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  • 2018 - SPIE Fellow
  • 2018 - OSA Fellows Sharon Weiss Vanderbilt Univ., USA For contributions expanding the use of silicon in photonics and optoelectronics, and especially for designing and demonstrating highly sensitive porous-silicon guided-wave optical biosensors.

Overview

Sharon M. Weiss is affiliated with Vanderbilt University in the United States and primarily conducts research in the field of Engineering. Their work spans several subfields, including Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Materials Chemistry, and Molecular Biology.

The main research topics covered by Sharon M. Weiss include Photonic and Optical Devices, Silicon Nanostructures and Photoluminescence, Photonic Crystals and Applications, Advanced Biosensing and Bioanalysis Techniques, Nanowire Synthesis and Applications, Integrated Circuits and Semiconductor Failure Analysis, and Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Sharon M. Weiss include:

  • Sub-Picosecond Response Time of a Hybrid VO2:Silicon Waveguide at 1550 nm, 2020, Advanced Optical Materials
  • Signal Processing Techniques to Reduce the Limit of Detection for Thin Film Biosensors, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Guided Mid-IR and Near-IR Light within a Hybrid Hyperbolic-Material/Silicon Waveguide Heterostructure, 2021, Advanced Materials
  • Porous Silicon-Based Aptasensors: Toward Cancer Protein Biomarker Detection, 2021, ACS Measurement Science Au
  • Tuning Composition of Polymer and Porous Silicon Composite Nanoparticles for Early Endosome Escape of Anti-microRNA Peptide Nucleic Acids, 2020, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Sharon M. Weiss frequently publishes in venues such as IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, arXiv (Cornell University), Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Optics Express, and Advanced Materials.

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Kellen P. Arnold
  • Rabeb Layouni
  • Sami I. Halimi
  • Robert A. Reed
  • Ronald D. Schrimpf

The scientist has been recognized as a SPIE Fellow in 2018 and as an OSA Fellow the same year for contributions expanding the use of silicon in photonics and optoelectronics, and particularly for designing and demonstrating highly sensitive porous-silicon guided-wave optical biosensors.

Best Publications

  • Deep Level Transient Fourier Spectroscopy (DLTFS)—A technique for the analysis of deep level properties

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  • Surface engineered porous silicon for stable, high performance electrochemical supercapacitors

    Landon Oakes;Andrew Westover;Jeremy W. Mares;Shahana Chatterjee

  • White Light-Emitting Diodes Based on Ultrasmall CdSe Nanocrystal Electroluminescence

    Michael A. Schreuder;Kai Xiao;Ilia N. Ivanov;Sharon M. Weiss

  • Optically Monitored Electrical Switching in VO2

    Petr Markov;Robert E. Marvel;Hiram J. Conley;Kevin J. Miller

  • Nanoscale porous silicon waveguide for label-free DNA sensing.

    Guoguang Rong;Ali Najmaie;John E. Sipe;Sharon M. Weiss

  • Design of Photonic Crystal Cavities for Extreme Light Concentration

    Shuren Hu;Sharon M. Weiss

  • Porous Silicon-Based Photonic Biosensors: Current Status and Emerging Applications

    Sofia Arshavsky-Graham;Sofia Arshavsky-Graham;Naama Massad-Ivanir;Ester Segal;Sharon Weiss

  • Experimental realization of deep-subwavelength confinement in dielectric optical resonators.

    Shuren Hu;Marwan Khater;Rafael Salas-Montiel;Ernst Kratschmer

  • Optical phase change materials in integrated silicon photonic devices: review

    Kevin J. Miller;Richard F. Haglund;Sharon M. Weiss

  • Electrical and thermal modulation of silicon photonic bandgap microcavities containing liquid crystals.

    Sharon M. Weiss;Huimin Ouyang;Jidong Zhang;Philippe M. Fauchet

  • Ultra-compact silicon photonic devices reconfigured by an optically induced semiconductor-to-metal transition.

    Judson D. Ryckman;Kent A. Hallman;Robert E. Marvel;Richard F. Haglund

  • Guided mode biosensor based on grating coupled porous silicon waveguide

    Xing Wei;Sharon M Weiss

  • Encapsulated white-light CdSe nanocrystals as nanophosphors for solid-state lighting

    Michael A. Schreuder;Jonathan D. Gosnell;Nathanael J. Smith;Michael R. Warnement

  • Photonic crystal microring resonator for label-free biosensing.

    Stanley M Lo;Shuren Hu;Girija Gaur;Yiorgos Kostoulas

  • Label-free porous silicon membrane waveguide for DNA sensing

    Guoguang Rong;Judson D. Ryckman;Raymond L. Mernaugh;Sharon M. Weiss

  • Porous silicon ring resonator for compact, high sensitivity biosensing applications.

    Gilberto A. Rodriguez;Shuren Hu;Sharon M. Weiss

  • Photonic crystal slab sensor with enhanced surface area

    Christopher Kang;Christopher T. Phare;Yurii A. Vlasov;Solomon Assefa

  • Optical sensor based on resonant porous silicon structures.

    Jarkko J. Saarinen;Sharon M. Weiss;Philippe M. Fauchet;J. E. Sipe

  • Plasmonic Hot Electron Induced Photocurrent Response at MoS2-Metal Junctions.

    Tu Hong;Bhim Chamlagain;Shuren Hu;Sharon M. Weiss

  • Patterned nanoporous gold as an effective SERS template

    Yang Jiao;Judson D Ryckman;Peter N Ciesielski;Carlos A Escobar

  • Photothermal optical modulation of ultra-compact hybrid Si-VO_2 ring resonators

    Judson D. Ryckman;V. Diez-Blanco;Joyeeta Nag;Robert E. Marvel

Frequent Co-Authors

Philippe M. Fauchet
Philippe M. Fauchet Vanderbilt University
Richard F. Haglund
Richard F. Haglund Vanderbilt University
Robert A. Weller
Robert A. Weller Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Robert A. Reed
Robert A. Reed Vanderbilt University
John E. Sipe
John E. Sipe University of Toronto
Daniel M. Fleetwood
Daniel M. Fleetwood Vanderbilt University
Ronald D. Schrimpf
Ronald D. Schrimpf Vanderbilt University
Andrew L. Sternberg
Andrew L. Sternberg Vanderbilt University
Ivan I. Kravchenko
Ivan I. Kravchenko Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Sandra J. Rosenthal
Sandra J. Rosenthal Vanderbilt University

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