EE Faculty
Dr. Robert Magnusson
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, Texas 76019
Office: 817-272-2552
E-mail Address: magnusson@uta.edu
Web Sites: www.guidedmoderesonance.com,
www.leakymoderesonance.com,
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Research Profile
Texas Instruments Distinguished University Chair in Nanoelectronics
Professor
Ph.D. (EE) Georgia Institute of Technology
M.S.E.E. Georgia Institute of Technology
Areas of Expertise:
Theory and experiment of periodic nanostructures, nanolithography, nanophotonics, nanoelectronics, 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 from 1998-2001, and he served as Professor and Head of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Connecticut from 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, nanoelectronics, nanoplasmonics, 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 and the Academy of Distinguished Scholars.
Examples of recent publications:
Mehrdad Shokooh-Saremi and Robert Magnusson,"Leaky-mode resonant reflectors with extreme bandwidths," Optics Letters, vol. 35, no. 8, pp. 1121-1123, April 15, 2010.
R.Magnusson, M.Shokooh-Saremi, Y.Hu, K.J.Lee, S.J.W.Platzer, A.K.Nebioglu, S.Zimmerman, and D.Wawro,"Fabrication of guided-mode resonance elements by nanoimprint lithography," Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology,vol. 10,no. 3,pp. 1606-1615, March 2010.
Robert Magnusson, Mehrdad Shokooh-Saremi, and Xin Wang, "Dispersion engineering with leaky-mode resonant photonic lattices," Opt. Express, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 108-116, January 4, 2010.
Hahn Young Song, Sangin Kim, and Robert Magnusson, "Tunable guided-mode resonances in coupled gratings," Opt. Express, vol. 17, no. 26, pp. 23544-23555, December 21, 2009.
Quang Minh Ngo, Sangin Kim, Seok Ho Song, and Robert Magnusson, "Optical bistable devices based on guided-mode resonance in slab waveguide gratings," Opt. Express, vol. 17, no. 26, pp. 23459-23467, December 21, 2009.
Kyu Jin Lee, Jung Ho Jin, Byeong-Soo Bae, and Robert Magnusson, "Optical filters fabricated in hybrimer media with soft lithography," Optics Letters, vol. 34, no. 16, pp. 2510-2512, August 15, 2009.
Yang Hyun Joo, Seok Ho Song, and Robert Magnusson, "Long-range surface plasmon-polariton waveguide sensors with a Bragg grating in the asymmetric double-electrode structure," Opt. Express, vol. 17, no. 13, pp. 10606-10611, June 22, 2009; republished in The Virtual Journal for Biomedical Optics, July 30, 2009.
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.
R. Magnusson and M. Shokooh-Saremi, "Physical basis for wideband resonant reflectors," Opt. Express, vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 3456-3462, March 3, 2008.
M. Shokooh-Saremi and R. Magnusson, "Wideband leaky-mode resonance reflectors: Influence of grating profile and sublayers," Opt. Express, vol. 16, no. 22, pp. 18249-18263, October 27, 2008.
