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Thomas G. Bifano Professor Boston University ENG Manufacturing Engineering 15 Saint Mary's Street Boston, MA 02215 Office: 617-353-8908 Email: tgb http://people.bu.edu/bifano/

Biography

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Dr. Bifano directs the Boston University Photonics Center (BUPC), a core facility and academic center of excellence comprised of thirty-five faculty members from seven academic departments, eighty graduate students, and ten staff members. He leads BUPC programs for education, scholarly research and development of advanced photonic device prototypes for commercial and military applications. He oversees a state-of-the-art facility that includes more than a dozen special-purpose and shared research laboratories and a large business incubator.

Dr. Bifano has been a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Boston University since 1988, and was Chair of the Manufacturing Engineering Department from 1999-2006.

Dr. Bifano's research in Mechanical Engineering focuses on modeling, design, production, and use of micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) in optical applications, and he has supervised more than forty graduate students in his Precision Engineering Research Laboratory. He is a member of the Center for Space Physics, where his work includes devlopment and launch of space-based instrumentation and a project to launch the first space-based civilian AO system using deformable mirrors developed in his laboratory. He is also a member of the Fraunhofer Center for Manufacturing Innovation, where he helped initiate a Global MS degree program in Manufacturing Engineering, in collaboration with RWTH in Aachen, Germany. Most recently, he has engineered a class of deformable mirror systems that improve resolution in advanced telescopes, microscopes, and ophthalmoscopes, and that allow modulation of optical wavefronts for communication and speckle reduction.

Dr. Bifano has organized and led international symposia and technical conferences in photonics, precision engineering, and MEMS, has authored more than a hundred publications, and is named as inventor on six patents. He is a founder and CTO of Boston Micromachines Corporation, of Cambridge, MA, a leading producer of deformable mirrors for applications in astronomy, bio-imaging, and defense. His technology has received two R&D100 Awards for innovative product development.

Journal Articles

11.) A. Diouf, G. Reimann, and T. G. Bifano, "Fabrication of implantable microshut using a novel channel sealing technique," J. Micro/Nanolith. MEMS MOEMS , Vol. 7, No. 3, 2008, pp. 030501

10.) J. B. Stewart, A. Diouf, Y. Zhou, and T. G. Bifano, "Open-loop control of a MEMS deformable mirror for large-amplitude wavefront control," Journal of the Optical Society of America, Vol. 24, December 2007, pp. 3827-3833

9.) J. B. Stewart, T. G. Bifano, S. Cornelissen, P. Bierden, B. M. Levine, and T. Cook, "Design and development of a 331-segment tip-tilt-piston mirror array for space-based adaptive optics," Sensors and Actuators A, Vol. 138, No. 1, 20 July 2007, pp. 230-238

8.) D. P. Biss, D. Sumorok, S. A. Burns, R. H. Webb, Y. Zhou, T. G. Bifano, D. Cote, I. Veilleux, P. Zamiri, and C. P. Lin, "In vivo fluorescent imaging of the mouse retina using adaptive optics," Optics Letters, Vol. 32, No. 6, 15 March 2007, pp. 659-661

7.) M. H. Miller, J. A. Perrault, G. G. Parker, B. P. Bettig, and T. G. Bifano, "Simple models for piston-type micromirror behavior," Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, Vol. 16, 9 January 2006, pp. 303-313

6.) F. Chen, H. Cohen, T. G. Bifano, J. Castle, J. Fortin, C. Kapusta, D. Mountain, A. Zosuls, and A. E. Hubbard, "A hydromechanical biomimetic cochlea: Experiments and models," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 1, No. 119, January 2006, pp. 394-405

5.) J. Collier, D. Wroblewsky, and T. G. Bifano, "Development of a Rapid-Response Flow-Control System Using MEMS Microvalve Arrays," Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, Vol. 13, No. 6, December 2004, pp. 912-922

4.) R. H. Webb, M. J. Albanese, Y. Zhou, T. G. Bifano, and S. A. Burns, "Stroke amplifier for deformable mirrors," Applied Optics, Vol. 43, 1 October 2004, pp. 5330-5333

3.) H. Lee, M. H. Miller, and T. G. Bifano, "CMOS chip planarization by chemical mechanical polishing for a vertically stacked metal MEMS integration," Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, Vol. 14, 2004, pp. 108-115

2.) T. G. Bifano, H. T. Johnson, P. Bierden, and R. K. Mali, "Elimination of Stress-Induced Curvature in Thin-Film Structures," Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, Vol. 11, No. 5, October 2002, pp. 592-597

1.) J. A. Perrault, T. G. Bifano, B. M. Levine, and M. N. Horenstein, "Adaptive optic correction using microelectromechanical deformable mirrors," Optical Engineering, Vol. 41, No. 3, March 2002, pp. 561-566