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Haruki Tokumaru, Luping Shi, Junji Tominaga, Benjamin A. Kowalski, Sunao Aoki, Ayumi Mitsumori, Kevin Curtis |
| The Best Paper Award |
| MB02 Title: Multi-layer 400 GB Optical Disk Authors: Ayumi Mitsumori, Takanobu Higuchi, Takuma Yanagisawa, Masakazu Ogasawara, Satoru Tanaka, Tetsuya Iida Affiliation: Pioneer Corporation, Japan |
| The Best Student Paper Award |
| WB04 Title: A two-color photopolymer system for high-capacity multilayer optical data storage Authors: Benjamin A. Kowalski, Robert R. McLeod, Timothy F. Scott Affiliation: University of Colorado, USA |
| The Best Technical Paper Award |
| TuB02 Title: A Novel Deformable Mirror for Spherical Aberration Compensation Authors: Sunao Aoki, Masahiro Yamada, Tamotsu Yamagami Affiliation: Sony Corporation, Japan |
| The Best Academic Paper Award |
| WB02 Title: What is the origin of activation energy in phase-change film? Authors: Junji Tominaga, Takayuki Shima, Paul Fons, Robert E. Simpson, Masashi Kuwahara, Alexander Kolobov Affiliation: AIST, Japan |