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Vitaliy Lomakin

Director of CMRR; Stephen O. Rice Endowed Chair; Professor of ECE

Research Interests

Professor Lomakin’s research focuses on computational electromagnetics, micromagnetics, and multiphysics, with applications to magnetic and ferroelectric materials, spintronics, memory and recording technologies, electromagnetic and magnetoelastic devices, and coherent X-ray imaging. His group develops high-performance numerical methods for modern CPU and GPU platforms and applies them to realistic materials and devices.

Biography

Vitaliy Lomakin received his M.Sc. from Kharkiv National University in 1996 and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Tel Aviv University in 2003. From 2002 to 2005, he was a Postdoctoral Associate and Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He joined UC San Diego in 2005 and was elevated to Fellow of the IEEE in 2021. His research develops efficient computational techniques and analytical models for multiphysics problems involving electromagnetics, micromagnetics, first-principles simulations, and imaging, and applies these methods to magnetic, optical, and microwave materials and devices.

Publications

CMRR Related Publications

2026

  1. F. M. Shapira, V. Lomakin, A. Boag, and A. Natan, "Fast calculation of retarded potentials in multi-domain TDDFT," Computer Physics Communications, vol. 318, p. 109896(1-8), 2026.

2025

  1. F. Ai, J. Duan, and V. Lomakin, "Spin wave assisted synchronization in 2D arrays of spin torque oscillators," Applied Physics Letters, vol. 127, p. 162401(1-6), 2025.
  2. Z. Lin, I. Volvach, and V. Lomakin, "Eigenstate Fokker-Planck equation for magnetic nanostructures," Physical Review Research, vol. 7, p. 033154, 2025.
  3. F. Ai, J. Duan, and V. Lomakin, "Periodic phase diagrams in micromagnetics with an eigenvalue solver," Journal of Applied Physics, 2025.
  4. F. Ai and V. Lomakin, "Real time 3D coherent X-ray diffraction imaging," Physical Review Letters, vol. 134, p. 236202, 2025.
  5. A. Hamadeh, A. Koujok, Ph. Pirro, D. R. Rodrigues, A. Riveros, V. Lomakin, G. Finocchio, G. de Loubens, O. Klein, "Diverse dynamics in interacting vortices systems through tunable conservative and non conservative coupling strengths," Communications Physics, vol. 8, p. 85(1-12), 2025.
  6. F. Ai, J. Duan, and V. Lomakin, "Periodic micromagnetic finite element method," Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, vol. 615, p. 172776, 2025.
  7. C. Liu, F. Ai, S. Reisbick, V. Lomakin, Y. Zhu, "Correlated spin wave generation and domain-wall oscillation in a topologically textured magnetic film," Nature Materials, vol. 24, pp. 406-413, 2025.

2024

  1. E. Savostin and V. Lomakin, "Giant phonon-skyrmion coupling in ferromagnet/heavy metal heterostructures," Physical Review B, vol. 110, p. 064423, 2024.
  2. A. Hamadeh, A. Koujok, S. Perna, D. R. Rodrigues, A. Riveros, V. Lomakin, G. Finocchio, G. Loubens, O. Klein, and P. Pirro, "Core reversal in vertically coupled vortices: simulation and experimental study," IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology, vol. 23, pp. 549-553, 2024.
  3. F. Ai and V. Lomakin, "Fast Fourier Transform periodic interpolation method for superposition sums in a periodic unit cell," Computer Physics Communications, vol. 304, p. 109291, 2024.

