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Prof. John D. Joannopoulos John D. Joannopoulos

Francis Wright Davis Professor of Physics
Department of Physics

Director
Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies

Room: NE47-415
Phone: 617.253.4806
Email: joannop@mit.edu
Web: http://web.mit.edu/physics/people/john_joannopoulos.htm

PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1974
BA, University of California, Berkeley, 1968

Research Interests

  • development of a new class of materials called photonic crystals, designed to affect the properties of photons in much the same way that semiconductors affect the properties of electrons

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