AIXTRON Young Scientist Award

In 1999, the Symposium Programme Committee and the Board of AIXTRON AG (Germany) established a special award to honour a young scientist whowill present at the Symposium the best paper in the field of solid statenanostructures. The award comprises a diploma and a $500 reward sponsored by AIXTRON.

The AIXTRON Young Scientist Award recipients are:
1999 Alexey R. Kovsh, Ioffe Institute, Russia.
2000 Thomas Gruber, Physikalisches Institut Universität für Würzburg Am Hubland, Germany
2001 Ivan Shorubalko, Lund University, Sweden

A 2002 awardee was selected by the Award Committee from six nominees proposed by the Programme Committee:

1. C. Kapteyn et al., Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
   Optical memory concepts with self-organized quantum dots - material systems and energy-selective charging
   
2. S. R. Kennedy et al., University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
   Fabrication of square spiral photonic crystals by glancing angle deposition
3. W. Langbein et al., University of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
   Spectral speckle analysis: a new method to measure coherence and dephasing in semoconductor nanostructures
4. M. N. Makhonin et al., Institute of Solid State Physics, Chernigolovka, Russia
   Influence of temperature and free carriers on four-wave mixing in semiconductor microcavities
   
5. S. A. Tarasenko et al., Ioffe Institute, St Petersburg, Russia
   Spin orientation of two-dimensional electron gas under intraband optical pumping
   
6. I. A. Yugova et al., St Petersburg State University, St Petersburg, Russia
   Gateable spin memory in InP quantum dots
   

On Friday, June 21, 2002 at the Award Ceremony the Chair of Award Committee, Prof. Zh. Alferov, announced the 2002 Award recipient—Mr. Scott Kennedy.

Mr. Scott kennedy Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Alberta Edmonton, Canada E-mail: skennedy@ee.ualberta.ca

Scott Kennedy was born October 19, 1977 in Prince George, British Columbia, a city in the central region of the western-most province of Canada. He received his BSc. in Engineering Physics at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta in the summer of 1999. Currently he is completing his doctorate in Electrical Engineering at the University of Alberta, studying the design and fabrication of novel thin film nanostructures for photonics and optics applications. His major research successes include the characterization and development of porous thin film devices such as broadband antireflection coatings and chiral thin film/liquid crystal hybrid devices for applications in LCD-type displays. More recently his research has been focused on the fabrication of complex three-dimensional square spiral photonic crystals, and was the first to successfully fabricate this new class of diamond(FCC)-based periodic dielectric.