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VANESSA SIH

EDUCATION

09/'97 - 06/'01	Caltech, B.S., Applied Physics	Pasadena, CA

09/'01 - 03/'04	UC Santa Barbara, M.A., Physics	Santa Barbara, CA

09/'01 - 12/'06	UC Santa Barbara, Ph.D., Physics	Santa Barbara, CA

EXPERIENCE

09/'08 - present	Assistant Professor, University of Michigan	Ann Arbor, MI

02/'07 - 08/'08	Postdoc, Stanford University	Stanford, CA
	Advisor: Professor Jelena Vuckovic Quantum information processing with quantum dots in photonic crystals and active silicon nanophotonics

07/'06 - 01/'07	Graduate Intern Technical, Intel Corporation	Santa Clara, CA
	Project leaders: Dr. Haisheng Rong, Dr. Mario Paniccia Develop silicon as an active optical material for photonics using Raman amplification, lasing and four-wave mixing in on-chip waveguides and ring resonators

01/'08 - 03/'08	Lecturer, Stanford University	Stanford, CA
	Teaching EE41: Physics of Electrical Engineering, covering electricity and magnetism, optics and device physics

07/'01 - 12/'06	Graduate Student Researcher, UC Santa Barbara	Santa Barbara, CA
	Advisor: Professor David Awschalom Optical measurements of electron spin dynamics and electrical generation of spin polarization, including the spin Hall effect, in semiconductors

09/'00 - 06/'01	Senior Thesis, Caltech	Pasadena, CA
	Advisor: Professor Harry Atwater Fabricated tin nanowires by injecting of tin melt into electrochemically fabricated porous alumina templates

06/'00 - 08/'00	Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow, Caltech	Pasadena, CA
	Advisor: Professor Harry Atwater Calculated band structure of bulk cubic tin using semi-empirical tight-binding theory and cubic tin nanowires using envelope function theory

09/'99 - 05/'00	Academic Part Time, Jet Propulsion Laboratory	La Canada, CA
	Mentor: Dr. Tony Tang Fabricated microelectromechanical (MEMS) inertial sensors at the Microdevices Lab at JPL. Performed photolithography, wet and reactive ion etch, metal evaporation, thermal oxide growth

06/'99 - 09/'99	Summer Intern, Applied Materials	Sunnyvale, CA
	Supervisor: Dr. Nikos Bekiaris Characterized silicon plasma etch chamber for 300 mm wafers, using hardware and recipe variations and measurements of etch uniformity and selectivity

06/'98 - 03/'08	Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow, Caltech	Pasadena, CA
	Mentor: Professor William Goddard Researched polycrystalline diamond tribology in collaboration with Tony Tang at the Microdevices Lab at the Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL)

PUBLICATIONS

Enhanced light emission in photonic crystal nanocavities with Erbium-doped silicon nanocrystals, Maria Makarova, Vanessa Sih, Joe Warga, Rui Li, Luca Dal Negro and Jelena Vuckovic, Applied Physics Letters 92, 161107 (2008)

Dimensionally constrained D'yakonov-Perel' spin relaxation in n-InGaAs channels: transition from 2D to 1D, A. W. Holleitner, V. Sih, R. C. Myers, A. C. Gossard and D. D. Awschalom, New Journal of Physics 9, 342 (2007)

A cascaded silicon Raman laser, Haisheng Rong, Shengbo Xu, Oded Cohen, Omri Raday, Mindy Lee, Vanessa Sih and Mario Paniccia, Nature Photonics 2, 170-174 (2008)

Electrical manipulation of spin-orbit coupling in semiconductor heterostructures, Vanessa Sih and David D. Awschalom, Journal of Applied Physics 101, 081710 (2007)

Low-threshold continuous-wave Raman silicon laser, Haisheng Rong, Shengbo Xu, Ying-Hao Kuo, Vanessa Sih, Oded Cohen, Omri Raday, and Mario Paniccia, Nature Photonics 1, 232-237 (2007)

Raman amplification of 40 Gb/s data in low-loss silicon waveguides, Vanessa Sih, Shengbo Xu, Ying-Hao Kuo, Haisheng Rong, Mario Paniccia, Oded Cohen, and Omri Raday, Optics Express 15, 357-362 (2007)

Demonstration of wavelength conversion at 40 Gb/s data rate in silicon waveguides, Ying-Hao Kuo, Haisheng Rong, Vanessa Sih, Shengbo Xu, Mario Paniccia, and Oded Cohen, Optics Express 14, 11721-11726 (2006)

Generating Spin Currents in Semiconductors with the Spin Hall Effect, V. Sih, W. H. Lau, R. C. Myers, V. R. Horowitz, A. C. Gossard, and D. D. Awschalom, Physical Review Letters 97, 096605 (2006)

Room temperature electron spin coherence in telecom-wavelength quaternary quantum wells, W. H. Lau, V. Sih, N. P. Stern, R. C. Myers, D. A. Buell, A. C. Gossard, and D. D. Awschalom, Applied Physics Letters 89, 142104 (2006)

Mechanical control of spin-orbit splitting in GaAs and InGaAs epilayers, V. Sih, H. Knotz, J. Stephens, V. R. Horowitz, A. C. Gossard and D. D. Awschalom, Physical Review B 73, 241316(R) (2006)

Suppression of Spin Relaxation in Submicron InGaAs Wires, A. W. Holleitner, V. Sih, R. C. Myers, A. C. Gossard and D. D. Awschalom, Physical Review Letters 97, 036805 (2006)

Spatial imaging of the spin Hall effect and current-induced spin polarization in a two-dimensional electron gas, V. Sih, R. C. Myers, Y. K. Kato, W. H. Lau, A. C. Gossard, and D. D. Awschalom, Nature Physics 1, 31-35 (2005)

Room temperature spin coherence in ZnO, S. Ghosh, V. Sih, W. H. Lau, D. D. Awschalom, S.-Y. Bae, S. Wang, S. Vaidya, and G. Chapline, Applied Physics Letters 86, 232507 (2005)

Control of electron-spin coherence using Landau level quantization in a two-dimensional electron gas, V. Sih, W. H. Lau, R. C. Myers, A. C. Gossard, M. E. Flatt� and D. D. Awschalom, Physical Review B 70, 161313(R) (2004)

Epitaxial growth and magnetic properties of EuO on (001) Si by molecular-beam epitaxy, J. Lettieri, V. Vaithyanathan, S. K. Eah, J. Stephens, V. Sih, D. D. Awschalom, J. Levy, and D. G. Schlom, Applied Physics Letters 83, 975 (2003)

A Hall of Spin, Vanessa Sih, Yuichiro Kato and David D. Awschalom, Physics World, November 2005, 33-36

Optical and Electronic Manipulation of Spin Coherence in Semiconductors, V. A. Sih, E. Johnston-Halperin, and D. D. Awschalom, Proceedings of the IEEE 91, 752 (2003)

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Stanford Photonics Research Center (SPRC)

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