Doctoral Dissertations

Student	Dissertation Title
Patrick Xiao	Optoelectronics for Refrigeration and Analog Circuits for Combinatorial Optimization
Andrew Michaels	A Hierarchical Approach to the Design and Optimization of Photonics
Michael Roe	Link-Adaptive Antenna Systems
Greggory Scranton	Optical Design: from Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography to Thermo-Photovoltaics
Kevin Messer	Optical Antenna Enhanced Spontaneous Emission in Semiconductors
Christopher Lalau Keraly	Optimizing Nanophotonics: from Photoreceivers to Waveguides
Vidya Ganapati	Optical Design Considerations for High Conversion Efficiency in Photovoltaics
Samarth Bhargava	Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording: Fundamental Limits to Inverse Electromagnetic Design
Alex Hegyi	Nanodiamond Imaging: a New Molecular Imaging Approach
Nikhil Kumar	Spontaneous Emission Rate Enhancement Using Optical Antennas
Owen Miller	Photonic Design: From Fundamental Solar Cell Physics to Computational Inverse Design
Sapan Agarwal	Reinventing the PN Junction: Dimensionality Effects on Tunneling Switches
Matteo Staffaroni	Circuit Analysis in Metal-Optics, Theory and Applications
Xi Luo	Transistor-Based Ge/SOI Photodetector for Integrated Silicon Photonics
Shantha Vedantam	Focusing Light on the Nanoscale: A Novel Plasmonic-Lens Design
Japeck Tang	Darkfield Imaging with a Plasmonic Focusing Lens: Antenna Theory for Near-field Scanning Optical Microscopes
Subal Sahni	Highly integrated Germanium Photo-detectors and III-V Hybrid Lasers for Silicon Photonic Applications
Thomas Szkopek	Quantum Information with Semiconductor Electron Spins
Joshua Conway	Efficient Optical Coupling to the Nanoscale
Deepak Sethu Rao	A Single-Photon Detector based on the principle of Photoconductive Gain
Adithyaram Narasimha	RF Photonic Transmission Systems and Low Loss Grating Couplers for SOI Nanophotonic Integrated Circuits.
Jaione Tirapu Azpiroz	Analysis and Modeling of Photomask Near-Fields in Sub-wavelength Deep Ultraviolet Lithography with Optical Proximity Corrections
Ivan Alvarado-Rodriguez	Fabrication of Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystal Single-Defect Cavities and their Characterization by Elastic Scattering
Romulo Broas	Experimental Characterization of High Impedance Electromagnetic Surfaces in the Microwave Frequency Regime
Misha Boroditsky	Modification of Spontaneous Emission in Photonic Crystals
Cedric Lam	Multi-wavelength Optical Code-Division-Multiple-Access Communication Systems
Dan Sievenpiper	High-Impedance Electromagnetic Surfaces