Anna Pyayt     

Email: pyayt at stanford dot edu Physical mail: Anna Pyayt Department of Electrical Engineering Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-4088   Media/Interviews Honors Publications Photos

About

I am finishing as 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. My recent research projects include energy-efficient computer hardware, a new whole blood testing platform for mobile medicine and electro-optic polymer devices for ultra-fast data transmission for computer networks and optical interconnects. .

Industrial research

I had two research internships. One was at Microsoft Research, it resulted in development of a new display technology Telescopic Pixel. Second was at Hewlett-Packard Labs, where I was working on new nano-engineered sensor.  At both places my work led to patents and publications.

Selected publications

• 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).

• 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).

• 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).

Books

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

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
	Blood Lab-on-fiber New blood testing platform that allows complex analysis of human blood and plasma on the whole blood.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.

Teaching

Lecture that I was teaching at  EE503 Modeling of MEMS.

Schedule of the EE592 Electrical Engineering Research Survey seminar that I run.

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