Zhe Zhang wins the PIERS 2021 best student paper award
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Zhe Zhang, a doctoral candidate in the School of Engineering at EPFL, has been awarded the first prize at the best student paper competition at the prestigious conference PIERS 2021.
Zhe Zhang, a doctoral candidate in the School of Engineering at EPFL, has been awarded the first prize at the best student paper competition at the prestigious conference PIERS 2021. His paper and presentation was entitled "Exceptional transport robustness in anomalous topological scattering networks: theory and experiments".
The PhotonIcs and ElectRomagnetics Symposium is the premier international conference in the multidisciplinary field of Electromagnetics. The 2021 edition took place in Hangzhou, China.
Doctoral student at EPFL's Laboratory of Wave Engineering under the supervision of Prof. Romain Fleury, Zhe Zhang is working on the theory and applications of anomalous topological microwave insulators, which can be used to create unidirectional microwave photons and process them in an unprecedently robust way.
This work is funded by the SNSF Eccellenza award number 181232.
Zhang, Z., Delplace, P. & Fleury, R. Superior robustness of anomalous non-reciprocal topological edge states. Nature 598, 293–297 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03868-7