Important Dates

Abstract/ Paper Submission

Full-paper submission is scheduled to be open during 1st Mar. to 15th Jun., 2025. We strongly suggest you to prepare your paper by the Template, and the submission file format can be in doc, docx or pdf. Length of the paper should NOT exceed 4 pages (6 pages for the invited) as in the layout of the template.

Full-paper submission is on the Microsoft CMT platform, same as the Abstract submission. The procedure is similar with the abstract submission, too. For those who are new to CMT platform, you have to register an account before any submissions

Guidelines for the Full-paper submission process:

Step 1 Link ISDEIV2025 to your Microsoft CMT Account (Only for the NEW users, if you have already submitted an abstract, please skip to Step 2)
If you don’t have a Microsoft CMT account, register first (Register->Create New Account->Filling in the required information->register->Email verification) Logging into your CMT account. In the Conference List page, clicking “All Conferences” and add ISDEIV2025 to your conference list. The page will redirect to the “Author Console” Page for paper submission (Please confirm ISDEIV2025 is now showed up at the upright corner)

Step 2 Submit your Full Paper
In the “Author Console” page, clicking “Create New Submission”, submitting the required information and attaching the full-paper file(s). Please note, even though you might have submitted an abstract previous, we still suggest you to submit the full paper in an NEW submission, for the sake of convenient management.

 

By receiving your full paper, LOC will conduct a preliminary check, and improper layout or format may lead to the request of revision and resubmission. Afterwards, the paper will be sent out for peer reviewing. Final decision will be made before 10^th July 2025.

Please also note, ONLY the “show up” full paper will be included in the Conference Proceeding that be submitted to IEEE Xplore and indexed by EI. In other words, both a qualified full paper and the presentation of at least one author to the conference are two necessary elements.

(By 27/02/2025, decision letter for each submitted abstract had been send to the Primary Contact Author, please check your email (possibly in the junk mail box) for details. Also, a decision of acceptance or rejection can be found on the Microsoft CMT platform)

Awards

1. Walter P. Dyke Award

Objective To recognize an individual contributor to the science or application of electrical discharges or electrical insulation in vacuum for a body of significant contributions.

Award contents and presentations The Walter P. Dyke Award, endowed by the Toshiba Corporation, consists of a plaque and a monetary award. The award will be presented at the symposium. The Awardee will be invited to give an either a historical or scientific talk.

Recipients

1988 Walter P. Dyke	1990 Gennady A. Mesyats	1992 George A. Farrall	1994 Burkhard Jüttner
1996 H. Craig Miller	1998 Satoru Yanabu	2002 Erhard Hantzsche	2004 Ekkehard Schade
2006 Ji-Mei Wang	2008 Dmitry Proskurovsky	2010 Rod Latham	2012 Dieter König
2014 André Anders	2016 Shinichi Kobayashi	2018 Isak I. Beilis	2021 René Peter Paul Smeets
2023 Edgar Dullni

 

2. ISDEIV Best Paper Award - Japan Prize

Objective The “ISDEIV Best Paper Award – Japan Prize” is given in recognition of the most significant contribution of the past Symposium of ISDEIV, established during the ISDEIV 2006 in Matsue, Japan. Significance will be judged by scientific or technological novelty and the likely impact on the fields of electrical discharges and electrical insulation in vacuum. Special attention will be paid to innovative ideas and breakthrough findings. One “ISDEIV Best Paper Award – Japan Prize” will be given at each symposium to an individual or a team of authors.

Eligibility The contributions must be (a) presented at the symposium and (b) included in the Proceedings of the symposium in award-worthy quality. (c) An altered and expanded version of the symposium contribution is required to be accepted for publication in a peer reviewed journal. As of 2025, IEEE Transactions of Plasma Science (TPS) and IEEE Transactions of Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation (DEI) continue to be the designated peer-reviewed journals. Authors of TPS Special Issue will be automatically considered. Authors of manuscripts to DEI are requested to inform the Chair of the Awards Committee, Prof. Rene Smeets (rene.smeets(at)dnvgl.com), of the acceptance of manuscript. This will help the committee to not overlook candidates.

Recipients

2006 Dietmar Gentsch and Suharyanto	2008 Sergej Popov, Alexander Bartrakov, Ralf Methling, Dirk Uhrlandt and Klaus-Dieter Weltmann
2010 Masoumeh Koochack Zadeh, Volker Hinrichsen, Rene Smeets and Andreas Lawall	2012 Yingyao Zhang, Xiaofei Yao, Zhiyuan Liu, Yingsan Geng and Ping Liu
2016 H.Ejiri, K.Abe, Y.Kikuchi, A.Kumada, K.Hidaka, T.Donen and M.Tukima	2018 P. Siemroth, M.Laux, H.Pursch, J. Sachtleben, M. Balden, V. Rohde, R. Neu
2021 Chen Guan, Xiaofei Yao, Jiaming Zheng, Xiaojing Zuo, Xinyue Li, Zhiyuan Liu, Jianhua Wang, Yingsan Geng

 

3. Paul A. Chatterton Young Investigator Award

Objective The Paul A. Chatterton Young Investigator Award, sponsored by ABB AG, will recognize the outstanding achievement of a young investigator based on the quality of the paper and presentation at the Symposium.

Eligibility To be eligible for the Paul A. Chatterton Young Investigator Award, the candidate must be under the age of 35 as of the closing date of the symposium; Present a paper at the ISDEIV in the Paul A. Chatterton Award Poster Session, of which he or she is either the sole author, or the first author of a multi-author paper (submission of a single-author paper is strongly encouraged).

Recipients

1992 Jos Wetzer	1994 Andre Anders and Simone Anders (for a 1992 paper)	1994 Sergej Shkuratov	1996 Thomas Betz
1998 Holger Weinert	2000 Georgy Yu. Yushkov	2002 Stephan Mändl and Sergey Popov	2004 Kentaro Usui
2006 Mohamed Kamarol and Ezra van Lanen	2008 Guan-Jun Zhang and Vladimir Yu. Anan’in	2010 Masoumeh Koochack Zadeh	2012 Shin Kajita
2014 Yuki Inada	2016 Yunbo Tian	2018 Siegfried Zöhrer	2021 Ze Yang

 

4. Best Video Award

Objective To recognize the use of modern visualization techniques in particular movies and animation sequences in the field of discharges and electrical insulation in vacuum.

Eligibility To be eligible for the Best Film Award, the candidate must present a paper at the ISDEIV symposium, in which the film is part of the work.

Recipients
2016 S. V. Klochko, A. A. Logachev, and I. N. Poluyanova for their presentation "Molten Material Movement on the Anode Surface in High-Current Vacuum Arc".
2018 Eiji Kaneko, University of Ryukyu, Japan, "What causes NSDD? Observation of micro-particle induced breakdown just after high current interruption in vacuum".
2021 Benjamin Weber, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany, "Automated evaluation of movement and appearance of vacuum arcs".