Steve Blair

Contact Information

Positions

• Director of Engineering Clinic Program, Dept. of ECE (2006-)
• Director of Center for Microarray Technology, Dept. of ECE (2005-)
• Associate Professor, Dept. of ECE (2005-)
• Assistant Professor, Dept. of ECE (1998-2005)
• Adjunct Professor, Bioengineering (2000-)
• Adjunct Professor, Physics (2002-)

Education

• Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Colorado, 1998
• Dissertation: Optical Soliton-Based Logic Gates
• Advisor: Kelvin Wagner
• M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of Colorado, 1996
• M.S., Applied Optics, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, 1993
• Thesis: Photochromic Methyl-Violet as a Holographic Medium
• Advisor: Azad Siahmakoun
• B.S., Computer Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, 1991
• B.S., Applied Optics, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, 1991

Classes

• ECE 5411: Optical Communications Systems

Research

My research interests lie in the physics and application of resonance phenomena and linear and nonlinear optical phenomena. In particular, current research includes:

• resonance enhancement in fluorescence-based molecular transduction using microscale and nanoscale structures,
• kinetics of bi-molecular interactions and novel analysis methods,
• microfabricated optical biosensor array systems incorporating microfluidics and microthermal management for quantitative assay,
• design of periodic and aperiodic systems of artificial resonators for enhancement of nonlinear optical processes,
• plasmonics - nanophotonic systems based on metallic structures.

Recent Papers

Journal:

• Tingjun Xu, Xiaojin Jiao, G.-P. Zhang, and Steve Blair, "Second-harmonic emission from sub-wavelength apertures: Effects of aperture symmetry and lattice arrangement," Optics Express 15, 13894-13906 (2007)

• D. Gerard, J. Wengr, N. Bonod, E. Popov, H. Rigneault, F. Mahdavi, S. Blair, J. Dintinger and T. W. Ebbesen, "Nanoaperture-enhanced fluorescence: Towards higher detection rates with plasmonic metals," Physical Review B 77, 045413 (2008)

• Justin Bishop, Alex Chagovetz and Steve Blair, "Kinetics of multiplex hybridization: Mechanisms and implications," Biophysical Journal 94, 1726-1734 (2008)

Conference:

• L. Williams, M. Okandan, A. Chagovetz, and S. Blair, ``Development and characterization of a microheater array device for real-time DNA mutation detection,'' Microfluidics, BioMEMS, and Medical Microsystems VI, Proceedings of the SPIE, (2008).