Jinbin Yang receives the award from Gerd Leuchs, Chairman of Optica and Foreign Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The Optica Student Paper Prize certificate won by Jinbin Yang
Yang’s research focuses on photomemristors, a new type of electronic component that integrates sensing, storage, and computation. These components offer a potential solution to the von Neumann bottleneck, which limits computing efficiency, by improving power consumption in computers. Using CMOS manufacturing technology, Yang developed photomemristors at an atomic scale, which could lead to the creation of high-density, multifunctional chips.
The conference award is sponsored by Optica (formerly the Optical Society of America), an international organization dedicated to advancing optics and photonics. Founded in 1916, Optica supports knowledge creation and dissemination in the science of light through publications, conferences, and professional activities.
Jinbin Yang graduated from Xiamen University in 2021 with a degree in Measurement and Control Technology and Instruments before joining JI for his doctoral studies. His research areas include memristors and photomemristors.
Professor Dan Yaping, who leads Yang’s research group, is a faculty member at JI and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET). He holds degrees from Xi’an Jiaotong University, Tsinghua University, and the University of Pennsylvania and completed postdoctoral research at Harvard University. Professor Dan has been selected for the National Overseas High-Level Talent Program (Youth Group) and the Shanghai “Pujiang Talent Program.” Serving as an associate editor for the academic journals AIP Advances and Frontiers in Physics, his research primarily focuses on silicon-based optoelectronic devices and single-atom devices. He has published over 80 papers in journals such as Nature Communications, Physical Review Letters, Nano Letters, and ACS Nano as the lead or corresponding author.
