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Mikhail Kats

Mikhail Kats

Antoine-Bascom Professor
Jack St. Clair Kilby Professor
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Department

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Contact

3537, Engineering Hall
1415 Engineering Dr
Madison, WI
p: (608) 890-3984

Professor Mikhail Kats - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UW–Madison

  • PhD 2014, Harvard University
  • MS 2010, Harvard University
  • BS 2008, Cornell University

  • optics and photonics
  • plasmonics
  • optoelectronics
  • light harvesting
  • device physics
  • nanoscale science

Affiliated Departments

  • 2023 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Antoine-Bascom Associate Professorship
  • 2023 Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science) , Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science) Highly Cited Researcher
  • 2023 Electrical and Computer Engineering, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Outstanding Graduate Student Mentor Award
  • 2022 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Romnes Faculty Fellow
  • 2021 Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science), Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science) Highly Cited Researcher
  • 2021 SPIE, Community Champion Award
  • 2020 Electrical and Computer Engineering, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Jack St. Clair Kilby Associate Professorship
  • 2020 Office of Naval Research (ONR), Early Career Grant
  • 2020 Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Gerald Holdridge Outstanding Instructor Award
  • 2020 IEEE Nanotechnology Council, IEEE Nanotechnology Council Early Career Award
  • 2020 National Academy of Engineering , National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Frontiers in Engineering Invitation
  • 2019 Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science) , Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science) Highly Cited Researcher
  • 2019 IEEE Photonics Society, Young Investigator Award
  • 2018 Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dugald C. Jackson Faculty Scholar
  • 2018 American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Prism “20 Under 40”
  • 2018 Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science), Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science) Highly Cited Researcher
  • 2018 Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department Service Award
  • 2018 National Science Foundation (NSF), NSF CAREER Award
  • 2018 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Vilas Early Career Award
  • 2018 Coatings, Young Investigator Award
  • 2017 Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), Young Investigator Award
  • 2016 Optical Society of America (OSA) , Optical Society of America (OSA) Traveling Lecturer
  • 2016 Forbes, Forbes “30 under 30” in Science
  • 2016 Office of Naval Research (ONR), Young Investigator Award
  • 2015 College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Grainger Faculty Scholar
  • 2013 Harvard University, Harvard Graduate Society Merit Fellowship
  • 2010 National Science Foundation, Graduate Research Fellowship

  • Veeder, T., Dehzangi, A., Ramanathan, S., Kats, M., Yu, N., Hu, J., Roberts, C., Polking, M., Tibbetts, K., Majumdar, A., & others, (2024). Accelerating discovery of tunable optical materials (ATOM). In Image Sensing Technologies: Materials, Devices, Systems, and Applications XI (p. 1303002).
  • Yang, X., Mukherjee, P., Kim, M., Mei, H., Fang, C., Choi, S., Tong, Y., Perlowski, S., Czaplewski, D. A., Dibos, A. M., & others, (2024). Atomic magnetometry using a metasurface polarizing beamsplitter in silicon on sapphire. arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.02102.
  • Hu, M., Belliveau, E., Wu, Y., Narayanan, P., Feng, D., Hamid, R., Murrietta, N., Ahmed, G., Kats, M., & Congreve, D. (2024). Bringing the SWIR to Silicon with Upconversion Devices. Bulletin of the American Physical Society.
  • King, J., Wan, C., Park, T. J., Deshpande, S., Zhang, Z., Ramanathan, S., & Kats, M. (2024). Electrically tunable VO2--metal metasurface for mid-infrared switching, limiting and nonlinear isolation. Nature Photonics, 18(1), 74--80.
  • Siegel, J., Kim, S., Fortman, M., Wan, C., Kats, M., Hon, P. W., Sweatlock, L., Jang, M. S., & Brar, V. W. (2024). Electrostatic steering of thermal emission with active metasurface control of delocalized modes. Nature Communications, 15(1), 3376.
  • Jin, Y., & Kats, M. (2024). For passive radiative cooling, are wavelength-selective emitters the best choice?. arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.00572.
  • Zhao, B., Ren, G., Mei, H., Wu, V. C., Singh, S., Jung, G. Y., Chen, H., Giovine, R., Niu, S., Thind, A. S., & others, (2024). Giant Modulation of Refractive Index from Picoscale Atomic Displacements. Advanced Materials, 2311559.
  • Zhao, B., Mei, H., Du, Z., Singh, S., Chang, T., Li, J., Settineri, N. S., Teat, S. J., Chen, Y., Cronin, S. B., & others, (2024). Infrared Optical Anisotropy in Quasi-1D Hexagonal Chalcogenide BaTiSe3. arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.02323.
  • Xiao, Y., Phuttitarn, L., Graham, T. M., Wan, C., Saffman, M., & Kats, M. (2024). Lateral beam shifts and depolarization upon oblique reflection from dielectric mirrors. Annalen der Physik, 2400028.
  • Chen, H., Singh, S., Mei, H., Ren, G., Zhao, B., Surendran, M., Wang, Y., Mishra, R., Kats, M., & Ravichandran, J. (2024). Molten flux growth of single crystals of quasi-1D hexagonal chalcogenide BaTiS3. arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.05869.

  • E C E 399 - Independent Study (Spring 2025)
  • E C E 434 - Photonics (Spring 2025)
  • E C E 611 - Introduction to Doctoral Research in Electrical & Computer Engineering (Spring 2025)
  • E C E 790 - Master's Research (Spring 2025)
  • E C E 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Spring 2025)
  • E C E 990 - Dissertator's Research (Spring 2025)
  • PHYSICS 990 - Research (Spring 2025)
  • E C E 399 - Independent Study (Fall 2024)
  • E C E 747 - Nanophotonics (Fall 2024)
  • E C E 790 - Master's Research (Fall 2024)
  • E C E 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Fall 2024)
  • E C E 990 - Dissertator's Research (Fall 2024)
  • E C E 790 - Master's Research (Summer 2024)
  • E C E 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Summer 2024)
  • E C E 990 - Dissertator's Research (Summer 2024)
  • PHYSICS 990 - Research (Summer 2024)
  • E C E 399 - Independent Study (Spring 2024)
  • E C E 611 - Introduction to Doctoral Research in Electrical & Computer Engineering (Spring 2024)
  • E C E 790 - Master's Research (Spring 2024)
  • E C E 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Spring 2024)
  • E C E 990 - Dissertator's Research (Spring 2024)
  • E C E 219 - Analytical Methods for Electromagnetics Engineering (Fall 2023)
  • E C E 790 - Master's Research (Fall 2023)
  • E C E 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Fall 2023)
  • E C E 990 - Dissertator's Research (Fall 2023)
  • PHYSICS 990 - Research (Fall 2023)
  • E C E 399 - Independent Study (Summer 2023)
  • E C E 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Summer 2023)
  • E C E 990 - Dissertator's Research (Summer 2023)
  • PHYSICS 990 - Research (Summer 2023)