Elena Semouchkina

Contact

esemouch@mtu.edu
906-487-2869
EERC 713

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Affiliated Professor, Physics

PhD, Materials (Engineering option), Pennsylvania State University
PhD, Physics and Mathematics, Tomsk State University
MS, Electrical Engineering, Tomsk State University

Biography

Elena Semouchkina is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Michigan Tech. She received an MS in Electrical Engineering and a PhD in Physics and Mathematics from Tomsk State University in Russia, and a second PhD in Materials from Penn State. Before joining the Penn State faculty, Semouchkina had been working in Siberian Physics-Technical Research Institute, Ioffe Physics-Technical Institute of Russian Academy of Science, and St. Petersburg State Technical University. She was a recipient of the best PhD thesis award from the Penn State Materials Research Institute and the NSF Fellows Award from the ADVANCE Program: Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Careers. Semouchkina has served six-years term as an associate editor of the IEEE Antenna and Wireless Propagation Letters, a guest editor of the special issue “Dielectric Metamaterials” of Applied Sciences, a co-organizer of the IEEE Women in Electromagnetics (WiEM) Workshop, a panelist of the National Science Foundation, and an expert of the Directorate-General for Research of the European Commission and of the French National Research Agency. Her work was featured at the NSF “Discoveries” website, in NSF “Behind the Scenes” series, in IEEE “Women in Engineering” eBook, in IEEE Magazine “Women in Engineering”, and in IEEE “Women in Engineering” Poster, where she was profiled among 12 women-engineers “Who change the world”. Semouchkina is the author of the book “Dielectric Metamaterials and Metasurfaces in Transformation Optics and Photonics” published by ELSEVIER, Woodhead Publishing Series in Electronic and Optical Materials, in 2021.

Areas of Interest

Resonance phenomena in complex media: metasurfaces, metamaterials, and photonic crystals
Computational electromagnetic analysis
Electromagnetic cloaking
High-contrast materials integration for electronic and photonic systems
Materials and device characterization at microwaves

Recent Publications

Semouchkina, E., Dielectric Metamaterials and Metasurfaces in Transformation Optics and Photonics, ISBN: 9780128205969, ELSEVIER, Woodhead Publishing Series in Electronic and Optical Materials, August 2021.
Jamilan, S., Danyal, M., and Semouchkina, E., "Collimation Effects Controlled by Near-Zero Refractive Indices in Highly Anisotropic Dielectric Photonic Crystals: Simulation and Experiment," Applied Physics Letters, v. 119, no. 25, 251901, 2021.
Jamilan, S., Kumar, V., Danyal, M., and Semouchkina, E., “Extra high-Q resonances and extraordinary transparency in finite fragments of dielectric metasurfaces: Prospects for 5G applications,” Applied Physics Letters, v. 119, no. 2, 021103, 2021.
Jamilan, S., Semouchkin, G., and Semouchkina, E., “Analogue of Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in Metasurfaces Composed of Identical Dielectric Disks,” Journal of Applied Physics, v. 129, no. 6, 063101, 2021.
Jamilan, S., Gandji, N. P., Semouchkin, G., Safari, F., and Semouchkina, E., "Scattering from Dielectric Metasurfaces in Optical and Microwave Ranges," IEEE Photonics Journal, v. 11, no. 2, 2200407, 2019.
Jamilan, S., Semouchkin, G., Gandji, N. P., and Semouchkina, E., "Specifics of scattering and radiation from sparse and dense dielectric meta-surfaces," J. Appl. Phys., v. 125, no. 16, 163106, pp. 1-12, 2019.
Gandji, N., Lee, G., Semouchkin, G., Semouchkina, E., Neuberger, T. and Lanagan, M., “Development and Experimental Testing of Microstrip Patch Antenna-Inspired RF Probes for 14T MRI Scanners”, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, v. 67, no. 1, Jan. 2019.

Teaching Statement

Dr. Semouchkina teaches courses in electronic materials and devices, solid state devices, physical electronics, and electromagnetics.