DARMSTADT, GERMANY – Computer Simulation Technology announced the winners of its annual awards for university institutes and researchers for published papers involving applications of electromagnetic simulation. 

The CST University Publication Award recognizes the importance of work from university researchers and academics. The criteria for best papers include: authorship or coauthorship by university researchers, publication in scientific journals or conference proceedings, and numerical results entirely or partly obtained through simulations using CST software. Winners receive upgrades to their CST software tools.

Submissions are evaluated on a number of criteria, including originality of application and theory, clarity of presentation, and the skillful use of CST software. A special award is also given for short papers, of four pages or less, to acknowledge the importance of short conference papers in promoting practical applications of simulation.

“We would like to thank all participants for sending in their contributions,” said Dr. Martin Timm, director of global marketing, CST. “Selecting a winner is never easy, in particular when considering the vast range of interesting and novel areas of application as well as the outstanding quality of the contributions. This is testament to the importance of universities and their students in research, which is why we cooperate closely with academia."

The three winners of the 2015 award include:

• “60-GHz Thin Broadband High-Gain LTCC Metamaterial-Mushroom Antenna Array" by Wei Liu, Zhi Ning Chen and Xianming Qing, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 62, no. 9, September 2014, pp. 4592 – 4601.
• “A Compact Planar Printed MIMO Antenna Design,” by Saber Soltani and Ross D. Murch, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 63, no. 3, March 2015, pp. 1140-1149. 
• “Helical Plasmonic Nanostructures as Prototypical Chiral Near-Field Sources,” by Martin Schäferling, Xinghui Yin, Nader Engheta and Harald Giessen; American Chemical Society Photonics; 2014; pp. 530-537.

The Short Paper Award winner is

• “Electromagnetic Evaluation of HTS RF Coils for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance,” by T. Yamada, A. Saito, S. Oikawa, K. Koshita, M. Takahashi, H. Maeda and S. Ohshima.