Parag Deotare [pdeotare@seas]

Biography

Parag received his undergradute degree in Electrical Engineering with Distinction from Government College of Engineering, University of Pune, India in 2004. He then joined IIT, Bombay as a Senior Research Assistant and later moved on to Texas A&M University to study at the Nanostructure Science and Engineering lab, headed by Dr. Jun Kameoka. After graduaing with a MS degree in 2007, he joined Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences as a graduate student and is currently working towards his PhD under Dr. Marko Loncar. Apart from his research he enjoys astronomy, amateur radio, and cooking.

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Fellowships

• Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana Fellow (Young Scientist Fellowship), Dept. of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, 2001 ñ 2004

Publications

• Deotare P. B., McCutcheon M. W., Frank I. W., Khan M., and Loncar M., "Coupled photonic crystal nanobeam cavities", in press, Appl. Phys. Lett.
• Deotare P. B., McCutcheon M. W., Frank I. W., Khan M., and Loncar M., "High Quality factor photonic crystal nanobeam cavities", Appl. Phys. Lett., 94, 121106 (2009)
• Deotare P. B. and Kameoka J., 2007, Sorting of silica nanocups by diameter during fabrication process. J. Nanomaterials 2007, 1 (Jan. 2007), 1-1
• Deotare P. B. and Kameoka J., 2006, Fabrication of Poly Lactic Acid (PLA) nano/micro particles and rods using Electrospraying, Intl. J. of Electrospun Nanofibers and Application, in press
• Deotare P. B. and Kameoka J., 2006, Fabrication of Silica Nanocomposite-cups using Electrospraying, Nanotechnology, 17, 1380 - 1383

Conferences

• Deotare P. B., McCutcheon M. W., Frank I. W., Khan M., Shankar R. and Loncar M., High Quality Factor 1D Photonic Crystal Cavities in Silicon, CLEO, Baltimore, USA, June 5, 2009
• Deotare P. B., McCutcheon M. W., Frank I. W., Khan M. and Loncar M., Coupled High Quality Factor 1D Photonic Crystal Cavities, PECS-VIII, Sydney, Australia, 6, April 6, 2009
• McCutcheon M. W., Chang D. E., Zhang Y., Deotare P. B., Khan M., Lukin M. D. and Loncar M., Ultra-high Q/V double mode photonic crystal nanocavity for nonlinear frequency conversion, PECS-VIII, Sydney, Australia, April 6, 2009
• Deotare P. B., Khan M. and Loncar M., Vapor Phase release of silicon nanostructures for optomechanics application, SPIE Photonics West (7205-09), San Jose, CA, January 27, 2009
• Khan M., McCutcheon M. W., Deotare P. B., and Loncar M., Design, Fabrication, and Characterization of Si3N4 Photonic Crystal Nanocavities for Diamond-based Quantum Information Processing Applications, MRS Fall Meeting, Vol.1108-1152E, Boston, MA, December 2008