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Dr. Winnie Ye, P.Eng.
Canada Research Chair
Assistant Professor
Department of Electronics
1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6
Tel: (613) 520 2600 x8395
Fax: (613) 520 5708
winnie_ye AT carleton.ca


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Dr. Ye is a Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in Nano-scale IC Design for Reliable Opto-Electronics and Sensors. She received her undergraduate degree from Carleton University. She then attended the University of Toronto, receiving an M.A.Sc in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Her PhD is from Carleton University and the National Research Council of Canada (NRC). Her Ph.D. was carried out under Dr. Siegfried Janz, Dr. Dan-Xia Xu and Professor Garry Tarr, on stress engineering in SOI devices. After receiving her Ph.D. degree, she joined Professor Lionel Kimerling's group at MIT as a postdoctoral fellow, working on optoelectronic integration. She later worked at the Nanophotonics group led by Professor Ken Crozier, at Harvard University. Her postdoctoral research at Harvard involved innovative nano-fabrication technologies for CMOS image sensors. Since July 2009, Dr. Ye has been with Carleton University.

Research interests:

• Micro- and nano-photonics and applications in biomedicine, telecommunication, and renewable energy:
• - Silicon-based Optical Bio-Sensor
• - Silicon opto-electronics
• - Silicon based biophotonics
• - Photonic device physics and fabrication
• - Thermal compensation in opto-electronic integrated circuits (OEIC)
• - Silicon-based solar cells
• - OEIC packaging
  

More details can be found at the link to my Research page.

Group News:

• Apr 30, 2012 - Dr. Ye won MRI's Early Researcher Award.
• Mar 15, 2012 - Dr. Ye is invited to speak at the IEEE Student Professional Awareness Conference (SPAC)
• Feb 27, 2012 - Abdulhak Nagy won $1000 in the Innovative Idea Essay Competition!! - Congratulations to your creative writing!
• Feb 23, 2012 - Dr. Ye is invited to speak at the Microwave Photonics Seminar Series organized by IEEE Ottawa Section Antennas and Propagation Society and Microwave Theory & Techniques Society (AP / MTT) Joint Chapter, IEEE Photonics Society Ottawa Chapter (LEOS), and IEEE Ottawa Section (OS) on Silicon photonics
• Feb 21, 2012 - Congratulations to Simon Mack on winning his NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA)
• Feb 9, 2012 - Abdulhak Nagy won the I-CUREUS Award - congratulations!
• Jan 12, 2012 - Dr. Ye involved in the Huawei-TELUS Innovation Centre for Enterprise Cloud Services
• Dec 2011 - Abdulhak Nagy won the 2011 IEEE Richard E. Merwin Student Scholarship
• October 11, 2011 - Yule Xiong and Martin Friedl won Ed Ireland Award for Engineering - Congratulations, Yule and Martin!
• May 19, 2011 - Marc Ibrahim won the 2nd prize on his poster presentation at the Canadian Institute for Photonic Innovations (CIPI) Annual General Meeting
• May 3, 2011 - Dr. Ye won the New Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award!
• April 21, 2011 - Congratulations to Martin Friedl, Jeremy Miller, and Michael Sawires on winning NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award (USRA)
• Feb 16, 2011 - Invited speaker for the "Beyond Engineering" Seminar Series, organized by the IEEE Ottawa Section
• Jan 18, 2010 - Marc Ibrahim and Andrew Tam won Ed Ireland Award for Engineering
• Oct 10, 2010 - Interview "So What Do I Do with a Ph.D., Anyway?" , published on Optics and Photonics News, Vol. 21, Issue 10, pp. 42-45 (2010).
• Oct 8, 2010 - Wins Technology Exploitation and Networking (TEN) Collaboration Grant from the Canadian Institute for Photonic Innovations (CIPI)
• Sep 1, 2010 - Yule Xiong wins the 2010 President's Doctoral Fellowship
• Aug 4, 2010 - Invited keynote speaker for the International Conference on Nanotechnology, organized by International Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (ASET)
• Apr 23, 2010 - Received CFI equipment grant
• Mar 8, 2010 - Kibru Goshu wins Ed Ireland Award for Engineering *Congratulations, Kibru!
• Sep 23, 2009 - Dr. Ye's Canada Research Chair announcement

Publications: [See the full list here.]

