- Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Phone: 979-845-7591
- FAX: 979-845-6259
- Email: r-nevels@tamu.edu
- Office: WEB 205K
Educational Background
- Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Mississippi
- M.S., Electrical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
- B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Kentucky
Research Interests
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- Analytical and Numerical Electromagnetics
- Nanophotonics
- Electromagnetic Scattering
- Antennas
Awards & Honors
- IEEE AP-S President-elect 2009, President 2010
- IEEE Fellow
- Eugene E.Webb'43 Faculty Fellow
- IEEE-APS Administrative Committee (ADCOM)-elected 1998-2001 and 2011-2014
- The IEEE Region 5 Outstanding Educator Award
- The Clear Lake Council of Technical Societies Technical Educator of the Year
- The Clear Lake IEEE Technical Educator Award
- Outstanding Professor Award from IEEE Texas A&M Student Chapter, awarded twice
- Texas A&M Former Students Distinguished Teaching Award, University Level
- Texas A&M Former Students Distinguished Teaching Award, College Level awarded twice
- The Amoco Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching
- The Electromagnetics Academy (Fellow)
Selected Publications
- J. Shin and R. Nevels, "Propagator Methods in Electromagnetics," Chapter in Applied Electromagnetics, A. Lakhtakia and C. Furse, eds., Springer Verlog, 2017.
- R. Nevels and Hasan Tahir Abbas, “Nano Optical Antennas,” Chapter in Handbook of Antenna Technology, Chen Zhi Ning ed., Springer Verlog, 2015.
- R. Nevels and K. Michalski, “The Coulomb Gauge in Electromagnetics”, Chapter in Encyclopedia of Microwave and RF Engineering, Vol. 1, Ed: Kai Chang, John Wiley & Sons, pp 849-863, 2005.
- Jiachen Ding, Ping Yang, Michael I. Mishchenko, and Robert D. Nevels, "Identify the limits of geometric optics ray tracing by numerically solving the vector Kirchhoff integral," Opt. Express 28, 10670-10682, 2020.
- H.T. Abbas, L.N. Aljihmani, R.D. Nevels, and K.A. Qaraqe, “Electromagnetic Scattering in Two-Dimensional Electronic Systems,” IEEE Access, doi: 10.1109/Access.2019.2932506, 2019.
- K.A. Michalski and R.D. Nevels, "On the Groundwave Excited by a Vertical Hertzian Dipole Over a Planar Conductor: Second-Order Asymptotic Expansion With Applications to Plasmonics," IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques Print ISSN: 0018-9480 Online ISSN: 1557-9670 Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TMTT.2019.2932744, 2019.
- A.M. Zheltikov and R.D. Nevels, “Intensity and wavelength scaling of laser-driven electron transition radiation: toward a table-top source of electromagnetic pulses”, Laser Physics Letters, 16(1), 015401-015401, 2019.
- H.T. Abbas, X. Zeng, R.D. Nevels, and M. S. Zubairy, "Deep subwavelength imaging via tunable terahertz plasmons" Applied Physics Letters, 113, 051106 (2018); doi: 10.1063/1.5035312.
- Jongchul Shin and Robert Nevels, “A Time Domain Propagator Numerical Method for Computational Electromagnetics,” IEEE Journal on Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Techniques, Vol. 3, 10.1109/JMMCT.2018.2850774, pp. 80-87 Dec. 2018
- Yuhan Zhou, Robert Nevels, Weiping Shi, “Capacitance Extraction with Provably Good Absorbing Boundary Conditions, IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, pp 1-8, Jan 2018.
- Hasan Tahir Abbas and Robert Nevels, “Plasma based Integrated On-chip Antenna,” Transactions of IEEE AP-S and URSI International Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Puerto Rico, July 2016.
- R.D. Nevels and K.A. Michalski, “On the Behavior of Surface Plasmons at a Metallo-Dielectric Interface,” Journal of Lightwave Technology, IEEE and Opt. Soc. America, vol. 32 no. 19, pp. 3299-3305, 2014.