Dr. Robert Magnusson

Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, Texas 76019
Office: 817-272-2552
Email Address: magnusson@uta.edu

Texas Instruments Distinguished University Chair in Nanoelectronics
Professor

Ph.D. (EE) Georgia Institute of Technology

Areas of Expertise:

Theory and experiment of periodic nanostructures, nanolithography, nanophotonics and -electronics, nanoplasmonics, optical bio- and chemical sensors, nanofabrication, integrated nanoscale devices, diffractive optics, optical filters, thin-film optics, waveguide optics, holographic interferometry, holographic storage in photorefractive crystals, semiconductor lasers, optical properties of materials, wave propagation in periodic media, and optical signal processing.

Background:

Robert Magnusson is the Texas Instruments Distinguished University Chair in Nanoelectronics and Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and joined the faculty of the University of Texas at Arlington in 1984. He was Professor and Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington during 1998-2001 and he served as Professor and Head of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Connecticut 2001-2006 and Professor 2006-2008. He has served as associate editor of Applied Optics and Optical Engineering and as general chair for the Diffractive Optics and Micro Optics topical meeting.
Current research focus is on theory and experiment of periodic nanostructures, nanolithography, nanophotonics and -electronics, nanoplasmonics, and optical bio- and chemical sensors. With his students and colleagues, Prof. Magnusson has authored over 300 journal articles and conference papers. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and SPIE (International Society for Optical Engineering). He is a recipient of the IEEE Third Millennium Medal and an elected member of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering.

Examples of recent publications:

Y. Ding and R. Magnusson, “Band gaps and leaky-wave effects in resonant photonic-crystal waveguides,” Optics Express, vol. 15, pp. 680-694, 22 January 2007.
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-15-2-680

K. J. Lee, D. Wawro, P. S. Priambodo, and R. Magnusson, “Agarose-gel based guided-mode resonance humidity sensor,” IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 7, pp. 409-414, March 2007.
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=04088955
M. Shokooh-Saremi and R. Magnusson, “Particle swarm optimization and its application to the design of diffraction grating filters,” Optics Letters, vol. 32, pp. 894-896, April 15, 2007.
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?uri=ol-32-8-894
R. Magnusson and M. Shokooh-Saremi, “Widely tunable guided-mode resonance nanoelectromechanical RGB pixels,” Optics Express, vol. 15, pp. 10903-10910 (2007).
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-15-17-10903

R. Magnusson and M. Shokooh-Saremi, “Physical basis for wideband resonant reflectors,” Optics Express, vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 3456-3462, March 2008.
http://www.opticsexpress.org/abstract.cfm?uri=oe-16-5-3456

K. J. Lee, R. LaComb, B. Britton, M. Shokooh-Saremi, H. Silva, E. Donkor, Y. Ding, and R. Magnusson, “Silicon-layer guided-mode resonance polarizer with 40 nm bandwidth,” IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 20, no. 22, pp. 1857-1859, November 15, 2008.
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4663217
M. Shokooh-Saremi and R. Magnusson, “Wideband leaky-mode resonance reflectors: Influence of grating profile and sublayers,” Optics Express 16, 18249-18263 (2008)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-16-22-18249