Winners of the Student Travel Grants 2024
We thank all applicants who submitted entries for this year's Student Travel Grant 2024. It is rewarding for us to see the continued popularity of our Student Travel Grants.
As in previous years, the submitted papers and theses covered a wide range of applications and research topics. We adopted a two-step process where we verified the eligibility of the submissions and then used a 'random winner generator' to choose three grant recipients from the list of eligible applicants by region.
This year's winners are:,
- Yazan Lampert (EPFL, Switzerland), Photonics-integrated terahertz transmission lines. arXiv:2406.15651 (2024).
Featured instrument: UHFLI Lock-in Amplifier - Ya Sun (Tsinghua University, China), Partial Discharge Suppression in Power Electronics Modules under Square-Wave Pulses Adopting Electric Field Adaptively Controlled Structure. In Review Process.
Featured instrument: MFLI Lock-in Amplifier - Manita Rai (Santa Clara University, USA), An oscillator-driven, time-resolved optical pump/NIR supercontinuum probe spectrometer, Optica Publishing Group, Vol. 48, No. 3. 10.1364/OL.479061 (2023).
Featured instrument: MFLI Lock-in Amplifier
They will be able to spend their individual prizes of 1'500 CHF on conference fees, textbooks or online courses.
Read what the three winners told us about their experience working with Zurich Instruments' products, and don't forget – the call will open again in 2025!
Learn more about the winners' research here:
Yazan Lampert - EPFL
My supervisor, Prof. Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus, and my colleague Dr. Alessandro Tomasino, introduced me to lock-in detection. In my first project, we modulated Terahertz radiation from photonic integrated chips at MHz frequencies, enabling the detection of weak signals by overcoming flicker noise. We used the UHFLI from Zurich Instruments, with tremendous support from their team, to navigate and explore its various features. What I appreciate about the UHFLI is its combination of advanced functionality with a user-friendly interface. To this day, I enjoy explaining lock-in detection to my students and new colleagues.
Yazan Lampert (EPFL, Switzerland), Photonics-integrated terahertz transmission lines. arXiv:2406.15651 (2024).
Featured instrument: UHFLI Lock-in Amplifier
Ya Sun, TsingHua University
I first learned about Zurich Instruments when I was reading references. I wanted to reproduce the experimental results in the paper. Then I found my lab owned an MFLI 500 kHz/5 MHz. I learned how to use it according to the instruction manual.
The MFLI 500 kHz/5 MHz is the best instrument I have ever used. It can function as an oscilloscope, signal generator, impedance analyzer, etc. It helps me with the measurement of semiconductor parameters. It is also very convenient to sweep voltages and frequencies because it's programmed and highly integrated. Meanwhile, it can realize multiple functions, which greatly facilitate the circuit connection and troubleshooting.
Ya Sun (Tsinghua University, China), Partial Discharge Suppression in Power Electronics Modules under Square-Wave Pulses Adopting Electric Field Adaptively Controlled Structure. In Review Process.
Featured instrument: MFLI Lock-in Amplifier
Manita Rai, Santa Clara University
We used Zurich instruments' MFLI lock-in amplifier in our pump-probe spectrometer. Its multiple demodulators allowed for the simultaneous measurement of both reflectance and photoinduced changes in reflectance. With these two measurements, we could continuously normalize our data. Additionally, its 10 MHz clock made it straightforward to synchronize our function generator with two acousto-optic modulators.
Manita Rai (Santa Clara University, USA), An oscillator-driven, time-resolved optical pump/NIR supercontinuum probe spectrometer, Optica Publishing Group, Vol. 48, No. 3. 10.1364/OL.479061 (2023).
Featured instrument: MFLI Lock-in Amplifier.