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3303
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Overview

Mikhail A. Kats is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines, focusing primarily on engineering and materials science with significant contributions to physics and astronomy. The scientist's work encompasses several subfields including electrical and electronic engineering, atomic and molecular physics and optics, materials chemistry, civil and structural engineering, and biomedical engineering.

Their research interests include a range of specialized topics such as thermal radiation and cooling technologies, transition metal oxide nanomaterials, cold atom physics and Bose-Einstein condensates, phase-change materials and chalcogenides, calibration and measurement techniques, photonic and optical devices, and 2D materials and applications.

Mikhail A. Kats has published extensively in various scientific venues, with frequent publications appearing in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • ACS Photonics
  • Laser & Photonics Review
  • Nanophotonics

The scientist collaborates regularly with colleagues including Chenghao Wan, Yuzhe Xiao, Hongyan Mei, Jad Salman, and Raymond Wambold. These coauthors have appeared in multiple joint publications reflecting an ongoing research partnership.

Representative recent research papers authored or coauthored by Mikhail A. Kats include:

  • "Vapor condensation with daytime radiative cooling," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Electrically tunable VO2-metal metasurface for mid-infrared switching, limiting and nonlinear isolation," 2023, Nature Photonics
  • "Inverse Design of Metasurfaces Based on Coupled-Mode Theory and Adjoint Optimization," 2021, ACS Photonics
  • "How to organize an online conference," 2020, Nature Reviews Materials
  • "Ultrathin Broadband Reflective Optical Limiter," 2021, Laser & Photonics Review

Best Publications

  • Aberration-free ultrathin flat lenses and axicons at telecom wavelengths based on plasmonic metasurfaces.

    Francesco Aieta;Patrice Genevet;Patrice Genevet;Mikhail A. Kats;Nanfang Yu

  • Aberration-free ultra-thin flat lenses and axicons at telecom wavelengths based on plasmonic metasurfaces

    Francesco Aieta;Patrice Genevet;Mikhail A. Kats;Nanfang Yu

  • A broadband, background-free quarter-wave plate based on plasmonic metasurfaces.

    Nanfang Yu;Francesco Aieta;Francesco Aieta;Patrice Genevet;Patrice Genevet;Mikhail A. Kats

  • Multiwavelength Achromatic Metasurfaces by Dispersive Phase Compensation

    Francesco Aieta;Mikhail A. Kats;Patrice Genevet;Federico Capasso

  • Achromatic Metasurface Optical Components by Dispersive Phase Compensation

    Francesco Aieta;Mikhail Kats;Patrice Genevet;Federico Capasso

  • Nanometre optical coatings based on strong interference effects in highly absorbing media

    Mikhail A. Kats;Romain Blanchard;Patrice Genevet;Federico Capasso

  • Electrically Tunable Metasurface Perfect Absorbers for Ultrathin Mid-Infrared Optical Modulators

    Yu Yao;Raji Shankar;Mikhail A. Kats;Yi Song

  • Ultra-thin perfect absorber employing a tunable phase change material

    Mikhail A. Kats;Deepika Sharma;Jiao Lin;Patrice Genevet

  • Broad electrical tuning of graphene-loaded plasmonic antennas.

    Yu Yao;Mikhail A. Kats;Patrice Genevet;Nanfang Yu

  • Out-of-Plane Reflection and Refraction of Light by Anisotropic Optical Antenna Metasurfaces with Phase Discontinuities

    Francesco Aieta;Patrice Genevet;Patrice Genevet;Nanfang Yu;Mikhail A. Kats

  • Ultra-thin plasmonic optical vortex plate based on phase discontinuities

    Patrice Genevet;Nanfang Yu;Francesco Aieta;Jiao Lin

  • Achromatic Metasurface Lens at Telecommunication Wavelengths

    Mohammadreza Khorasaninejad;Francesco Aieta;Francesco Aieta;Pritpal Kanhaiya;Pritpal Kanhaiya;Mikhail A. Kats;Mikhail A. Kats

  • Giant optical anisotropy in a quasi-one-dimensional crystal

    Shanyuan Niu;Graham Joe;Huan Zhao;Yucheng Zhou

  • Flat Optics: Controlling Wavefronts With Optical Antenna Metasurfaces

    Nanfang Yu;P. Genevet;F. Aieta;M. A. Kats

  • Nanophotonic engineering of far-field thermal emitters

    Denis G. Baranov;Yuzhe Xiao;Igor A. Nechepurenko;Alex Krasnok

  • Single-shot on-chip spectral sensors based on photonic crystal slabs

    Zhu Wang;Soongyu Yi;Ang Chen;Ming Zhou

  • Vanadium Dioxide as a Natural Disordered Metamaterial: Perfect Thermal Emission and Large Broadband Negative Differential Thermal Emittance

    Mikhail A. Kats;Romain Blanchard;Shuyan Zhang;Patrice Genevet

  • Optical absorbers based on strong interference in ultra-thin films

    Mikhail A. Kats;Federico Capasso

  • Designer spoof surface plasmon structures collimate terahertz laser beams

    Nanfang Yu;Qi Jie Wang;Qi Jie Wang;Mikhail A. Kats;Jonathan A. Fan

  • Holographic detection of the orbital angular momentum of light with plasmonic photodiodes

    Patrice Genevet;Jiao Lin;Mikhail A. Kats;Federico Capasso

  • Nanostructured holograms for broadband manipulation of vector beams.

    Jiao Lin;Patrice Genevet;Mikhail A. Kats;Nicholas Antoniou

Frequent Co-Authors

Federico Capasso
Federico Capasso Harvard University
Patrice Genevet
Patrice Genevet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Nanfang Yu
Nanfang Yu Columbia University
Shriram Ramanathan
Shriram Ramanathan Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Carsten Ronning
Carsten Ronning Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Masamichi Yamanishi
Masamichi Yamanishi Hamamatsu Photonics (Japan)
Qi Jie Wang
Qi Jie Wang Nanyang Technological University
Joanna Aizenberg
Joanna Aizenberg Harvard University
Jonathan A. Fan
Jonathan A. Fan Stanford University

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