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 6460: Biophotonics

• ECE 5411: Optical Communications

Research

My overall research focuses on the application of optics/photonics to problems in biology and medicine. Current research includes:

• plasmonic antennas for enhancing light matter interactions,
• real-time DNA and protein microarrays,
• neural photonics - using light to effect and/or record neural signals

Recent Papers

Journal:

• Layne Williams, Steve Blair, Alexander Chagovetz, Daniel J. Fish and Albert S. Benight, "The paradox of multiplex DNA melting on a surface," Analytical Biochemistry 409, 150-152 (2011)

• Sachin Attavar, Mohit Diwekar, and Steve Blair, "Photoactivated capture molecule immobilization in plasmonic nanoapertures in the ultraviolet," Lab on a Chip 11, 841-844 (2011)

• Mingfang Yi, Douguo Zhang, Pei Wang, Xiaojin Jiao, Steve Blair, Xiaolei Wen, Qiang Fu, Yonghua Lu and Hai Ming, "Plasmonic interaction between silver nano-cubes and a silver ground plane studied by surface-enhanced Raman scattering," Plasmonics 6, 515-519 (2011)

• James R. Nagel, Steve Blair, and Michael A. Scarpulla, "Exact field solution to guided wave propagation in lossy thin films," Optics Express 19, 20159-20171 (2011)

• Xiaojin Jiao and Steve Blair, "Polarization multiplexed optical bullseye antennas," to appear Plasmonics (2011)

• Jonghwa Jeong, Debra Mascaro, and Steve Blair, "Precise pixel patterning of small molecule organic light-emitting devices by spin casting," Organic Electronics 12, 2095-2102 (2011)

Conference:

• (invited) S. Blair, "Recent progress with real-time microarrays," Microarray World Congress, San Diego, October 28, 2010.

• (invited) S. Blair, "Molceular sensing with plasmonic nanoapertures," Pacifichem, Honolulu, December 16, 2010.