Anna Pyayt     

 

Email: pyayt at stanford dot edu


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Anna Pyayt
Department of Electrical Engineering
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-4088

 

Photos,
Honors,
Publications

News:
Our paper "Integration of photonic and silver nanowire plasmonic waveguides" was recently published in Nature Nanotechnology

Our work "A high-efficiency display based on a Telescopic Pixel design" was published in Nature Photonics, mentioned in Nature, chosen for the cover interview by Nature Photonics, interview with MIT's Technology Review, New Scientist magazine, Optics & Photonics News, Science et vie (French science magazine), "c't" (German computer magazine), Brazilian Technology Portal and Computer Power User magazine.

You might want to Google "Telescopic pixel" for full media coverage

About

Currently, I am a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University, department of Electrical Engineering. I hold a dual Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Nanotechnology from the University of Washington. My recent research projects include new plasmonic and electro-optic devices.

Industrial research

I had two industrial 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 lead to patents and publications.

Selected awards and honors

Teaching

Lecture that I was teaching at  EE503 Modeling of MEMS.

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

UW courses and dorms reviews, useful for the new students.

Research Projects

 

 

Silver Nanowire plasmonic interconnect

New way to integrate multiple silver nanowire plasmonic waveguides with polymer optical waveguides for the nanoscale confinement and guiding of light on a chip. In our device, the nanowires lay perpendicular to the polymer waveguide with one end inside the polymer. (More in our Nature Nanotechnology paper).
 

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Telescopic Pixel

New pixel-based technology that involves a telescopic pixel design and can transmit 360% more backlight than Liquid Crystal Displays.
 

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Electro-optical polymer modulators

New electro-optic polymer light modulator with improved linearity and possibility to create devices changing their functionality on the fly.
 

 

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Wavelength selective switch


2X2 wavelength selective switch based on two microring resonators - design, simulation and fabrication.
 

 

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Chemical sensor


Polymers that contain conjugated molecules can change their index of refraction upon bonding with some molecules. These polymers can be incorporated into micro-ring resonators as chemical sensor. Since the resonator cavity itself is made of sensing material, the detection is intrinsic, which may lead to higher sensitivity and faster response than other fiber optic chemical sensors.
 

 

 

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