Second R.W.P. King Award for Hum and Liang
Professor Sean Hum and alumnus Dr. Liang (Tony) Liang (ECE 0T8, MASc 1T1, PhD 1T6) have received the 2017 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) R. W. P. King award, the second time that this same set of authors has won this award. The R.W.P. King award is an annual IEEE AP-S award for the best paper in the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation during the previous year, whose main author is 36 years of age or younger. Hum and Liang’s wins in 2015 and 2017 mark the second instance in the history of this award that the same set of authors has won twice.
Their paper, entitled “Design of a UWB Reflectarray as an Impedance Surface Using Bessel Filters” devises a reflector surface with good beam characteristics over an ultra-wideband frequency range using a simple and easy-to-design planar array of scatterers.
Mojahedi and Poon elected as Fellows of The Optical Society (OSA)
Professors Mo Mojahedi and Joyce Poon were elected as Fellows of The Optical Society (OSA).
Established in 1916, The Optical Society (OSA) is a world-leader in the science of light; “dedicated to advancing the study of light—optics and photonics—in theory and application, by means of publishing, organizing conferences and exhibitions, partnership with industry, and education.”
The Fellows class in The OSA is reserved for members who have served with distinction in the advancement of optics and photonics. Professor Mojahedi is being recognized “for seminal contributions to the field of plasmonics and hybrid plasmonics with important applications to nano-photonics and sensing.” Professor Poon is being honored “for outstanding contributions to the research and development of silicon-based integrated optics including micro-resonators, electro-optic modulators, and integrated hybrid photonics”.
They join a distinguished group of fellow members at the OSA.
Paper by Eleftheriades, Dong, Wong and Kim featured on the cover of Optica
A paper by Professor George Eleftheriades, Xiao (Steven) Dong (ECE MASc 1T8), Minseok Kim (ECE PhD 1T8) and Alex M. H. Wong (Postdoctoral Fellow) entitled “Superresolution far-field imaging of complex objects using reduced superoscillating ripples” was featured on the September cover of Optica.
The paper introduces a new class of superoscillation waveform which alleviates trade-offs and enables far-field superresolution imaging for complex objects over a larger viewing area while maintaining a practical level of sensitivity. Previously, the strong sidelobe amplitude in superoscillations was considered a disadvantage; however, this paper alleviates this problem by introducing a new class of superoscillation waveform, which consists of diffraction-limited hotspot surrounded by low-energy superoscillating sidelobe ripples.
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