Zhang to Receive Fitzroy Medal at the Honors Assembly

Zhang to Receive Fitzroy Medal at the Honors Assembly Zhang to Receive Fitzroy Medal at the Honors Assembly Zhang to Receive Fitzroy Medal at the Honors Assembly Xiang Zhang, Ph.D. Xiang Zhang, Ph.D., the Ernest S. Kuh supplied seat educator at the University of California Berkeley, and seven other designing illuminators will be perceived by the Society this year at the ASME Honors Assembly. The service will be held related to the 2014 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, which is being held in Montreal from Nov. 14 to 20. Dr. Zhang, an ASME Fellow and occupant of Alamo, Calif., will get the Nancy DeLoye Fitzroy and Roland V. Fitzroy Medal for his spearheading commitments in metamaterials and the production of the primary optical superlens to defeat the essential diffraction limit in imaging; and for the innovation of plasmonic lithography innovation to progress nanoscale fabricating, which is significant for microelectronics and information stockpiling applications. Built up in 2011, the Nancy DeLoye Fitzroy and Roland V. Fitzroy Medal perceives spearheading commitments to the outskirts of designing prompting an advancement in existing innovation or prompting new applications or new regions of building try. Notwithstanding the situation of Ernest S. Kuh invested seat teacher of mechanical designing at UC Berkeley, Zhang is a recognized scientist, a pioneer in metamaterials and a world head in nanomanufacturing. Zhang additionally fills in as chief of the Center for Scalable and Integrated Nanomanufacturing, a National Science Foundation (NSF) Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center, and executive of the Materials Sciences Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Zhang's transformative exploration in optical metamaterials, nano-optics and photonics has profoundly affected optical science and innovation. His momentous exhibits of optical metamaterials incorporate the main attractive reaction of metamaterials at far-infrared frequencies, which made the way for the overall quest for optical metamaterials. Utilizing composite metamaterials, Zhang was the principal specialist to defeat the basic furthest reaches of diffraction, tackling a 200-year-old issue and achieving a move in building materials plan and applications. In light of this forward leap, he made the main optical superlens, the initial 3-D mass metamaterials with a negative optical refractive record, and the principal optical imperceptibility shroud. Zhang additionally spearheaded another nanofabrication innovation and authored the term plasmonic lithography. With its capacity to reach down to 10 nanometer scale, this innovation will give a viable answer for nanoscale producing, which is basic for gadgets fabricating and the attractive stockpiling industry. Notwithstanding having his work canvassed broadly in the worldwide media, Zhang's negative refraction advancement was chosen by Time magazine as one of the Top 10 Scientific Discoveries and a standout amongst other 50 Inventions of 2008. The superlens was among Discover magazine's Top 100 Science Stories of 2007 and RD Magazine's Top 25 Most Innovative Products of 2006. An individual from the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and China's Academia Sinica, Zhang is an individual of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Optical Society, and the International Society for Optics and Photonics Engineers (SPIE). He has been an individual from the ASME Nanotechnology Institute since 2003. Zhang earned a four year certification and a graduate degree in strong state material science from Nanjing University, China, in 1985 and 1988, separately. He earned a graduate degree in mechanical building from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, in 1992; and a Ph.D. in mechanical building from UC Berkeley in 1996. The ASME Foundation is the glad supporter of the ASME Honors and Awards program through the administration of grant enrichment finances set up by people, companies or gatherings. For more data on the 2014 Honors Assembly and every one of the current year's honor beneficiaries, visit www.asmeconferences.org/Congress2014/Honors.cfm.