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People Yoel Fink Yoel Fink is both a new and old face at MIT, having been recently appointed to an assistant professorship in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE) soon after completing his Ph.D. (thesis under Professors John Joannopoulos and Edwin Thomas, and Dr. Chiping Chen) in Materials Science at MIT, as well as a postdoctoral appointment in the Department of Physics here. His PhD research has examined the theory and synthesis of block copolymer self-assembled photonic band gap materials, as well as the theory and synthesis of dielectric omnidirectional reflectors (the “perfect mirror”). His work generated some fifteen patent applications and a dozen publications. Prior to joining the MIT community, Fink attended the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) and received his B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering in 1994, followed by a B.A. in Physics in 1995. While there, he received the Hershel Rich Technion Innovation Award (1994) for development of a flow-through controlled-environment vitrification system. Fink is also a co-founder and president of OmniGuide Communications, a startup company which developed out of his Ph.D. work. Since joining the MIT DMSE faculty last year Fink has established the Photonic Bandgap Fiber and Device Group where vertically integrated research has focused on basic optical material synthesis, novel bandgap structures development, low cost processing, optical characterization and simulation and theory. The lab includes unique facilities such as a custom designed 5.4meter bandgap fiber draw tower, synthesis lines for anionic block copolymers and high index glasses an ultra broad band spectroscopic ellipsometer and an optical measurement setup.
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