News (since October 2009)

June 2010. The team wins four out of the five awards of the 2010 CREER Student Poster Contest:
* Louis-Philippe Carignan: First Prize
* Attieh Shahvarpour: Second Prize
* Shulabh Gupta: Second Prize (equality)
* Hadi Razavipour: Master Prize

May 2010. Louis-Philippe Carignan won the First Prize of the 2010 IEEE International Microwave Symposium Student Paper Competition for his paper “Dual-band integrated self-biased edge-mode isolator based on the double ferromagnetic resonance of a bistable nanowire substrate,” co-authored and co-supervised by David Ménard and et Christophe Caloz.

April 2010. Prof. Christophe Caloz was awarded the 2010 Discovery Accelator Supplement (DAS). The DAS is a research Grant which provides substantial and timely additional resources to accelerate progress and maximize the impact of the most outstanding research programs in Canada.

February 2010. Louis-Philippe Carignan was selected as a finalist of the Student Paper Competition of the 2010 IEEE International Microwave Symposium, Anaheim, CA.

November 2009. Prof. Christophe Caloz was elected IEEE Fellow "for contributions to the development and application of electromagnetic metamaterial structures."

October 2009. Prof. Christophe Caloz obtained an NSERC I2I Grant for his proposal "Novel Smart Antennas based on CRLH Metamaterial Technology for MIMO System" in support of the start-up company Sciswave Inc., which is a spin-off of Polytechnique.

October 2009. Attieh Shahvarpour won the 2009 IEEE European Microwave Conference Young Engineer Prize for her paper “Realization of an Effective Free-Space Perfect Electromagnetic Conductor (PEMC) Boundary by a Grounded Ferrite Slab Using Faraday Rotation,” co-authored by Toshiro Kodera, Armin Parsa et Christophe Caloz.