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Min Chen

Title: Professor
Email: minchen@sjtu.edu.cn
Phone: +86-21-3420-4629
Address: Room 419, Building 2
Related Links: http://llp.sjtu.edu.cn/?lang=en
Area of Physics: Laser Plasma Physics
 

Research Interests:

  1. Laser plasma interaction
  2. laser plasma wakefield acceleration
  3. laser plasma based radiation source
  4. plasma theory and simulation
 
Biographical Sketch:

Min Chen received his Bachelor degree from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2002. Later he received PhD degree from Institute of Physics, Beijing, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in 2007. From 2007 to 2009 he worked as an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral research fellow in Heinrich Heine Universitaet, Duesseldorf, Germany. After that he joined LOASIS program at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) as a postdoctoral research fellow. From 2012, he joined Shanghai Jiao Tong University as a Distinguished Research Fellow and then was promoted to professor position in 2018.

 

His main research interests are theoretical and experimental studies on laser plasma based particle accelerator and radiation source including laser wakefield accelerator, laser solid ion acceleration and radiation sources from laser plasma interaction. Currently his main interest is focused on experimental studies on staged laser wakefield acceleration and theoretical investigation of x-ray laser plasma interaction.

 

Since 2006 he has coauthored more than 150 peer-reviewed scientific research papers Among them for 59 papers he is the first or corresponding author. In 2019 he was awarded the DPP Young Researcher Award by Division of Plasma Physics, AAPPS for his original contributions on ionization injection and stage coupling for laser plasma wakefield acceleration towards high quality and high energy electron beams and tunable x-ray sources. He has been editorial board/junior members for several scientific journals, such as Scientific Reports, Chinese Physics letters, Chinese Physics B, High Power Laser and Particle Beams.
 
Selected Publications:
  1. Min Chen, Zheng-Ming Sheng, Yan-Yun Ma, Jie Zhang*, “Electron Injection and Trapping in a Laser Wakefield by Field Ionization to High-Charge States of Gases”, J. Appl. Phys., 99, 056109 (2006)

 

  1. M. Chen, A. Pukhov, T.P. Yu, and Z.M. Sheng, “Enhanced Collimated GeV Monoenergetic Ion Acceleration from a Shaped Foil Target Irradiated by a Circularly Polarized Laser Pulse”, Phys. Rev. Lett., 103, 024801 (2009)

 

  1. Tong-Pu Yu, Alexander Pukhov, Gennady Shvets, and Min Chen, “Stable Laser-Driven Proton Beam Acceleration from a Two-Ion-Species Ultrathin Foil”, Phys. Rev. Lett., 105, 065002 (2010)

 

  1. G.P. Plateau, C.G.R. Geddes, D.B. Thorn, M. Chen, C. Benedetti, E.Esarey, A.J. Gonsalves, N.H. Matlis, K. Nakamura, C.B. Schroeder, S.Shiraishi, T. Sokollik, J. van Tilborg, Cs. Toth, S. Trotsenko. T.S. Kim, M. Battaglia, Th. Stoehlker, and W.P. Leemans, “Low-emittance electron bunches from a laser-plasma accelerator measured using single-shot x-ray spectroscopy”, Phys. Rev. Lett., 109, 064802 (2012)

 

  1. M. Chen, E. Esarey, C.B. Schroeder, C.G.R. Geddes, and W.P. Leemans, “Theory of ionization-induced trapping in laser-plasma accelerators”, Phys. Plasmas, 19, 033101 (2012).

 

  1. M. Zeng, M. Chen, L.L. Yu, W.B. Mori, Z.M. Sheng, B. Hidding, D.A. Jaroszynski, and J. Zhang, “Multichromatic Narrow-Energy-Spread Electron Bunches from Laser-Wakefield Acceleration with Dual-Color Lasers”, Phys. Rev. Lett., 114, 084801 (2015).

 

  1. Min Chen, Ji Luo, Fei-Yu Li, Feng Liu, Zheng-Ming Sheng, and Jie Zhang, “Tunable synchrotron-like radiation from centimeter scale plasma”, Light: Science & Applications, 5, e16015 (2016).

 

  1. Wenchao Yan, Colton Fruhling, Grigory Golovin, Daniel Haden, Ji Luo, Ping Zhang, Baozhen Zhao, Jun Zhang, Cheng Liu, Min Chen, Shouyuan Chen, Sudeep Banerjee, and Donald Umstadter, “High-order multiphoton Thomson scattering”, Nat. Photonics, 11, 514 (2017)

 

  1. J. Luo, M. Chen, W.Y. Wu, S.M. Weng, Z.M. Sheng, C.B. Schroeder, D.A. Jaroszynski, E. Esarey, W.P. Leemans, W.B. Mori, and J. Zhang, “Multistage Coupling of Laser-Wakefield Accelerators with Curved Plasma Channels”, Phys. Rev. Lett., 120,154801 (2018)

 

  1. Xing-Long Zhu, Min Chen, Su-Ming Weng, Tong-Pu Yu, Wei-Min Wang, Feng He, Zheng-Ming Sheng, Paul McKenna, Dino A. Jaroszynski, and Jie Zhang, “Extremely brilliant GeV g-rays from a two-stage laser-plasma accelerator”, Sci. Adv., 6, eaaz7240 (2020)