Igal Brener

Nanophotonics Thrust Leader, Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies
Science Thrust: Nanophotonics

Phone: 505-844-8097
Fax: 505-284-7690
ibrener@sandia.gov

MS 1082, POB 5800
Sandia National Laboratories
Albuquerque, NM 87185

 

Education and Training

Undergraduate: Technion Physics, B.A., 1983
Undergraduate: Technion Electrical engineering, B.Sc., 1983
Graduate: Technion Physics, D.Sc., 1991

Research

Igal's research at CINT deals with fundamental and applied aspects of metamaterials, plasmonics and related nanophotonics phenomena. Recent examples include novel metamaterial designs in the infrared (active and passive), the integration of nanoparticles and nanofabricated photonic structures, uses of plasmonics and metamaterials in sensing, and the control of emission and absorption of light at the nanoscale. Some recent developments in the area of metamaterials include the integration of semiconductor heterostructures with mid-infrared metallic metamaterials for active tuning and the development of low loss all-dielectric metamaterials in the mid infrared. For his research, he uses extensively the nanofabrication facilities and a variety of spectroscopic techniques (linear, non-linear and time-resolved) all available at CINT. He also contributes to the development of new optical instrumentation such as broadband THz and superresolution optical microscopies.

Links

My ResearcherID

My webpage at the Solid State Lighting EFRC (Sandia).

Selected Publications

• “Strong Coupling between Nanoscale Metamaterials and Phonons”,  D.J. Shelton, I. Brener, J. C. Ginn, M. B. Sinclair, D. W. Peters, K. R. Coffey, and G. D. Boreman, Nano Lett., Article ASAP, DOI: 10.1021/nl200689z,April 4, 201.
• “Micrometer-Scale Cubic Unit Cell 3D Metamaterial Layers”, D. Bruce Burckel, Joel R. Wendt, Gregory A. Ten Eyck, James C. Ginn, A. Robert Ellis, Igal Brener and Michael B. Sinclair, Advanced Materials, Volume 22, Issue 44, 2010, Pages: 5053–5057.
• “Nanocomposite plasmonic fluorescence emitters with core/shell configurations”, Xiaoyu Miao, Igal Brener, and Ting Shan Luk, JOSA B, Vol. 27, Issue 8, pp. 1561-1570 (2010) 
• “Fabrication of 3D Metamaterial Resonators Using Self-Aligned Membrane Projection Lithography”, D. Bruce Burckel,Joel R. Wendt, Gregory A. Ten Eyck,  A. Robert Ellis, Igal Brener,  Michael B. Sinclair, Advanced Materials, Volume 22, Issue 29, pages 3171–3175, August 3, 2010
• “Doping tunable resonance: Toward electrically tunable mid-infrared metamaterials”, Xiaoyu Miao, Brandon Passmore, Aaron Gin, William Langston, Shivashankar Vangala, William Goodhue, Eric Shaner, and Igal Brener, Appl. Phys. Lett.,  Vol. 96, 1 2010.
• “Effect of thin silicon dioxide layers on resonant frequency in infrared metamaterials”, D. J. Shelton, D. W. Peters, M. B. Sinclair, I. Brener, L. K. Warne, L. I. Basilio, K. R. Coffey, and G. D. Boreman , Optics Express, Vol. 18, Issue 2, pp. 1085-1090  
• “External modulators for Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers based on electrically-driven active metamaterials”, X.G. Peralta, I. Brener, W.J. Padilla, E.W. Young, A.J. Hoffman, M.J. Cich, R.D. Averitt, M.C. Wanke, J.B. Wright, H.-T. Chen, J.F. O'Hara, A.J. Taylor, J. Waldman, W.D. Goodhue, J. Li, J. Reno, Metamaterials, Volume 4, Issues 2-3, Pages 83-88, 2009. “A spatial light modulator for terahertz beams”,  Wai Lam Chan, Hou-Tong Chen, Antoinette J. Taylor, Igal Brener, Michael J. Cich, and Daniel M. Mittleman, Appl. Phys. Lett. 94, 213511 (2009)
• “Large-area metamaterials on thin membranes for multilayer and curved applications at terahertz and higher frequencies”, X.G. Peralta, M.C. Wanke, C.L. Arrington, J.D. Williams, I. Brener, A. Strikwerda, R.D. Averitt, W.J. Padilla, E. Smirnova, A.J. Taylor, and J. F. O’Hara, Appl. Phys. Lett. 94, 161113 (2009)
• “Metamaterials for THz polarimetric devices”, Peralta, Xomalin G; Smirnova, Evgenya I; Azad, Abul K, et al. Opt. Express 17,773-83 (2009).

Selected User Projects

• Ellipsometric Characterization of Infrared Metamaterials, J. Ginn, Plasmonics Inc.
• Development  of Surface Plasmon Nanocavities for Biosensing, S-Y. Cho, New Mexico Tech. University
• New Terahertz metamaterials and their application as   chem-bio sensors, X. Peralta, U. of Texas, San Antonio.
• Voltage Tunable Mid-infrared Metamaterials, E. Shaner, Sandia National Labs.