Lipson's group investigates the physics and application of nanoscale photonic structures. In particular we are interested in light confining structures that can slow down, enhance and manipulate light. These structures can enhance light-matter interaction by orders of magnitude, enabling the devices; optical properties to be controlled externally, either optically or electro-optically. The structures developed will provide the basic building blocks for an all-optical circuit where passive as well as active components could be integrated on a single chip.

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Michal Lipson completed her B.S., MS and Ph.D. degrees in physics at the Technion Israel in 1998. In Dec 1998 she joined the Department of Material Science and Engineering at MIT as a postdoctoral associate. She then joined the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University in 2001 as an Assistant Professor. Her research at Cornell involves novel on-chip Nanophotonic devices. She was the recipient of the NSF CAREER award in 2004, is the inventor of 8 patents on novel micron-size photonic structures for light manipulation and is the author of over 40 papers in the major research journals in physics and optics. She is currently a topical editor of Optics Letters.

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