Simeon Bogdanov

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Education

• Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (2014)
• M.Sc. Microelectronics, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden (2008)
• B.Sc. Physics, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France (2007)

Academic Positions

• Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (01/2020 - present)
• Postdoctoral Research Associate, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN (04/2014 - 12/2019)

Professional Registrations

• Member of the American Physical Society
• Member of the SPIE
• Senior Member of the Optical Society of America
• Member of IEEE Electron Devices Society
• Member of the IEEE Photonics Society

Resident Instruction

• ECE 405 "Quantum Systems II"
• ECE 340 "Semiconductor Devices"

Course Development

• ECE 498SB, "Manipulation of Elementary Quantum Systems" (first offered in Fall 2021)

Research Interests

• Applications of machine learning
• Integrated optoelectronics
• Optically active solid-state spins
• Superconducting materials and devices
• Plasmonics and Metamaterials
• Nonlinear optics and quantum transduction
• High-speed quantum photonics

Selected Articles in Journals

• S. Sahoo, P. Udvarhelyi, J. Li, D. Kim, V. Agafonov, V. Davydov, B. Lawrie, P. Narang, and S.I. Bogdanov, "Ultranarrow Bright Single-Photon Emitters in Diamond with Strong Broadband Phonon Decoupling", Nat. Commun. (2026)
• S. Bhattacharya^*, S. Sahoo^*, H. Dong, D.H. Hong, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, N. Mason, A. van der Zande, S.I. Bogdanov, and R.M. Sankaran, Remote plasma for damage-controlled fabrication of single-photon emitters in ultrathin hexagonal boron nitride, Appl. Phys. Lett. 128, 214103 (2026) (^* these authors contributed equally to this work)
• A.I. Lomakin, E.M. Baeva, N.A. Titova, A.V. Semenov, A.V. Lubenchenko, M.A. Kirsanova, S.A. Evlashin, S. Saha, S. Bogdanov, A.I. Kolbatova, and G.N. Goltsman, Low-temperature electron dephasing rates indicate magnetic disorder in superconducting TiN films, Appl. Phys. Lett, 127, 173501 (2025)
• C.P. Lualdi, S.J. Johnson, M. Vayninger, K.A. Meier, S. Sahoo, S.I. Bogdanov, and P.G. Kwiat, Fast quantum interferometry at the nanometer and attosecond scales with energy-entangled photons, 11, eadw4938 (2025)
• E. M. Baeva, A. I. Kolbatova, N. A. Titova, S. Saha, A. Boltasseva, S. Bogdanov, V. M. Shalaev, A. V. Semenov, A. Levchenko, G. N. Goltsman, and V. S. Khrapai, Slow electron-phonon relaxation controls the dynamics of the superconducting resistive transition, Phys. Rev. B 110, 104519 (2024)
• E.M. Baeva, A.I. Kolbatova, N.A. Titova, S. Saha, A. Boltasseva, S.I. Bogdanov, V.M. Shalaev, A.V. Semenov, G.N. Goltsman, and V.S. Khrapai, Natural width of the superconducting transition in epitaxial TiN films, Supercond. Sci. Technol. 37 105017 (2024)
• F. Sahbaz, J. Eckstein, D. van Harlingen, and S.I. Bogdanov, Terahertz-mediated microwave-to-optical transduction, Phys. Rev. A 109, 042409 (2024)
• Z.A. Kudyshev, D. Sychev, Z.O. Martin, S.I. Bogdanov, X. Xu, A.V. Kildishev, A. Boltasseva, and V.M. Shalaev, Machine learning-assisted quantum super-resolution microscopy, Nat. Commun., 14, 4828 (2023)
