Optics Lab

  Prof. Young-Min Shin received the Ph.D. degree in physics from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, in 2006. From 2001 to 2003, he was a Visiting Researcher with the Microwave Department, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), Menlo Park,CA. He has worked on high power millimeter- and THz wave radiation sources, including traveling-wave tubes and klystrons. He was a Research Scientist with the Department of Applied Science, University of California, Davis, until August in 2011.

 

  Prof. Shin has expertise in RF plasma engineering, accelerator R&D, and high power THz source development. At SLAC back in 2001, he participated in MURI (Multidisciplinary research program of the University Research Initiative) to develop high power THz sources and microfabricated accelerator structures, funded by the U.S. Air Force. He was also one of the main engineering scientists to develop elliptical sheet beam electron guns and high power RF cavities/vacuum electronic devices in the HiFIVE (High Frequency Integrated Vacuum Electronics) project in the DARPA-MTO program and W-band Sheet beam klystron (WSBK) project in Joint Non-Lethal Weapons (JNLW) program. He currently collaoborates with an industrial partner (Bridge12 Inc.) to develop a novel RF power amplifier for military microwave power modules (MPMs), which is currently funded by the Air Force. The research topics of his current interest are optoelectronics, including photonic crystals and metamaterials, surface plasmonics, RF engineering, plasma physics, high power THz sources, and advanced accelerators. 

 

 Prof. Shin is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Physics, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, and an Associate Scientist with the Accelerator Physics Center (APC), Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL. He teaches Optics (PHYS 430/530, Lab Course) in spring semesters and Beam Physics.