2023

  1. Y. Jian, K. Luo, W. Li, V. Lomakin, J. Chen, P. Lu, "Pattern constraints limiting nonlinear transition shift in high density magnetic recording," Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, vol. 588, p. 171370, 2023.
  2. A. Hamadeh, D. Slobodianiuk, R. Moukhader, G. Melkov, V. Borynskyi, M. Mohseni, G. Finocchio, V. Lomakin, R. Verba, G. de Loubens, P. Pirro, O. Klein, "Simultaneous multitone microwave emission by DC-driven spintronic nano-element," Science Advances, vol. 9, eadk143, 2023.
  3. J. Duan, X. Wang, and V. Lomakin, "Hybrid superposition integral - Poisson solver method for the magnetostatic field in finite element micromagnetic solvers," IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 59, p. 7002205, 2023.
  4. P. Salev, I. Volvach, D. Sasaki, P. Lapa, Y. Takamura, V. Lomakin, I. K. Schuller, "Voltage-controlled magnetic anisotropy enabled by resistive switching," Physical Review B, vol. 107, p. 054415, 2023.
  5. Z. Lin, I. Volvach, and V. Lomakin, "Switching Current Reduction in Magnetoresistive Random Access Memories," Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, vol. 568, p. 170361, 2023.
  6. Z. Lin and V. Lomakin, "Linearized frequency domain Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation formulation," AIP Advances, vol. 13, p. 015216, 2023.

2022

  1. S. A. Montoya, M. V. Lubarda, V. Lomakin, "Transport properties of dipole skyrmions in amorphous Fe/Gd multilayers," Communications Physics, vol. 5, p. 293, 2022.
  2. A. Hoffmann, S. Ramanathan, J. Grollier, A. D. Kent, M. Rozenberg, I. K. Schuller, O. Shpyrko, R. Dynes, Y. Fainman, A. Frano, E. E. Fullerton, G. Galli, V. Lomakin, S. P. Ong, A. K. Petford-Long, J. A. Schuller, M. D. Stiles, Y. Takamura, and Y. Zhu, "Quantum materials for energy-efficient neuromorphic computing: Opportunities and challenges," APL Materials, vol. 10, p. 070904, 2022.
  3. I. Volvach, A. D. Kent, E. E. Fullerton, and V. Lomakin, "Spin-transfer torque oscillator with an antiferromagnetic exchange coupled composite free layer," Physical Review Applied, vol. 18, p. 024071, 2022.
  4. Z. Lin, I. Volvach, X. Wang, and V. Lomakin, "Eigenvalue-Based Micromagnetic Analysis of Switching in Spin-Torque-Driven Structures," Physical Review Applied, vol. 17, pp. 034016-1-9, 2022.

2021

  1. I. Volvach, E. E. Fullerton, and V. Lomakin, "Thermal stability and magnetization switching of composite free layer with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy," AIP Advances, vol. 11, pp. 015132-1-4, 2021.
  2. M. Menarini and V. Lomakin, "Landau-Lifshitz-Bloch equation for ferrimagnets with higher-order interaction," Physical Review B, vol. 104, pp. 144303-1-8, 2021.

2020

  1. M. V. Lubarda, M. Kuteifan, C.-H. Lambert, V. Lomakin, E. E. Fullerton, and S. Mangin, "Current-driven transverse domain wall oscillations in perpendicular spin-valve structures," Physical Review B, vol. 102, pp. 014405-1-15, 2020.
  2. D. Gabay, A. Yilmaz, V. Lomakin, A. Boag, and A. Natan, "Lorenz gauge formulation for time-dependent density functional theory," Physical Review B, vol. 101, pp. 235101-1-10, 2020.
  3. M. Menarini and V. Lomakin, "Thermal fluctuations in the Landau-Lifshitz-Bloch model," Physical Review B, vol. 102, pp. 024428-1-8, 2020.
  4. Q. Wang, A. Hamadeh, R. Verba, V. Lomakin, M. Mohseni, B. Hillebrands, A. V. Chumak, and Ph. Pirro, "A nonlinear magnonic nano-ring resonator," npj Computational Materials, vol. 6, article 192, 2020.
  5. I. Volvach, J. G. Alzate, Y.-J. Chen, A. J. Smith, D. L. Kencke, and V. Lomakin, "Thermal stability and magnetization switching in perpendicular magnetic tunnel junctions," Applied Physics Letters, vol. 116, p. 192408, 2020.

