WALTER KOSONOCKY AWARD

Recipients

The IISS Walter Kosonocky Award is presented biennially for THE BEST PAPER presented in any venue during the prior two years representing significant advancement in solid-state image sensors. The award commemorates the many important contributions made by the late Dr. Walter Kosonocky to the field of solid-state image sensors. Personal tributes to Dr. Kosonocky appeared in the IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices in 1997.

Founded in 1997 by his colleagues in industry, government and academia, the award is also funded by proceeds from the International Image Sensor Workshop. The award committee solicits nominations biennially. The award is announced and presented at the Workshop. New! Nomination form for 2025 is here.

Year/Org.	Recipients	Recipients	Paper
2023Canon Inc.	K. MorimotoJ. IwataM. Shinohara H. Sekine A. Abdelghafar H. Tsuchiya Y. Kuroda K. Tojima W. Endo Y. Maehashi Y. Ota T. Sasago S. Maekawa	S. HikosakaT. KanouA. Kato T. Tezuka S. Yoshizaki T. Ogawa K. Uehira A. Ehara F. Inui Y. Matsuno K. Sakurai T. Ichikawa	3.2 Megapixel 3D-Stacked Charge Focusing SPAD for Low-Light Imaging and Depth Sensing2021 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), San Francisco, CA, USA, 2021, pp. 20.2.1-20.2.4
2021STMicroelectronics, IMEP-LaHC, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, LNL, Univ. Claude Bernard Lyon, LETI-CEA Tech	Francois RoyAndrej SulerThomas Dalleau Romain Duru Daniel Benoit Jihane Arnaud	Yvon CazauxCatherine ChatonLaurent Montes Panagiota Morfouli Guo-Neng Lu	Fully Depleted, Trench-Pinned Photo Gate for CMOS Image Sensor ApplicationsMDPI Sensors, Vol.20, No3. Article No.727, pp.1-8, Jan 2020.
2019Sony	Sozo YokogawaItaru OshiyamaHarumi Ikeda Yoshiki Ebiko Tomoyuki Hirano	Suguru SaitoTakashi OinoueYoshiya Hagimoto Hayato Iwamoto	IR sensitivity enhancement of CMOS Image Sensor with diffractive light trapping pixelsScientific Reports, Vol. 7, Article No. 3832, pp. 1-9, June 2017.
2017Microsoft	Cyrus S. BamjiPatrick O’ConnorTamer Elkhatib Swati Mehta Barry Thompson Lawrence A. Prather Dane Snow	Onur Can AkkayaAndy DanielAndrew D. Payne Travis Perry Mike Fenton Vei-Han Chan	A 0.13 μm CMOS System-on-Chip for a 512 × 424 Time-of-Flight Image Sensor With Multi-Frequency Photo-Demodulation up to 130 MHz and 2 GS/s ADCIEEE JSSC, Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 303-318, January 2015.
2015Sony	Shunichi SukegawaTsutomu NakajimaKen Koseki Tsutomu Haruta Koji Fukumoto Keishi Inoue Takashi Nagano Teruo Hirayama	Taku UmebayashiHiroshi KawanobeIsao Hirota Masanori Kasai Toshifumi Wakano Hiroshi Takahashi Yoshikazu Nitta Noriyuki Fukushima	A 1/4-inch 8Mpixel Back-Illuminated Stacked CMOS Image SensorISSCC Dig. Tech. Papers, pp. 484 – 485, Feb. 2013.
2013NHKShizuoka University	Kazuya KitamuraToshihisa WatabeTakehide Sawamoto Tomohiko Kosugi Tomoyuki Akahori Tetsuya Iida Keigo Isobe	Takashi WatanabeHiroshi ShimamotoHiroshi Ohtake Satoshi Aoyama Shoji Kawahito Norifumi Egami	A 33-Megapixel 120-Frames-Per-Second 2.5-Watt CMOS Image Sensor With Column-Parallel Two-Stage Cyclic Analog-to-Digital ConvertersIEEE Transactions On Electron Devices, 59(12), December 2012, pp. 3426-3433.
2011Sony	Hayato WakabayashiKeiji YamaguchiMasafumi Okano Souichiro Kuramochi Oichi Kumagai Seijiro Sakane Masamichi Ito Masahiro Hatano Masaru Kikuchi Yuuki Yamagata	Takeshi ShikanaiKen KosekiKeiji Mabuchi Yasushi Maruyama Kentaro Akiyama Eiji Miyata Tomoyuki Honda Masanori Ohashi Tetsuo Nomoto	A 1/2.3-inch 10.3Mpixel 50 frame/s Back-Illuminated CMOS Image SensorProc. 2010 International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), pp. 410-411, San Francisco, CA USA February 2010.
2009Eastman Kodak	Eric StevensHung DoanJeffery Kyan Gang Shi Jian Wu	Hirofumi KomoriHiroaki FujitaChristopher Parks Cristian Tivarus	Low Crosstalk and Low Dark Current CMOS Image Sensor Technology Using a Hole-Based DetectorProc. International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), pp.59-61 San Francisco, California USA February 2008.
2007Sony	Satoshi YoshiharaYoshikazu NittaMasaru Kikuchi Ken Koseki Yoshiharu Ito Yoshiaki Inada Souichiro Kuramochi Hayato Wakabayashi Masafumi Okano	Hiromi KuriyamaJunichi InutsukaAkari Tajima Tadashi Nakajima Yoshiharu Kudoh Fumihiko Koga Yasuo Kasagi Shinya Watanabe Tetsuo Nomoto	A 1/1.8” 6.4 Mpixel 60 frames/s CMOS image sensor with seamless mode changeIEEE J. of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 41(12) December 2006 pp. 2998-3006
2005Micron Technology	Alex KrymskiNail Khaliullin	Howard Rhodes	A 2 Electron noise, 1.3. Megapixel CMOS SensorProc. 2003 IEEE Workshop on CCDs and Advanced Image Sensors, May 15-17, 2003 Bavaria, Germany
2003Texas Instruments	Jaroslav Hynecek		Impactron – A New Solid State Image IntensifierIEEE Trans. Electron Devices, vol. 48(10) Oct. 2001 pp. 2238-2241
2001Fujifilm	Tetsuo YamadaKatsumi IkedaYong-Gwan Kim Hideki Wakoh Tetsuo Toma Tomohiro Sakamoto	Kazuki OgawaEiichi OkamotoKazuyuki Masukane Kazuya Oda Masafumi Inuiya	A Progressive Scan CCD Image Sensor for DSC ApplicationsIEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 35(12) Dec. 2000 pp. 2044-2054
1999Philips	Jan BosiersAgnes KleimannArjen Vander Sijde Laurens Korthout Daniel Verbugt	Herman PeekEdwin RoksAnco Heringa Frans Vledder Peter Opmeer	A 2/3” 2M pixel progressive scan FT-CCD for digital still camera applicationsProc. 1998 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, pp. 37-40