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Journal Papers:

* Suning Tang, Bin Chen, Christopher P. McKay, Rafael Navarro-Gonzalez, and Alan X. Wang, "Detection of Trace Organics in Martian Soil Analogs Using Fluorescence-free Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy," Optics Express, Vol.24, 22104-22109 (2016)

* X. Kong, Y. Xi, P. Le Duff, E. Li, Y. Liu, L-J Cheng, G. L. Rorrer, H. Tan, A. X. Wang, "Optofluidic Sensing from Inkjet-Printed Droplets: the Enormous Enhancement by Evaporation-Induced Spontaneous Flow on Photonic Crystal Biosilica," Nanoscale, DOI: 10.1039/C6NR05809D, 2016

* R. Ravichandran, A. X. Wang, and J. F. Wager, " Solid State Dielectric Screening Versus Band Gap Trends and Implications" , Optical Materials, Vol.60, 181-187 (2016)

* X. Kong, Y. Xi, P. Le Duff, X. Chong, F. Ren, G. L. Rorrer, and A. X. Wang, " Detecting explosive molecules from nanoliter solution: a new paradigm of SERS sensing on hydrophilic photonic crystal biosilica," Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2016

* X. Chong, E. Li, K. Squire, and A. X. Wang, "On-chip Near-infrared Spectroscopy of CO2 using High Resolution Plasmonic Filter Array," Applied Physics Letters, 108, 221106 (2016)

* X-Y Chong, K-J Kim, E. Li, Y. Zhang, P. R. Ohodnicki, C-H Chang, and A. X. Wang, "Near-Infrared Absorption Gas Sensing with Metal-Organic Framework on Optical Fibers," Sensors &Actuators: B. Chemical, Vol.232, 43-51 (2016)

* E. Li, X. Chong, F. Ren, and A. X. Wang, "Broadband on-chip near-infrared spectroscopy based on plasmonic grating filter array," Optics Letters, Vol.41, 1913-1916 (2016)

* Q. Gao, F. Ren, A. X. Wang, "Direct and Efficient Optical Coupling into Plasmonic Integrated Circuits from Optical Fibers," IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol.28, 1165-1168 (2016)

* K-Y Kim, X-Y Chong, F. Ren, and A. X. Wang, "Slow-light effect via Rayleigh anomaly and the effect of finite gratings," Optics Letters, Vol.40, No.22, 5339-5342 (2015)

* F. Ren, K-Y Kim, X-Y Chong, and A. X. Wang, "Effect of finite metallic grating size on Rayleigh anomaly-surface plasmon polariton resonances," Optics Express, 23, no. 22, 28868-28873 (2015).

* Kyoung-Youm Kim, and Alan X. Wang, "Spin angular momentum of surface modes from the perspective of optical power flow", Optics Letters, Vol. 40, Issue 12, pp. 2929-2932 (2015)

* Alan X. Wang, Xianming Kong, "Review of Recent Progress of Plasmonic Materials and Nano-Structures for Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering," MDPI Materials, 8(6), 3024-3052 (2015)

* X. Chong, K-J Kim, E. Li, P. R. Ohodnicki, C-H Chang, and A. X. Wang, "Ultra-Short Near-Infrared Fiber-Optic Sensors for Carbon Dioxide Detection", IEEE Sensors, 10.1109/JSEN.2015.2438063

* F. Ren, M. Li, Q. Gao, William Cowell, III, J. Luo, A. K-Y Jen, A. X. Wang, "Surface-Normal Plasmonic Modulator using Sub-Wavelength Metal Grating on Electro-Optic Polymer Thin Film," Optics Communication, Vol. 352, pp. 116-120 (2015)

* Zheng Wang, Hai Yan, Swapnajit Chakravarty, Harish Subbaraman, Xiaochuan Xu, D.L. Fan, Alan X. Wang, and Ray T. Chen, "Microfluidic channels with ultralow-loss waveguide crossings for various chip-integrated photonic sensors," Optics Letters, Vol.40, 1563-1566 (2015)

* K.J. Kim, X Chong, P. B. Kreider, G Ma, P. R. Ohodnicki, J. P. Baltrus, Alan X. Wang and C. H. Chang, "Plasmonics-enhanced metal- organic framework nanoporous films for highly sensitive near-infrared absorption," Journal of Materials Chemistry C, DOI: 10.1039/C4TC02846E (2015)

* Kyoung-Youm Kim, Alan Wang, "Relation of the angular momentum of surface modes to the position of their power-flow center," Optics Express, Vol. 22, Issue 24, pp. 30184-30190 (2014)

