A paper by a research team from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Stellenbosch University (SU) in collaboration with teams from the University of Southern California, University of Florida and Northeastern University (USA), Yokohama National University and Tokyo City University (Japan), and the University of Savoie Mont Blanc (France) won the 2023 Van Duzer Prize Award at the Applied Superconductivity Conference (ASC 2024), which took place in the USA last month.
Prof Coenrad Fourie, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, served as the lead author. The research team also included Dr Johannes Delport, Dr Kyle Jackman, and Dr Lieze Johnston, all alumni and currently research engineers at the Faculty of Engineering, as well as Tessa Hall, a junior lecturer currently pursuing her PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
The award-winning paper, “Results from the ColdFlux Superconductor Integrated Circuit Design Tool Project,” was recognised as the most impactful paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity over the past year. It presents the results of the five-year project funded under the IARPA SuperTools programme, for which the team lead by co-principal investigators Prof Coenrad Fourie and Prof Massoud Pedram developed new methods and tools for superconductor integrated circuit design.
Prof Nobuyuki Yoshikawa from the Institute of Advanced Sciences at Yokohama National University, who also co-authored the paper, accepted the award and the $1000 cash prize on behalf of the team and delivered a speech celebrating their collaborative efforts.
This recognition underscores the outstanding contributions of our researchers and graduates to the IARPA initiative, specifically within the ColdFlux project, and their innovative approach has distinguished them as rising leaders in the field of applied superconductivity.
