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How did this researcher from Zhejiang University achieve the development of the world's smallest spectrometer?
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2024-01-11 09:01
"The world visible to the naked eye is not the real world, but a projection of red, green, and blue colors in our minds." In 1666, Newton discovered that more spectral colors could be observed when sunlight was refracted through a prism, which led to the birth of the spectrometer. With the use of a spectrometer as a tool, humans have mastered a new ability to accurately detect substances.
More than 300 years later, a young student from Zhejiang, China went to Cambridge and came to the place where Newton's inspiration once burst forth. Here, he had a sudden idea to develop a new type of nanowire material, which would break through the scientific challenge of achieving large spectral range dispersion at the micrometer scale and solve the challenge of traditional spectrometers being unable to combine small size and high performance. He is Yang Zongyin, the winner of the 2023 Dharma Academy Orange Award.
Yang Zongyin is currently a researcher in the Hundred Talents Program at the School of Information and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, with a main research focus on semiconductor optoelectronic sensors. There are two spectrometers on Yang Zongyin's table, one looks like an old-fashioned TV, and the other is only the size of a beverage bottle cap. And it is this device, which is only the size of a beverage bottle cap, that Yang Zongyin has studied for 8 years, including more than 150 failed crashes.
And this time, Yang Zongyin was also somewhat excited about winning the Qingcheng Award: "The Qingcheng Award is very different from other academic evaluations, not only for papers and qualifications, but also for the innovation and application of technology. It is highly recognized in the academic community."
Yang Zongyin is 35 years old this year, and this is his first and will be his last time receiving this honor. "The research you do is either on the shelves or in textbooks. If you can achieve both, life will really be very fulfilling," he said.
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