• X. Xu, Z.O. Martin, M. Titze, Y. Wang, D. Sychev, J. Henshaw, A.S. Lagutchev, H. Htoon, E.S. Bielejec, S.I. Bogdanov, V.M. Shalaev, and A. Boltasseva, Fabrication of single color centers in sub-50 nm nanodiamonds using ion implantation, Nanophot., 13, 1 (2023)
• S. Sahoo, V.A. Davydov, V.N. Agafonov, and S.I. Bogdanov, Hybrid quantum nanophotonic devices with color centers in nanodiamonds, Opt. Mater. Exp., 13, 191 (2023)
• A. Solanki, S.I. Bogdanov, M.M. Rahman, A. Rustagi, P. Debashis, N. Dilley, T.-T. Shen, Y.-P. Chen, J. Appenzeller, V.M. Shalaev, A. Boltasseva, and P. Upadhyaya, Electric field control of interaction between magnons and quantum spin defects, Phys. Rev. Research, 4, L012025 (2022)
• S. Sahoo, H. Azzouz, and S.I. Bogdanov, Rapid absolute sizing of deeply subwavelength dielectric nanoparticles by confocal scanning optical microscopy, Appl. Phys. Lett. 118, 241105 (2021)
• Z. Kudyshev*, S.I. Bogdanov*, T. Isacsson, A. Boltasseva and V.M. Shalaev, Rapid single-photon emitter classification with neural networks, Adv. Quant. Techn., 3, 2000067 (2020)
• M.Y. Shalaginov, S.I. Bogdanov, A.S. Lagutchev, A. Boltasseva, and V.M. Shalaev, On-chip microwave-spin-plasmon interface, ACS Photonics, 7, 2018 (2020)
• C.-C. Chiang, S.I. Bogdanov, O. Makarova, X.Xu, S. Saha, D. Shah, Z.O. Martin, D. Wang, A.S. Lagutchev, A.V. Kildishev, A. Boltasseva, and V.M. Shalaev, Chip-compatible quantum plasmonic launcher, Adv. Opt. Mater., 8, 2000889 (2020)
• S.I. Bogdanov, O.A. Makarova, X. Xu, Z.O. Martin, A.S. Lagutchev, M. Olinde, D. Shah, S.N. Chowdhuri, A.R. Gabidullin, I.A. Ryzhikov, I.A. Rodionov, A.V. Kildishev, S.I. Bozhevolnyi, A. Boltasseva, V.M. Shalaev, and J.B. Khurgin, "Ultrafast quantum photonics enabled by coupling plasmonic nanocavities to strongly radiative antennas", Optica, 7, 463 (2020)
• N. Saveskul, N.Titova, E.M. Baeva, A.V. Semenov, A.V. Lubenchenko, S. Saha, H. Reddy, S.I. Bogdanov, E.E. Marinero, V.M. Shalaev, A. Boltasseva, V.S. Khrapai, A.I. Kardakova, and G.N. Goltsman, Superconductivity Behavior in Epitaxial TiN Films Points to Surface Magnetic Disorder, Phys. Rev. Applied, 12, 054001 (2019)
• S.I. Bogdanov, A. Boltasseva, and V.M. Shalaev, Overcoming quantum decoherence with plasmonics, Science, 364, 532 (2019)
• S.I. Bogdanov, M.Y. Shalaginov, A.S. Lagutchev, C.-C. Chiang, D. Shah, A.S. Baburin, I.A. Ryzhikov, I.A. Rodionov, A. Boltasseva, and V.M. Shalaev, Ultrabright and ultrafast room-temperature anti-bunched emission from a nitrogen-vacancy center in a diamond nanocrystal, Nano Letters, 18, 4837 (2018)
• S.K.H. Andersen, S.I. Bogdanov, Y. Xuan, O. Makarova, M.Y. Shalaginov, A. Boltasseva, V.M. Shalaev, and S. Bozhevolnyi, Hybrid plasmonic bullseye antennas for efficient photon collection, ACS Photonics, 5, 692 (2018)
• O.A. Makarova, M.Y. Shalaginov, S.I. Bogdanov, U. Guler, A. Boltasseva, A.V. Kildishev, and V.M. Shalaev, Patterned multilayer metamaterial for fast and efficient photon collection from dipolar emitters, Opt. Lett. 42, 3968 (2017)
• S.I. Bogdanov, M.Y. Shalaginov, P. Kapitanova, J. Liu, M. Ferrera, A. Lagutchev, P. Belov, J. Irudayaraj, A. Boltasseva, and V. Shalaev, Spin contrast in Purcell-enhanced nitrogenvacancy center ensembles in nanodiamonds, Phys. Rev. B 96, 035146 (2017)
• S.I. Bogdanov, M.Y. Shalaginov, A. Boltasseva, and V.M. Shalaev, Material platforms for integrated quantum photonics, Opt. Mat. Exp. 7, 111 (2017)
• M. Razeghi, A. Haddadi, A.M. Hoang, G. Chen, S.I. Bogdanov, S.R. Darvish, F. Callewaert, P.R. Bijjam, and R. McClintock, Antimonide-based type-II superlattices: a superior candidate for the third generation of infrared imaging systems, J. of Elec. Mat. 43(8), 2802 (2014)
• G. Chen, A.M. Hoang, S.I. Bogdanov, A. Haddadi, S.R. Darvish, and M. Razeghi, Effect of sidewall surface recombination on the quantum efficiency in a Y2O3 gated type-II InAs/GaSb long-infrared photodetector array, Appl. Phys. Lett. 103, 223501 (2013)
• G. Chen, A.M. Hoang, S.I. Bogdanov, P.R. Bijjam, B.-M. Nguyen, and M. Razeghi, Investigation of impurity in type-II InAs/GaSb superlattices via capacitance-voltage measurement, Appl. Phys. Lett. 103, 033512 (2013)
• G. Chen, E.K. Huang, A.M. Hoang, S.I. Bogdanov, S.R. Darvish, and M. Razeghi, Surface leakage investigation via gated type-II InAs/GaSb long-wavelength infrared photodetectors, Appl. Phys. Lett. 101, 213501 (2012)
• M. Razeghi, A. Haddadi, A.M. Hoang, E.K. Huang, G. Chen, S.I. Bogdanov, S.R. Darvish, F. Callewaert, and R. McClintock, Advances in antimonide-based Type-II superlattices for infrared detection and imaging at the Center for Quantum Devices, Infrared Physics and Technology, 59, 41 (2012)
• B.M. Nguyen, G. Chen, A.M. Hoang, S. Abdollahi Pour, S.I. Bogdanov, and M. Razeghi, Effect of contact doping on superlattice-based minority-carrier unipolar detectors, Appl. Phys. Lett. 99, 033501 (2011)
• S.I. Bogdanov, B.M. Nguyen, A.M. Hoang, and M. Razeghi, Surface leakage current reduction in long wavelength infrared type-II InAs/GaSb superlattice photodiodes, Appl. Phys. Lett. 98, 183501 (2011)
• B.M. Nguyen, S.I. Bogdanov, S. Abdollahi Pour, and M. Razeghi, Minority electron unipolar photodetectors based on type II InAs/GaSb/AlSb superlattices for very long wavelength infrared detection, Appl. Phys. Lett. 95, 183502 (2009)
• S. Abdollahi Pour, B.M. Nguyen, S.I. Bogdanov, E.K. Huang, and M. Razeghi, Demonstration of high-performance long-wavelength infrared type II InAs/GaSb superlattice photodiode grown on GaAs substrate, Appl. Phys. Lett. 95, 173505 (2009)
• B.M. Nguyen, D. Hoffman, E.K. Huang, S.I. Bogdanov, P.Y. Delaunay, M. Razeghi, and M.Z. Tidrow, Demonstration of midinfrared type-II InAs/GaSb superlattice photodiodes grown on GaAs substrate, Appl. Phys. Lett. 94, 223506 (2009)

Other Publications

• S.I. Bogdanov, O.A. Makarova, A.S. Lagutchev, D. Shah, C.-C. Chiang, S. Saha, A.S. Baburin, I.A. Ryzhikov, I.A. Rodionov, A.V. Kildishev, A. Boltasseva and V.M. Shalaev, “Deterministic integration of single nitrogen-vacancy centers into nanopatch antennas”, arXiv (2019)

Honors

• OSA Senior Member (06/2024)

Teaching Honors

• Teacher Ranked as Excellent by their Students (Fall 2024)

Research Honors

• NSF CAREER Award (04/05/2023)