Finalists
Group 1
- Robert Schneider, University of California, Berkeley, CA/USA, “Gap Reduction Based Frequency Tuning for AlN Capacitive-Piezoelectric Resonators”
- Zhenyun Qian, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA, “GHz Range Graphene-Aluminum Nitride Nano Plate Resonators”
- Gwendolyn Hummel, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA, “Switchable 2-Port Aluminum Nitride MEMS Resonator Using Monolithically Integrated 3.6THz Cut-Off Frequency Phase-Change Switches”
- Mario Demiguel-Ramos, ETSI de Telecomunicación Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain, “Tungsten Oxide As High Acoustic Impedance Material for Fully Insulating Acoustic Reflectors”
Group 2
- Tanay Gosavi, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, ”Model for Acoustic Locking of Spin Torque Oscillators”
- Siddhartha Ghosh, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, “Piezoelectrically-Actuated Opto-Acoustic Oscillator”
- Tianchi Sun, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania/USA, “Comparison of Self-ILPLL Forced Oscillators”
- Guillaume William Bres-Saix, FEMTO-ST, Besancon, France/National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO/USA, “A Zynq Based Digital Phase and Amplitude Measurement System”
Group 3
- Andrew Horsley, University of Basel, Switzerland, “Sub-100 µm Resolution Imaging of dc and Microwave Magnetic Fields Using Atomic Vapor Cells”
- Liu Li, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, P. R. China, “A Magnetometer Based on Coherent Population Beating”
- Aaron Bennett, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA USA,”Precision Measurements of Quantum Scattering Phase Shifts Through Feshbach Resonances”
- Greg Hoth, NIST, Boulder, CO, “A Compact Atom Interferometer Based on an Expanding Ball of Atoms”
Group 4
- Yu Hui, Northeastern University, Boston, MA/USA, “Resonant Infrared Detector Based on a Piezoelectric Fishnet Metasurface”
- Taimur Aftab, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, “A Novel Microwave Reflector-Antenna As a Resonant Wireless Passive Mechanical Sensor”
- Peng Zeng, Wayne State University, Detroit MI/USA, “Wireless Monitoring of Eye Intraocular Pressure Using Transparent Graphene LC Sensors”
- Huiyan Wu, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA/USA, “Monitoring Tendon Stem Cell (TSC) Adhesion by Shear-Horizontal Surface Acoustic Wave Sensors”
Group 5
- Chaoqun Ma, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, “Delivery of Optical Frequency via 34 km Urban Fiber Link with a Linewidth Broadning of 1 mHz”
- James Cahill, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA, “Comparison of Forward- and Backward-Propagating Optical-Fiber-Induced Noise for Application to Optical Fiber Frequency Transfer”
- Wei Huang, Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium, “CGTTS results with Beidou using the R2CGTTS”
Group 6
- Kwangyun Jung, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon 305-701, South Korea, “Repetition Rate Stabilization of an Optical Frequency Comb to a High Quality Factor Optical Fiber Delay Line“
- Bjarke Takashi Rojle Christensen, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, “Laser Stabilization on Velocity Dependent Nonlinear Dispersion of Sr Atoms in an Optical Cavity”
- Joe Becker, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder, CO 80305, USA, “Toward Chip Integrated Ultra-Low-Noise Lasing Using a Microrod Resonator”
- Giacomo Bolognesi, INRIM, Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica, Torino, Italy, “Yellow Solid State Laser for Yb Atomic Clock Application”