paper on this month's issue:

Estimation of electron traps in carbon-60 field-effect transistors by a thermally stimulated current technique, by Toshinori Matsushima, Masayuki Yahiro, and Chihaya Adachi

Ballistic quantum transport in a nanoscale metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor, by Vijay K. Arora, Michael L. P. Tan, Ismail Saad, and Razali Ismail

Tuning of electrical characteristics in networked carbon nanotube field-effect transistors using thiolated molecules, by Chun Wei Lee, Keke Zhang, H. Tantang, Anup Lohani, S. G. Mhaisalkar, Lain-Jong Li, T. Nagahiro, K. Tamada, Y. Chen

These are three quite different topics, but I think that they are interesting enough.

IEEE Awards

I've just received the list of the 2007 IEEE Awards, and I wanted to make a comment. First of all, many congratulations to dear Prof. Michael S. Shur, for his two (yes, TWO) awards. The first award is the Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award, that goes to those able to show inspirational guidance of graduate students in all IEEE fields of interest. Prof. Shur obviously is a most than adequate recipient for this award. His second award (jointly with Arturas Zukauskas) is the Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award, and goes to the authors of the most outstanding paper published by the IEEE.

I also want to congratulate Prof. Yannis P. Tsividis, who is the recipient of the 2007 Gustav Robert Kirchhoff Award, that goes to those providing outstanding contributions to the fundamentals of any aspect of electronic circuits and systems that has a long-term significance or impact. Again, Prof. Tsividis is a mythical figure in the field of Device Modeling.

In brief, many congratulations for them and for all the other recipients of the IEEE Awards!