Steve Blair

Contact Information

Positions

• Director of Engineering Clinic Program, Dept. of ECE (2006-)
• Director of Center for Microarray Technology, Dept. of ECE (2005-2011)
• Professor, Dept. of ECE (2012-)
• Associate Professor, Dept. of ECE (2005-2011)
• Assistant Professor, Dept. of ECE (1998-2005)
• Adjunct Professor, Bioengineering (2000-)
• Adjunct Professor, Physics (2002-)
• Adjunct Professor, Materials Science and Engineering (2010-)

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 5410/6410: Introduction to Optics
• ECE 6900/7900: Graduate Seminar I/III

Research

• neural photonics - using light to effect and/or record neural activity,
• plasmonic antennas for enhancing light matter interactions,
• photonic microsystem integration,
• optical properties of materials

Recent Papers

• N. McAlinden, C. F. Reiche, A. M. Clark, R. Scharf, Y. Cheng, R. Sharma, L. Rieth, M. D. Dawson, A. Angelucci, K. Mathieson, S. Blair, "In vivo optogenetics using a Utah Optrode Array with enhanced light output and spatial selectivity," Journal of Neural Engineering 21046051 (2024)

• G. Bruno Monteiro Fernandes, Y. Wang, S. Blair, J. Luiz Brum Marques and C. S. Moreira, "Wavelength-Dependent Angular Sensitivity Signatures in SPR Sensors: Is the 633 nm Wavelength Still Optimal for the Latest Designs?," IEEE Sensors Journal 24, 17653-17660 (2024)

• A. M. Clark, A. Ingold, C. F. Reiche, D. Cundy III, J. L. Balsor, F. Federer, N. McAlinden, Y. Cheng, J. D. Rolston, L. Rieth, M. D. Dawson, K. Mathieson, S. Blair, A. Angelucci "An optrode array for spatiotemporally-precise large-scale optogenetic stimulation of deep cortical layers in non-human primates," Communications Biology 7, 329 (2024)

• R. Badugu, S. Blair, E. Descrovi, J. R. Lakowicz, "Fluorophore interactions with the surface modes and internal modes of a photonic crystal," Optical Materials 147, 114718 (2024)

• R. Guo, R. Sorenson, R. Scharf, A. Koch, A. Groover, L. Sieburth, S. Blair, and R. Menon, "Overcoming the field-of-view to diameter trade-off in microendoscopy via computational optrode-array microscopy," Optics Express 31, 7505-7514 (2023)

• M. Hasan, S. Blair, "Maximizing transmittance in two-photon 3D printed materials for micro-optics in the visible," Optical Materials Express 12 (3), 895-906 (2022)

• P. Gopalan, S. Knight, A. Chanana, M. Stokey, P. Ranga, MA Scarpulla, S. Krishnamoorthy, V. Darakchieva, Z. Galazka, K. Irmscher, A. Fiedler, S. Blair, M. Schubert, B. Sensale-Rodriguez, "The anisotropic quasi-static permittivity of single-crystal Ga2O3 measured by terahertz spectroscopy," Applied Physics Letters 117 (25), 252103 (2020)

• C. Moreira, Y. Wang, S. Blair, I. Carvalho, RS Cruz, "Aluminum-based deep-ultraviolet surface plasmon resonance sensor," Plasmonics 15 (6), 1891-1901 (2020)

• E. Amerling, S. Baniya, E. Lafalce, S. Blair, ZV Vardeny, L. Whittaker-Brooks, "Quantifying exciton heterogeneities in mixed-phase organometal halide multiple quantum wells via Stark spectroscopy studies," ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 12 (47), 52538-52548 (2020)

• T. Zhang, S. Blair, "Gray level image encoding in plasmonic metasurfaces," Plasmonics 15 (5), 1305-1311 (2020)

• C. Moreira, Y. Wang, S. Blair, E. Chadwick, JY Lee, L. Oliveira, A. Lima, R. Cruz, "Approaches for deep-ultraviolet surface plasmon resonance sensors," Optics Letters 45 (16), 4642-4645 (2020)

• MS Davis, W. Zhu, J. Strait, JK Lee, HJ Lezec, S. Blair, A. Agrawal, "Chiroptical Response of Aluminum Nanocrescents at Ultraviolet Wavelengths," Nano letters 20 (5), 3656-3662 (2020)

• X. Liu, A. Chanana, U. Huynh, F. Xue, P. Haney, S. Blair, X. Jiang, ZV Vardeny, "Circular photogalvanic spectroscopy of Rashba splitting in 2D hybrid organic inorganic perovskite multiple quantum wells," Nature Communications 11 (1), 1-8 (2020)

• N. McAlinden, Y. Cheng, R. Scharf, E. Xie, E. Gu, CF Reiche, R. Sharma, P. Tathireddy, L. Rieth, S. Blair, K. Mathieson, "Multisite microLED optrode array for neural interfacing," Neurophotonics 6 (3), 035010 (2019)

• A. Chanana, N. Lotfizadeh, HO Condori Quispe, P. Gopalan, JR Winger, S. Blair, A. Nahata, VV Deshpande, MA Scarpulla, B. Sensale-Rodriguez, "Manifestation of Kinetic Inductance in Terahertz Plasmon Resonances in Thin-Film Cd3As2," ACS Nano 13 (4), 4091-4100 (2019)