2019

  1. M. Menarini, M. V. Lubarda, R. Chang, S. Li, S. Fu, B. Livshitz, V. Lomakin, "Micromagnetic simulator for complex granular systems based on Voronoi tessellation," Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, vol. 482, pp. 350-357, 2019.
  2. S. Fu, R. Chang, I. Volvach, M. Kuteifan, M. Menarini, and V. Lomakin, "Block Inverse Preconditioner for Implicit Time Integration in Finite Element Micromagnetic Solvers," IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 55, pp. 1-11, 2019.
  3. M. Menarini, R. Medapalli, E. E. Fullerton, and V. Lomakin, "Micromagnetic simulation of THz signals in antiferromagnetic FeRh by sub-picosecond thermal pulses," AIP Advances, vol. 9, p. 035040, 2019.
  4. S. Couture, X. Wang, A. Goncharov, and V. Lomakin, "A coupled micromagnetic-Maxwell equations solver Based on the Finite Element Method," Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, p. 165672, 2019.
  5. M. Lavanant, P. Vallobra, S. Petit Watelot, V. Lomakin, A. D. Kent, J. Sun, and S. Mangin, "Asymmetric magnetization switching in perpendicular magnetic tunnel junctions: role of the synthetic antiferromagnet's fringe field," Physical Review Applied, vol. 11, p. 034058, 2019.

2018

  1. M. Kuteifan, C.-H. Lambert, M. V. Lubarda, V. Lomakin, E. E. Fullerton, and S. Mangin, "Spin transfer torque magnetization reversal in a hard/soft composite structures," AIP Advances, vol. 8, p. 015024, 2018.
  2. A. D. Belanovsky, N. Y. Dmitriev, A. P. Mikhailov, M. Kuteifan, V. Lomakin, and A. V. Khvalkovskiy, "Energy barrier and domain wall thermal reversal in magnetic elliptic cylinders," Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 124, p. 223903, 2018.
  3. J. J. Kan, M. V. Lubarda, K. T. Chan, V. Uhlíř, A. Scholl, V. Lomakin, and E. E. Fullerton, "Periodic chiral magnetic domains in single-crystal nickel nanowires," Physical Review Materials, vol. 2, p. 064406, 2018.
  4. D. Louis, D. Lacour, M. Hehn, V. Lomakin, T. Hauet, and F. Montaigne, "A tunable magnetic metamaterial based on the dipolar four-state Potts model," Nature Materials, vol. 17, pp. 1076-1080, 2018.

2017

  1. D. Gabay, X. Wang, V. Lomakin, A. Boag, M. Jain, and A. Natan, "Size dependent electronic properties of silicon quantum dots - An analysis with hybrid, screened hybrid and local density functional theory," Computer Physics Communications, vol. 221, pp. 95-101, 2017.
  2. S. Couture, R. Chang, I. Volvach, A. Goncharov, and V. Lomakin, "Coupled Finite Element Micromagnetic - Integral Equation Electromagnetic Simulator for Modeling Magnetization - Eddy Currents Dynamics," IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 53, no. 12, pp. 1-9, 2017.
  3. S. A. Montoya, S. Couture, J. J. Chess, J. C. T. Lee, N. Kent, D. Henze, S. K. Sinha, M.-Y. Im, S. D. Kevan, P. Fischer, B. J. McMorran, V. Lomakin, S. Roy, and E. E. Fullerton, "Tailoring magnetic energies to form dipole skyrmions and skyrmion lattices," Physical Review B, vol. 95, p. 024415, 2017.
  4. S. A. Montoya, S. Couture, J. J. Chess, J. C. T. Lee, N. Kent, M.-Y. Im, S. D. Kevan, P. Fischer, B. J. McMorran, S. Roy, V. Lomakin, and E. E. Fullerton, "Resonant properties of dipole skyrmions in amorphous Fe/Gd multilayers," Physical Review B, vol. 95, p. 224405, 2017.
  5. J. Chess, S. A. Montoya, T. R. Harvey, C. Ophus, S. Couture, V. Lomakin, E. E. Fullerton, and B. J. McMorran, "Streamlined approach to mapping the magnetic induction of skyrmionic materials," Ultramicroscopy, vol. 177, pp. 78-83, 2017.
  6. S. Manna, J. W. Kim, M. V. Lubarda, J. Wingert, R. Harder, F. Spada, V. Lomakin, O. Shpyrko, and E. E. Fullerton, "Characterization of strain and its effects on ferromagnetic nickel nanocubes," AIP Advances, vol. 7, p. 125025, 2017.
  7. N. Motamedi, V. Lomakin, and J. E. Ford, "Image restoration in fiber-coupled imagers using space-variant impulse response characterization," Applied Optics, vol. 56, issue 14, pp. 4003-4011, 2017.

