Prof Boris Lukiyanchuk, Senior Scientist at A*STAR’s Data Storage Institute (DSI), was recently elected a Fellow of Optical Society of America (OSA) – a prestigious scientific society with at least 30 Nobel laureates within its ranks. He was recognised for his outstanding contributions in theory of laser-matter interactions, including laser thermochemistry, laser cleaning, laser ablation and plasmonics.  

 

Prof Lukiyanchuk has published pioneers papers in optics and photonics with notable achievements in the abovementioned four areas. A list of his achievements is at Annex A. He has also published five monographs and above 10 book Chapters, as well as 180 original papers in high impact journals, e.g. Nature Photonics, Nature Materials, Chemical Reviews, Physical Review Letters etc. His papers were cited more than two thousand times. Of particular note is his recent paper in Nature Materials August 2010 issue, which highlighted his investigations on Fano resonance in plasmonics materials and metamaterials.

 

“I am very delighted to be given this honour to be a Fellow in this prestigious society. It gives me great heart to know that the research I am doing is impactful and can change the way we do things. I am also very happy that three of my collaborators, Prof Mark Stockman (USA), Prof Stefan Maier (UK) and Prof Ewa M. Goldys (Australia) also got the OSA fellowship this year.” says Prof Lukiyanchuk.

 

“We are very proud of Professor Lukiyanchuk’s accomplishments. This is another example of our scientists being among the best in their fields and our research gaining the international reputation it deserves. ” says, Dr Raj. Thampuran, Executive Director, A*STAR Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC).

  

Prof Lukiyanchuk has been working at A*STAR since 1999 and is the Honorary Professor at Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria, since 1991. He had also worked for twenty years at the General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow and was a visiting Professor at universities in Austria, Italy, France, Sweden and Japan. Prof Lukiyanchuk was supervised by Prof A. A. Abrikosov, Nobel laureate, Physics, 2002, while he was a PhD student at Landau Theoretical Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences. He obtained his PhD from P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russia in 1979, and subsequently received his Doctor of Sciences Degree — Second Doctorate (Habilitation) from General Physics Institute, Russia, 1991 and State Professor’s Degree (Physics and Mathematics) from State Highest Certifying Committee of Russian Federation, 1992.

 

Prof Lukiyanchuk is the second scientist from Singapore to be elected as a fellow of OSA. The other was Prof Chinlon Lin of Nanyang Technological University, who was elected as an OSA Fellow in 1983.

 

The OSA was founded in 1916 and is amongst the most prestigious scientific Societies which bring together optics and photonics scientists, engineers, educators, and business leaders from over 100 countries. The activities of the Society includes the publication of peer-reviewed journals (Journal of the Optical Society of America, Applied Optics, Optics Express, Optics Letters, etc.) and books. The Society also manages many world recognized Conferences and Meetings, including Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) – Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), Frontiers in Optics (FIO), Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition (OFC) – National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (NFOEC), etc.

 

 

 

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Boris Lukiyanchuk graduated from M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia in 1967 and he was a PhD Student at Landau Theoretical Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences (1967-1970), where his supervisor was Prof A. A. Abrikosov (Nobel Prize winner at Physics, 2002). Dr. Lukiyanchuk got his PhD from P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russia, in 1979, Doctor of Sciences Degree — Second Doctorate (Habilitation) from General Physics Institute, Russia, 1991 and State Professor’s Degree (Physics and Mathematics) from State Highest Certifying Committee of Russian Federation, 1992. He was working twenty years at the General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. He was a visiting Professor at the Universities of Austria, Italy, France, Sweden and Japan. He is Honorary Professor at Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria, since 1991. Since 1999 he is working as Senior Scientist at Data Storage Institute of Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore.

