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Shawn-Yu Lin
Constellation Professor, Future Chips; Professor of Physics
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 also directed a U.S. Department of Energy multi-laboratories initiative in Nano-Structural Photonics.
Research Interests:
Nano-photonics, silicon photonics, quantum optics, integrated optics, photonic lattice structures, emerging energy applications.
Selected Publications:
I have authored 1 paper with >500 citations, 1 paper with >300 citations, 4 papers with >200 citations, and 4 papers with >100 citations. The research subjects include the quantum Hall effect, high temperature superconductivity, 2D and 3D photonic crystals, plasmonic nanostructures, and solar antireflection coating.
“Strong Light Focusing at the Sub-wavelength Scale by a Metallic Hole-Array Structure” Optics Letters 34, 106 (2009).
“Realization of a near-perfect antireflection coating for silicon solar utilizations”, Optics Letters 33, 2527 (2008).
“A vertically aligned carbon nanotube array: the darkest manmade material”, Nano Letters 8, 446 (2008).
“Power density and efficiency thermophotovoltaic energy conversion using a photonic crystal emitter and 2D metal grid filter”, IEEE Electronic Devices 55, 1101 (2008).
“A 3D photonic-crystal emitter for thermal photovoltaic generation” Appl. Phys. Lett. 83, 380, (2003). [98 citations]
“All-metallic 3D photonic crystals with a large photonic band-gap” Nature 417, 52-55 (2002). [226 citations]
“Quantitative analysis of bending efficiency in photonic crystal waveguide bends at 1.55 mm wavelengths”, Optics Letters 26, p.286-288 (2001). [141 citations]
“Experimental demonstration of highly efficient waveguiding in a 2D photonic crystal slab”, Optics Letters, vol. 25, 1297 (2000). [116 citations]
“Three-dimensional control of light in a 2D photonic crystal slab”, Nature 407, p.983-986 (2000). [221 citations]
“Experimental demonstration of highly efficient waveguiding in a 2D photonic crystal slab”, Optics Letters, vol. 25, 1297 (2000). [116 citations]
“A 3D photonic crystal with a stop band from 1.35 to 1.95 mm”, Optics Letters, 24, p. 49 (1999). [204 citations]
“Experimental demonstration of guiding and bending of electromagnetic waves in a photonic crystal”, Science 282, p. 274 (1998). [397 citations]
“A three-dimensional photonic crystal operating at infrared wavelengths”, Nature 394, p. 251 (1998). [565 citations]
“A highly dispersive photonic band gap prism”, Optics Letters, Vol.21, p. 1771 (1996). [150 citations]
“Symmetry of superconducting order parameter in Y1Ba2Cu3O7-d epitaxial films”, Phys. Rev. Lett., 72, 1084 (1994). [252 citations]
“Effect of long-range potential fluctuations on scaling in the integer quantum Hall effect”, Phys. Rev. B 45, 3926 (1992). [78 citations]
Contact:
(518) 276-2978
sylin@rpi.edu
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