Multimaterial Multifunctional Nano-Structured Fibers
Senior Investigators:
- Yoel Fink (group co-leader), DMSE
- Marin Soljacic, (group co-leader), Physics
- Erich Ippen, EECS
- John Joannopoulos, Physics
- Steven Johnson, Mathematics
Research Goals
In this IRG, we will explore the materials science, design, fabrication, characterization, and potential identification of novel physical phenomena, of a truly unique class of fiber materials systems that are composed of conductors, insulators, glassy semiconductors, and especially crystalline semiconductors with 10’s of nanometers feature sizes. The uniqueness of our materials science approach should ultimately enable the creation of fiber-structures. These fibers, while comprising all the essential crystalline semiconductor device attributes, will be processed using conventional fiber draw processing approaches thus yielding kilometers of fiber structures with engineered electronic, optical, thermal and acoustic properties, and exploiting photonic bandgap phenomena wherever needed.
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