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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:
“Symmetry of superconducting order parameter in Y1Ba2Cu3O7- epitaxial films”, Phys. Rev. Lett., 72, 1084 (1994).
“A highly dispersive photonic band gap prism”, Optics Letters, Vol.21, p. 1771 (1996).
“Experimental demonstration of guiding and bending of electromagnetic waves in a photonic crystal”, Science 282, p. 274 (1998).
“A three-dimensional photonic crystal operating at infrared wavelengths”, Nature 394, p. 251 (1998).
“Enhancement and Suppression of thermal emission by a 3D photonic crystal”, Phys. Rev. B 62 (Rapid Communication), R2243 (2000).
“Three-dimensional control of light in a 2D photonic crystal slab”, Nature 407, p.983-986 (2000).
“2D and 3D Photonic Crystals Built with VLSI Tools”, MRS Bulletin, Vol. 26, p.627, August 2001.
“All-metallic 3D photonic crystals with a large photonic band-gap” Nature 417, 52-55 (2002).
“Low loss, wide angle Y-splitter at =1.6mm wavelengths built with a two-dimensional photonic-crystal”, Optics Letters, Vol. 27, 1400-1402 (2002).
“Experimental observation of photonic-crystal emission near a photonic band-edge” Appl. Phys. Lett., 83, 593 (2003).
“Highly Emission Light Emission at =1.5 m from a 3D Tungsten Photonic Crystal”, Optics. Lett., 28, 1683 (2003).
“A 3D Photonic-Crystal Emitter for Thermal Photovoltaic Generation” Appl. Phys. Lett. 83, 380, (2003).
“Achieving a photonic band edge near visible wavelengths by metallic coatings”, Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 99, 83104 (2006). (with TM Lu/RPI)
“Modification of spontaneous emission in Bragg onion resonators”, Optics Express, vol. 14, 7398 (2006) (with A. Yariv of California Institute of Technology).
“Very low-refractive-index optical thin films consisting of an array of SiO2 nanorods”, Optics Letters, vol. 31, 601 (2006) (with E.F. Schubert/RPI)
"Visible Three-Dimensional Metallic Photonic Crystal with Non-Localized Propagating Modes Beyond Waveguide Cutoff" Submitted to Nature Photonics, Nov. 2006. (with Allan Chang/RPI)
Contact:
(518) 276-2978
sylin@rpi.edu
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