Research Areas:

• Si photonics, optoelectronics, nanophotonics, optical MEMS, Optofluidics
• Micro/Nano Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS)
• Physical Electronics (PHY)

Current Projects

• Optical Antenna Based NanoLED • MEMS Optical Phased Array for LIDAR • Frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) LiDAR

Past Projects

• Light-Actuated Digital Microfluidics • Transition Metal Dichalcogenide optical Antenna Based NanoLED • MEMS-Electronic-Photonic Heterogeneous Integration (MEPHI) • Direct On-Chip Optical Synthesizer (DODOS) • Electronic-Photonic Heterogeneous Integration (EPHI) Component Fabrication, Design, and Characterization • Optical MEMS • Optical Radiation Cooling and Heating in Integrated Devices (ORCHID) • Fast MEMS Optical Phases Array for 10 MHz Beamsteering • Optical Antenna Based Nanophotodetector • NanoPhotonic MEMS • Si-based photonic integrated circuits • Optoelectronic tweezers (OET) • MEMS endoscopic optical coherence tomography and microscopy • Single-chip WDM switches and crossconnect (CSWDM) • High performance optically injection-locked semiconductor lasers • Balanced optoelectronic downconverting receiver for RF photonic networks • Optical code-division multiple access (OCDMA) encoders