2016

  1. J.-K. Byun, I. Volvach, and V. Lomakin, "Fast Optimal Design of Micromagnetic Devices Using FastMag and Distributed Evolutionary Algorithm," IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 52, no. 9, pp. 1-9, 2016.
  2. J. Sampaio, A. V. Khvalkovskiy, M. Kuteifan, M. Cubukcu, D. Apalkov, V. Lomakin, V. Cros, and N. Reyren, "Disruptive effect of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction on the magnetic memory cell performance," Applied Physics Letters, vol. 108, pp. 112403-112406, 2016.
  3. M. Kuteifan, M. V. Lubarda, S. Fu, R. Chang, M. A. Escobar, S. Mangin, E. E. Fullerton, and V. Lomakin, "Large exchange-dominated domain wall velocities in antiferromagnetically coupled nanowires," AIP Advances, vol. 6, p. 045103, 2016.
  4. A. Shlivinski and V. Lomakin, "Gaussian-windowed frame based method of moments formulation of surface-integral-equation for extended apertures," Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 308, pp. 289-304, 2016.
  5. S. Fu, W. Cui, M. Hu, R. Chang, M. J. Donahue, and V. Lomakin, "Finite Difference Micromagnetic Solvers with Object Oriented Micromagnetic framework (OOMMF) on Graphics Processing Units," IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 52, p. 7100109, 2016.

2015

  1. N. Motamedi, A. Shlivinski, J. E. Ford, and V. Lomakin, "Efficient analysis of deep high-index-contrast gratings under arbitrary illumination," Optics Express, vol. 23, p. 33473, 2015.
  2. N. Motamedi, S. Karbashi, J. E. Ford, and V. Lomakin, "Analysis and characterization of high-resolution and high-aspect-ratio imaging fiber bundles," Applied Optics, vol. 54, p. 9422, 2015.
  3. S. Fu, L. Xu, V. Lomakin, A. Torabi, and B. Lengsfield, "Modeling Perpendicular Magnetic Multilayered Oxide Media with Discretized Magnetic Layers," IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 51, p. 3001704, 2015.
  4. S. Fu, R. Chang, S. Couture, M. Menarini, M. A. Escobar, M. Kuteifan, M. Lubarda, D. Gabay, and V. Lomakin, "Micromagnetics on high-performance workstation and mobile computational platforms," Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 117, p. 17E517, 2015.

2014

  1. Y. Liu, A. C. Yücel, V. Lomakin, and E. Michielssen, "Graphics Processing Unit Implementation of Multilevel Plane-Wave Time-Domain Algorithm," IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 13, pp. 1671-1675, 2014.
  2. Y. Brick, V. Lomakin, and A. Boag, "Fast Green's Function Evaluation for Sources and Observers near Smooth Convex Bodies," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 62, no. 6, pp. 3374-3378, 2014.
  3. Y. Brick, V. Lomakin, and A. Boag, "Fast direct solver for essentially convex scatterers using multilevel non-uniform grids," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 62, no. 8, pp. 4314-4324, 2014.
  4. A. Singh, S. Gupta, M. Kuteifan, M. Lubarda, V. Lomakin, and O. Mryasov, "Effect of interlayer exchange coupling parameter on switching time and critical current density in composite free layer," Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 115, pp. 17D111-1-17D111-3, 2014.
  5. Q. Gu, J. S. T. Smalley, M. P. Nezhad, A. Simic, J. H. Lee, M. Katz, O. Bondarenko, B. Slutsky, A. Mizrahi, V. Lomakin, and Y. Fainman, "Sub-wavelength semiconductor lasers for dense chip-scale integration," Advances in Optics and Photonics, vol. 6, pp. 1-56, 2014.

2013

  1. R. Chang and V. Lomakin, "Quadrilateral Barycentric Basis Functions for Surface Integral Equations," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 61, pp. 6039-6050, 2013.
  2. A. Boag and V. Lomakin, "Generalized Equivalence Integral Equations," IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 11, pp. 1568-1571, 2013.
  3. J. E. Martin, M. V. Lubarda, V. Lomakin, and P. O. Jubert, "Effect of thermal fluctuations on the performance of particulate media," IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 49, pp. 3137-3140, 2013.

