University Award 2009

The CST University Publication Award is an annual grant to university institutes and researchers for their work in the application of 3D EM field simulation. The winners are awarded with extensions to their CST STUDIO SUITE installations.

Prerequisites for participation are that the papers are authored or co-authored by university researchers, published either in scientific journals or conference proceedings, and the numerical results are entirely or in part obtained through simulation using CST software products.

Submissions were evaluated on a number of criteria including originality of the application or the theory, clarity of presentation, as well as the skilful usage of CST software features. There is a special award for short papers which acknowledges the importance of short conference papers in promoting the practical application of simulation.

“Now in this its sixth year, the number of submissions underlines the growing popularity of both the CST University Publication Award and the use of CST simulation tools in academia.” said Dr. Martin Timm, Marketing Director, CST. “The quality of the publications was outstanding and selecting the winning entries was not easy. We would like to thank everyone who contributed and hope to welcome an even larger number of participants in 2010.”

The following papers have been selected to receive the CST University Publication Award 2009:

• “Theory and simulation of surface plasmon excitation using resonant metal nanoparticle arrays”
  JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS 103, 29.03.2008, pp 113111-1 - 113111-8
  Amitabh Ghoshal, Pieter G. Kik
• “Noninvasive Procedure for Measuring the Complex Permittivity of Resins, Catalysts, and Other Liquids Using a Partially Filled Rectangular Waveguide Structure”,
  IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MICROWAVE THEORY AND TECHNIQUES VOL. 57, NO. 2, FEBRUARY 2009 pp 458-471
  M. Jaleel Akhtar, Lambert E. Feher, Manfred Thumm
• “Role of surface plasmon polaritons on optical transmission through double layer metallic hole arrays”
  PHYSICAL REVIEW B 79 12.02.2009 pp 075425-1 - 075425-10
  R. Ortuño, C. García-Meca, F. J. Rodríguez-Fortuño, J. Martí, Alejandro Martínez

Short paper award:

• “Simplified Approach for 3-D Nonlinear Induction Heating Problems
  IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MAGNETICS VOL. 45, NO. 3, MARCH 2009
  A. Canova, F. Dughiero. F. Fasolo, M. Forzan, F. Freschi, L. Giaccone, M. Repetto

Each prize consists of a one year free upgrade of the existing CST software license.

The abstracts of these papers and of many more publications using CST software can be found in our references list.