Yehia Massoud, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Rice University
	Nanophotonics: Enabling Scientific Advances in Nanotechnology and Innovative Solutions for Nanoscale Integrated Circuits
	For on-chip communication, optical interconnect has the potential to enable the high-speed transmission of large quantities of information with minimal delay and cross-talk noise. However, conventional optical waveguides cannot confine light beyond half the effective wavelength due to the diffraction limit, which hinders the nanoscale integration of optical interconnect and devices. Therefore, subwavelength optical interconnect solutions are required to enable the realization of on-chip optical communication in future nanoscale integrated circuits. In this talk, I will give an overview of recent efforts on the modeling and design of subwavelength waveguides and optical components that are crucial for the realization of on-chip optical communication in future nanoscale integrated circuits. I will present an efficient full-vector-finite difference field solver for planar plasmonic waveguides as well as a new technique to achieve tunable resonance in planar metallic microcavity structures, which can be used to realize tunable filters in the optical frequency range. I will also discuss a new RLC modeling technique for metallic nanoparticles, which could be used as a basic building block to develop an equivalent circuit model for plasmonic waveguides.
	Thursday, September 7, 2006 10:30 a.m. - Duncan Hall 1049 Rice University

ECE Affiliates Meeting

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