2012

  1. M. Lubarda, S. Li, R. Chang, E. Fullerton, and V. Lomakin, "Domain wall motion in magnetically frustrated nanorings," Physical Review B, vol. 85, pp. 214428-214434, 2012.
  2. M. Khajavikhan, A. Simic, M. Katz, J. H. Lee, B. Slutsky, A. Mizrahi, V. Lomakin, and Y. Fainman, "Thresholdless nanoscale coaxial lasers," Nature, vol. 482, pp. 205-207, 2012.
  3. S. Li, R. Chang, and V. Lomakin, "Fast integral equation solvers on Graphics Processing Units for Electromagnetics," IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, vol. 54, pp. 71-87, 2012.
  4. I. Tudosa, M. V. Lubarda, K. T. Chan, M. A. Escobar, V. Lomakin, and E. E. Fullerton, "Thermal stability of patterned Co/Pd nanodot arrays," Applied Physics Letters, vol. 100, p. 102401, 2012.
  5. M. A. Escobar, M. V. Lubarda, S. Li, R. Chang, B. Livshitz, and V. Lomakin, "Advanced Micromagnetic Analysis of write head dynamics using FastMag," IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 48, pp. 1731-1737, 2012.
  6. R. Chang, S. Li, M. A. Escobar, M. V. Lubarda, and V. Lomakin, "Accurate evaluation of exchange fields in finite element micromagnetic solvers," Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 111, p. 07D129, 2012.
  7. D. Van Orden and V. Lomakin, "Rapidly convergent representations for periodic Green's function of a linear array in layered media," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 60, pp. 870-879, 2012.

2011

  1. I. Yulaev, M. Lubarda, S. Mangin, V. Lomakin, and E. E. Fullerton, "Spin-transfer-torque reversal in perpendicular anisotropy spin valves with composite free layers," Applied Physics Letters, vol. 93, p. 132502, 2011.
  2. M. Navarro-Cía, M. Beruette, F. Falcone, M. Sorolla, and V. Lomakin, "Negative group delay through subwavelength hole arrays," Physical Review B, vol. 84, p. 075151, 2011.
  3. L. Feng, A. Mizrahi, S. Zamek, Z. Liu, V. Lomakin, and Y. Fainman, "Metamaterials for enhanced polarization conversion in plasmonic excitation," ACS Nano, vol. 5, no. 6, pp. 5100-5106, 2011.
  4. Q. Ding, A. Mizrahi, Y. Fainman, and V. Lomakin, "Dielectric shielded nanoscale patch resonators," Optics Letters, vol. 36, no. 10, pp. 1812-1814, 2011.
  5. D. Van Orden and V. Lomakin, "Fundamental electromagnetic properties of twisted linear arrays," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 59, no. 8, pp. 2824-2833, 2011.
  6. R. Chang, S. Li, M. Lubarda, B. Livshitz, and V. Lomakin, "FastMag: Fast micromagnetic simulator for complex magnetic structures," Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 109, p. 07D358, 2011.
  7. M. Lubarda, S. Li, B. Livshitz, E. E. Fullerton, and V. Lomakin, "Antiferromagnetically-coupled capped bit patterned media for high-density magnetic recording," Applied Physics Letters, vol. 98, p. 012513, 2011.
  8. M. Lubarda, S. Li, B. Livshitz, E. E. Fullerton, and V. Lomakin, "Reversal in bit patterned media with vertical and lateral exchange," IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 18-25, 2011.

