8–12 Sept 2025
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Previous Brightness Award Winners

2003: Edward Beebe and Alexander Pikin 

Brookhaven National Lab
High-current, high-charge state EBIS for injection of ions including gold and uranium into the Brookhaven National Laboratory RHIC complex. 

2005: E. D. Donets, D. E. Donets, E. E. Donets, and V. V. Salnikov

Dubna

Electron string source of highly charged ions 

2007: Jens Peters

DESY

H- non cesiated volume source 

2009: Claude Lyneis, Daniela Leitner, Hong-Wei Zhao, and Zu-Qi Xie

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, and Institute of Modern Physics, Lanzhou, China

Developments of Superconducting, 3rd-Generation ECR Sources. 

2011: Masahiro Okamura

Brookhaven National Lab

Direct Plasma Injection Heavy Ion Source (Gold Award); 

Mamiko Sasao, Motoi Wada, and Masashi Kisaki

Tohoku University, Doshisha University, and National Institute of Fusion Sciences (Japan)

High-intensity positive helium ion source as a novel diagnostic for ITER plasmas (Silver Award) 

2013: Yuri Kudryavtsev

KU Leuven

Laser ionization spectroscopy

2015: Richard Vondrasek 

Argonne National Lab

Charge-breeding ECR 

2017: Martin Stockli, Robert Welton, and Baoxi Han 

SNS Team, Oak Ridge National Lab

 Highly reliable, record production of H- beams. 

2019: Anatoli Zelenski

Brookhaven National Lab 

Development of High Current Optically Pumped Polarized H- Ion Source. 

2023: Valentin Fedosseev

CERN 

Pioneering the Resonance Ionization Laser Ion Source (RILIS) technique for ISOL facilities.