Michal Lipson

Michal Lipson (* 1970 in Haifa , Israel ) is an Israeli-US-American physicist who works in nano-photonics .

Lipson grew up in Brazil and studied physics at the University of Sao Paulo and at the Technion (Bachelor 1992, Master 1994). In 1998 she received her PhD at the Technion in Haifa ( Coupled Exciton-Photon Modes in Semiconductor Optical Microcavities ). She then worked as a post-doctoral student with Lionel Kimerling at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , before joining Cornell University as an assistant professor in 2001 , where she led the nanophotonics group at the Kavli Institute for Nanoscience . Since 2015 she has been the Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University .

Lipson developed micro- and nano-structured photonic components in silicon technology, which was well developed as a standard technology in electronics, but was rarely considered in photonics due to poor optical properties. Lipson succeeded in developing purely optical and electro-optical components such as switches, amplifiers and modulators on silicon chips, which were an important step forward in terms of optical computer components. In 2004 she developed slot waveguides , narrow light-guiding structures in silicon. In 2006 she demonstrated amplifier properties for light on a silicon chip, light modulation in silicon by light and electro-optical modulators (demonstrated for the first time in silicon on a chip scale) and in 2008 an ultra-fast optical oscilloscope . In 2006 she demonstrated a purely optical analogue of EIT (electromagnetically induced transparency) on a silicon chip. In 2009 she demonstrated mechanical controls of silicon components with light and in 2009 invisibility effects (cloaking) with nanostructured surfaces.

In 2010 she became a MacArthur Fellow . She was a Fulbright Fellow in 2007, received an IBM Faculty Award in 2006 and a Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation in 2004. She is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and received the Blavatnik Award from the New York Academy of Sciences . For 2017 she was awarded the RW Wood Prize of the OSA, for 2019 the Comstock Prize for Physics . Lipson was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2019 and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020 .

Lispon is the daughter of Reuven Opher , professor of astrophysics at the University of Sao Paulo. Her twin sister, Merav Opher, is an astrophysicist at Boston University .

Web links

• Homepage Michal Lipson. Columbia University(with CV). 
• Homepage Lipson Nanophotonics Group. Columbia University 
• Honored from the MacArthur Foundation
• Interview with Lipson, Mavalvala

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Almeida, Xu, Barrios, Lipson Guiding and confining light in void nanostructure , Optics Letters, Volume 29, 2004, p. 1209
2. ^ Foster, Turner, Schmidt, Lipson, Gaeta Broad band parametric optical gain on a silicon photonic chip , Nature, Volume 441, 2006, p. 960, abstract , report on this
3. ↑ Almeida, Barrios, Panepucci, Lipson All optical control of light on a silicon chip , Nature, Volume 431, 2004, p. 1081, abstract . Preble, Xu, Schmidt, Lipson Ultrafast all optical modulation on a silicon chip , Optics Letters, Volume 30, 2005, p. 2891
4. Jump up ↑ Xu, Schmidt, Pradhan, Lipson Micrometre scale silicon electro-optic modulator , Nature, Volume 435, 2005, p. 325
5. ^ Foster Salem, Geraghty, Turner-Foster, Gaeta Silicon chip based ultrafast optical oscilloscope , Nature, Volume 456, 2008, p. 81, abstract
6. ↑ Xu, Sandhu, Povinelli, Shakya, Fan, Lipson Experimental Realization of an On-Chip All-Optical Analogue to Electromagnetically Induced Transparency , Phys. Rev. Letters, Volume 96, 2006, p. 213901, abstract
7. ↑ Again Hecker, Chen, Godarenko, Lipson controlling photonic structures using optical forces , Nature, Vol 462, 2009, pp 633, Abstract
8. ↑ National Geographic 2009 , Gabrielli, LH, Cardenas, J., Poitras, CB and and Lipson, M., Silicon nanostructure cloak operating at optical frequencies , Nature Photonics 2009
9. ↑ Michal Lipson: RW Wood Prize. 2016, accessed on October 14, 2018 (English, For pioneering research contributions in silicon photonics). 
10. ^ John Rennie: Reshaping the Solar System. In: Research at Boston University. 2012, accessed on October 14, 2018 (English, interview with Merav Opher).