CIAN - A Center for Integrated Access Network

Director's Message

" CIAN's research vision relies on contributions from talented students that are dedicated to their research projects. The work of CIAN students, and the support from their advisors and collaborators in industry and at partnering institutions, is truly the cornerstone of CIAN's collective achievements. The alumna of CIAN, and the success they'll enjoy in their future careers, are among CIAN's proudest contributions to science and engineering. This showcase exhibits the diversity, and inter-disciplinary range of expertise, that are characteristics of CIAN's network of student investigators."

Prof. Peyghambarian, CIAN Director

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CIAN Students & POSTDOCS

		Name: Amit Lakhani Status: Phd Student Institution: University of California Berkeley Email: amlakhan@berkeley.edu Thrust: Thrust 3 Advisor: Wu www: http://www.berkeley.edu Expected Graduation: 05/31/2012 Research Statement: The physical size and effective modal volume of conventional lasers with visible and near-infrared emission wavelengths are usually in the micrometer range due to the diffraction limit. The length scale of electronic transistors, however, is currently sub-100 nm thanks to the advance of fabrication technologies. For future integration of electronic and photonic devices on a chip-scale platform, we need novel laser sources that are smaller than the diffraction limited volume in all three dimensions. In this project, we use metallodielectric cylindrical nanodisk cavity structures to surpass the size and mode volume limitations of conventional lasers. Coherent resonant oscillations of free charges and lightwaves result in light confinement inside a subwavelength cavity between parallel metal films and makes this structure a promising candidate for integrated nanoscale coherent light sources.
		Name: Anthony Yeh Status: Phd Student Institution: University of California Berkeley Email: anthony.yeh@berkeley.edu Thrust: Thrust 2 Advisor: Wu www: Expected Graduation: Research Statement:
		Name: Christopher Chase Status: Phd Student Institution: University of California Berkeley Email: cchase@eecs.berkeley.edu Thrust: Thrust 3 Advisor: Chang-Hasnain www: Expected Graduation: 12/17/2010 Research Statement:
		Name: Erwin Lau Status: Post Doctorate Institution: University of California Berkeley Email: elau@eecs.berkeley.edu Thrust: Thrust 3 Advisor: Wu www: Research Statement:
		Name: Jeffrey Chou Status: Phd Student Institution: University of California Berkeley Email: scjjchou@eecs.berkeley.edu Thrust: Thrust 1 Advisor: Wu www: http://eecs.berkeley.edu Expected Graduation: 06/30/2012 Research Statement:
		Name: Karen Grutter Status: Phd Student Institution: University of California Berkeley Email: kgrutter@eecs.berkeley.edu Thrust: Thrust 3 Advisor: Wu www: Expected Graduation: 05/16/2013 Research Statement:
		Name: Kyoungsik Yu Status: Post Doctorate Institution: University of California Berkeley Email: ksyu@berkeley.edu Thrust: Thrust 2 Advisor: Wu www: Research Statement:
		Name: Ming-Chun Tien Status: Post Doctorate Institution: University of California Berkeley Email: mctien@eecs.berkeley.edu Thrust: Thrust 2 Advisor: Wu www: Research Statement:
		Name: Yi Rao Status: Phd Student Institution: University of California Berkeley Email: frankrao@gmail.com Thrust: Thrust 3 Advisor: Chang-Hasnain www: Expected Graduation: 07/01/2013 Research Statement: