Anna Pyayt     

Email: lastname at stanford.edu Mail: Anna Pyayt Department of Electrical Engineering Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-4088       Media/Interviews Honors Publications Photos

About

I am a postdoctoral scholar and CIFellow at Stanford University, department of Electrical Engineering. I earned my dual Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Nanotechnology from the University of Washington (UW). While at the UW I spent some time doing research at Microsoft Research, (with Gary Starkweather, the laser printer inventor, and others), where we invented a new energy-efficient display technology Telescopic Pixel that later gained world-wide attention. Later at Hewlett-Packard Labs, we designed a new nano-engineered photonic crystal sensor.

My current research is in optical MEMS/NEMS, including miniature sensors for continous health monitoring, optical interconnects, energy-efficient displays, and nano-tools for biomedicine.

Books

• Anna L. Pyayt, Optical nano- and micro-electro mechanical systems: from plasmonic interconnects to ultra-efficient displays, 2011, ISBN-10: 1243706066. Available at Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, Borders, others.

Selected publications (full list)

• Anna L. Pyayt, "Guiding Light in Electro-Optic Polymers", invited review paper in Polymers, 3(4), pp. 1591-1599 (2011) [pdf]

• Anna L. Pyayt, Jingdong Luo, Alex K.-Y. Jen, Antao Chen, Larry Dalton, "Field-induced guiding optical devices made from electro-optic polymers", Applied Optics, Vol. 49, Issue 5, pp. 892-896 (2010). [pdf]

• Anna L. Pyayt, Gary K. Starkweather, Michael J. Sinclair, "A high-efficiency display based on a telescopic pixel design", Nature Photonics, 2, no. 8, 492-495 (2008). [pdf]

• Anna L. Pyayt, Benjamin Wiley, Younan Xia, Antao Chen, Larry Dalton, "Integration of photonic and silver nanowire plasmonic waveguides", Nature Nanotechnology, 3, 660-665 (2008). [pdf]

Selected plenary/invited talks

• "Optical biosensing of complex fluids", Nano-bio collaborative international conference, 2012

• "Photonic chips for biomedicine", Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 2011

• "One telescope per pixel," Conference on Laser Electro-Optics Applications (CLEO), 2010

Selected awards and honors

• Computing Innovation Fellow (2009, 2010)

• Microsoft Research Fellow (2007, 2008)

• Society of Women Engineers' Outstanding Female Award (2007)

• Department of Electrical Engineering Chair's award (2006)

• SPIE Educational Scholarship in Optical Science and Engineering four times in a row (2006, 2005, 2004, 2003)

• Nanotechnology UIF Graduate Research award for 2004-05 for the research titled "Novel wavelength selective switch based on new electro-optical materials and nano-fabrication technique"

• Electrical Engineering Young Innovator Fellowship (2003)

Research Projects
	Telescopic Pixel New, ultra-efficient display technology based on new telescopic design of pixels; capable of transmitting 360% more backlight than LCD (Liquid Crystal Displays). This helps to decrease energy consumption of the display more than three times and proportionally increase battery life of laptops.
	Silver Nanowire plasmonic interconnect New optical interconnect component integrating silver nanowire plasmonic waveguides with polymer optical waveguides for the nanoscale confinement and guiding of light on chip. As a part of optical interconnect designed to decrease energy consumption of the next generation computer chips.
	Wavelength selective switch A new wavelength selective switch based on two microring resonators routing two different wavelengths indepentently. Used for on-chip optical signal routing in energy-efficient optical interconnects.
	Electro-optical polymer modulators Ultra-high speed Electro-optic polymer light modulator with improved linearity and simple integration into complex photonic circuits. Used for chip-to-chip optical interconnects in energy efficient computing as well as for ultra-high speed signal transmission in computer networks such as Internet.
	Polymer sensor A new polymer-sensor that contains conjugated molecules changing their index of refraction upon bonding with molecules that have to be detected. The polymers are incorporated into micro-ring resonators to create miniature, highly sensitive sensors. Works for wide range of biomedical and chemical applications.

Teaching

I gave a lecture on Memristors in "EE503 Modeling of MEMS" offered to graduate students majoring in Electrical Engineering at the University of Washington (UW).

At the University of Washington, I was running a quarterly research seminar EE592 in Electrical Engineering

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