Henghua DENG (Research)

 Nanofabrication, Nanophotonics, Nano-sensors, Biophotonics

	National Research Council Canada (NRC), Integrated Manufacturing Technologies Institute (IMTI), Ontario, CANADA
	NSERC Fellow	Aug. 2006— Present
Plasmonics, Surface plasma resonance (SPR), Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD), Thin Film Optics, Chemical and Bio-Sensors, Photonic bandgap devices (PBG). In Progress.

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 Numerous numerical methods for electromagnetic and photonic devices, Computational Electromagnetics and Computer Aided Design, including: Finite Element Method (FEM), Finite Difference Method (FDM), Beam Propagation Method (BPM), Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) Method, Coupled Mode Theory (CMT), Adaptive Meshing, Perfectly Matched Layer (PML), Conformal Mapping, Ray Tracing, MoM, and more.

	Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
	Research Assistant	Jan. 2001 — July. 2005
Developed sophisticated and efficient FEM packages for various electromagnetic/photonic problems, including both guided-wave and beam-propagation analysis. These general, powerful, versatile, accurate and efficient codes are applicable to problems involving complicated geometries, inhomogeneous media, anisotropic dielectrics, lossy materials, strongly-guiding structures and polarization-dependent problems.
	Postdoctoral Researcher	Aug. 2005— Jul. 2006
Applications of commercial software (HFSS, FEKO, ADS, AutoCAD, FEMLAB, RSoft) and programming for a vehicular wireless communication problem, antenna design, and a photonic bandgap device (PBG) problem. Publication. Documentation. Software.

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 Silicon Photonics, SOI waveguide, Passive Optical Device, Arrayed-Waveguide Grating (AWG), Nanophotonics, Optoelectronic Integrated Circuit (OEIC), Planar Lightwave Circuit (PLC).

	Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
	Research Assistant	Jan. 2001 — Jul. 2005
Designed a category of novel asymmetric polarization converters on both III-V semiconductors (InP and GaAs) and Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI). Novel SOI polarization rotators with asymmetric external guiding layers show numerous advantages over traditional configurations. Peer researchers have employed this structure for high performance III-V polarization converters. General and fast design procedures, regardless of material system, wafer dimension, external-layer configuration, and longitudinal loading. Publication. Documentation. Software.

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 All Optical Network (AON), Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM), Arrayed-Waveguide Grating (AWG) Router, Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer (OADM), Optical Cross-connect (OXC), Coupler and Switch.

	Research Assistant, Department Electronics, Peking University, Beijing, CHINA	Sept. 1997—July 2000
	National Laboratory on Local Fiber-Optic Communication Networks and Advanced Optical Communication Systems (Beijing Division)
	Projects from: The National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC).
Worked on monitoring and controlling reconfigurable OADMs and Self-Healing Ring in AON. Designed and tested Bi-directional OADM with Arrayed-Waveguide Grating (AWG). Designed and fabricated Microprocessor (8051) electric circuit PCB board with Protel software and Assemble language . Realized network communication between physical layer (microprocessor unit) and application layer (monitoring computer and optical network) through RS485 interface. Publication. Documentation. Software.

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In-System Programmability (ISP), Generic Array Logic (GAL), FPGA, VHDL.

	Research Assistant, Department of Electrical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an, CHINA.	Mar. 1997—July 1997
Worked on In-System Programmable Large Scale Integration (ISPLSI), ISPGAL, ISPGDS. Designed and tested cryptographic lock, traffic control light, digital alarm, and code conversion electric circuits with ABLE language and PDS, PDS+, SYNARIO software from LATTICE Ltd. Co., USA.

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