ELEX Best Paper Award in the year 2006 is presented to

"An optically clocked transistor array (OCTA) for 40- Gb/s, bidirectional serial-to-parallel conversion of asynchronous burst optical packets"

by R. Urata, R. Takahashi, T. Suemitsu, and H. Suzuki,
Vol.3, No.7, pp.129-135 (2006).

The Awarding Ceremony has been held in the coming Electronics Society Conference
(Sept. 11, 2007, at Tottori University, Japan).