Abstract :
The Outstanding Paper Award for the 1974 Conference was given to authors of two papers that were judged by the awards committee to be of equal merit: R. J. Powell and G. W. Hughes, for their paper entitled “Charge Injection and Trapping in Al2O, Gate Insulators” J. R. Srour, 0. L. Curtis, Jr., and K. Y. Chiu, for their paper entitled “Charge Transport Studies in SiO2: Processing Effects and Implications for Radiation Hardening”. Biographies of these individuals and summaries of their papers are given below. The awards committee also judged two papers to be worthy of Honorable Mention: “Photo-Compton Currents at Material Interfaces: Theory and Experiment” by T. A. Dellin, K. W. Dolan, and C. J. MacCallum “Permanent and Transient Radiation Induced Losses in Optical Fibers” by B. D. Evans and G. H. Sigel, Jr. The complete texts of all four of the above-mentioned papers are contained in this issue.
