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 6961: Biophotonics

• ECE 6440: Photonic Microsystems

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:

• Jerome Wenger, Davy Gerard, Heykel Aouani, Herve Rigneault, Bryan Lowder, Steve Blair, Eloise Devaux, and Thomas W. Ebbesen, "Nanoaperture-enhanced signal to noise ratio in fluorescence correlation spectroscopy," Analytical Chemistry 81, 834-839 (2009)

• Xiaojin Jiao, Jeremy Goeckeritz, Steve Blair, and Mark Oldham, "Localization of near-field resonances in bow-tie antennae: influence of adhesion layers," Plasmonics 4, 37-50 (2009)

• Alexander Chagovetz and Steve Blair, "Real-time DNA microarrays: reality check,'' Biochemical Society Transactions 37, 471-475 (2009)

• Gaurav Saini, Richard Gates, Matthew C. Asplund, Steve Blair, Sachin Attavar, and Matthew R. Linford, "Directing polyallylamine absorption on microlens array patterned silicon for microarray fabrication,'' Lab on a Chip 9, 1789-1796 (2009)

• Heykel Aouani, Jerome Wenger, Davy Gerard, Herve Rigneault, Eloise Devaux, Thomas W. Ebbesen, F. Mahdavi, T. Xu and S. Blair, "Crucial role of the adhesion layer on the plasmonic fluorescence enhancement," ACS Nano (ASAP), (2009)

Conference:

• S. Blair, ``Kinetics of multiplex hybridization on microarrays'' Advances in Microarray Technology (podium presentation), Barcelona, May 8, 2008

• A. Chagovetz, L. Williams, and S. Blair, ``A paradox of multiplex DNA melting on the surface,'' Advances in Nucleic Acid Detection and Quantification (podium presentation), Cambridge, Oct. 28-29, 2008.