Dr. Alan Wang

Two PhD Research Assistants Opening — NOAHS Lab at Baylor University

The Nano-Optics and Advanced Health-Sensing (NOAHS) Lab at Baylor University is looking for two PhD students with research assistantship support, who will focus on photoic integrated circuits for a recently funded DARPA NaPSAC program. The PhD students will engage in the development of low-voltage, high-speed silicon microring modulators driven by transparent conductive oxides and apply them for ultra-low energy optical computation through the collaboration with several other prestigious research groups. Responsibilities of this position include but are not limited to:
– Design of high-speed optical modulators that will be fabricated by commercial silicon photonics foundries.
– Fabrication of photonic devices and subsystems using electron beam lithography, sputtering, etching, atomic layer deposition, and evaporation.
– Characterization of high-speed optoelectronic devices using vector network analyzer, arbitrary wave generator and digital communication analyzer.
– System integration with comb lasers, WDM filters, photodetectors to achieve fully functional on-chip optical computation.
– Participate in the preparation and writing of journal manuscripts and conference papers, presentations, and/or posters.

Interested candidates can directly contact me at alan_wang@baylor.edu
Minimum Required Qualifications:
– B.S. or B.E. in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Applied Physics, or a closely related field.
– Strong motivation toward photonics research.
– Collaborative and teamworking.