ISOM’07 AWARDS

(L-R) Itaru Fujimura, Chong Tow Chong, Ryuichi Katayama, Hyun-Guk Hong,
Joseph Pichon, Edward Gage, Subash C. B. Gopinath, Haruki Tokumaru

Excellent Paper Award

Tu-F-02
Title: Optical Head Using Single Objective Lens for BD, HD DVD, DVD and CD

Authors: Ryuichi Katayama and Yuichi Komatsu

Affiliation: NEC Corporation, Japan

Excellent Poster Award

We-J-07
Title: Self-Cleaning of SIL and Media using Photo-catalyst TiO₂ film for the Near-Field Recording

Authors: Hyun-Guk Hong and Young-Joo Kim

Affiliation: CISD, Yonsei University, Korea

Excellent Student Award

Mo-B-06
Title: Thermo-optical origins of the Super-Resolution effect: real-time characterization of the huge and reversible optical nonlinearity of InSb

Authors: Joseph Pichon¹, Marie-Françiose Armand², Fabien Laulagnet² and Bérangère Hyot²

Affiliation: ¹MPO INTERNATIONAL, ²CEA-Léti MINATEC, France

Excellent Technical Award

We-H-05
Title: An Integrated Recording Head for Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording

Authors: Edward Gage, William A. Challener, N. J. Gokemeijer, Ganping Ju, Bin Lu, Kalman Pelhos, Chubing Peng, Robert E. Rottmayer, Xiaomin Yang, Hua Zhou, Tim Rausch, and Michael A. Seigler

Affiliation: Seagate Technology, USA

Excellent Academic Award

Mo-C-06
Title: Developing a platform for detecting Bio-molecules

Authors: Subash C. B. Gopinath, Tomofumi Arai, Hiroshi Mizuno, Penmetcha K. R. Kumar, Koichi Awazu and Junji Tominaga

Affiliation: AIST, Japan