{"675890":{"#nid":"675890","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Disharoon Wins Haley P. Herbert for Communication Systems Materials Research","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/a\u003E (ECE) graduate researcher Walter Disharoon won the Haley P. Herbert Fellowship for his work on vanadium dioxide (VO2) reconfigurable metasurfaces.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe merit-based fellowship is given to exceptional graduate students in honor of College of Engineering graduate Herbert P. Haley (ME 1933).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EVO2 is a phase change material that has the capability to change from behaving like an insulator to behaving like a conductor by applying temperature, electric field, or stress.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDisharoon\u2019s research aims to harness the power of this material to improve modern high-speed communication systems that must deal with the large losses when transmitting at extremely high frequency such as millimeter wave (mmWave).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe also plans to demonstrate its protection capabilities as an energy selective surface. By selectively placing VO2, the surface allows low-power waves to transmit through unaffected while also being able to quickly transition to a conductive state and reject high-power waves.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis can help protect critical communication infrastructure from unintentional interference sources and malicious systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI am happy to be selected for the fellowship as it continues to enable me to purse interesting research that has the potential to revolutionize communication systems and protect our critical infrastructure,\u201d Disharoon said.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDisharoon was first introduced to Georgia Tech while he was getting his bachelor\u2019s degree in electrical engineering from Kennesaw State University through a co-op he completed at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.gtri.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Research Institute\u003C\/a\u003E (GTRI).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUpon completing his undergraduate degree, he came to Georgia Tech where he is pursuing his ECE Ph.D., while working at the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/antennas.ece.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EmmWave Antennas and Arrays Laboratory\u003C\/a\u003E under the guidance of ECE Assistant Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/directory\/nima-ghalichechian\u0022\u003ENima Ghalichechian\u003C\/a\u003E and GTRI chief scientist Joshua Kovitz.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDuring his time at Georgia Tech Disharoon has received support for his research from the Institute and beyond, including the ECE Freshmen Fellowship in 2021, a fellowship from Qualcomm in 2022, and the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/ece.gatech.edu\/news\/2023\/05\/research-metasurfaces-receives-funding-gtris-graduate-student-research-fellowship\u0022\u003EGTRI Graduate Student Fellowship in 2023.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe\u2019s also served as a reviewer for the \u201cIEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation\u201d and the \u201cAntennas and Wireless Propagation Letters\u201d since 2022 and has coauthored two peer-reviewed journal articles and seven conference publications.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe ECE Ph.D. candidate will use the support from the fellowship to continue his research on vanadium dioxide reconfigurable metasurfaces.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The ECE Ph.D. candidate will use the support from the fellowship to continue his research on vanadium dioxide reconfigurable metasurfaces."}],"uid":"36558","created_gmt":"2024-08-09 18:59:33","changed_gmt":"2024-08-12 19:45:01","author":"zwiniecki3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2024-08-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-08-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"674562":{"id":"674562","type":"image","title":"Disharoon .jpg","body":null,"created":"1723491854","gmt_created":"2024-08-12 19:44:14","changed":"1723491854","gmt_changed":"2024-08-12 19:44:14","alt":"Walter Disharoon","file":{"fid":"258106","name":"Disharoon .jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/08\/12\/Disharoon%20.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2024\/08\/12\/Disharoon%20.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":963833,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2024\/08\/12\/Disharoon%20.jpg?itok=CmQg2bW2"}}},"media_ids":["674562"],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"191277","name":"Herbert P. 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