{"id":820,"date":"2017-05-01T16:20:40","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T20:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-ret\/?page_id=820"},"modified":"2018-06-14T15:12:34","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T19:12:34","slug":"david-bishop","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-ret\/research-projects\/projects-2025\/2017-summer-projects\/david-bishop\/","title":{"rendered":"David Bishop"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Optical Micromirror Measurement<\/h3>\n<p><strong>PROJECT DESCRIPTION<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-reu\/files\/2015\/06\/DSCF2051-1-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"Prof. David Bishop Materials Science Engineering\" width=\"194\" height=\"272\" class=\"wp-image-406 alignright\" \/><\/strong>The Bishop Lab at Boston University does research on MEMS devices.\u00a0 MEMS (micro electro mechanical systems) are micromachines with characteristic dimensions less than that of a human red blood cell.\u00a0 Projects in the lab include smart lighting, RF devices, writing with atoms, the Casimir Effect, optical metamaterials, mechanical metamaterials and ultrasensitive magnetic field measurements.<\/p>\n<p>The project this summer involves using an optical measuring system to characterize a new type of micromirror we have developed.\u00a0 This mirror can be the heart of a large optical switch, a lidar system or LiFi for data transmission.\u00a0 The activities include fabricating the device, packaging it and testing it with a laser and position sensitive detector.\u00a0 The data will then be compared with a model developed using COMSOL, a commercial software package.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LEARNING GOALS<\/strong><br \/>\nAt the end of the summer, the student will have learned to design, test and model MEMS devices.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Learn more about Professor Bishop on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/profile\/david-bishop\/\" target=\"_blank\">faculty page<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Optical Micromirror Measurement PROJECT DESCRIPTION The Bishop Lab at Boston University does research on MEMS devices.\u00a0 MEMS (micro electro mechanical systems) are micromachines with characteristic dimensions less than that of a human red blood cell.\u00a0 Projects in the lab include smart lighting, RF devices, writing with atoms, the Casimir Effect, optical metamaterials, mechanical metamaterials and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4525,"featured_media":0,"parent":1201,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-ret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-ret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-ret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-ret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-ret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-ret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-ret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/820\/revisions\/1017"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-ret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-ret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}