2010

  1. S. Li, D. Van Orden, and V. Lomakin, "Fast periodic interpolation method for periodic unit cell problems," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 58, no. 12, pp. 8463-8483, 2010.
  2. S. Li, B. Livshitz, and V. Lomakin, "Fast evaluation of Helmholtz potential on graphics processing units (GPUs)," Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 229, pp. 8463-8483, 2010.
  3. J. Meng, A. Boag, V. Lomakin, and E. Michielssen, "Multilevel Cartesian non-uniform grid time domain algorithm," Journal of Computational Physics, vol. 229, pp. 8430-8444, 2010.
  4. D. Van Orden, Y. Fainman, and V. Lomakin, "Twisted chains of resonant particles: Optical polarization control, waveguidance, and radiation," Optics Letters, vol. 35, no. 15, pp. 2579-2581, 2010.
  5. M. P. Nezhad, A. Simic, O. Bondarenko, B. Slutsky, A. Mizrahi, L. Feng, V. Lomakin, and Y. Fainman, "Room-temperature subwavelength metallo-dielectric lasers," Nature Photonics, vol. 2, no. 6, pp. 395-399, 2010.
  6. S. Li, B. Livshitz, and V. Lomakin, "Graphics Processing Unit accelerated O(N) micromagnetic solver," IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 46, no. 6, pp. 2373-2375, 2010.
  7. K. Tetz, V. Lomakin, L. Pang, M. Nezhad, and Y. Fainman, "Polarization weighting of Fano-type transmission through bidimensional metallic gratings," Journal of the Optical Society of America A, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 911-917, 2010.
  8. L. Feng, Z. W. Liu, V. Lomakin, and Y. Fainman, "Form birefringence metal and its plasmonic anisotropy," Applied Physics Letters, vol. 96, no. 4, pp. 041112.1-041112.3, 2010.

2009

  1. A. Mizrahi, K. Ikeda, F. Bonomelli, V. Lomakin, and Y. Fainman, "Self alignment and instability of waveguides induced by optical forces," Physical Review A, vol. 80, no. 4, p. 041804(R), 2009.
  2. B. Livshitz, A. Inomata, H. N. Bertram, and V. Lomakin, "Semi-analytical approach for analysis of BER in conventional and staggered bit patterned media," IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 45, no. 10, pp. 3519-3552, 2009.
  3. D. Van Orden and V. Lomakin, "Rapidly convergent representations for 2D and 3D Green's functions for a linear periodic array of dipole sources," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 57, no. 7, pp. 1973-1984, 2009.
  4. S. Li, B. Livshitz, H. N. Bertram, M. Schabes, T. Schrefl, E. Fullerton, and V. Lomakin, "Microwave assisted magnetization reversal in composite media," Applied Physics Letters, vol. 94, p. 202509, 2009.
  5. B. Livshitz, A. Boag, H. N. Bertram, and V. Lomakin, "Non-uniform grid algorithm for fast magnetostatic interactions calculation in micromagnetics," Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 105, p. 07D541, 2009.
  6. S. Li, B. Livshitz, E. E. Fullerton, H. N. Bertram, M. Schabes, and V. Lomakin, "Microwave assisted magnetization reversal and multilevel recording in composite media," Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 105, p. 07B909, 2009.
  7. S. Li, B. Livshitz, E. E. Fullerton, H. N. Bertram, A. Inomata, and V. Lomakin, "Capped bit patterned media for high density magnetic recording," Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 105, p. 07C121, 2009.
  8. B. Livshitz, A. Inomata, N. Bertram, and V. Lomakin, "Analysis of recording in bit patterned media with parameter distributions," Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 105, p. 07C111, 2009.
  9. L. Feng, D. Van Orden, M. Abashin, Q. J. Wang, Y. F. Chen, V. Lomakin, and Y. Fainman, "Nanoscale optical field localization by resonantly focused plasmons," Optics Express, vol. 17, no. 6, pp. 4824-4832, 2009.
  10. D. Van Orden, Y. Fainman, and V. Lomakin, "Optical waves on nano-particle chains coupled with surfaces," Optics Letters, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 422-424, 2009.

