Scherer, Axel

Advisor — 48 thesises

• Latawiec, Pawel Michal — Bandgap Engineering Silicon Nanopillars (2013, Senior thesis (Major))
• Wang, Guangxi — Compact Nonlinear Optical Devices in Silicon-Polymer Hybrid Material System (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• O'Brien, John David — Design, growth, and characterization of vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (1996, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Adalian, Dvin Artashes-Boghos — Development and Dynamics of Microfabricated Enzymatic Biosensors (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Goldberg, Mark David — Development of Microfluidic Devices with the Use of Nanotechnology to Aid in the Analysis of Biological Systems Including Membrane Protein Separation, Single Cell Analysis, and Genetic Markers (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Witzens, Jeremy — Dispersion in Photonic Crystals (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jilani, Muhammad Musab — Dynamics of Microfabricated Enzyme Electrodes (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Walker, Christopher — Fabrication of Microfluidic Structures by Automated Laser Ablation and Automation of Optical Testing (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Emery, Teresa Holly — Fabrication of Nanowire-based Magnetic Structures for Magnetic Resonance Applications (2008, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Maune, Brett Michael — Fluidic and Polymeric Integration and Functionalization of Optical Microresonators (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Henry, Michael David — ICP Etching of Silicon for Micro and Nanoscale Devices (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Mujeeb-U-Rahman, Muhammad — Integrated Microsystems for Wireless Sensing Applications (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hochberg, Michael — Integrated Ultrafast Nonlinear Optical Devices in Silicon (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gunn, Lawrence Cary, III — Integration of Complex Optical Functionality in a Production CMOS Process (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chen, Yan — Integration of Dye Lasers and Microfluidics for Biochemical Analysis (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Adams, Mark Lee — Integration of Optoelectronics and Microfluidics for Biological and Chemical Sensing (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lee, Reginald K. — Lasing and modified spontaneous emission in photonic crystal structures and microcavities (2000, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Vyawahare, Saurabh — Manipulating Fluids: Advances in Micro-Fluidics, Opto-Fluidics and Fluidic Self-Assembly (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chou, Hou-Pu — Microfabricated devices for rapid DNA diagnostics (2000, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rajagopal, Aditya — Microfabricated Tools and Engineering Methods for Sensing Bioanalytes (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Maltezos, George Manuel — Microfluidic Devices for Accessible Medical Diagnostics (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cheng, Chuan-cheng — Nanofabrication and Characterization of Photonic Crystals (1998, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lončar, Marko — Nanophotonic Devices Based on Planar Photonic Crystals (2003, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Jones, William Maxwell — Nanoscale Field Emission Devices (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• De Rose, Lucía Belén — Nanoscale Field Emission Devices for High-Temperature and High-Frequency Operation (2023, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Husain, Ali — Nanotube and Nanowire Devices (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Baehr-Jones, Tom Wetteland — Novel Modulation and Detection Mechanisms in Silicon Nanophotonics (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Painter, Oskar Jon — Optical Nanocavities in Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystal Planar Waveguides (2001, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Walavalkar, Sameer Sudhir — Optical, Mechanical, and Electronic Properties of Etched Silicon Nanopillars (2011, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Drolet, Jean-Jacques P. — Optoelectronic devices for information storage and processing (1997, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tsai, Charles Su-Chang — Optoelectronic structure fabrication by organometallic vapor-phase epitaxy and selective epitaxy (1996, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wong, Joyce Y. — Perpendicular patterned media for high density magnetic storage (2000, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Khankhoje, Uday Kiran — Photon Confinement in Photonic Crystal Cavities (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Vučković, Jelena — Photonic Crystal Structures for Efficient Localization or Extraction of Light (2002, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yoshie, Tomoyuki — Planar Photonic Crystal Nanocavities with Active Quantum Nanostructures (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Malik, Imran Raouf — Point of Care Molecular Diagnostics for Humanity (2014, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hwang, Chiyoung — Robust Nanogap Cluster Formation via Plasmonic Moiré Superlattices for Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Homyk, Andrew P. — Scalable Methods for Deterministic Integration of Quantum Emitters in Photonic Crystal Cavities (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shearn, Michael Joseph, II — Silicon Integrated Optics: Fabrication and Characterization (2010, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Barsic, David Nicholas — Small-Scale Liquid-State Dynamics in Nanometer Size Devices (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Neal, Terrell Demetris — Surface Plasmon Enhanced Light Emission from Organic Light Emitters (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Choi, Changsoon — Techniques for Molecular Detection: From Mid-Infrared Spectrometers to Nanopore Devices (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Smith, Richard Daniel — Techniques Toward the Wafer-Scale Fabrication of Enzyme-Based Sensors (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhang, Zhaoyu — Towards Functional Miniaturized Lasers (2007, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Salvatore, Randal A. — Ultrashort and ultrahigh-repetition-rate pulses from passively mode-locked semiconductor lasers (1996, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chang, Chieh-Feng — Wafer-Scalable Fabrication of Metal Nanostructures for Plasmonics-Assisted Biomedical Sensing Applications (2015, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Huang, Jingqing — Wavelength-Scale Confinement of Light and Its Applications in On-Chip Photonic Devices (2012, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sadek, Akram Sarwat — Wireless Nano and Molecular Scale Neural Interfacing (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))