of the outstanding Paper published in its 2008 Transac- tions, Vol. 55. The award was presented during ceremonies at the 2009 IEEE International Ultrasonics ...
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2008 Outstanding Paper Award of the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society
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HE ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE of the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society takes great pleasure in announcing the selection of the Outstanding Paper published in its 2008 Transactions, Vol. 55. The award was presented during ceremonies at the 2009 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium in Rome, Italy, September 21st, 2009. The award winners are Gaël Sebald, Elie Lefeuvre, and Daniel Guyomar for their paper entitled “Pyroelectric Energy Conversion: Optimization Principles”. This paper appeared in the March 2008 issue, no. 3, on pages 538–551. Award Committee members selected this paper among all others appeared in vol. 55 of the IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control. Here are some comments of Award Committee Members about this paper: • “Well written, and of broad interest.” • “This paper is very well written. The exposition of the terms, materials, and processes are such that a non-specialist could easily understand the important considerations. The work advances practical considerations for realizing energy harvesting.” • “Beautiful and illuminating paper.” • “This paper discusses interesting and new approach for energy harvesting, …. is written easy to understand.” • “Concise, interest to general readership”
Gaël Sebald was born in 1978. He graduated from INSA Lyon in Electrical Engineering in 2001 (M.S. degree) and received a master’s degree in acoustics the same year. He received a Ph.D. degree in acoustics in 2004. He was then a Japan Society for Promotion of Science Awardee (2004– 2005) for a post-doctoral position in the Institute of Fluid Science of Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, where he worked on ferroelectric fibers and vibration control. Gaël Sebald is now Associate Professor at INSA Lyon, Lyon, France. His main research interests are now materials characterization, hysteresis modeling, multiphysics coupling in smart materials, and energy harvesting on vibration and heat.
Elie Lefeuvre was born in France in 1971. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering respectively from Paris-XI University, Paris, France, in 1994 and from Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, Toulouse, France, in 1996. At the same time, he was a student at the electrical engineering department of Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, Cachan, France. He prepared his Ph.D. degree at Laval University of Québec, Québec, Canada, and at the Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, France. He received the diploma from both universities in 2001 for his work on power electronics converters topologies. In 2002 he got a position of Assistant Professor at Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA) de Lyon, Lyon, France, and he joined the Laboratoire de Génie Electrique et Ferroélectricité. His current research activities include piezoelectric systems, energy harvesting, vibration control, and noise reduction.
Daniel Guyomar received a degree in mechanical engineering, a Doctor-engineer degree in acoustics from Compiègne University, and a Ph.D. degree in physics from Paris VII University, Paris, France. From 1982 to 1983 he worked as a research associate in fluid dynamics at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. He was a National Research Council Awardee (1983–1984) detached at the Naval Postgraduate School to develop transient wave propagation modeling. He was hired in 1984 by Schlumberger to lead several research projects dealing with ultrasonic imaging, then he moved to Thomson Submarine activities in 1987 to manage the research activities in the field of underwater acoustics. Prof. Daniel Guyomar is presently a full-time University Professor at INSA Lyon (Lyon, France), director of the INSA-LGEF laboratory. His present research interests are in the field of semi-passive vibration control, energy harvesting on vibration and heat, ferroelectric modeling, electrostrictive polymers, and piezoelectric devices.
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