• The State Prize of the Russian Federation for the year 2001 in Science and Technology was awarded to Zh.I. Alferov, L.V. Asryan, D. Bimberg, P.S. Kop'ev, N.N. Ledentsov, V.A. Shchukin, R.A. Suris, and V.M. Ustinov "For fundamental investigations of the formation processes and the properties of heterostructures with quantum dots and the development of lasers based on these structures"

The Rank Prize

• The 1998 Rank Prize for optoelectronics was awarded to R. A. Suris, J. Faist, F. Capasso, and R. Kazarinov for contribution to the invention of the quantum cascade laser.

Prizes for the best work of Ioffe Institute

• L. V. Asryan and R. A. Suris. Theory of threshold currents of semiconductor quantum dot lasers, 1998.
• V. P. Kochereshko, D. R. Yakovlev, and R. A. Suris. Exciton-electron interactions in QW structures with 2DEG (get pdf-file), 1997.
• V. V. Rotkin and R. A. Suris. Electron structure modelling and investigation of interaction processes for carbon-based nanoclusters (get pdf-file), 1997.
• L. Aleiner, A. Yu. Kaminski, and R. A. Suris. Theoretical investigation of elementary processes in the MBE growth of semiconductor heterostructures (get pdf-file), 1994.
• K. D. Moiseev, O. G. Ershov, M. P. Mikchailova, G. G. Zegrya, and Yu. P. Yakovlev. Coherent emission (on 3-4 microns) of a laser structure based on a type II broken-gap p-GaInAsSb/p-InAs heterojunction (get pdf-file), 1994.
• G. G. Zegrya, D. K. Nelson, A. N. Titkov, and P. Voisin. New mechanisms of carrier recombination caused by interaction with sharp heteroboundaries in semiconductor quantum structures (get pdf-file), 1994.
• I. A. Merkulova, D. N. Mirlina, M. E. Portnoi, I. I. Remshina, B. F. Sapega, A. A. Sirenko, Photoluminescence of hot electrons and electron-hole pairs in the heterostructures with quantum wells, 1991.
• A. M. Vasil’eva, E. L. Ivchenko, P. S. Kop’ev, V. P. Kochereshko, R. A. Suris, I. N. Uraltsev, Optical phenomena in short-period superlattices, 1990.

Prizes for the best work of the Semiconductor Heterostructures Division

• G. G. Zegrya, A. N. Imenkov, M. P. Michailova, K. D. Moiseev, Yu. P. Yakovlev, Suppression of Auger recombination in type II long-wavelength lasers, 1997.

Prizes for the best work of the Solid State Electronics Division

• R. A. Suris, N. V. Fomin, Investigation of possibilities of HTSC microwave guide applications to microelectronics as interconnections of impedance matching devices and time-delay circuits, 1992.
• G. G. Zegrya, Theoretical investigation of temperature dependence of the threshold current density of semiconductor heterolasers, 1992.