STUDENT PAPER CONTEST
Congratulations to all winners!
FIRST PRIZE
Bo Xue, Kayode Adedotun Oyesina, Alex M. H. Wong, "Achieving Broadband Near-Field Directionality with a 3D Active Janus Antenna", Laser & Photonics Reviews, (Open Access), 2024.
SECOND PRIZE
Danyu Yang, Zhi Ning Chen, Jiexi Yin, Peiqin Liu, "Mode Conversion for Broadband Mutual Coupling Suppression of a Slot-Fed Metasurface Mosaic Antenna", IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 72, no. 9, pp. 6930-6938, 2024.
THIRD PRIZE
Qi Jian Lim, Charles Ross, Amitabha Ghosh, Frederick W. Vook, Gabriele Gradoni, Zhen Peng, "Quantum-Assisted Combinatorial Optimization for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces in Smart Electromagnetic Environments", IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 72, no. 1, pp. 147-159, 2024.
Jinghao Li, Wanchen Yang, Suwu Ma, Quan Xue, Wenquan Che, "Reconfigurable Millimeter-Wave Tri-Band Antenna Based on VO2-Films-Embedded Co-Aperture Metasurface Structures", IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 71, no. 4, pp. 3134-3145, 2023.
HONORABLE MENTION
(Not in order of merit)
Li Wei, Wanchen Yang, Quan Xue, Wenquan Che, "Aperture-Shared Design of Millimeter-Wave Phased Array and Sub-6 GHz Antenna Using Diversified Metasurface Structures", IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 72, no. 8, pp. 6362-6373, 2024.
Liang Xu, Xin Ge Zhang, Qi Yang Li, Dong Jie Wang, Tie Jun Cui, Wei Xiang Jiang, "Scalable and High-Isolation Dual-Channel Programmable Metasurface With Demountable Meta-Atom", Advanced Functional Materials, 2024.
Chao Zhang, Yu Luo, Ningning Yan, Xiaoxuan Guo, Yue Guo, Kaixue Ma, "A Reconfigurable Metasurface With Precise Phase Distribution for Both Transmission and Reflection Functions", IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 72, no. 9, pp. 7154-7163, 2024.
Yujie Liu, Yu Wang, Xiaojian Fu, Lei Shi, Fei Yang, Jiang Luo, Qun Yan Zhou, Yuan Fu, Qi Chen, Jun Yan Dai, Lei Zhang, Qiang Cheng, Tie Jun Cui, "Toward Sub-Terahertz: Space-Time Coding Metasurface Transmitter for Wideband Wireless Communications", Advanced Science, vol. 10, no. 29, 2023.
Hao Jiang, Shaowei Liao, Junyi Shen, Quan Xue, "Receiving and Transmitting Antenna Pairs Based Rasorber With High Angular Stability", IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 71, no. 8, pp. 3235-3247, 2023.
Ruifeng Li, Jinyan Ma, Da Li, Yunlong Wu, Chao Qian, Ling Zhang, Hongsheng Chen, Tsampikos Kottos, Er-Ping Li, "Non-Invasive Self-Adaptive Information States Acquisition inside Dynamic Scattering Spaces", Research, vol. 7, 2024.
Federico Giusti, Enrica Martini, Stefano Maci, Matteo Albani, "Comparison Between Different Approaches for the Design of Anomalous Refractors", IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 72, no. 4, pp. 3495-3506, 2024.
Han-Jie Xu, Shi-Wei Qu, "A Compact Ultra-Wideband Circularly Polarized Antenna Based on Miniaturized Phase Shifter", IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 73, no. 3, pp. 1426-1434, 2025.
Xi Chong You, Feng Han Lin, "Inverse Design of Reflective Metasurface Antennas Using Deep Learning from Small-Scale Statistically-Random Pico-cells", Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, vol. 66, no. 2, 2024.
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General Information
1. All students who have published papers on theory and applications of metamaterial antenna or AI related antenna designs in prestigious international journals from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2024 are eligible to participate.
2. The papers must NOT have been submitted to the SPC at Mar-For previously.
3. The student must be the first author of the paper and a full-time student at the time of submission for the publication in the journals.
4. Only ONE submission per student is allowed. The deadline for submission is 22 January 2025, Singapore Standard Time (SST). Kindly submit a softcopy of the paper and the completed application form to Dr. Xinyi TANG at tang_xinyi@i2r.a-star.edu.sg with the email subject of “Marina Forum SPC - Your Name”.
5. The Award Committee will select the finalists. The finalists will be requested to make virtual or physical presentations on their work during the Forum.
6. The winners will be decided based on the quality of both the paper and presentation.
7. Each award winner of the Student Paper Contest will be issued a certificate and monetary prize.
