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Shawn-Yu Lin
Constellation Professor, Future Chips; Professor of Physics
Contact:
(518) 276-2978
sylin@rpi.edu
Personal Website: http://www.rpi.edu/~sylin/
Education:
Lin received his bachelor’s degree from National Taiwan University, his master’s degree from the University of North Carolina, and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Princeton in 1992.
Career Highlights:
Lin headed Sandia National Laboratories’ multimillion-dollar research and development effort in photonic crystal devices, located in Albuquerque, N.M. He was the winner of NOVA award at Sandia.
Research Interests:
photonic crystals, plasmonics, nano-photonics, silicon photonics, solid state lighting, solar energy applications.
Selected Publications:
I have authored 1 paper with >700 citations, 1 paper with >500 citations, 2 papers with >200 citations, 4 papers with >200 citations, and 6 papers with >100 citations.
1. “High performance AR coating utilizing nanoporous layers”, MRS Bulletin 36, 434, (2011).
2. “Efficient and Directed Nano-LED Emission by a Complete Elimination of Transverse-Electric Guided Modes”, Nano Letters 11, 476 (2011).
3. “A compact holographic lithography system for photonic crystal structure”, J. Vacuum Science and Technology B 29, 011015 (2011).
4. “A surface plasmon enhanced infrared photodetector based on InAs quantum dots”, Nano Letters 10, 1704 (2010).
5. “Three-dimensional Inverted Photonic Grating with Engineerable Refractive Indices for Broadband Anti-reflection of Terahertz Waves”, Optics Letters 35, 3159 (2010).
6. “Experimental realization of plasmonic filters for multi-spectral and dual-polarization optical detection”, Optics Letters 34, 3893 (2009).
7. “Strong Light Focusing at the sub-wavelength scale by a metallic hole-array structure” Optics Letters 34, 106 (2009).
8. “Realization of a near-perfect antireflection coating for silicon solar utilizations”, Optics Letters 33, 2527 (2008).
9. “Power density and efficiency thermophotovoltaic energy conversion using a photonic crystal emitter and 2D metal grid filter”, IEEE Electronic Devices 55, 1101 (2008).
10. “A three-dimensional photonic crystal operating at infrared wavelengths”, Nature 394, p. 251 (1998).
11. “Experimental demonstration of guiding and bending of electromagnetic waves in a photonic crystal”, Science 282, p. 274 (1998).
12. “All-metallic 3D photonic crystals with a large photonic band-gap” Nature 417, 52-55 (2002).
13. “Three-dimensional control of light in a 2D photonic crystal slab”, Nature 407, p.983-986 (2000).
14. “Symmetry of superconducting order parameter in Y1Ba2Cu3O7-d epitaxial films”, Phys. Rev. Lett., 72, 1084 (1994).
15. “A 3D photonic crystal with a stop band from 1.35 to 1.95 mm”, Optics Letters, 24, p. 49 (1999).
16. “Optical thin film material with low refractive index for broadband elimination of Fresnel Reflection” Nature Photonics 1, 176 (2007).
17. “A highly dispersive photonic band gap prism”, Optics Letters, Vol.21, p. 1771 (1996).
18. “A 3D photonic-crystal emitter for thermal photovoltaic generation” Appl. Phys. Lett. 83, 380 (2003).
19. “Quantitative analysis of bending efficiency in photonic crystal waveguide bends at 1.55 mm wavelengths”, Optics Letters 26, p.286-288 (2001).
20. “Experimental demonstration of highly efficient waveguiding in a 2D photonic crystal slab”, Optics Letters, vol. 25, 1297 (2000).
21. “Experimental observation of an extremely dark material made by a low density vertically aligned carbon nanotube”, Nano Letters 8, 446 (2008).
22. “Enhancement and suppression of thermal emission by a three-dimensional photonic crystal”, Phys. Rev. B 62, 2243 (2000).
23. “Effect of long-range potential fluctuations on scaling in the integer quantum Hall effect”, Phys. Rev. B 45, 3926 (1992).
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