CPMT-A Transactions Best Papers
The AE's and the 1998 Guest Editors for CPMT-A, nominated 8 papers for the Best Paper award. Based on their votes, I am pleased to inform you that "A Generic Methodology for Deriving Compact Dynamic Thermal Models, Applied to the PSGA Package," by Filip Christiaens, BartVandevelde, Eric Beyne, Robert Mertens, and Jan Berghmans, was selected as the Best Paper for 1998.
The paper appeared in the December 1998 issue (Vol21, No. 4) of CPMT-A Transactions on pp 565-576. Dr. Filip Christiaens is at Alcatel Telecom in Antwerp, Belgium, where he is employed as a Physical Design Project Leader in the Hardware Competence Center of the Switching Systems Division. Drs. Vandevelde, Beyne, and Mertens are at the Materials and Packaging Division of IMEC, in Leuven, Belgium, and Prof. Berhgmans is with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Catholic University in Leuven, Belgium.
In addition, it has been decided to award an "Outstanding Paper" award to "Thermal Parameters Measurement Method of Electronics Materials," by Zbigniew Suszynski, Miroslaw Malinski, and Leszek Bychto, which appeared in the September 1998 issue (Vol 21, No 3) of CPMT-A Transactions, on pp 424-433. All three authors are at the Institute of Electronics, Technical University of Koszalin, Koszalin, Poland.
These awards were presented at the June ECTC Conference held in San Diego June 1 – 4..
Avram Bar-Cohen, Editor-in-Chief IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies