Mindaugas Juodėnas
I am a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Materials Science, Kaunas University of Technology. My work focuses on plasmonics and nanophotonics for optical metasurface design and nanofabrication.
Research Interests
- Optical Metasurfaces
- Finite element modeling and Fourier analysis of metasurfaces and light propagation
- Nanofabrication of photonic devices for bioimaging and biosensing
- Nanoparticle self-assembly and plasmonic properties of regular nanostructures
- Self-assembly processes employing capillary force and structured templates
- Coupled nanophotonics systems for light generation and sensing
- Nanofabrication
- High-throughput electron beam lithography
- Advanced reactive ion etching processes
Current Projects
Nanofabrication of a Silicon Metalens for Thermal Microscopy
Photogating-Enhanced NIR Graphene Photodetector with Integrated Dielectric Metasurface and Plasmonic Layer for Border Surveillance
Gradient Metasurfaces for Ultrafast Laser Beam Shaping (M-ULBS)
Latest Publications
- Moussavi, M., Monshi, M., Klyvis, G., Mikalkevičius, M., Juodėnas, M., Tamulevičius, T., Tamulevičius, S.. Graphene-Enabled Vapor-Phase SERS Detection of Lithium-Ion Battery Electrolytes on Periodic Ag Nanoparticle Multimer Arrays. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 18(31), 43345–43356 (2026)
- Strandberg, E., Juodėnas, M., Grabowski, A., Haglund, Å., Larsson, A.. Buried Subwavelength Gratings for Polarization Pinning of Bottom-Emitting GaAs VCSELs. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics 32(6), 1701408 (2026)
- Vasiliauskas, A., Klyvis, G., Grigaliūnas, V., Lazauskas, A., Andrulevičius, M., Guobienė, A., Jucius, D., Tamulevičius, T., Meškinis, Š., Juodėnas, M., Abakevičienė, B., Kasparaitis, A., Tamulevičius, S.. Effect of chromium nitride coating on the corrosion resistance of linear encoder scales with ripple patterns. Surfaces and Interfaces 95, 109705 (2026)