Ip Wei Chi, MPhil student from the Microwave Lab (supervisor: Prof. Michael Cheng) has been awarded the Champion of the IET (HK) YMEC 2010 (Postgraduate Section) held on July 11, 2010. The title of his presentation is Design and Implementation of Compact Microwave Power Divider with Spurious Suppression. The Award consists of a cash prize, a trophy and a certificate. Younger Members Exhibition and Conference (YMEC) is an annual event, at which students from the local tertiary institutions will present their projects or research works.

Congratulations to Ip Wei Chi, Hu Hai and Li Wei for winning the 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize of the Best Student Paper Award at the 11th Postgraduate Conference of the IEEE Hong Kong Section AP/MTT Joint Chapter! The award winning papers are entitled “A Novel Microstrip Power Divider Design with Harmonic Suppression and Impedance Transformation” (1st Prize), “An Automated Design Technique for Asynchronously-tuned Circular Waveguide Dual-mode Filters” (2nd Prize) and “A Single-PLL UWB Frequency Synthesizer for Model-1 MB-OFDM UWB applications” (3rd Prize).
Well done!

Chen Xia was awarded Bronze prize (US$2000 ) of the TSMC outstanding student research award in the category of Green Electronics for his PhD thesis work on silicon photonics . Over 200 students from around the world competed for the prizes. Winners of the 4 different categories were from University of Cambridge, Cornell, UC Berkeley and Georgia Institute of Technology.

For details of the award winners please see:

http://www.tsmc.com/tsmcdotcom/PRListingNewsAction.do?action=detail&language=E&newsid=5121.

Fung Yin Wai has recently been awarded the Silver Award in Most Innovative EPC/RFID Application for the Hong Kong RFID Awards 2010. Her project titled "Smart Network Connected Fashion Stores". The award was presented at the GS1 Hong Kong Supply Chain Management (SCM) Excellence Summit on November 5, 2010.

Congratulations!

(For more details, please refer to the description in Hong Kong RFID Awards 2010 Case Book)