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To recognize exceptional accomplishments and contributions to the field of Magnetics.
$3,000, with an additional travel reimbursement up to a maximum of $500 for recipient to attend awards presentation, Certificate, and Society Life Membership
Funded by the IEEE Magnetics Society through an endowment administered by the IEEE Foundation effective 2010.
At Intermag Conference.
Established in 1981.
Outstanding achievement in magnetics, service to the Society and/or the magnetics community.
Must be member of IEEE Magnetics Society.
2024
For pioneering contributions to and inventions for magnetic materials, devices, and applications in information storage and computation, particularly on magnetic media, MRAM, and in-memory computing.
2023
For his pioneering contributions to the field of spin dynamics, especially in magnonics.
2022
For fundamental discoveries of spintronic phenomena and their applications in memory and computing technologies.
2021
For groundbreaking and sustained contributions to the invention and development of modern exchange-coupled magnetic recording media and devices.
2020
For pioneering discoveries in magnetic materials, nanostructures, and spin phenomena; for training young researchers; and providing invaluable service to the community.
2019
For contributions to spintronics applications including spin-valves and MRAMs and for strengthening the relationship between magnetics and microelectronic communities.
2018
For contributions to the theory of interacting spin systems and application to the understanding of magnetic recording media and ultrafast magnetization processes.
2017
For predicting the spin-filter effect and the resulting high magnetoresistance of MgO magnetic tunnel junctions, used by the HDD industry to substantially increase storage density.
2016
For contributions to theoretical studies on metallic ferromagnets crucial to data storage, nanotechnology and magnetism, including SWASER, current-induced switching, spin-transfer torque, relaxation, and domain wall resistance.
2015
For contributions to the micromagnetics of materials with high magnetocrystalline anisotropy and their applications in magnetic recording media.
2014
For contributions to the theory and simulation of magnetic materials, particularly magnetic recording media.
2013
For sustained contributions to thin film magnetic recording write head designs; most notably for the invention of the shielded write head structure for perpendicular recording.
2012
For contributions to magnetic devices and storage, including prediction of the spin transfer torque effect in magnetic thin films, theory of magnetotransport and interpretation of magnetic reversal.
2011
For contributions to magnetic storage devices through magnetic modeling.
2010
For seminal contributions to the analysis of electromagnetic fields and nonlinear magnetization dynamics, hysteresis modeling, and service to the IEEE Magnetics Society.
