R.F. Bunshah Award

2024	Yip-Wah Chung Northwestern University, Evanston, USA	For his sustained contributions to the surface engineering and tribology fields and for pioneering wear-protective coatings to enhance tribological performance in critical industrial applications.
2023	Lars Hultman Linköping University, Sweden	For pioneering activities towards developing new thin film materials and their atomistic understanding; bridging gaps between scientific disciplines.
2022	Jolanta-Ewa Klemberg-Sapieha Polytechnique Montréal, Canada	For the development of new nanostructured multifunctional and protective coatings with tailored mechanical properties for aerospace, manufacturing and other advanced applications.
2021	André Anders Leibniz Institute of Surface Engineering (IOM), Germany	For significant scientific contributions to the characterization and understanding of cathodic arc and HIPIMS plasmas.
2020	Christian Mitterer Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria	For seminal contributions to the materials science of coatings based on borides, nitrides, carbonitrides, oxides, and metal alloys.
2019	Joe Greene University of Illinois, Linköping University, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology	For seminal contributions in areas of thin-film physics, surface science, and surface engineering.
2018	Allan Matthews University of Manchester, UK	For outstanding contributions to surface engineering and coatings tribology.
2017	John Woollam University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA	Seminal contributions to the development and application of ellipsometry as a primary technique for determining thin-film optical properties.
2016	Boris Movchan International Center for Electron Beam Technologies Kiev, Ukraine	Pioneering work on electron-beam deposition, and his leadership as an educator and mentor spanning six decades and three continents.
2015	Péter B. Barna Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary	Pioneering contributions to the understanding of nanostructural evolution during thin film nucleation and growth based upon in-situ UHV TEM video imaging.
2014	Jindrich Musil University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic	Seminal contributions to the development of advanced nanocomposite coatings with enhanced hardness, oxidation resistance, toughness, and crack resistance.
2013	William D. Sproul Reactive Sputtering, Inc., San Marcos, Ca, USA	Seminal contributions in the developments of high rate, large area, multiple gas reactive sputter deposition.
2012	Sture Hogmark Uppsala University, Sweden	Pioneering work in the tribology of complex hard, wear-resistant coatings.
2011	Stan Veprek Technical University, Munich, Germany	Seminal work in the development of novel hard nanocomposite coatings.
2010	Helmut Holleck Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany	Pioneering research on thermodynamic constitutive relations and PVD phase maps for the design of complex advanced multicomponent coatings.
2009	Ivan Petrov University of Illinois, USA	Development of a detailed understanding of the role of low-energy ion-irradiation on microstructural and texture evolution during transition metal nitride layer growth.
2008	Stephen Rossnagel IBM, USA	Innovative development of seminal thin film solutions in microelectronic device fabrication.
2007	Wolf-Dieter Münz Leybold AG, GER Sheffield Hallam University, UK Systec SVS, GER	Seminal research and development in high rate magnetron sputtering related technologies and new materials for wear and corrosion resistant, optical, decorative, and functional coatings.