Biomedical and environmental sensing, telecommunications (polarization management, sensing, switching), and photovoltaics (high-efficiency solar cells).
External referee for Grant proposals: Canada Research Chair (2013-2014), NSERC Discovery (2012, 2013), NSERC Strategic Grants (2010-2013), CFI-LOF (2010-2012), Fonds de Recherche du Québec - Nature et Technologies (2012).
Y. Xiong and W. N. Ye, "Silicon MZI racetrack microrings with MMI and DC couplers," submitted to IEEE J. Lightw. Technol., (Manuscript # PTL-26857-2013), 2014.
A. Aleali, D.-X. Xu, J. H. Schmid, P. Cheben, and W. N. Ye, "Optimization of Strain-Induced Pockels Effect in Silicon Waveguides for Optical Modulators," submitted to IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., 2014.
R. Veenkamp and W. N. Ye, "Plasmonic metal nanocubes for broadband photocurrent enhancement in thin-film a-Si solar cells", J. Appl. Phys., 115, 124317 p.1-8, Apr 2014.
T. Tut, Y. Dan, P. Duane, W. N. Ye, F. Degirmenci, Y. Yu, M. Wober, K. B. Crozier, "Silicon photodetectors integrated with vertical silicon nitride waveguides as image sensor pixels: fabrication and charac-terization," J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B, 32, 031201 p.1-8, 2014.
Y. Xiong, D.-X. Xu, J. H. Schmid, P. Cheben, S. Janz, and W. N. Ye, "Robust silicon waveguide polarization rotator with an amorphous silicon overlayer," IEEE Photon. J., 6(2), 2200308, Apr 2014.
B. A. Dorin and W. N. Ye, "Two-mode division multiplexing in a silicon-on-insulator ring resonator," Opt. Exp., 22 (4), pp.4547-4558, 2014.
B. A. Dorin and W. N. Ye, "Conditions for Single-Mode and Birefringence-Free Ultrasmall SOI Rib Waveguides at 1310 nm," IEEE J. Lightw. Technol., pp. 3420 - 3424, Sep 2013.
W. N. Ye and Y. Xiong, "Review on Silicon Photonics: History and Recent Advances," J. Mod. Opt., 60 (14), pp. 1299-1320, 2013.
Y. Xiong and W. N. Ye, "Silicon MMI-coupled slotted conventional and MZI racetrack microring resonators," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., 25 (19), pp. 1185-1888, 2013.
Y. Xiong and W. N. Ye, "Impact of LOCOS techniques on photonic wire waveguides," Appl. Opt., 51 (32), pp. 7788-7793, 2012.
Y. Xiong and W. N. Ye, "Silicon-based all-optical Ring-assisted Mach-Zehnder Interferometer Switch of a Single Wavelength," Appl. Opt., 51 (29), pp. 7090-7093, 2012.
M. Ibrahim, J. H. Schmid, A. Aleali, P. Cheben, J. Lapointe, S. Janz, P. J. Bock, A. Densmore, B. Lamontagne, R. Ma, D.-X. Xu, and W. N. Ye, "Athermal silicon waveguides with bridged subwavelength gratings for TE and TM polarizations," Opt. Exp., 20 (16), pp. 18356-18361, 2012.
T. Smy, P. Gunupudi, S. McGarry and W. N. Ye, "Circuit-level Transient Simulation of Configurable Ring Resonators using Physical Models," J. Opt. Am. B, 28 (6), pp. 1534-1543, 2011.
J. H. Schmid, M. Ibrahim, P. Cheben, J. Lapointe, S. Janz, P. J. Bock, A. Densmore, B. Lamontagne, R. Ma, W. N. Ye, and D.-X Xu, "Temperature-independent silicon subwavelength grating waveguides," Opt. Exp., 36 (11), pp. 2210-2212, 2011.
W. N. Ye, P. Duane, M. Wober, K. B. Crozier, "Fabrication of high-aspect ratio lightpipes," J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B, 29 (3), 031206, pp.1-5, 2011.
V. Raghunathan, W. N. Ye, J. Hu, T. Izahara, J. Michel, L. C. Kimerling, "Achieving Athermal operation of Silicon waveguides: spectral, second order and footprint dependencies," Opt. Exp., 18 (17), pp.17631-17639 (2010).
E. Schonbrun, W. N. Ye, and K. B. Crozier, "Scanning microscopy using a short-focal-length Fresnel zone plate," Opt. Lett. 34, pp. 2228-2230 (2009).