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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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 350 journal articles and conference papers. Additionally, he holds 9 issued patents. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and SPIE (International Society for Optical Engineering), and he is a Charter Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. 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:

1. Mohammad J. Uddin and Robert Magnusson, Guided-Mode Resonant Thermo- Optic Tunable Filters, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 25, no. 15, pp. 1412-1415, August 1, 2013.

2. Jae Woong Yoon and Robert Magnusson, Fano resonance formula for lossy systems, Optics Express, vol. 21, no. 14, pp. 17751-17759, July 29, 2013.

3. Tanzina Khaleque, Halldor Svavarsson, and Robert Magnusson, Fabrication of resonant patterns using thermal nano-imprint lithography for thin-film photovoltaic applications, Optics Express-Energy, Vol. 21, No. S4, pp. A631-A641, July 1, 2013.

4. Robert Magnusson,The Complete Biosensor, Journal of Biosensors and Bioelectronics, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 1-2, May 22, 2013.

5. Mohammad J. Uddin and Robert Magnusson, Highly efficient color filter array using resonant Si3N4 gratings, Optics Express, vol. 21, no. 10, pp. 12495-12506, May 20, 2013.

6. Robert Magnusson, Flat-top resonant reflectors with sharply delimited angular spectra: an application of the Rayleigh anomaly, Optics Letters, vol. 38, no. 6, pp. 989-991, March 15, 2013.

7. Daesuk Kim, Robert Magnusson, Moonseob Jin, Jaejong Lee, and Won Chegal, Complex object wave direct extraction method in off-axis digital holography, Optics Express, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 3658-3668, February 11, 2013.

8. Jae Woong Yoon, Gang Min Koh, Seok Ho Song, and Robert Magnusson, Measurement and modeling of a complete optical absorption and scattering by coherent surface plasmon-polariton excitation using a silver thin-film grating, Physical Review Letters, vol. 109, no. 25, pp. 257402-1-257402-5, December 21, 2012.

9. Robert Magnusson, Spectrally dense comb-like filters fashioned with thick guided-mode resonant gratings, Optics Letters, vol. 37, no. 18, pp. 3792-3794, September 15, 2012.

10. Mohammad J. Uddin and Robert Magnusson, Efficient Guided-Mode-Resonant Tunable Color Filters, Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 24, no. 17, pp. 1552-1554, September 1, 2012.

11. Simon Kaja, Jill D. Hilgenberg, Julie L. Clark, Anna A. Shah, Debra Wawro, Shelby Zimmerman, Robert Magnusson, and Peter Koulen, Detection of novel biomarkers for ovarian cancer with an optical nanotechnology detection system enabling label-free diagnostics, Journal of Biomedical Optics, vol. 17, no. 8, pp. 081412-1-081412-8, August 2012.

12. Jae Woong Yoon, Myoung Jin Jung, Seok Ho Song, and Robert Magnusson, Analytic Theory of the Resonance Properties of Metallic Nanoslit Arrays, IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, vol. 48, no. 7, pp. 852-861, July 2012.

13. Wenhua Wu and Robert Magnusson, Total absorption of TM polarized light in a 100nm spectral band in a nanopatterned thin a-Si film, Optics Letters, vol. 37, no. 11, pp. 2103-2105, June 1, 2012.

14. Halldor Gudfinnur Svavarsson, Jae Woong Yoon, Mehrdad Shokooh-Saremi, Seok Ho Song, and Robert Magnusson, Fabrication and Characterization of Large, Perfectly Periodic Arrays of Metallic Nanocups, Plasmonics, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 653-657, March 27, 2012.

15. Robert Magnusson, Halldor Svavarsson, Jae Woong Yoon, Mehrdad Shokooh-Saremi, and Seok-Ho Song, Experimental observation of leaky modes and plasmons in a hybrid resonance element, Applied Physics Letters, vol. 100, no. 9, pp. 091106-1-091106-3, February 29, 2012.

16. Daesuk Kim, Hyunsuk Kim, Robert Magnusson, Yong Jai Cho, Won Chegal, and Hyun Mo Cho, Snapshot phase sensitive scatterometry based on double-channel spectral carrier frequency concept, Optics Express, vol. 19, no. 24, pp. 23790-23799, November 8, 2011.

17. Jaewoong Yoon, Woo Jae Park, Kyu Jin Lee, Seok Ho Song, and Robert Magnusson, Surface-plasmon mediated total absorption of light into silicon, Optics Express, vol. 19, no. 21, pp. 20673-20680, October 10, 2011.

18. Halldor Gudfinnur Svavarsson, Jae Woong Yoon, Seok Ho Song, and Robert Magnusson, Fabrication of large plasmonic arrays of gold nanocups using inverse periodic templates, Plasmonics, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 741-744, August 10, 2011.

19. Dahi Ghareab Abdelsalam, Daesuk Kim, and Robert Magnusson, Single-shot, dual-wavelength digital holography based on polarizing separation, Applied Optics, vol. 50, no. 19, July 1, 2011.

20. Yiwu Ding, Jaewoong Yoon, Muhammad H. Javed, Seok Ho Song, and Robert Magnusson, Mapping surface-plasmon polaritons and cavity modes in extraordinary optical transmission, IEEE Photonics Journal, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 364-374, June 2011.