*  J. Yang,  F. Ren,  X-Y Chong,  D-L Fan,  S. Chakravarty,  Z. Wang, R. T, Chen,  A. X. Wang, "Guided-Mode Resonance Grating with Self-Assembled Silver Nanoparticles for Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Spectroscopy," Photonics 2014, 1, 380-389. DOI: 10.3390/photonics1040380

* J. Yang, Z. Le, F. Ren, J. Campbell, G. L. Rorrer, A. X. Wang, "Ultra-Sensitive Immunoassay Biosensors using Hybrid Plasmonic-Biosilica Nanostructured Materials," Journal of Biophotonics, DOI 10.1002/jbio.201400070, 2014

* F. Ren, F., X-Y Wang, Z. Li, J. Luo, S-H Jang, A K-Y Jen, and A. X. Wang, "Enhanced third harmonic generation by organic materials on high-Q plasmonic photonic crystals," Optics Express, 22, 20292-20297 (2014).

*  F. Ren, J. Campbell, G. L. Rorrer, and A. X. Wang, "Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Sensors from Nano-Biosilica with Self-Assembled Plasmonic Nanoparticles," IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Special Issue in Nanobiophotonics, 20, 6900806 (2014)

* Fanghui Ren, Jeremy Campbell, Xiangyu Wang, Gregory L. Rorrer, and Alan X. Wang, "Enhancing surface plasmon resonances of metallic nanoparticles by diatom biosilica," Opt. Express 21, 15308-15313 (2013) 

* F. Ren, X-Y Wang, A. X. Wang, Thermo-Optic Modulation of Plasmonic Bandgap on Metallic Photonic Crystal Slab, Applied Physics Letters, 102, 181101 (2013)

* X. B. Xu, H. Li, Dihan Hasan, R. Ruoff, A. X. Wang and D. L. Fan, Near-Field Enhanced Magnetic Plasmonic Bifunctional Nanotubes for Single Cell Bioanalysis, Advanced Functional Materials, DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201203822(2013)

* X. Zhang, B-S Lee, C-Y Lin, A. X. Wang, and R. T. Chen, Highly Linear, Broadband Optical Modulator Based on Electro-optic Polymer, IEEE Journal of Photonics,4, 2214-2228(2012)

* Che-Yun Lin, Harish Subbaraman, Amir Hosseini, Liang Zhu, Alan X. Wang, and Ray T. Chen, Silicon Nanomembrane Based Photonic Crystal Waveguide Array for Wavelength-Tunable True-Time-Delay Lines, Applied Physics Letters, 101, 051101(2012)

* Alan X. Wang, Right Choice for Optical Bus Interconnect: Metallic-Hollow-Core- Waveguides or Multimode Polymer Waveguides? Optical Engineering, 51(7), 075401 (July 2012)

* Xiaobin Xu, Dihan Hasan, Lei Wang, Swapnajit Chakravarty, Ray T. Chen, D. L. Fan, and Alan X. Wang, Guided-Mode-Resonance-Coupled Plasmonic-Active SiO2 Nanotubes for Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy, Applied Physics Letters, 100, 191114 (2012).

Also appeared as May 21, 2012 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology

* Che-Yun Lin, Alan X. Wang, and Ray T. Chen, Coupling loss minimization of slow light slotted photonic crystal waveguides using mode matching with continuous group index perturbation, Optics Letters, Vol.37, No.2, pp.232-234 (2012)

* Alan X. Wang, Che-Yun Lin, Beom Suk Lee, Xingyu Zhang, and Ray T. Chen, High dynamic range electric field sensor for electromagnetic pulse detection, Optics Express, Vol. 19, Issue 18, pp. 17372-17377 (2011)

* Xinyuan Dou, Alan X. Wang, Xiaohui Lin, and Ray T. Chen, Photolithography-free polymer optical waveguide arrays for optical backplane bus, Optics Express, Vol. 19, Issue 15, pp. 14403-14410 (2011)

* Beom Suk Lee, Che-Yun Lin, Xiaolong Wang, and Ray T. Chen, Demonstration of a linearized traveling wave Y-fed directional coupler modulator based on electro-optic polymer, IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technol, Vol.29, pp.1931-1936 (2011).

