Armand R. Tanguay Jr.

  • Professor of Electrical Engineering/Electrophysics, Materials Science and Biomedical Engineering
  • Director, Optical Materials and Devices Laboratory
Office: (213) 740-4403

Expertise Summary

Expert in optical and photonic technology, including cameras planted in the eye

Expertise

  • photonic technology
  • optical materials
  • optical devices
  • optical information processing andcomputing
  • photonic implementations of neuralnetworks
  • crystal growth of optical and electronicmaterials
  • dielectric and optical thin film physics
  • thin film deposition technology andcharacterization
  • physical optics (linear and nonlinearpolarization effects)
  • physics of photonic, electrooptic,optoelectronic and integrated opticaldevices
  • photorefractive volume holographicoptical elements
  • stratified volume holographic opticalelements (SVHOEs)
  • diffractive optical elements (DOEs)
  • hybrid electronic/ photonic packaging
  • flip chip bonding
  • clean room technology
  • multielectrode arrays for stimulationand recording of brain slices, slicecultures and dissociated neuron arrays

Additional Information

    • Member, Signal and Image Processing Institute
    • Faculty Fellow, Center for Excellence in Teaching
    • Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science and Optical Society of America