Speech at IEEE Honors Ceremony, Minnesota (Click to enlarge)

Professor of Tohoku University and ZyCube CTO Mitsumasa Koyanagi won 2006 IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal.

The IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal was established by the IEEE Board of Directors in 2002. The medal is named in honor of Jun-ichi Nishizawa's lifetime outstanding achievements, ranging from fundamental semiconductor materials and devices to optical communication and power systems.

In the evaluation process of the prize, the committee consider quality of the techinical achievement, enhancement of technology, impact on the relevant technical community, impact on the profession and benefit to the society, publications and patents and the quality of the nomination as the criteria.

The prize was awarded for stack capacitor cell of DRAM memory cell. Over 80 % of DRAMs world wide have stack capacitor cells. The whole total sells of DRAM have been over 20 trillion dollars.


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Tohoku University News
http://www.eng.tohoku.ac.jp/news/news.php?news=20060616132405&ref=%2F%3F03170900

IEEE Jun-ichi Nishizawa Medal Recipients
http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/about/awards/pr/nishizawapr.html