Anna Pyayt
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Email: pyayt at stanford dot edu
Physical mail:
Anna Pyayt
Department of Electrical Engineering
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-4088
Photos,
Honors,
Publications
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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
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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
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Microsoft Research
Fellow (2007, 2008)
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Society of Women Engineers' Outstanding
Female Award (2007)
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Department of Electrical Engineering
Chair’s award (2006)
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SPIE Educational Scholarship
in Optical Science and Engineering four times in a row (2006, 2005, 2004,
2003)
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Nanotechnology UIF
Graduate Research award
for the project "Novel wavelength selective switch based
on new electro-optical materials and nano-fabrication technique"
(2004-2005)
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.
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Research Projects
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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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