Gaurav Patankar received the Outstanding Paper Award for “A method for thermal performance characterization of ultra-thin vapor chambers cooled by natural convection,” by G Patankar, S Mancin, J A Weibel, MA MacDonald, and SV Garimella, at the International Technical Conference and Exhibition on Packaging and Integration of Electronic and Photonic Microsystems (InterPACK) and International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels and Minichannels (ICNMM), San Francisco, CA, July 6-9, 2015.