Optodluific Microresonators and Optofluidic Waveguides for Bio/Chemical Sensing and Energy Applications

Optodluific Microresonators and Optofluidic Waveguides for Bio/Chemical Sensing and Energy Applications

地点: 物理楼中楼211会议室

时间：2016年08月16日（周二）下午2:00-3:00

摘要：Optofluidics has recently emerged as an exciting new research field employing these unique properties of fluids to design optical components and systems that cannot be realized with classical solid-state materials. In this presentation, I will present some alternative approaches we have followed in my research group which can serve as inspirations for future optofluidic platforms. Microdroplets of water and other polar liquids take almost spherical shapes when standing on a superhydrophobic surface. I will discuss the recent experiments we have performed on optical spectroscopy of microdroplets using tapered optical fibers. I will also present the alternative methods we are pursuing for obtaining liquid-core optofluidic waveguides based on total internal reflection of light in fluidic channels.

报告人：Alper Kiraz is a professor in the physics and electrical-electronics engineering departments at Ko? University. He received his B.S. degree from Bilkent University in 1998, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2000 and 2002, respectively. Between 2002 and 2004 he worked as a post-doctoral associate at the Institute for Physical Chemistry in the Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, and received Alexander von Humboldt fellowship. He joined Ko? University in 2004 and became a full professor in 2014. Between 2014 and 2015 he was a visiting professor at the Biomedical Engineering of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His current research interests include optofluidics, single molecule spectroscopy/microscopy, optical manipulation, and biomedical instrumentation.