Best Paper Awards for Jul Van den Broeck, Maxim Torreele and Emile Vanderstraeten

Jul Van den Broeck

Best Student Paper Award at the 2023 IEEE MTT-S International Conference on Numerical Electromagnetic and Multiphysics Modeling and Optimization (NEMO2023) for the paper “Solving the Fully Coupled Time-Dependent Maxwell-Dirac System: A Second-Order Accurate Numerical Scheme”. 

Maxim Torreele

Best Student Paper Award – third prize at the 2023 Photonics & Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS2023) for the paper “An ADHIE-TDDFT Method for the EM/QM Co-simulation of Coupled 1-D Nanowires”. 

Emile Vanderstraeten

Best Student Paper Award at the 32nd Conference on Electrical Performance of Electronic Packages and Systems (EPEPS2023)
for the paper "Analysis of Electrostatically Induced Interconnect Structures in Single-Layer Graphene via a Conservative First-Principles Modeling Technique". 

Quest

quest is an academic research lab, embedded within the Department of Information Technology, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Ghent University. As a part of the large research group IDLab (Internet Technology and Data Science Lab), we also operate under the imec banner.

At quest we are interested in state-of-the-art (nano)electronic devices and systems, which nowadays operate at very high frequencies and are often also extremely miniaturised. Therefore, their behaviour is dominated by various electromagnetic (EM) and quantum mechanical (QM) phenomena. Our general goal is to model this QM/EM behaviour of novel (nano)devices and systems, in order to better understand the underlying physics and to support their design.

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