1. M. Ibrahim, J. H. Schmid, A. Aleali, P. Cheben, J. Lapointe, S. Janz, P. J. Bock, A. Densmore, B. Lamontagne, R. Ma, D.-X. Xu, and W. N. Ye, "Athermal silicon waveguides with bridged subwavelength gratings for TE and TM polarizations," submitted to Opt. Exp., April 2012.
2. Y. Xiong and W. N. Ye, "Silicon-based all-optical Ring-assisted Mach-Zehnder Interferometer Switch of a Single Wavelength," submitted to IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., April 2012.
3. T. Smy, P. Gunupudi, S. McGarry and W. N. Ye, "Circuit-level Transient Simulation of Configurable Ring Resonators using Physical Models," J. Opt. Am. B, 28 (6), pp. 1534-1543, 2011.
4. J. H. Schmid, M. Ibrahim, P. Cheben, J. Lapointe, S. Janz, P. J. Bock, A. Densmore, B. Lamontagne, R. Ma, W. N. Ye, and D.-X Xu, "Temperature-independent silicon subwavelength grating waveguides," Opt. Exp., 36 (11), pp. 2210-2212, 2011.
5. W. N. Ye, P. Duane, M. Wober, K. B. Crozier, "Fabrication of high-aspect ratio lightpipes," accepted for publication by J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B, 29 (3), 031206, pp.1-5, 2011.
6. V. Raghunathan, W. N. Ye, J. Hu, T. Izahara, J. Michel, L. C. Kimerling, "Achieving Athermal operation of Silicon waveguides: spectral, second order and footprint dependencies," Opt. Exp., 18 (17), pp.17631-17639 (2010).
7. E. Schonbrun, W. N. Ye, and K. B. Crozier, "Scanning microscopy using a short-focal-length Fresnel zone plate," Opt. Lett. 34, pp. 2228-2230 (2009).
8. W. N. Ye, J. Michel, and L. C. Kimerling, "Athermal high-index-contrast waveguide design," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., 20 (11), pp. 882-884, June 2008.
9. D.-X. Xu, W. N. Ye, S. Janz, A. Delage, P. Cheben, B. Lamontagne, E. Post, and P. Waldron, "Stress induced effects for advanced polarization control in silicon photonics Components," Adv. in Opt. Technol., ID: 689715, pp. 1-10, June 2008 (invited).
10. W. N. Ye, D.-X. Xu, S. Janz, P. Waldron, P. Cheben, and N. G. Tarr, "Novel Passive Broadband Stress-induced SOI Polarization Splitters," Opt. Lett., 32 (11), June 2007.
11. S. Janz, P. Cheben, D. Dalacu, A. Delage, A. Densmore, B. Lamontagne, M.-J. Picard, E. Post, J. H. Schmid, P. Waldron, D.-X. Xu, K.-P. Yap, and W. N. Ye, "Microphotonic Elements for Integration on the Silicon-on-Insulator Waveguide Platform," IEEE J. Sel. Top. in Quantum Electron., 12 (6), pp. 1402-1415, 2006.
12. S. Janz, P. Cheben, A. Delage, B. Lamontagne, M.-J. Picard, D.-X. Xu, K.P. Yap, W. N. Ye, "Microphotonics: Current Challenges and Applications," in Frontiers in Planar Lightwave Circuit Technology, S. Janz,J. Ctyroky, S. Tanev eds., 1-38, (Springer, Dordrecht, 2006)
13. W. N. Ye, D.-X. Xu, S. Janz, P. Cheben, M.-J. Picard, B. Lamontagne, and N. G. Tarr, "Birefringence Control Using Stress Engineering for Silicon-on-insulator (SOI) Waveguides," IEEE J. Lightw. Technol., 23 (3), pp. 1308-1318, 2005.
14. D.-X. Xu, P. Cheben, D. Dalacu, A. Delage, S. Janz, B. Lamontagne, M.-J. Picard, W. N. Ye, "Eliminating the birefringence in silicon-on-insulator ridge waveguides using the cladding stress," Opt. Lett., 29 (20), pp. 2384-2386, 2004.
15. W. N. Ye, L. Brzozowski, E. H. Sargent, and D. Pelinovsky, "Stable all-optical limiting in nonlinear periodic structures III: non-solitonic pulse propagation," J. Opt. Soc. B, 20 (4), pp. 695-705, 2003; Virtual J. Ultrafast Science, 2 (4), 2003.

Patent
1. T. Tut, P. Duane, W. N. Ye, M. Wober, K. B. Crozier, "Silicon nitride light pipes for image sensors," US Patent pending, Attorney Docket No. 095035-0387516, filed on Jun. 30, 2010.