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Currently, I am a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT in the department of Materials Science & Engineering, working in the Photonics Materials research group of Prof. Juejun Hu. My research is primarily focused on developing dynamic nanophotonic platforms based on phase-change materials for high-performance reconfigurable imaging and sensing devices.
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Mikhail Y. Shalaginov received his Applied Physics and Mathematics bachelor’s degree from the Department of General and Applied Physics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia (2006-2010). He then pursued his Ph. D. under the mentorship of Prof. Vladimir Shalaev in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN (2011 – 2017). Currently, Dr. Shalaginov is a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Mikhail Shalaginov’s PhD research was primarily centered on color centers in diamond which exhibit quantum properties similar to those of single atoms. These systems promise to provide a path to practical quantum devices such as nanoscale sensors, single-photon sources, and quantum memories. He was exploring the applications of novel nanophotonic structures, such as hyperbolic metamaterials/metasurfaces, nanoantennae, and plasmonic waveguides for building robust and efficient single-photon sources, as well as constructing quantum spin-registers with plasmonic readout. He, together with his colleagues, demonstrated, for the first time, the use of metamaterials for enhancing single-photon emission from nitrogen-vacancy color centers in diamond nanocrystals. Additionally, they pioneered the experimental study of the Purcell effect on the performance of electron spin readout in plasmonically enhanced diamond color center ensembles.
Dr. Shalaginov’s research interests include photonic materials, meta-optical systems, quantum optics, integrated photonics, nanophotonics and plasmonics. He is a member of MRS, IEEE, APS, and a co-founder of OSA Purdue Student Chapter, a founder of SPIE Purdue Student Chapter. He also served as a president of several Purdue student organizations, such as the ECE Graduate Student Association, OSA & SPIE Purdue Student Chapters, and Nanotechnology Student Advisory Council (NSAC). He was selected to serve as a Discovery Park Graduate Ambassador (2013-2017). Additionally, Mikhail is the recipient of the prestigious 2017 College of Engineering Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award.
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77 Massachusetts Ave
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Office 13-4150
Cambridge, MA 02139
E-mail: mys [at] mit [dot] edu