Igor Minin Explained

Igor V. Minin
Birth Date:March 22, 1960
Nationality:Russian
Field:Physicist, Radiophysics, Photonics, Terahertz technology
Workplaces:Tomsk Polytechnic University
Alma Mater:Novosibirsk State University

Igor V. Minin (ru|link=no|Игорь Владиленович Минин) (born March 22, 1960, in Akademgorodok,Novosibirsk), is a Russian physicist, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Metrology, and a full professor of Physics at Tomsk Polytechnic University. He became known for his contributions to new directions in optical physics: terahertz 3D imaging, Mesotronics (mesoscale photonics), and subwavelength structured light, including acoustics and surface plasmon.

Biography

Minin received his M.S. from Novosibirsk State University in 1982 and earned his Ph.D. Physics and Mathematics, specializing in radiophysics and quantum physics, from St. Petersburg Electrotechnical Institute in 1986.[1]

From 1981 to 1982 Minin worked part-time as a laboratory assistant at the Institute of Applied Physics in Akademgorodok that had been founded by his father, Vladilen F. Minin, in 1966.

In March 2004, he defended his thesis for the advanced degree of Doctor of Technical Sciences, equivalent to a Habilitation degree.

Minin published several research monographs, including "Diffractional Optics of Millimetre Waves",[2] "Basic Principles of Fresnel Antenna Arrays"[3] and later "Diffractive Optics and Nanophotonics: Resolution Below the Diffraction Limit”[4] and "The photonic hook: from Optics to Acoustics and Plasmonics".[5] Much of Minin's research was carried out with his twin brother Oleg V. Minin.

In April 2007, the FSB of Russia accused the Minin twins of revealing state secrets and sensitive information about research projects for the Ministry of Defence (Russia), following the publication of a book dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the Novosibirsk Institute of Applied Physics.[6] [7] This case was widely publicized, well-known scientists and human rights activists spoke out in defense of the physics brothers. FSB investigators dropped their case against brothers, and prosecutors in Novosibirsk issued a rare apology to the scientists in July 2007.

Since Perestroika Minin had been a visiting professor at multiple institutes internationally, including: DaimlerChrysler AG, Doiche Aerospace, Technische Universitat Munchen (Germany), Harbin Institute of Technology, MMW State Key Lab, Nanjing, Beijing Institute of Technology, Capital Normal University (China), Samsung Electronics (Korea), National University of Singapore, Universidad Technica Federico Santa Maria (Chile) and University of Helsinki (Finland).

Research

Minin is a pioneer in the field of photonic jets.[1] In collaboration with Oleg V. Minin 2015 he discovered the so-called photonic hook effect[4] [8] [9] - artificially curved light beams with subwavelength curvature and beamwidth. Minin also experimentally demonstrated the existence of surface plasmon photonic jet and photonic hook phenomena.[8]

In dielectric structures with a Mie size parameter of order ten, which are in the region between the wave and geometric optics, he and his colleagues have discovered some new unusual effects, including super-resonance - the excitation of giant magnetic fields in dielectric mesoscale particles[10] [11] based on high-order Fano resonance.

With his brother, Minin founded the new field of "freezing droplet optics" with the discovery of unusual time domain effects of photonic hook and Fano resonances. He and his colleagues pioneered the study of the unusual optical properties of superresonance and photonic hooks in and near a rotating sphere, based on the Magnus effect.

The presence of a number of interesting applications indicates a new promising direction in optics called "Mesotronics".[12] [13]

Minin has also made new investigations in the study of young stellar objects, active galactic nuclei and astrophysical jets[14] by the analysis of pulse plasma jets produced by intense laser-matter interactions.

Minin is author or coauthor of over 450 research publications, including 22 monographs (12 in Russian, 9 in English and 1 in Chinese)[1] and more than 150 patents. He is an editorial member of several international journals and chair of several international conferences.[15]

Awards

Selected papers

Notes and References

  1. Alina Karabchevsky, Development of mesoscale photonics and plasmonics: a tribute to the jubilee of Professors Igor V. Minin and Oleg V. Minin, SPIE Photonics Europe, 2020.
  2. Web site: Diffractional Optics of Millimetre Waves .
  3. Web site: Basic Principles of Fresnel Antenna Arrays .
  4. Book: 10.1007/978-3-319-24253-8. Diffractive Optics and Nanophotonics. SpringerBriefs in Physics. 2016. 978-3-319-24251-4 . Minin . Igor . Minin . Oleg . 2016don..book.....M .
  5. Book: The Photonic Hook . 10.1007/978-3-030-66945-4 . SpringerBriefs in Physics . 2021 . 978-3-030-66944-7 . Minin . Oleg V. . Minin . Igor V. . 2021phho.book.....M . 234285298 .
  6. https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/27/world/europe/27iht-moscow.1.7268656.html Russia arrests 10 suspects in murder of reporter
  7. Alexandra Taranova, 2 Scientists Held in Murky Spy Case, "Moscow Times", September 21, 2010; Natalya Krainova, Physicist Convicted of Espionage Gets Parole, "Moscow Times", November 13, 2012.
  8. Book: 10.1007/978-3-030-66945-4. The photonic hook: from Optics to Acoustics and Plasmonics= SpringerBriefs in Physics. SpringerBriefs in Physics . 2021. 978-3-030-66945-4 . Minin . Oleg V. . Minin . Igor V. . 234285298 .
  9. Dholakia . K. . Bruce . G.D. . Optical hooks . Nature Photonics. 13 . 2019 . 4 . 10.1038/s41566-019-0403-9. 229–230. 2019NaPho..13..229D . 256704583 .
  10. Wang . Z. . Luk’yanchuk. B. . Yue . L. . Yan . B. . Yan . B. . Monks . J. . Dhama. R. . Minin . O.V.. Minin. I.V.. Huang. S.. Fedyanin. A. . High order Fano resonances and giant magnetic fields in dielectric microspheres . Scientific Reports. 9 . 2019 . 1 . 10.1038/s41598-019-56783-3. 20293. 31889112 . 6937277 . 2019NatSR...920293W .
  11. Minin . I.V. . Minin . O.V.. Zhou . S. . High-Order Fano Resonance in a Mesoscale Dielectric Sphere with a Low Refractive Index . JETP Letters. 116 . 2022 . 3 . 10.1134/S002136402260121X. 144–148. 2022JETPL.116..144M . 252820910 .
  12. Minin . I.V. . Minin . O.V.. Mesotronics: Some New, Unusual Optical Effects . Photonics . 9 . 2022 . 10 . 10.3390/photonics9100762 . 762 . 2022Photo...9..762M . free .
  13. Book: Minin . I.V. . Minin . O.V.. Luk'yanchuk. B.. Mesophotonics: Physics and Systems at Mesoscale . Mesotronic era of dielectric photonics . Igor V. . Sylvain . Vasily N. . Minin . Lecler . Astratov . 121520D . 2022 . 10.1117/12.2634133. 762. 2022SPIE12152E..0DM . 9781510651807 . 248641915 .
  14. Baranov . P.F. . Zatonov . I.A.. Some pioneering research in laboratory simulation of scaled astrophysical phenomena by Russian physicists . Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 1709 . 2020 . 1 . 10.1088/1742-6596/1709/1/012003. 012003. 2020JPhCS1709a2003B . 234566394 . free .
  15. https://spie.org/EPE/conferencedetails/photonics-and-plasmonics-at-the-mesoscale?SSO=1 The international society for optics and photonics
  16. Medal Award Listnamed after Kh.A. Rakhmatulin http://volnogaz.math.msu.su/pages/medal1.php

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