Rutgers University

Electrical & Computer Engineering

The State University of New Jersey

Media Reports

Nature Photonics: GHz Silicon Photonic Crystal Modulator (pdf)

Nature Photonics: Holographic Photonic Crystal (pdf)

EE Times: 2006, 2007

NASA Tech Brief

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Dr. Wei Jiang

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering

94 Brett Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8058

Office: EE 215

Phone: (732) 445-2164

Email: wjiangnj (at) rci.rutgers.edu

Alternate email: wjiangnj (at) ece.rutgers.edu

Eduacation

Ph.D. in Electrical 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

 

Researhch Interests

· Silicon nanophotonics: modulators, switches, light emission

· Photonic crystals: devices & physics (e.g. slow light, superprism)

· Silicon photonic microsystems: optical phased arrays, spatial light modulators, on-chip optical interconnects, optical information processing microsystems.

· Nanoimprint and molding

· Plasmonics and metamaterials; disordered and quasi-periodic media

· Other interests: polymer photonics; fiber optics; laser beam steering; gratings; liquid crystals; phased array antennas.

Some details and graphs

 

Selected Publications

1. W. Jiang, L. Gu, X. Chen, R. T. Chen, “Photonic Crystal Waveguide Modulators for Silicon Photonics: Device Physics and Some Recent Progress,” Solid State Electronics vol. 51, 1278 (2007).

2. L. Gu, W. 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).

3. L. Wang, W. 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).

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

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

Full publication list (with pdf)

 

Honors and Awards

· Ben Streetman Prize, University of Texas at Austin, 2005

· Top-10 paper (of all engineering disciplines), GAIN conference, UT College of Engineering, 2005

· Baoshan Iron & Steel Scholar, 1995

 

Courses

Sprg 2009, 332:468:02 Capstone Design in Optoelectronics (tentative)

Sprg 2009, 332:382 Electromagnetic Fields (Syllabus)

Fall 2009:  332:466 / 332:591 Optoelectronic Devices

    Syllabus (466),  Course Notes: Sec. 1, (more at sakai.rutgers.edu)

Sprg 2009, 332:382 Electromagnetic Fields (Syllabus)

Fall 2008, 332:591 Optoelectronics I (Syllabus)

Sprg 2008: 332:592 Optoelectronics II: Contemporary topics in photonics

    Syllabus

 

Research Group Members

Visiting Scholar: Dr. Ying Qian

Postdoctoral Associate: Lianghong Yin

Ph.D. students: Ryan Integlia, Weiwei Song, Jun Tan,

                          Manjit Chahal (co-advised with Prof. Sigrid McAfee)

Alumni

Biz Hui (former postdoc; assistant prof., Pusan National Univ., Korea)

Ron Lidor (former undergraduate; Columbia Univ.)

Victor Martinez (former undergraduate, United Technologies)

(send us an email if you find your name is missing here…)

 

Links

Institute for Advanced Materials, Devices, and Nanotechnology

MURI Center for Silicon Nanomembranes

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