2008

  1. L. Feng, M. H. Lu, V. Lomakin, and Y. Fainman, "Plasmonic photonic crystal with a complete bandgap for surface plasmon polariton waves," Applied Physics Letters, vol. 93, no. 23, p. 231105, 2008.
  2. V. Lomakin, S. Li, B. Livshitz, A. Inomata, and H. N. Bertram, "Patterned media for 10 Tbit/in² utilizing dual-section 'ledge' elements," IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 44, no. 11, pp. 3454-3459, 2008 (invited).
  3. B. Livshitz, H. N. Bertram, and V. Lomakin, "Precessional magnetization reversal in composite patterned media: Dependence on applied field parameters," IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 44, no. 11, pp. 3075-3078, 2008.
  4. A. Mizrahi, V. Lomakin, B. A. Slutsky, M. P. Nezhad, L. Feng, and Y. Fainman, "Low threshold gain metal coated laser nanoresonators," Optics Letters, vol. 33, no. 11, pp. 1261-1263, 2008.
  5. V. Lomakin, R. Choi, B. Livshitz, S. Li, A. Inomata, and H. N. Bertram, "Dual-layer patterned media 'ledge' design for ultra-high density magnetic recording," Applied Physics Letters, vol. 92, p. 022502, 2008.
  6. H. N. Bertram, M. Schabes, V. Lomakin, and B. Livshitz, "Nucleation fields in composite medium grains," Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 103, no. 7, p. 07F508, 2008.
  7. B. Livshitz, R. Choi, A. Inomata, H. N. Bertram, and V. Lomakin, "Fast precessional reversal in perpendicular composite patterned media," Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 103, no. 7, p. 07C516, 2008.

2007

  1. B. Livshitz, A. Inomata, H. N. Bertram, and V. Lomakin, "Precessional reversal in exchange coupled composite magnetic elements," Applied Physics Letters, vol. 91, p. 182502, 2007.
  2. V. Lomakin, M. Lu, and E. Michielssen, "Optical wave properties of nano-particle chains coupled with a metal surface," Optics Express, vol. 15, pp. 11827-11842, 2007.
  3. L. Feng, K. A. Tetz, B. Slutsky, V. Lomakin, and Y. Fainman, "Fourier plasmonics: Diffractive focusing of in-plane surface plasmon polariton waves," Applied Physics Letters, vol. 91, p. 081101, 2007.
  4. V. Lomakin, S. Li, and E. Michielssen, "Transmission through and wave guidance on metal plates perforated by periodic arrays of through-holes of subwavelength coaxial cross-section," Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, vol. 49, no. 7, pp. 1554-1558, 2007.
  5. V. Lomakin, B. Livshitz, and H. N. Bertram, "Magnetization Reversal in Patterned Media," IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 43, no. 6, pp. 2154-2156, 2007.
  6. V. Lomakin and E. Michielssen, "Beam transmission through periodic sub-wavelength hole structures," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 55, no. 6, pp. 1564-1581, 2007.
  7. M. Beruete, M. Sorolla, M. N. Cía, F. Falcone, I. Campillo, and V. Lomakin, "Extraordinary transmission and left-handed propagation in miniaturized stacks of doubly periodic subwavelength hole arrays," Optics Express, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 1107-1114, 2007.

2006

  1. V. Lomakin, Y. Fainman, Y. Urzhumov, and G. Shvets, "Doubly negative metamaterials in the near infrared and visible regimes based on thin films," Optics Express, vol. 14, no. 23, pp. 11164-11177, 2006.
  2. A. Boag, V. Lomakin, and E. Michielssen, "Time domain non-uniform spherical grid algorithm for fast evaluation of transient fields," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 54, no. 7, pp. 1943-1951, 2006.
  3. V. Lomakin and E. Michielssen, "Transmission of transient plane waves through perfect electrically conducting plates perforated by periodic arrays of subwavelength holes," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 54, no. 3, pp. 970-984, 2006.

2005

  1. V. Lomakin, S. Q. Li, and E. Michielssen, "Manipulation of stop-band gaps of periodically perforated conducting plates," IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, vol. 15, no. 12, pp. 919-921, 2005.
  2. V. Lomakin and E. Michielssen, "Enhanced transmission through metallic plates perforated by arrays of subwavelength holes and sandwiched in between dielectric slabs," Physical Review B, vol. 71, no. 23, pp. 235117-1-10, 2005.
  3. H. Bagci, A. Yilmaz, V. Lomakin, and E. Michielssen, "Fast solution of mixed-potential time-domain integral equations for half-space environments," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 269-279, 2005.

2004

  1. V. Lomakin, N. W. Chen, S. Q. Li, and E. Michielssen, "Enhanced transmission through two-period arrays of sub-wavelength holes," IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, vol. 14, no. 7, pp. 355-357, 2004.

