At the beginning of each year, T-NANO selects a paper that appeared in the Transactions during the previous calendar year for its Best Paper Award. Candidate papers are nominated by members of the Editorial Board. Evaluation is done by members of the Senior Editors Panel, with criteria including technical merit, originality, potential impact on the field, clarity of presentation, and practical significance for applications.

The winner of the 2020 TNANO Best Paper Award is:

“A Magnetic Field-to-Digital Converter Employing a Spin-Torque Nano-Oscillator”
Published in the IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, Vol. 19, pp. 565 – 570, 13 July 2020.

Co-authored by Dagur Ingi Albertsson, Johan Åkerman, Ana Rusu

Dagur Ingi Albertsson, Department of Electrical Engineering, School of EECS, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Kista, Sweden.
Johan Åkerman, Department of Physics, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Ana Rusu, Department of Electrical Engineering, School of EECS, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Kista, Sweden.

To read the paper go to https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9139390/

DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2020.3007344