Axel

Biography

Axel is a ChromaCode founder and the Bernard A. Neches Professor of Electrical Engineering, Applied Physics and Physics at Caltech. He joined the Electrical Engineering department at Caltech in 1993, after working in the Microstructures Research Group at Bellcore. Axel's group works on micro- and nanofabrication of optical, magnetic and fluidic devices. He has co-authored over 300 publications and holds over 70 patents in the fields of optoelectronics, microfluidics, and new nanofabrication techniques. Axel has co-founded three high-technology companies and built a state of the art laboratory for advanced high-resolution lithography and pattern transfer at Caltech. He has pioneered microcavity lasers such as vertical cavity surface emitting lasers, microdisk lasers and photonic crystal lasers in many materials systems. Presently, his group works on integration of microfluidic chips with electronic, photonic and magnetic sensors. His group has also developed silicon nanophotonics and surface plasmon enhanced light emitting diodes, and has perfected the fabrication and characterization of ultra-small structures by lithography and electron microscopy. He received hi PhD in 1985 from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology.

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