[BNC-all] BNC E-news for the week of June 15th

[Anthrop, Heather L]

Birck Capabilities and Use

A user wrote the following in this week's survey, "(We have) a very spacious and high functioning cleanroom.  (I) like the possibility of expansion for future needs.  (It's unfortunate that the) cleanroom is not utilized by more students/professors.  They don't seem to realize what a great opportunity they have to utilize this facility.  Most companies and universities would love to have a facility like ours."

Thank you to the user who wrote this comment.  It is very true that the Birck Nanotechnology Center is one of the finest of its kind in the world, with a spacious and ultra-clean cleanroom with advanced processing capabilities, and a set of analytical, processing, and characterization labs that are world-class.  And, as you can see from some of the facility work happening in our labs and cleanroom, we're expanding within the constraints of our building structure to accommodate more research.  Over the next several months you will see more researchers coming with new equipment, bringing additional capabilities and expertise to Birck!

Thanks for your comments, please keep them coming!

Ron
ECE student Kaiyuan Zeng wins Best Student Paper Award at IEEE WAMICON 2015

PhD student Kaiyuan Zeng has received the Best Student Conference Paper Award in the student paper competition of the IEEE Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON) 2015. The conference addresses up-to-date multidisciplinary research needs and interdisciplinary aspects of wireless and RF technology.

The award was presented for the paper entitled "A VHF Tunable Lumped-Element Filter with Mixed Electric-Magnetic Couplings". The co-authors of the paper are Dr. Dimitra Psychogiou and Prof. Dimitrios Peroulis.

He is advised by Professor Peroulis.


ECE students win awards at multiple Student Design Competitions at IEEE IMS 2015

Several ECE students received multiple awards at Student Design Competitions at the 2015 IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS). This is the premier international meeting in all aspects of microwave theory and technology. Specifically, the following awards were presented:


  *   1st Place in YouTube/YouKu best video award:  Mark Hickle, Michael Sinanis, Jenna Hickle (Video here<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtPPAnvJS6c&app=desktop>)
  *   1st place in tunable filter student competition: Mark Hickle, Jin Li
  *   2nd place in wideband balun design competition: Mohammad Abu Khater, Yu-Chen

All students are advised by Professor Peroulis. Professor Peroulis' students also won the 1st place in the YouTube/YouKu video and tunable filter competitions in the 2014 IEEE IMS meeting as well.



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