STUDENT PAPER CONTEST
Congratulations to all Winners!
FIRST PRIZE
Tran Hien Bui, Sasan Ahdi Rezaeieh, Konstanty S. Bialkowski, Amin Abbosh, Christophe Fumeaux, "Dual-Polarized Multimode Hemispherical Beam-Scanning and Null-Steering Antenna", IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 73, no. 10, pp. 7336-7349, 2025.
SECOND PRIZE
Rui Wang, Zhansheng Chen, Yihan Wang, Xicheng Zhang, Juliang Lv, Youji Cong, Mei Jiang, Teng Li, "Dual-Band Dual-Polarized 1-Bit Reconfigurable Reflectarray Metasurface Antenna", IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 74, no. 1, pp. 564-573, 2026.
THIRD PRIZE
Bo-Wen Ren, Chu Qi, Peixing Li, Xiaoluo He, Alex M. H. Wong, "A Self-Adaptive Reconfigurable Metasurface for Electromagnetic Wave Sensing and Dynamic Reflection Control", Advanced Science, 12, e05155, pp. 1-9, 2025.
Dongseop Lee, Sirous Bahrami, Myoungsun Kim, Jeonghyo Lee, Keita Iimura, Wonbin Hong, "Antenna-on-Display with EH1-mode Wide Spatial Beam Scanning for User-Centric Sensing and Vehicle-to-Everything Communication", IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Early Access, 2025.
HONORABLE MENTION (Not in order ot merit)
Qun Yan Zhou, Lijie Wu, Hui Dong Li, Jia Chen Wang, Siran Wang, Jiang Luo, Shuo Liu, Jitong Ma, Jun Yan Dai, Qiang Cheng, Tie Jun Cui, "Decoupling Strategy of Metasurface to Realize Independent Sensing and Wave Manipulations at the Same Time", Advanced Materials, 37, 2500266, pp. 1-9, 2025.
Jia-Hui Zhao, Zhuo-Wei Miao, Chen-Yu Ding, Stefano Maci, Zhang-Cheng Hao, "A High-Gain Terahertz Metallic Modulated Metasurface Antenna With a Wide Gain Bandwidth", IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 694-703, 2025.
Da Yue Yao, Hao Chi Zhang, Pei Hang He, Jia Jie Shen, Jia Wen Zhu, Peigen Zhou, Xin Yu Zhang, Le Peng Zhang, Li Jie Wu, Cun Yue Wei, Rui Wen Shao, Yi Fan, Yang Zhao, Jixin Chen, Wei Hong, Tie Jun Cui, "A Plasmonic Meta-Rotary Travelling-Wave Oscillator With Ultrahigh Phase Accuracy and Figure of Merit", Light: Science & Applications, 14:284, pp. 1-11, 2025.
Danyu Yang, Zhi Ning Chen, "Broadband Radiation Pattern Restoration of Self-Decoupled Metasurface Antenna by Balancing Common and Differential Modes", IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 73, no. 10, pp. 7275-7283, 2025.
Hairu Wang, Oskar Zetterstrom, Pilar Castillo-Tapia, Francisco Mesa, Oscar Quevedo-Teruel, "Simulation Conditions to Compute the Dispersion Diagram of 3D Periodic Structures", IEEE Journal of Microwaves, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 568-580, 2024.
Jia Fan Gao, Yi Hui Zhu, Feng Han Lin, "Ten-Mode Single-Fed Low-Profile Wideband Circularly-Polarized Metasurface Antenna using Dual-Mode-Aperture-Coupled Higher-Order Modes", IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 881-885, 2026.
Xingdong Wu, Feng Yang, Yikai Chen, Kejin Chen, Jun Hu, Shiwen Yang, "3D-Printed All-Metal Modular Low-Profile Ultrawideband Tightly Coupled Dipole Arrays", IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 73, no. 6, pp. 3616-3627, 2025.
Jesus M. Jimenez-Suarez, Francisco Mesa, Oscar Quevedo-Teruel, "A Symmetry-Based Multimodal Transfer-Matrix Method for the Analysis of 2D-Periodic Structures", IEEE Transactions on Microwaves Theory and Techniques, vol. 73, no. 9, pp. 6234-6244, 2025.
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General Information
1. All students who have published papers on the theory and applications of metamaterial-based antenna or antenna systems (reconfigurable, MIMO, arrays) in prestigious international journals from 1 January 2022 to 31 December 2025 are eligible to participate.
2. The papers must NOT have been submitted to the SPC at Mar-For previously.
3. The student must be the first author of the paper and a full-time student at the time of submission for the publication in the journals.
4. Only ONE submission per student is allowed. The deadline for submission is 22 January 2026, Singapore Standard Time (SST). Kindly submit a softcopy of the paper and the completed application form to Dr. Xinyi TANG at tang_xinyi@a-star.edu.sg with the email subject of “Marina Forum SPC - Your Name”.
5. The Award Committee will select the finalists. The finalists will be requested to make virtual or physical presentations on their work during the Forum.
6. The winners will be decided based on the quality of both the paper and presentation.
7. Each award winner of the Student Paper Contest will be issued a certificate and monetary prize.
