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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For contributions to optical phenomena in semiconductors, including their coupling to metasurfaces for passive, tunable, and nonlinear metamaterials, and coherent terahertz phenomena and instrumentation
  • 2014 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to terahertz science and technology
  • 2007 - OSA Fellows For contributions to the fundamental understanding of terahertz generation, coherent phenomena, and terahertz near-field imaging.

Overview

Igal Brener is affiliated with Sandia National Laboratories in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Engineering, Materials Science, and Physics and Astronomy, with a strong emphasis on subfields such as Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, as well as Aerospace Engineering.

The scientist's work concentrates on topics related to Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications, Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research, Terahertz technology and applications, Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies, Photonic and Optical Devices, Strong Light-Matter Interactions, and Photonic Crystals and Applications.

Their recent publications include the following papers:

  • "Resonant metasurfaces for generating complex quantum states," 2022, Science
  • "High Quality Factor Toroidal Resonances in Dielectric Metasurfaces," 2020, ACS Photonics
  • "All-optical switching of an epsilon-near-zero plasmon resonance in indium tin oxide," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Roadmap on photonic metasurfaces," 2024, Applied Physics Letters
  • "Frequency Conversion in a Time-Variant Dielectric Metasurface," 2020, Nano Letters

Frequent co-authors of Igal Brener include:

  • Oleg Mitrofanov
  • Sadhvikas Addamane
  • Sylvain D. Gennaro
  • Ting S. Luk
  • Michael B. Sinclair

The scientist has published extensively, contributing notably to venues such as:

  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Nano Letters
  • ACS Photonics
  • Optics Express

In addition to journal articles, Igal Brener has contributed to book chapters, including one published by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information titled "Chapter 6: Ultrafast responses of Mie-resonant semiconductor nanostructures" (2022).

The scientist has received several awards recognizing their work, including:

  • Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) in 2016 for contributions to optical phenomena in semiconductors and metasurfaces for passive, tunable, and nonlinear metamaterials, as well as coherent terahertz phenomena and instrumentation
  • IEEE Fellow in 2014 for contributions to terahertz science and technology
  • OSA Fellow in 2007 for contributions to terahertz generation, coherent phenomena, and terahertz near-field imaging

Best Publications

  • High-Efficiency Dielectric Huygens’ Surfaces

    Manuel Decker;Isabelle Staude;Matthias Falkner;Jason Dominguez

  • Tailoring Directional Scattering through Magnetic and Electric Resonances in Subwavelength Silicon Nanodisks

    Isabelle Staude;Andrey E. Miroshnichenko;Manuel Decker;Nche T. Fofang

  • Enhanced Third-Harmonic Generation in Silicon Nanoparticles Driven by Magnetic Response

    Maxim R. Shcherbakov;Dragomir N. Neshev;Ben Hopkins;Alexander S. Shorokhov

  • Thin-film sensing with planar terahertz metamaterials: sensitivity and limitations.

    John F. O’Hara;Ranjan Singh;Igal Brener;Evgenya Smirnova

  • Spectrally selective chiral silicon metasurfaces based on infrared Fano resonances

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

  • Realizing Optical Magnetism from Dielectric Metamaterials

    James C. Ginn;Igal Brener;David W. Peters;Joel R. Wendt

  • Resonantly Enhanced Second-Harmonic Generation Using III-V Semiconductor All-Dielectric Metasurfaces.

    Sheng Liu;Michael B. Sinclair;Sina Saravi;Gordon A. Keeler

  • THz near-field imaging

    S Hunsche;M Koch;I Brener;M.C Nuss

  • 1.5-μm-band wavelength conversion based on cascaded second-order nonlinearity in LiNbO 3 waveguides

    M.H. Chou;I. Brener;M.M. Fejer;E.E. Chaban

  • Active Tuning of All-Dielectric Metasurfaces

    Jürgen Sautter;Isabelle Staude;Manuel Decker;Evgenia Rusak

  • Polarization-Independent Silicon Metadevices for Efficient Optical Wavefront Control

    Katie E. Chong;Isabelle Staude;Anthony Randolph James;Jason James Dominguez

  • Ultrafast all-optical tuning of direct-gap semiconductor metasurfaces

    Maxim R. Shcherbakov;Sheng Liu;Varvara V. Zubyuk;Aleksandr Vaskin

  • A spatial light modulator for terahertz beams

    Wai Lam Chan;Hou-Tong Chen;Antoinette J. Taylor;Igal Brener

  • Broken Symmetry Dielectric Resonators for High Quality Factor Fano Metasurfaces

    Salvatore Campione;Sheng Liu;Lorena I. Basilio;Larry K. Warne

  • Multiple-channel wavelength conversion by use of engineered quasi-phase-matching structures in LiNbO(3) waveguides.

    M. H. Chou;K. R. Parameswaran;M. M. Fejer;I. Brener

  • Femtosecond optical polarization switching using a cadmium oxide-based perfect absorber

    Yuanmu Yang;Kyle Kelley;Edward Sachet;Salvatore Campione

  • Resonant metasurfaces for generating complex quantum states

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  • Electrically tunable all-dielectric optical metasurfaces based on liquid crystals

    Andrei Komar;Zheng Fang;Justus Bohn;Jürgen Sautter

  • Efficient Polarization-Insensitive Complex Wavefront Control Using Huygens’ Metasurfaces Based on Dielectric Resonant Meta-atoms

    Katie E. Chong;Lei Wang;Isabelle Staude;Isabelle Staude;Anthony R. James

  • Theory of epsilon-near-zero modes in ultrathin films

    Salvatore Campione;Igal Brener;Francois Marquier

  • Terahertz emission in single quantum wells after coherent optical excitation of light hole and heavy hole excitons.

    Paul C. M. Planken;Martin C. Nuss;Igal Brener;Keith W. Goossen

  • Spectrally selective chiral silicon metasurfaces based on infrared Fano resonances

    Chihhui Wu;Nihal Arju;Jonathan Fan;Igal Brener

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael B. Sinclair
Michael B. Sinclair Sandia National Laboratories
Isabelle Staude
Isabelle Staude Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Oleg Mitrofanov
Oleg Mitrofanov University College London
Salvatore Campione
Salvatore Campione Sandia National Laboratories
Dragomir N. Neshev
Dragomir N. Neshev Australian National University
Yuri S. Kivshar
Yuri S. Kivshar Australian National University
Hou-Tong Chen
Hou-Tong Chen Los Alamos National Laboratory
George T. Wang
George T. Wang Sandia National Laboratories
Andrey E. Miroshnichenko
Andrey E. Miroshnichenko University of New South Wales
John F. Klem
John F. Klem Sandia National Laboratories

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