George Barbastathis

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Visiting Scholar, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University (academic year '06-'07)

Room 3-461C
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge MA 02139-4307
Phone: 617-253-1960
Fax: 617-258-9346
Email: gbarb@mit.edu
Web: http://web.mit.edu/optics/www

Administrative Contact:
Tuyet-Mai Ha Hoang
Room 3-469A
Phone: 617-253-5592
Email: mhoangha@mit.edu

Education
Diploma, Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 1993;
MS, Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 1994;
PhD, Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 1998.

Research Interests

Classical Optics

3D optical systems

Volume holography for imaging systems (3D pupils)
3D spatial and spectral microscopy without scanning

Subwavelength Optics

Non-periodic high-index-contrast dielectrics ("photonic non crystals")

- Spatial-temporal control

- Design & optimization using Hamiltonian Optics

Mechanically reconfigurable photonic crystals

Nanomanufacturing

Nanostructured origami^TM 3D fabrication and assembly process
Micromechanical actuators for 3D nanophotonics

Scientific and Professional Societies
OSA Group Chair, Imaging and Sensing for Pattern Recognition
IEEE/LEOS Optical MEMS & Nanophotonics conference, Steering Committee member

Member of OSA, IEEE, ASME.

Teaching
2.672 (Spring '99) Undergraduate projects laboratory.
2.997 (Fall '99) Optical engineering.
2.671 (Spring '00) Measurement and instrumentation.
2.717 (Fall '00) Optical Engineering.
2.003 (Spring '01) Modeling dynamics and control I.
2.71/2.710 (Fall '01) Optics
2.717 (Spring '02) Optical Engineering
2.71/2.710 (Fall '02) Optics
on leave, Spring '03
2.71/2.710 (Fall '03) Optics
2.391J/6.781J (Spring '04) Submicrometer and nanometer technology
2.71/2.710 (Fall '04) Optics
2.717 (Spring '05) Optical Engineering
2.391J/6.781J (Spring '05) Submicrometer and nanometer technology
2.71/2.710 (Fall '05) Optics
2.007 (Spring '06) Design and Manufacturing I

on leave, Fall '06 and Spring '07
2.391/6.781J (Spring '06) Submicrometer and nanometer technology

2.004 (Fall '07) System Dynamics and Control