Shayla Sawyer

About

Shayla Sawyer is a professor in the Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Her Nano-Bio Optoelectronics research program expands the fundamental understanding, engineering processes, and potential applications of hybrid inorganic/organic materials for optoelectronic devices and sensors. This includes the fabrication of nanomaterials from bacteria, fabrication in a solution process, and the development of optoelectronic sensors and complimentary systems. The optoelectronic devices are comprised of hybrid inorganic/organic materials what may include semiconductor metal oxide nanostructures, conductive polymers, conductive nanostructures, and bio-chemical solutions. Her overall research goal is aimed at effectively fabricating and characterizing novel materials and sensors with consideration of systems that require sensitivity and/or selectivity to bring quantitative measurements in typically qualitative worlds.  NSF Lighting Enabled Systems and Applications Research Center, NSF Divison of Biological Infrastructure, National Security Technologies/Department of Energy, NSF Division on Research and Learning, and the NSF GK-12 Community Situated Research Center are a few recent funding resources for her work.

Education & Training

Ph.D. Electrical Engineering (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2006), B.S. Electrical Engineering (Hampton University, 2003)

Publications

The following is a selection of recent publications in Scopus. Shayla Sawyer has 46 indexed publications in the subjects of Engineering, Materials Science, Physics and Astronomy.

Amelia H. Peterson, Shayla M. Sawyer
IEEE Sensors Journal
, 21
, 2021
, pp.16409-16427
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Dali Shao, Weiguang Zhu, Xueqing Liu, Mingxin Li, Jie Chen, Yi Yang Sun, Guoqing Xin, Jie Lian, Shayla Sawyer
ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
, 12
, 2020
, pp.43106-43114
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James D. Rees, Yuri A. Gorby, Shayla M. Sawyer
Biointerphases
, 15
, 2020
.
Dali Shao, Weiguang Zhu, Guoqing Xin, Xueqing Liu, Tianmeng Wang, Sufei Shi, Jie Lian, Shayla Sawyer
Journal of Materials Chemistry C
, 8
, 2020
, pp.1819-1825
.
Dali Shao, Weiguang Zhu, Guoqing Xin, Jie Lian, Shayla Sawyer
Applied Physics Letters
, 115
, 2019
.
P. Sharma, S. Sawyer
Proceedings of the 25th Biennial Lester Eastman Conference on High Performance Devices, LEC 2016
, 2016
, pp.46-49
.
Dali Shao, Jian Gao, Guoqing Xin, Yiping Wang, Lu Li, Jian Shi, Jie Lian, Nikhil Koratkar, Shayla Sawyer
Small
, 11
, 2015
, pp.4785-4792
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Dali Shao, Jian Gao, Philippe Chow, Hongtao Sun, Guoqing Xin, Prachi Sharma, Jie Lian, Nikhil A. Koratkar, Shayla Sawyer
Nano Letters
, 15
, 2015
, pp.3787-3792
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Dali Shao, Hongtao Sun, Jian Gao, Guoqing Xin, Mark Anthony Aguilar, Tiankai Yao, Nikhil Koratkar, Jie Lian, Shayla Sawyer
Nanoscale
, 6
, 2014
, pp.13630-13636
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P. Sharma, S. Sawyer
Lester Eastman Conference 2014 - High Performance Devices, LEC 2014
, 2014
.

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