* Wei-Cheng Lai, Swapnajit Chakravarty, Xiaolong Wang, Cheyun Lin, and Ray T. Chen, On-Chip Near-Infrared Absorption Spectroscopy of Methane with a Photonic Crystal Slot Waveguide Spectrometer, Optics Letters, Vol.36, pp.984-986 (2011)

* Xiaohui Lin, Xinyuan Dou, Xiaolong Wang, and Ray T. Chen, Nickel Electroplating for Nano Structure Mold Fabrication, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 2011, Vol. 11, No.8

* Xiaolong Wang, Che-Yun Lin, Swapnajit Chakravarty, and Ray T. Chen, Effective In-Device r33 of 735pm/V on Electro-Optic Polymer Infiltrated Silicon Photonic Crystal Slot Waveguide, Optics Letters, vol.36, 882-884 (2011)

* Wei-Cheng Lai, Swapnajit Chakravarty, Xiaolong Wang, Che-Yun Lin, and Ray T. Chen, Photonic Crystal Slot Waveguide Absorption Spectrometer for On-Chip Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of Xylene in Water, Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 98, 023304 (2011)

 

Conference Papers:

* X. Chong, K Kim, E. Li, C. Chang, A. X. Wang, "Near-Infrared Absorption Gas Sensors using Metal-Organic Framework-Coated Optical Fibers ," IEEE CLEO 2015, SM2O.4, San Jose, CA, May 10-15th, 2015

* Zheng Wang, Chao Liu, Swapnajit Chakravarty, D.L. Fan, Alan Wang, Ray Chen, "Universal Enhancement of Raman Scattering Sensing by Plasmonic Nanotubes Coupled with Photonic Crystal Slab," IEEE CLEO 2015, SM3O.3 , San Jose, CA, May 10-15th, 2015

* J. Yang, G. L. Rorrer, A. X. Wang, "Bioenabled nanophotonic sensors for food safety and drinking water monitoring," SPIE DSS, 9488-7, Baltimore, MD, April 20-24th, 2015

* X. Chong, K Kim, E. Li, C. Chang, A. X. Wang, "Near-infrared absorption fiber optic sensors for ultra-sensitive CO2 detection," SPIE DSS, 9480-30, Baltimore, MD, April 20-24th, 2015

*  Q. Wang, T. Nguyen, and A. X. Wang. "Channel capacity optimization for an integrated wi-fi and free-space optic communication system (WiFiFO)."  Proceedings of the 17th ACM international conference on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems, pp. 327-330. ACM, 2014.

*  J. Yang, F. Ren, Z. Le, J. Campbell, G. L. Rorrer, A. X. Wang, "Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Immuno-Assay Using Diatom Frustules," IEEE CLEO 2014, STh4H.1, San Jose, CA, June 8-13th, 2014

* F. Ren, X. Wang, Z. Li, J. Luo, S-H Jang, A. K-Y Jen, and A. X. Wang, "Plasmon-Enhanced Third-Order Harmonic Generation in Plasmonic-Organic Photonic Crystals", IEEE CLEO 2014, FTh4K.8, San Jose, CA, June 8-13th, 2014

* Z. Wang, S. Chakravarty, H. Subbaraman, X. Xu, D. Fan, A. X. Wang, R. Chen, "Micro-fluid Channel Based on Ultralow-loss Silicon Crossing Waveguide for Various Sensing," IEEE CLEO 2014, ATu2P.5, San Jose, CA, June 8-13th, 2014

* F. Ren, J. Campbell, G. L. Rorrer, A. X. Wang,  "Label-Free Optical Sensing on Hybrid Plasmonic-Nanobiosilica Platforms," SPIE Photonics West conference, 8933-18, San Francisco, Feb 1-6th, 2014

* F. Ren, X. Wang, and A. X. Wang, "Plasmonic Modulator for Three-Dimensional Chip-to-Chip Optical Interconnects," SPIE Photonics West conference, 8991-29, San Francisco, Feb 1-6th, 2014

* F. Ren, X. Wang, Z. Li, J. Luo, S-H Jang, A. K-Y Jen, A. X. Wang, "Surface-Plasmon-Enhanced Third-Order Harmonic Generation of Organic Materials," SPIE Photonics West conference, 8983-5, San Francisco, Feb 1-6th, 2014

* Fanghui Ren, Xiangyu Wang, Alan Wang, Surface-Normal Plasmonic Modulation for Three-Dimensional Optical Interconnects, IEEE CLEO 2013, CM2F.7, San Jose, CA, June 9-14, (2013)

* Fanghui Ren, Jeremy Campbell, Dihan Hasan, Xiangyu Wang, Greg Rorrer, Alan Wang, Bio-Inspired Plasmonic Sensors by Diatom Frustules, IEEE CLEO 2013, CTh3I.4, San Jose, CA, June 9-14, (2013)

