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Above: Etroplus Maculatus (Orange Chromide)

The orange chromide is the only cichlid that can live in both fresh and salt water. As such, this beautiful fish is a striking example of adaptability. It is a vibrant orange color with highly reflective chromelike markings under the eyes; this chrome touch comes from dielectric stacks within the scales bonded by organic matrix. The cichlid family of fish (Cichlidae) also includes angelfish, African cichlids, and many other popular aquarium fish.

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ELIZABETH EDWARDS

www.stanford.edu/~ehe - ehe - stanford - edu


EDUCATION

04/'08 - present

 Stanford University, PhD Electrical Engineering Stanford, CA

    09/'05 - 04/'08

    		Stanford University, MS Electrical Engineering Stanford, CA

      01/'00 - 12/'03

      		University of Illinois at Chicago, BS Electrical Engineering Chicago, IL

        EXPERIENCE

        01/'06 - present

        		 Optoelectronics research, Stanford University Stanford, CA
        • Design, simulation, fabrication, and testing of optoelectronic devices

        01/'04 - 09/'05

        		Application Engineer, IBM Rochester, MN
        • Engineering & Technology Services: Chip design -- ASICs and BlueGene Supercomputer

        06/'08 - 09/'08

        		Summer intern, optics research, Ausra Inc Palo Alto, CA
        • Solar energy research

        AWARDS

        NSF Fellowship, 2005
        Herbert J. Stein Memorial Award, 2002
        Kabbes Undergraduate Research Award, 2002 and 2003
        First place senior design project - UIC

        SKILLS, TECHNOLOGIES & PROJECTS

        optoelectronic device design: design and simulation using Matlab/Sentaurus
        device fabrication:
        material growth and deposition, lithography, various characterization tools, bonding, liftoff, and other various process techniques
        device testing: built and use optical testing apparatus to test devices optically and electrically using data acquisition software coded in Matlab
        chip design: power estimation, chip core layout, front to back end planning
        project organization: e.g. Gantt charts
        web design: research group and conference webpages, e.g. http://www.stanford.edu/group/dabmgroup

