University Award 2011

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.

The following papers have been selected to receive the CST University Publication Award 2011:

• "A Compact UWB Antenna for On-Body Applications"
  IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 59, no. 4, 28. Jan. 2011, pp 1123 - 1131
  Nacer Chahat, Maxim Zhadobov, Ronan Sauleau, Koichi Ito
• "Investigation of Wave Propagation in a Dielectric Rod Array: Toward the Understanding of HF/VHF Propagation in a Forest"
  IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 58, No. 12, 23 Sep. 2010, pp 4025 – 4032
  Yang Li, Hao Ling
• "Radially Inhomogeneous Spherical Dielectric Lens for Matching 100-ps Pulses Into Biological Targets"
  IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, Vol. 38, No. 8, 18. May 2010, pp 1915-1927
  Prashanth Kumar, Serhat Altunc, Carl E. Baum, C. Jerald Buchenauer, Christos G. Christodoulou, Edl Schamiloglu
• "SETUP AND RESULTS OF PYRAMIDAL MICROWAVE ABSORBERS USING RICE HUSKS"
  Progress In Electromagnetics Research, Vol. 111, pp.141- 161, 2. Dec. 2010
  H. Nornikman, F. Malek, M. Ahmed, F. H. Wee, P. J. Soh, A. A. H. Azremi, S. A. Ghani, A. Hasnain, M. N. Taib

Short paper award:

• "Miniature Ceramic Dual-PIFA Antenna to Support Band Group 1 UWB Functionality in Mobile Handset"
  IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Vol. 59, no. 1, 01. Nov. 2010, pp 336 – 339
  David Kearney, Matthias John, Max J. Ammann

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.