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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - SPIE Fellow
  • 2010 - OSA Fellows For experimental and theoretical contributions to the science of optical and negative-index metamaterials, including first demonstrations of super-sensing and extraordinary optical transmission in mid-infrared using nanostructured polaritonic films.
  • 2008 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For theoretical and computational investigations of the interaction of ultrastrong laser pulses and relativistic particle beams with plasmas, with applications to inertial confinement fusion, plasmabased particle accelerators, and novel radiation sources

Overview

Gennady Shvets is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their work spans multiple fields primarily within Physics and Astronomy as well as Engineering. Within these broader categories, their research focuses significantly on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, and Nuclear and High Energy Physics.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics including:

  • Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
  • Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications
  • Photonic and Optical Devices
  • Photonic Crystals and Applications
  • Topological Materials and Phenomena
  • Spectroscopy Techniques in Biomedical and Chemical Research
  • Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies

Recent publications by Gennady Shvets include the following papers:

  • Electrically Actuated Varifocal Lens Based on Liquid-Crystal-Embedded Dielectric Metasurfaces, 2021, Nano Letters
  • Metasurface-Enhanced Infrared Spectroscopy: An Abundance of Materials and Functionalities, 2022, Advanced Materials
  • Frequency Conversion in a Time-Variant Dielectric Metasurface, 2020, Nano Letters
  • Enhanced Nonlinear Light Generation in Oligomers of Silicon Nanoparticles under Vector Beam Illumination, 2020, Nano Letters
  • High-quality nanocavities through multimodal confinement of hyperbolic polaritons in hexagonal boron nitride, 2024, Nature Materials

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Maxim R. Shcherbakov, Minwoo Jung, Steven H. Huang, Yang Yu, and Vladimir Khudik.

Gennady Shvets has authored a book chapter titled "Chapter 6: Ultrafast responses of Mie-resonant semiconductor nanostructures." published by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information in 2022.

Frequent venues for their publications include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nano Letters
  • Lab on a Chip

The scientist's contributions have been recognized through various awards such as the SPIE Fellow in 2020, OSA Fellow in 2010 for work on optical and negative-index metamaterials, and Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2008 for theoretical and computational studies on laser pulses and particle beams interacting with plasmas.

Best Publications

  • Photonic topological insulators

    Alexander B. Khanikaev;S. Hossein Mousavi;Wang Kong Tse;Mehdi Kargarian

  • Self-assembled plasmonic nanoparticle clusters

    Jonathan A. Fan;Chihhui Wu;Kui Bao;Jiming Bao

  • Photonic Analogue of Two-dimensional Topological Insulators and Helical One-Way Edge Transport in Bi-Anisotropic Metamaterials

    Alexander B. Khanikaev;S. Hossein Mousavi;Wang-Kong Tse;Mehdi Kargarian

  • Fano-resonant asymmetric metamaterials for ultrasensitive spectroscopy and identification of molecular monolayers

    Chihhui Wu;Alexander B. Khanikaev;Ronen Adato;Nihal Arju

  • Two-dimensional topological photonics

    Alexander B. Khanikaev;Gennady Shvets

  • Plasmonic Nanolaser Using Epitaxially Grown Silver Film

    Yu Jung Lu;Jisun Kim;Hung Ying Chen;Chihhui Wu

  • All-Si valley-hall photonic topological insulator

    Tzuhsuan Ma;Gennady Shvets

  • Quasi-monoenergetic laser-plasma acceleration of electrons to 2 GeV

    Xiaoming Wang;Rafal Zgadzaj;Neil Fazel;Zhengyan Li

  • Near-Field Microscopy Through a SiC Superlens

    Thomas Taubner;Dmitriy Korobkin;Yaroslav Urzhumov;Gennady Shvets

  • Seeing protein monolayers with naked eye through plasmonic Fano resonances

    Ahmet A. Yanik;Arif E. Cetin;Min Huang;Alp Artar

  • Spectrally selective chiral silicon metasurfaces based on infrared Fano resonances

    Chihhui Wu;Nihal Arju;Glen Kelp;Jonathan A. Fan

  • FAST COMPRESSION OF LASER BEAMS TO HIGHLY OVERCRITICAL POWERS

    V. M. Malkin;Gennady Shvets;N. J. Fisch

  • Wide-angle infrared absorber based on a negative-index plasmonic metamaterial

    Yoav Avitzour;Yaroslav A. Urzhumov;Gennady Shvets

  • Topologically protected refraction of robust kink states in valley photonic crystals

    Fei Gao;Haoran Xue;Zhaoju Yang;Kueifu Lai;Kueifu Lai

  • Metamaterial-based integrated plasmonic absorber/emitter for solar thermo-photovoltaic systems

    Chihhui Wu;Burton Neuner;Jeremy John;Andrew Milder

  • Fano-like interference in self-assembled plasmonic quadrumer clusters.

    Jonathan A. Fan;Kui Bao;Chihhui Wu;Jiming Bao

  • Guiding electromagnetic waves around sharp corners: topologically protected photonic transport in metawaveguides.

    Tzuhsuan Ma;Alexander B. Khanikaev;S. Hossein Mousavi;Gennady Shvets

  • Large-area wide-angle spectrally selective plasmonic absorber

    Chihhui Wu;Burton Neuner;Gennady Shvets;Jeremy John

  • Broadband slow light metamaterial based on a double-continuum Fano resonance.

    Chihhui Wu;Alexander B. Khanikaev;Gennady Shvets

  • Spectrally selective chiral silicon metasurfaces based on infrared Fano resonances

    Chihhui Wu;Nihal Arju;Jonathan Fan;Igal Brener

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexander Pukhov
Alexander Pukhov Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Mikhail A. Belkin
Mikhail A. Belkin Technical University of Munich
Karl Krushelnick
Karl Krushelnick University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jonathan A. Fan
Jonathan A. Fan Stanford University
Andrea Alù
Andrea Alù City University of New York
Steven M. Anlage
Steven M. Anlage University of Maryland, College Park
Rodney S. Ruoff
Rodney S. Ruoff Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
Hatice Altug
Hatice Altug École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Igal Brener
Igal Brener Sandia National Laboratories

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