2003

  1. V. Lomakin, B. Z. Steinberg, E. Heyman, and L. B. Felsen, "Multi-resolution homogenization of field and network formulations for multi-scale laminate dielectric slabs, I: Field theory," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 51, no. 9, pp. 2761-2777, 2003.
  2. V. Lomakin and B. Z. Steinberg, "Effective resonance representation of propagators in complex ducts - a multiresolution homogenization approach," IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 51, no. 9, pp. 2754-2760, 2003.

2002

  1. V. Lomakin, B. Z. Steinberg, and E. Heyman, "UWB analysis of EM fields in complex laminates: An MRA homogenization approach," in Ultra-Wideband, Short-pulse Electromagnetics, vol. 5, P. D. Smith and S. R. Cloude, Eds., Kluwer-Academic/Plenum-Publishers, NY, pp. 67-74, 2002.

2000

  1. E. Heyman, V. Lomakin, and G. Kaiser, "Physical source realization of complex source pulsed beams," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 107, no. 4, pp. 1880-1891, 2000.
  2. Y. Pemper, V. Lomakin, E. Heyman, R. Kastner, and R. W. Ziolkowski, "Moving coordinate frame FDTD analysis of long range tracking of pulsed fields in graded index waveguides," Progress in Electromagnetic Research (PIER), vol. 26, pp. 135-166, 2000.

1998

  1. N. N. Kolchigin, S. N. Pivnenko, and V. Lomakin, "Influence of losses in a dielectric half-space on the characteristics of a reflected three-dimensional pulsed beam," Telecommunications and Radio Engineering, vol. 52, no. 8, pp. 8-13, 1998.

1997

  1. N. N. Kolchigin, V. Lomakin, and S. M. Pivnenko, "Distinctive features of a pulsed beam scattering on a plane surface," International Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves, vol. 18, no. 10, pp. 2019-2030, 1997.

Research Group

Graduate Students

Student Name: Jiawei Duan
Email: jduan@ucsd.edu

Student Name: Egor Savostin
Email: esavostin@ucsd.edu

Student Name: Bill Murray
Email: b3murray@ucsd.edu

Student Name: Andrew Parsons
Email: a1parsons@ucsd.edu

Student Name: Richard Petrisevac
Email: rpetrisevac@ucsd.edu


Former Graduate Students and Researchers

Fangzhou Ai — Ph.D., 2024 — AMD, Santa Clara
Zhuonan Lin — Ph.D., 2022 — ByteDance (latest public professional affiliation)
Marco Menarini — Ph.D., 2020 — CNR-ISAC, Bologna
Iana Volvach — Ph.D., 2020 — Computational Materials Scientist, Sonera
Majd Kuteifan — Ph.D., 2017 — Senior OPC Modeling Engineer, Samsung Electronics
Simon Couture — Ph.D., 2017 — Software Engineer, Teleidoscope
Marco Escobar — Ph.D., 2016 — Researcher, Universidad La Salle Bajío
Sidi Fu — Ph.D., 2016 — Most recently Meta (Codec Avatar work); current role not publicly verified
Nojan Motamedi — Ph.D., 2016 — Applied Materials
Dor Gabay — M.S., 2015 — Staff Engineer, IonQ
Ruinan Chang — Ph.D., 2014 — Engineer, Qualcomm
Marko Lubarda — Ph.D., 2012 — Associate Professor of Teaching, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, UC San Diego
Shaojing Li — Ph.D., 2012 — Senior Engineering Manager, ML Platform / GenAI, Netflix
Javier Espigares Martin — M.S., 2012 — Department of Electromagnetism, Universidad de Granada (latest verified affiliation)
Qian Ding — M.S., 2012 — Intel — package / interconnect electromagnetics
Liang Feng — Ph.D., 2010 — Professor, Electrical & Systems Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
Derek Van Orden — Ph.D., 2010 — Ayar Labs (recent public affiliation)
Denis Iakushev — Researcher, 2023–2025 — UC San Diego (latest public affiliation; current role not independently verified)
Boris Livshitz — Researcher, 2006–2009 — Senior Magnetic Sensor Device Engineer, Bosch Sensortec