Dr. Wei Jiang
Assistant Professor,
Electrical Engineering

Education

Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 2005 M.A. in Physics, University of Texas at Austin, 2000
B.S. in Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, 1996

Research Interests

Photonic crystals: superprism based devices, negative refraction, photonic crystal surface effect, slow-light photonic crystal waveguides and devices (e.g. modulators), photonic crystal fibers

Silicon nanophotonics: modulators, light emitting devices/lasers, integration and packaging

Nanoimprint and molding

Plasmonics and metamaterials

Optical interconnects

Fiber optics: optical communications devices (esp. for wavelength-division multiplexing)

Polymer guided-wave photonics (polymer planar lightwave circuits)

Others: laser beam steering, liquid crystals, phased array antennas, ferroelectric thin films

 

Awards and Recognitions

Ben Streetman Prize, University of Texas at Austin, 2005
Top-10 paper (of all engineering disciplines), GAIN conference, UT College of Engineering, 2005
Baoshan Steel & Iron Scholar, 1995

 

Publications

1. Wei Jiang, L. Gu, X. Chen, R. T. Chen, "Photonic Crystal Waveguide Modulators for Silicon Photonics: Device Physics and Some Recent Progress," Solid State Electronics (accepted).

2. Xiaonan Chen, Wei Jiang, Jiaqi Chen, Lanlan Gu and Ray T. Chen, "20dB-enhanced coupling to slot photonic crystal waveguide using multimode interference coupler," Appl. Phys. Lett. (accepted).

3. X. Chen, Wei Jiang, Jiaqi Chen, and R. T. Chen, "Theoretical study of light refraction in three-dimensional photonic crystals," IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology (in press).

4. L. Wang, Wei Jiang, X. Chen, L. Gu, and R. T. Chen, "Fabrication of polymer photonic crystal superprism structures using polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) soft molds," J. Appl. Phys. vol. 101, 114316 (2007).

5. J. Chen, Wei Jiang, X. Chen, L. Wang, S. Zhang, and R. T. Chen, "Holographic three-dimensional polymeric photonic crystals operating in the 1550 nm window," Appl. Phys. Lett. vol. 90, 093102 (2007).

6. L. Gu, Wei Jiang, X. Chen, L. Wang, and R. T. Chen, "High-speed silicon photonic crystal waveguide modulator for low-voltage operation," Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 90, 071105 (2007).

7. Wei Jiang and R. T. Chen, "Rigorous Analysis of Diffraction Gratings of Arbitrary Profiles Using Virtual Photonic Crystals," Journal of the Optical Society of America A, vol. 23, pp. 2192-2197 (2006).

8. Y. Jiang, Wei Jiang, L. Gu, X. Chen, R. T. Chen, "80-micron interaction length silicon photonic crystal waveguide modulator," Appl. Phys. Lett. 87, 221105 (2005).

9. Wei Jiang, R. T. Chen, and X. Lu, "Theory of light refraction at the surface of a photonic crystal," Physical Review B 71, 245115 (2005).

10. Wei Jiang and R. T. Chen, "Multichannel optical add-drop process in symmetrical waveguide-resonator systems," Physical Review Letters, vol. 91, 213901 (2003).