IFCS’18 Student Paper Competition
[caption id="attachment_5968" align="aligncenter" width="537"] Student Paper Competition winners with the IFCS’18 organizers. From left to right: Aaron Partridge - General Chair; Rob Candler - Academic Chair; SPC winners: John Robinson, Yani Zuo, Sarah Shahraini, Sidhant Tiwari, Michele Giunta, Chenxia Liu and Dana Weinstein - Technical Program Chair.[/caption]
The competition
th. Each winner received a certificate and check for $500. All of the judging teams commented on how difficult it was to select winners because the work was of such high quality.
Meet the winners of the Best Student Paper Competition at IFCS 2018
[caption id="attachment_5970" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Sarah Shahraini, University of Central Florida. Temperature Coefficient of Frequency in Silicon-Based Cross-Sectional Quasi Lame Mode Resonator for Group 1 - Materials, Resonators, and Resonator Circuits.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_5975" align="aligncenter" width="600"]
Michele Giunta, Menlo Systems GmbH. Field-deployable Photonic Microwave Synthesize for Group 2 - Oscillators, Synthesizers, Noise, and Circuit Techniques.[/caption] ; [caption id="attachment_5971" align="aligncenter" width="600"]
Yani Zuo, Tsinghua University. Progress Towards a Cadimium Ion Microwave Clock based on Sympathetic Cooling for Group 3- Microwave Frequency Standards and Applications.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_5972" align="aligncenter" width="600"]
Sidhant Tiwari, UCLA. Frequency Doubling in Wirelessly Actuated Multiferroic MEMS Cantilever for Group 4 - Sensors and Transducer.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_5973" align="aligncenter" width="600"]
Chenxia Liu, BUPT. First Field Trial of the Frequency Transfer System with Passive Stabilization Scheme for Group 5 - Timekeeping, Time and Frequency Transfer, GNSS Applications.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_5974" align="aligncenter" width="600"]
John Robinson, JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder. Silicon cavity at 4 Kelvin with thermal noise limited performance for Group 6 - Optical Frequency Standards and Applications.[/caption]