JSAP OUTSTANDING PAPER AWARD — 2007

JSAP PAPER AWARD

• A Super-Precise CTE Evaluation Method for Ultra-Low-Expansion Glasses Using the LFB Ultrasonic Material Characterization System
  Jun-ichi Kushibiki, Mototaka Arakawa, Yuji Ohashi, Kouji Suzuki, and Takahisa Maruyama
  Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 44 (2005) 4374
• Hall Effect of Quasi-Hole Gas in Organic Single-Crystal Transistors
  Jun Takeya, Kazuhito Tsukagoshi, Yoshinobu Aoyagi, Taishi Takenobu, and Yoshihiro Iwasa
  Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 44 (2005) L1393
• Spin-Dependent Transport in C60-Co Nano-Composites
  Shinji Miwa, Masashi Shiraishi, Masaki Mizuguchi, Teruya Shinjo, and Yoshishige Suzuki
  Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 45 (2006) L717
• Modified Oxygen Vacancy Induced Fermi Level Pinning Model Extendable to P-Metal Pinning
  Yasushi Akasaka, Genji Nakamura, Kenji Shiraishi, Naoto Umezawa, Kikuo Yamabe, Osamu Ogawa, Myoungbum Lee,Toshio Amiaka, Tooru Kasuya Heiji Watanabe, Toyohiro Chikyow, Fumio Ootsuka, Yasuo Nara, and Kunio Nakamura
  Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 45 (2006) L1289
• Blue, Green, and Amber InGaN/GaN Light-Emitting Diodes on Semipolar {1122} GaN Bulk Substrates
  Mitsuru Funato, Masaya Ueda, Yoichi Kawakami, Yukio Narukawa, Takao Kosugi, Masayoshi Takahashi, and Takashi Mukai
  Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 45 (2006) L659
• Monolithic Implementation of Elemental Devices for Optoelectronic Integrated Circuit in Lattice-Matched Si/III–V–N Alloy Layers
  Yuzo Furukawa, Hiroo Yonezu, Yuji Morisaki, Soo-Young Moon, Seigi Ishiji, and Akihiro Wakahara
  Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 45 (2006) L920
• Room-Temperature Stimulated Emission from AlN at 214 nm
  Maxim Shatalov, Mikhail Gaevski, Vinod Adivarahan, and Asif Khan
  Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 45 (2006) L1286
• Ferroelectricity Down to at Least 2 nm in Multiferroic BiFeO₃ Epitaxial Thin Films
  H. Béa, S. Fusil, K. Bouzehouane, M. Bibes, M. Sirena, G. Herranz, E. Jacquet, J.-P. Contour, and A. Barthélémy
  Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 45 (2006) L187
• High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy for Studying the Dynamic Behavior of Protein Molecules at Work
  Toshio Ando, Takayuki Uchihashi, Noriyuki Kodera, Atsushi Miyagi, Ryo Nakakita ,Hayato Yamashita, and Mitsuru Sakashita
  Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 45 (2006) 1897
• Carbon Nanotube Growth Technologies Using Tantalum Barrier Layer for Future ULSIs with Cu/Low-k Interconnect Processes
  Masahiro Horibe, Mizuhisa Nihei, Daiyu Kondo, Akio Kawabata, and Yuji Awano
  Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 44 (2005) 5309

JSAP YOUNG SCIENTIST AWARD

• Huge Spin-Polarization of L2₁-Ordered Co₂MnSi Epitaxial Heusler Alloy Film
  Yuya Sakuraba, Jun Nakata, Mikihiko Oogane, Hitoshi Kubota1, Yasuo Ando, Akimasa Sakuma, and Terunobu Miyazaki
  Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 44 (2005) L1100
• Welding of Transparent Materials Using Femtosecond Laser Pulses
  Takayuki Tamaki, Wataru Watanabe, Junji Nishii, and Kazuyoshi Itoh
  Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 44 (2005) L687
• Enhancement of Flux-Pinning in Epitaxial Sm_1+xBa_2-xCu₃O_y Films by Introduction of Low-T_c Nanoparticles
  Masashi Miura, Yutaka Yoshida, Yusuke Ichino, Yoshiaki Takai, Kaname Matsumoto, Ataru Ichinose, Shigeru Horii, and Masashi Mukaida
  Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 45 (2006) L11
• Fabrication of Spherical Silicon Solar Cells with Semi-Light-Concentration System
  Takashi Minemoto, Chikao Okamoto, Satoshi Omae, Mikio Murozono1,Hideyuki Takakura, and Yoshihiro Hamakawa
  Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 44 (2005) 4820
• Hard X-Ray Nano-Interferometer and Its Application to High-Spatial-Resolution Phase Tomography
  Takahisa Koyama, Takuya Tsuji, Keisuke Yoshida, Hidekazu Takano, Yoshiyuki Tsusaka, and Yasushi Kagoshima
  Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 45 (2006) L1159
• Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Thin-Film Sensor for Ultrasensitive Gas Detection
  Winadda Wongwiriyapan, Shin-ichi Honda, Hirofumi Konishi, Tomoaki Mizuta, Takashi Ikuno, Tatsuya Ito1, Toru Maekawa1, Kengo Suzuki, Hiroshi Ishikawa, Kenjiro Oura, and Mitsuhiro Katayama
  Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 44 (2005) L482
• Rate-Limiting Reactions of Growth and Decomposition Kinetics of Very Thin Oxides on Si(001) Surfaces Studied by Reflection High-Energy Electron Diffraction Combined with Auger Electron Spectroscopy
  Shuichi Ogawa and Yuji Takakuwa
  Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 45 (2006) 7063
• Superconducting Detector Array for Terahertz Imaging Applications
  Seiichiro Ariyoshi, Chiko Otani, Adrian Dobroiu, Hiroshi Matsuo, Hiromi Sato,Tohru Taino, Kodo Kawase, and Hirohiko M. Shimizu
  Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 45 (2006) L1004
• Investigation of Spin Voltaic Effect in a p–n Heterojunction
  Tsuyoshi Kondo, Jun-ji Hayafuji, and Hiro Munekata
  Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 45 (2006) L663

AWARD FOR THE BEST REVIEW PAPER

• Bent-Core Liquid Crystals: Their Mysterious and Attractive World
  Hideo Takezoe and Yoichi Takanishi
  Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 45 (2006) 597