        PUBLICATIONS

        Si-Ge Surface-normal Asymmetric Fabry-Perot Quantum-confined Stark Effect Electroabsorption Modulator, E. H. Edwards, R. M. Audet, Y. Rong, S. A. Claussen, R. K. Schaevitz, E. Tasyürek, S. Ren, Ted I. Kamins, O. I. Dosunmu, M. S. Ünlu, J. S. Harris, and D. A. B. Miller, Proc. IEEE Summer Topicals, Playa del Carmen, Mexico, TuD2.4 (2010)
        Electrically controlled modulation in a photonic crystal nanocavity, Authors: D. R. Englund, B. Ellis, E. H. Edwards, T. Sarmiento, J. S. Harris, D.A.B. Miller, and J. Vuckovic, Optics Express, vol. 17, issue 18, p. 15409 (2009)
        C-band side-entry electroabsorption modulator on SOI operating at 1 volt swing, J.E. Roth, O. Fidaner, E.E. Edwards, R.K. Schaevitz, Y.-H. Kuo, N.C. Helman, G.K. Celler, T.I. Kamins, J.S. Harris and D.A.B. Miller, Electronics Letters, Volume 44, Issue 1 (2008)
        The Quantum Confined Stark Effect in Ge/SiGe Quantum Wells: An efficient electroabsorption mechanism for silicon-based application, J. Roth, O.Fidaner, R. Schaevitz, E.H. Edwards, Y. Kuo, T.I. Kamins, J. Harris, Jr., and D.A.B. Miller, 2007 4th IEEE International Conference on Group IV Photonics
        Surface-Normal Asymmetric Fabry-Perot Quantum-Confined Stark Effect Electroabsorption Modulator, E. H. Edwards, R. M. Audet, S. A. Claussen, R. K. Schaevitz, E. Tasyürek, S. Ren, O. I. Dosunmu, M. S. Ünlü, and D. A. B. Miller, CLEO/QELS, CTuA5, San Jose, CA (May 2010)
        Si-Ge Surface-normal Asymmetric Fabry-Perot Quantum-confined Stark Effect Electroabsorption Modulator, E. H. Edwards, R. M. Audet, Y. Rong, S. A. Claussen, R. K. Schaevitz, E. Tasyürek, S. Ren, Ted I. Kamins, O. I. Dosunmu, M. S. Ünlu, J. S. Harris, and D. A. B. Miller, IEEE Annual Photonics Society Meeting November 2010, Paper WW2
        Simple Electroabsorption Model for Silicon-Germanium/Germanium Quantum Well Devices, R. K. Schaevitz, J. E. Roth, E. H. Edwards, R. M. Audet, S. A. Claussen, E. Tasyurek, S. Ren, Y. Rong, J. S. Harris and D. A. B. Miller, Proc. IEEE Summer Topicals TuD4.2 (2010)
        Visualization of the Temperature Distribution of Carbon Nanotube Field Emitters using Thermochromic Liquid Crystal Sheets, E. Edwards, H. Busta and A. Feinerman, Technical Digest of the 17th International Vacuum Nanoelectronics Conference, 2004
        Field Emission from Graphite Platelet Nanofibers (GPNs), X. Chen, R. Ruoff, H. Busta, E. Edwards and A. Feinerman, Technical Digest of the 16th International Vacuum Nanoelectronics Conference, 2003
        Field Emission From Carbon Black and Carbon Black and Silica Nanoparticles Dispersed in Photoresist, H. Busta, D. Boldridge, R. Myers, E. Edwards and A. Feinerman, Applied Physics Letters, Volume 83, Issue 9, pp. 1779-1781 (2003)
        Spot Size Effects in Asymmetric Fabry-Perot Electroabsorption Modulators, R. M. Audet, E. H. Edwards, S. A. Claussen, S. Ren, R. K. Schaevitz, E. Tasyurek and D. A. B. Miller, Proc. IEEE Summer Topicals TuD4.5 (2010)
        Electron Emission from Carbon Black-based Field Emitters Including Diesel Engine Exhaust, H. Busta, D. Boldridge, R. Myers, and G. Snider, A. Korotkov, E. Edwards, A. Feinerman, JVST B, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp.1261-1265, 2004
        Emission from Nanocrystalline Graphite (NCG) Ranging from Room Temperature to 350°C, H. Busta, E. Edwards, R. Lajos, A. Feinerman, A. Rakhimov, V. Samaradov, B. Seleznev and N. Suetin, Technical Digest of the 15th International Vacuum Nanoelectronics Conference, 2002
        Field Emission From a Polymeric Precursor to Diamond-like Carbon (DLC), H. Busta, C. Partee, S. Joray, T. Lang, E. Edwards and A. Feinerman, Technical Digest of the 16th International Vacuum Nanoelectronics Conference, 2003
        Field Emission from Teepee-shaped Carbon Nanotube Bundles, J. Mongomery, E. Edwards, A. Feinerman, Z. Tolt and H. Busta, JVST B, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 676-679, 2005

        Projects

        Why organic solar cells could help power society
        Friday, 13 April 2007

        I have analyzed different cleantech energy options, from Brazilian biofuel to tandem silicon solar cells. My conclusion is that solar technologies will supercede other cleantech options (biofuel, wind, etc), and organic solar cells could supercede silicon solar cells by 2050. For the full analysis, please read Organic_SolarCells-EHE.pdf Organic_SolarCells-EHE.pdf

        I wrote this paper for Dr. Aldo daRosa's "Energy processes" class.

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        SiGe Electrooptic Modulator
        Monday, 15 January 2007
        To further the effort to integrate photonics into silicon chips, devices made from material systems that are compatible with CMOS processing should be investigated. I am investigating the use of the CMOS-compatible Si-Ge material system for one of the basic building blocks of integrated optics, an electrooptic modulator. An electrooptic modulator embedded in an absorption-enhancing resonant cavity formed by quarter-wave Bragg stacks is being characterized via simulation.
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        Slave to chocolate
        Monday, 06 August 2007
         Almost 70% of the cocoa consumed by the world is grown in West Africa. Most cocoa is grown, specifically, in Cote d'Ivoire. Because there are over half a million cocoa farms there, competition is fierce. Price competition and widespread poverty encourages the use of child, endentured or forced (slave) labor. African children are trafficked across country borders and sold to farms. Read more to find out some of the causes, and how you can choose to help by choosing your chocolate brands.
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        Connections

        OFFLINE Ayodele Adekunle Faiyetole
        OFFLINE Innovations to Society
        OFFLINE Stanford Photonics Research Center (SPRC)
        OFFLINE Yuki D. Takahashi
        OFFLINE Ronald K Siu
        OFFLINE Rebecca K. Schaevitz
        OFFLINE Joanna Lankester
        OFFLINE Jana Tetikova
        OFFLINE Viviana
        OFFLINE Mike Wiemer
        OFFLINE Dirk Englund
        OFFLINE Ilya Fushman
         

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