* Dihan Hasan, Alan X. Wang, Enhanced localized surface plasmonic resonances in dielectric photonic band gap structures: Fabry-Perot nanocavities and photonic crystal slot waveguides , SPIE West West Conference, Paper 8632-3, San Francisco, Feb 2-7th,(2013)

* Fanghui Ren, Jeremy Campbell, Dihan Hasan, Xiangyu Wang, Gregory L. Rorrer, Alan X. Wang, Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering on Diatom Biosilica Photonic Crystals, SPIE Photonics West conference, Paper 8598-24, San Francisco, Feb 2-7th, (2013)

* Alan X. Wang, Ray T. Chen, and Donglei Fan, Che-Yun-Lin, Xiaobin Xu, Lei Wang, Ultra-Efficient Nano-Photonic Devices using Hybrid Material Systems for Optical Communication and Sensing, Invited Presentation, IEEE Avionics, Fiber-Optics and Photonics Conference (AVFOP), Cocoa Beach, FL, September 11-13, (2012)

* Xiaohui Lin, Amir Hosseini, Alan X. Wang, and Ray T. Chen, Reduced Surface Roughness with Improved Imprinting Technique for Polymer Optical Components, IEEE Photonics Conference, Burlingame, CA, September 23-27th, (2012)

* C.-Y. Lin, A. Hosseini, H. Subbaraman, Z. Xue, A. X. Wang, R. T. Chen, Wavelength-Tunable on-Chip True Time Delay Lines Based on Photonic Crystal Waveguides for X-Band Phased Array Antenna Applications, IEEE/OSA CLEO, to appear, (2012)

* X. Zhang, B. Lee, C.-Y. Lin, A. X. Wang, A. Hosseini, R. T. Chen, Highly Linear Electro-optic Polymer Based Traveling Wave MMI-fed Directional Coupler Modulator, IEEE/OSA CLEO, to appear, (2012)

* X. Lin, X. Dou, A. Hosseini, A. X. Wang, and R. T. Chen, Manufacturing of Board Level Waveguide Bus Using Hard Mold, IEEE Optical Interconnects Conference, to appear, (2012)

* Xinyuan Dou, Alan X. Wang, Xiaohui Lin, and Ray T. Chen, Manufacturable Polymeric Optical Waveguide based Bus Structures for Board Level Optical Interconnects, Proc. MRS Spring Meeting, 1270786, (2012)

* Alan X. Wang, Evaluation of multimode optical waveguides for optical bus interconnects, SPIE Photonics West conference, Paper 8267-49, San Francisco, January 22-26, (2012)

* Xiaohui Lin, Alan X. Wang, Ray T. Chen, Polymer optical waveguide based bi-directional optical bus architecture for high speed optical backplane, SPIE Photonics West conference, Paper 8267-7, San Francisco, January 22-26, (2012)

* Che-Yun Lin, Alan X. Wang, Xingyu Zhang, Beomsuk Lee, Ray T. Chen, EO-polymer waveguide based high dynamic range EM wave sensors, Invited Presentation, SPIE Photonics West conference, Paper 8258-35, San Francisco, January 22-26, (2012)

* Xingyu Zhang, Beom-Suk Lee, Che-Yun Lin, Alan X. Wang, Omega Optics, Amir Hosseini, Xiaohui Lin, Ray T. Chen, Improved performance of traveling wave directional coupler modulator based on electro-optic polymer, SPIE Photonics West conference, Paper 8267-44, San Francisco, January 22-26, (2012)

* Xiaolong Wang, Che-Yun Lin, Swapnajit Chakravarty, Jingdong Luo, Alex K-Y. Jen, and Ray T. Chen, Slow Light Enhanced E-O Polymer Nano-Photonic Modulator with Ultra-High Effective In-Device r33, IEEE CLEO, Baltimore, MD, May 1-6, (2011)

* Xiaolong Wang, Beom-Suk Lee, Ray T. Chen, Large Dynamic Range Electromagnetic Field Sensor based on Domain Inverted Electro-Optic Polymer Directional Coupler, Invited Presentation, SPIE Photonics West conference, RF and Millimeter-Wave Photonics (Conference 7936), San Francisco, January 22-27, (2011)

* Che-Yun Lin, Xiaolong Wang, Beomsuk Lee, Wei-Cheng Lai, Swapnajit Chakravarty, and Ray T. Chen, Group velocity independent coupling into slow light photonic crystal waveguide on Silicon Nanophotonic Integrated Circuits, Proc. SPIE (2011).