International Conference on Ion Sources

September 2009


Park Vista Hotel

Awards

The Ion Source Prize "Brightness Award"
ICIS 2009 Competition
Information and Rules

PURPOSE                            

The Ion Source Prize, named the "Brightness Award", donated by Bergoz Instrumentation, Saint Genis Pouilly, France, is intended to recognize and encourage innovative and significant recent achievements in the fields of ion source physics and technology. The Prize rewards a recent innovation in ion-source technology or theory, it is not a "career accomplishment" award. 

AWARD

The prize consists of a certificate and US $6,000 to be presented at the ICIS 2009 International Conference on Ion Sources in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. The selection of the recipient(s) is made by the ICIS 2009 Prize Selection Committee, appointed primarily (but not necessarily exclusively) from the membership of the International Advisory and the Scientific Program Committees.

AWARD CRITERIA 

The Ion Source Prize will be presented for an outstanding recent contribution to the fields of ion source physics and technology.  This contribution could be a breakthrough idea, understanding or design that leads to an ion source, or could be the ion source itself.  The ion source resulting from this contribution must demonstrate significantly improved levels of performance over the currently-established state-of-the-art.  The contribution must have been published, and must be available to the community for application.

CRITERIA INTERPRETATION

Ion Source:

Definition:  A device producing a beam of charged particles (protons or heavier) suitable for transport to an experimental setup (e.g. atomic-, surface- or cluster physics), or to an application, such as accelerator injection, ion implantation, fusion driver, ion propulsion, etc.  Critical element is formation of a beam, rather than simply plasma generation. 

Demonstrated Performance:

The contribution selected must have led to the production of an actual, operating ion source (or must be the source itself). The contribution can be theoretical or experimental.  However, in case of theoretical contributions, an experimental demonstration of the validity of the theory must have been done with production of a beam of sufficient quality to obtain quantitative measurements of its characteristics.  The performance characteristics must be recognized (as judged by the Prize Selection Committee) as a significant improvement over the currently-established state-of-the-art.

Publication: 

The contribution should have been published in a journal or in proceedings of a conference that is in the public domain. Primary supporting publications should have been published within the past 5 years; not earlier than January 1, 2004 for this cycle.  Laboratory design notes, internal technical notes, or other written material, do not qualify as primary references, but may be submitted to support other publications. Full and open disclosure is necessary to the extent that a potential user could clearly make use of the concept or source design for which the award is given. More than one article may be submitted (together) to satisfy this requirement; for example, an article describing the principle plus another article describing the performance.

ELIGIBILITY

Nominations are open to candidates of any nationality for work done at any geographical location. The award may be shared between (a maximum of three) persons contributing to the same accomplishment.

A nomination that was not selected for receiving the Award in a previous round can be updated and resubmitted for the present round, provided it complies with the Rules established for this round of the competition.

DISCLOSURE

The Prize Administrators may release the names of entrants and a list of publications related to an entry if requested by a third party. Unpublished supporting material will not be disclosed nor will the names of persons supporting a nomination. Discussion regarding individual entries, scoring, etc. is regarded as confidential and will not be disclosed.

NOMINATIONS

The nomination package must be submitted by a professional (physicist, engineer or management person) familiar with the candidate(s) and his/her/their contribution, and can speak to the significance of the contribution. Every nomination must have a Sponsor who is a member of the International Advisory Committee (IAC) or the Scientific Program Committee (SPC) for this Conference cycle. 

The nomination package shall include:

• A cover page including the name, title and affiliation of the candidate(s), a short title of the contribution for which the award is sought, and the list of relevant publications.  Include on this page the name and contact information for both the Submitter of the nomination, and the IAC/SPC Sponsor.
• A statement, signed by the Submitter, describing the contribution of the Nominee to the physics or technology of the field.
• Full copies of relevant publications that have appeared in journals or widely-available conference proceedings.  Note:  Contributions to the present conference cannot serve as primary sources, as these proceedings have not yet been published.
• A signed statement of support by the Sponsor from IAC or SPC. (The statement is not necessary if the Sponsor is the Submitter.)

NOTE:  All documents must be submitted in English, any papers in another language must be accompanied by a full translation into English.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Only electronic submission will be accepted. 

Documents must be in .pdf format (only!) and can be made either as e-mail attachments or as web downloads.  The package must include all of the items listed above, including scans of the Submitter and Sponsor letters with signatures. Submitter must be available to work with the Prize Administrator to solve any formatting and transmission problems.  Please note, all documents must be in .pdf format!  Fax submissions will not be accepted.

Document files, or URL of download site, should be sent to

Jose Alonso jralonso@lbl.gov

Submissions must be made prior to June 15th, 2009.

SPONSORED BY

Bergoz Instrumentation (http://www.bergoz.com)