 

Scientific Interests of Dr. Lukiyanchuk include: Interaction of laser radiation with matter, Chemical processing with lasers, Nonlinear phenomena, Selforganization phenomena, Laser-ablation, Theory of nanocluster formation, Laser Cleaning, and Plasmonics. He has published 5 monographs and above 10 book Chapters, as well as 180 original papers in high impact journals, e.g. Nature Photonics, Nature Materials, Chemical Reviews, Physical Review Letters etc. His papers were cited above two thousand times.

 

Among the remarkable achievements of Dr. Luk`yanchuk in optics or photonics the following four topics should be mention:

 

a)    Laser Thermochemistry. Luk`yanchuk has published pioneers papers related to nonlinear dynamics of chemically active media in the field of laser radiation and selforganization phenomena. Luk`yanchuk published three monographs related to laser thermochemistry (the latest one is: Karlov N. V., Kirichenko N. A., Luk'yanchuk B. S., "Laser Thermochemistry. Fundamentals and Applications", Cambridge International Science Publishing, Cambridge, UK, (2000) - 380 pp.). 

 

b)    Laser ablation. Dr. Luk`yanchuk has published pioneers works on the theory of effects related to laser ablation. It is sufficient to mention paper on the self-similar solutions of gas dynamic equations for plume expansion (Anisimov S. I., Bäuerle D., Luk’yanchuk B.S., «Gas-dynamics and film profiles in pulsed–laser deposition of materials», Phys. Rev. B 48, 12076 (1993)) and the paper related to laser ablation of polymers (Bityurin N., Luk'yanchuk B. S., Hong M. H., Chong T. C., "Models for laser ablation of polymers", Chemical Reviews 103, 519 (2003)). He suggested a method based on self-similar solutions for the analysis of dynamics of a multicomponent plume at matrix-assisted evaporation (Puretzky A. A., Geohegan D.B., Hurst G.B., Buchanan M.V., Luk'yanchuk B. S., "Imaging of Vapor Plumes Produced by Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption: Plume Sharpening Effect", Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 444 (1999)).

 

 

c)    Laser Cleaning. Dr. Luk`yanchuk has made pioneers papers on the theory of laser cleaning. He suggested the theory which takes into account focusing and scattering effects of the particles on surface. He published the first monograph related to laser cleaning: Luk`yanchuk B. S., "Laser Cleaning", World Scientific, New Jersey, London, Singapore, Hong Kong, (2002) - 466 pp.

 

d)    Plasmonics. Prof Luk`yanchuk has remarkable achievements in plasmonics. Among these achievements is the discovery of non-Rayleigh scattering of nanoparticles of weakly dissipating plasmonic materials (Tribelsky M. I., Luk'yanchuk B. S., "Anomalous light scattering by small particles", Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 263902 (2006)). He destroyed the paradigm of the dipole scattering effects in the energy flow near plasmonic nanoparticles (Wang Z. B., Luk’yanchuk B. S., Hong M. H., Lin Y., Chong T. C., "Energy flows around a small particle investigated by classical Mie theory", Phys. Rev. B. 70, 032427 (2004)). Another important achievements of Dr. Luk`yanchuk are related to investigations Fano resonance in plasmonic materials and metamaterials, see e.g. Luk’yanchuk B. S. et al., Nature Materials 9, 707 (2010).

Prof Luk`yanchuk was a Chair of a few International Conferences and Workshops. He was a Guest Editor of four Special Issues published at Applied Physics A (vol. 89, issue 2 (2007); vol. 92, issue 4 (2008); vol. 100, issue 2 (2010) and vol. 101, issue 1 (2010)). He shared the IES (The Institute of Engineers, Singapore - Engineering Society) Prestigious Engineering Achievement Awards 2004, together with his colleagues in DSI Dr. Hong Minghui, Ms. Wang Weijie and Dr. An Chengwu (see The Straits Times, 6 Nov 2004). The Sunday Times published an interview with Prof Lukiyanchuk on 4 March 2007. There were some books dedicated to Prof Boris Luk'yanchuk: C. R. Phipps, "Laser Ablation and its Applications" (Springer, 2007), D. M. Kane, "Laser Cleaning II" (World Scientific, 2006).