Vincent K.S. Hsiao was born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1972. He received his Bachelor and
Master degrees in the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Tatung
University in 1995 and 1997 respectively. In August 2005 he got his Ph.D. degree in the
Electrical Engineering Department, SUNY at Buffalo. During his study at UB, he was
supported by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) through a Defense
University Research Initiative in Nanotechnology (DURINT) grant related to the research
areas of polymeric nanophotonics and nanoelectronics at the Institute for Lasers,
Photonics, and Biophotonics.
Currently he is working as a postdoctoral scholar on the research project related to
fabricating the photonic materials based on artificial molecular machines.
List of Publications Related to Ph.D. Work
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Vincent K. S. Hsiao, W. D. Kirkey, F. Chen, A. N. Cartwright, P. N. Prasad, and
T.J. Bunning, “Organic Solvent Vapor Detection using Holographic
Photopolymer Reflection Gratings,” Advanced Materials, 17, 2211 (2005).
X. Y. Fang, Vincent K. S. Hsiao, V. P. Chodavarapu, A. H. Titus, A. N.
Cartwright, P. N. Prasad, and F. V. Bright, “Colorimetric Porous Photonic
Bandgap Sensors with Integrated CMOS Color Detectors,” accepted by
IEEE Sensors Journal.
Vincent K. S. Hsiao, C. Lu, G.. S. He, M. Pan, A. N. Cartwright, P. N. Prasad, R.
Jakubiak, R. V. Vaia, and T. J. Bunning, “High contrast switching of
distributed-feedback lasing in dye-doped H-PDLC transmission grating
structures,” Optics Express, 13, 3787 (2005).
P. P. Markowicz, Vincent K. S. Hsiao, H. Tiryaki, A. N. Cartwright, P. N. Prasad,
K. Dolgaleva, N. N. Lepeshkin, and R. W. Boyd, “Strong Enhancement of
Third-Harmonic Generation with Fundamental at Low Energy Edge of
Photonic Band Gap,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 87, 051102 (2005).
Vincent K. S. Hsiao, T. C. Lin, G. S. He, A. N. Cartwright, P. N. Prasad, L. V.
Natarajan, V. P. Tondiglia, and T. J. Bunning, “Optical Microfabrication of
Highly Reflective Volume Bragg Gratings,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 86, 131113
(2005).
G. S. He, T. C. Lin, Vincent K. S. Hsiao, A. N. Cartwright, P. N. Prasad, L. V.
Natarajan, V. P. Tondiglia, R. Jakubiak, R. V. Vaia, and T. J. Bunning,
“Tunable Two-photon Pumped Lasing Using a Holographic PolymerDispersed Liquid-Crystal Grating as a Distributed Feedback Element,”
Appl. Phys. Lett. 83, 2733 (2003).
List of Conference Presentations related to Ph.D. work
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Vincent K.S. Hsiao, W. D. Kirkey, A. N. Cartwright, P. N. Prasad, P. F. Lloyd,
and T. J. Bunning, “Organic Solvent Vapor Sensing Using Porous
Photopolymer Photonic Bandgap Structures,” SPIE Proceedings, Optics &
Photonics, paper number 5926-2, San Diego, 31 July- 3 Aug. (2005).
Vincent K. S. Hsiao, G. S. He, A. N. Cartwright, and P. N. Prasad, “Holographic
Formation of Photonic Band Gap Structures with High Refractive Index
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Modulation,” Materials Research Society Symposium, Oral presentation, 29
Nov. -3 Dec., Boston, MA (2004).
A. N. Cartwright, W. D. Kirkey, M. Pan, Vincent K.S. Hsiao, R. Thapa, D.
Lucey, and P. N. Prasad, “Nanofabrication of Organic and Inorganic:Organic
Structures for Nanophotonics,” Materials Research Society Symposium, invited
talk, 29 Nov. -3 Dec., Boston, MA (2004).
A. N. Cartwright, Vincent K.S. Hsiao, G. S. He, P. N. Prasad, “Holographic
Writing of Gratings for Nanophotonics," Liquid Crystal Technology and
Applications Conference, Great Lakes Photonics Symposium, Cleveland, OH, 711 June, (2003).
P. P. Markowicz, Vincent K.S. Hsiao, H. Tiryaki, P. N. Prasad, Paras, N. N.
Lepeshkin, K. Dolgaleva, and R. W. Boyd, “Enhancement of third-harmonic
generation in photonic crystals”, Trends in Optics and Photonics, 96/A
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, JWC3/1-JWC3/2 (2004).
N. Cartwright, W. D. Kirkey, Vincent K. S. Hsiao, M. Pan, and M. Furis, “New
Materials and Interactions for Nanophotonics,” Seventh International
Conference on Frontiers of Polymers and Advanced Materials, Bucharest,
Romania, 10-15 June (2003).
List of Patent Disclosure related to Ph.D. work
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Vincent K. S. Hsiao, A. N. Cartwright, and P. N. Prasad, “Holographic
formation of wide bandwidth reflection gratings for visible to IR
wavelengths”, Disclosed to the University at Buffalo STOR May 2004,
provisional patent filed July 2004.
Vincent K.S. Hsiao, K. T. Yong, M. T. Swihart, A. N. Cartwright, and P. N.
Prasad, “Ordered Nanoporous Polymer Materials by Emulsion Holography”,
Disclosed to the University at Buffalo STOR August 2005.