| Takanori Ichiki(Professor, Department of Materials Engineering, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo) | Research and Development of Microfabrication Technologies and Nanobiodevices |
| Jun Suda(Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University) | Studies on Epitaxial Growth, Characterization and Device Applications of Wide-Bandgap Semiconductors |
| Gerrit Ernst-Wilhelm Bauer(Professor, Advanced Institute for Materials Research (WPI-AIMR), Tohoku University) | For the Theoretical Exposition of Order Parameter Transport in Magnets and Ferroelectrics in Collaboration with Japanese Researchers |
| Toshihiko Baba(Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Yokohama National University) | Study on Photonic Nanostructure Devices |
| Satoshi Hamaguchi(Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University) | For His Seminal Work on Nonlinear Plasma Physics and Plasma-Surface Interactions |
| Verma Prabhat(Professor, Department of Applied Physics, Osaka University) | Outstanding and Pioneering Research and Development on Plasmonics, Near-Field Optics, Nanospectroscopy, and Nanoimaging |
| Hiroki Hibino(Professor, School of Engineering, Kwansei Gakuin University) | Structural Characterization and Growth Control of Low-Dimensional Materials Using Surface Microscopy |
| Tatsuhiko Fujihira(Fellow and CTO for Semiconductor Devices, Semiconductors Business Group, Fuji Electric Co., Ltd.) | Research and Development of Power Semiconductor Devices Using Superjunction |
| Yutaka Majima(Professor, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology) | Study of Molecular Scale Physical Electronics and Single Molecule/Nanoparticle Transistors |
| Hiroshi Mizuta(Professor and Vice President (Special Missions), Graduate School of Advanced Science and Technology, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) | Study of Hybrid Electro-Mechanical Functional Devices at Nanometer-Scale |
| Heiji Watanabe (Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University) | Research and Development of Advanced MOS Devices Based on Semiconductor Surface and Interface Science |
