Prof. Alex Yasha Yi

Welcome to Integrated Nano Optoelectronics Laboratory!

We have a dynamic research team with wide collaborations at University of Michigan, dearborn campus, energy institute at ann arbor campus and MIT microsystems technology laboratory. Our research is focused on integrated nano scale optoelectronics, nano photonics and nanoelectronics with applications on biomedical sciences&engineering, photovoltaic cells/renewable energy, optical communication, quantum optics, solid state lighting/display/medical imaging, and OptoMEMS.

 We are recruiting: Please send me an email if you are interested!

Tel: 617-398-7042 or 313-583-6318
Webpage: 
http://alum.mit.edu/www/yys
http://www.engin.umd.umich.edu/ECE/faculty/extended.php?p_id=210
http://energy.umich.edu/faculty/alex-ya-sha-yi

 

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ph.D, Electronics and Optoelectronics, June 2004

 

Research News

  • Book titled 'Integrated nanophotonic resonators: fundamentals, devices and applications', Editor-in-Chief, to be published by Pan Stanford Publishing Pte. Ltd. Singapore in March, 2015

  • Book chapter 'Strong interaction between nanoparticle and integrated microresonators for its applications on optical biomedical spectroscopy', to be published by CRC press in Summer 2014

  • 'Strong multimode photonic microresonator and nanoparticle interactions', Invited talk at  Photonic Atoms & Molecules, as a part of ICTON'12 in England July, 2012 

  • Our work on Broadband and wide angle antireflection core-shell Si nanowires has been featured in Physics Today, print issue, November, 2011

  • Our latest research on Broadband and wide angle antireflection core-shell Si nanowires for photovoltaic cell applications has been featured in Physics Today, September, 2011

  • ''Oscar Madison' approach to solar cells may outshine 'Felix Unger' design', our latest work on broadband and wide angle antireflection core-shell nanowires for photovoltaic cell applications has been featured in American Physics Institute news highlights, Septemeber, 2011.

  • 'Integrated Photonic Molecules', Invited talk at  Photonic Atoms & Molecules, as a part of ICTON'11 in Stockholm June, 2011 

  • Three new patents (US7933022, US7903240, and US7903906) on integrated photonic miroresonators have been issued by United States Patent Office in April, 2011

  • Our paper 'Strong coupling between on chip notched ring resonator and nanoparticle' was one of Applied Physics Letters's monthly top 20 most-downloaded articles in 2010

  • International nanophotonics and renewable energy symposium held in Beijing, Jan.17-19, 2011, by Institute of Physics, China Center of Advanced Science and Technology (World Laboratory) and Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, CAS, Conference Chair and Organizing Committee Member                                                                

  • A notch above for single nanoparticle detection, research news in Photonics Spectra, Oct. 2010

  • Notched microring resonator senses individual nanparticles, newsbreaks in Laser Focus World, Oct. 2010 

  • Next generation photovoltaic and solar cells for renewable energy applications http://www.cas.ac.cn/hy/xshd/200907/t20090724_2540380.shtml

  • NSF/ONR sponsored renewable energy faculty workshop Feb.4-6th, 2010 at Tucson, AZ


 Professional Experiences

Associate Professor, University of Michigan, dearborn, MI, September 2013 - Present

Research Affiliate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA September 2009 - Present

Guest Professor at State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics, Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, CAS, Xi'an  December 2010 – Present 

Guest Professor at Shanghai Institute of Microsystems and Information Technology, CAS, Shanghai  August 2008 – Present 

Faculty, CUNY, NY, September 2009 - August 2013

Senior Research Scientist at 3M Corporate Research Laboratory, St. Paul, MN  September 2005 – August 2009 

President, MIT China Association of Science and Technology, Cambridge, MA September 2002 - August 2004

Postdoctoral Associate at MIT, Cambridge, MA  June 2004 – August 2005 

Ph.D Research Assistant at MIT, Cambridge, MA September 1999 - May 2004 

Staff Research Assistant at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM,  September 1997 – August 1999