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Yoel Fink

Yoel Fink

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Materials Science

D-Index
68
Citations
18712
World Ranking
4805
National Ranking
1274

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
69
Citations
19678
World Ranking
1120
National Ranking
375

Overview

Yoel Fink is affiliated with MIT in the United States and conducts research primarily within the fields of Engineering and Neuroscience. Their work spans multiple subfields including Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Endocrine and Autonomic Systems.

The scientist's research addresses several topics related to advanced materials and neural technologies. Key topics include:

  • Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
  • Advanced Materials and Mechanics
  • Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies

Yoel Fink has published extensively in leading journals and venues that reflect the interdisciplinary nature of their work. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Advanced Materials
  • Nature
  • Nature Communications
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Biotechnology

Significant recent papers demonstrate an emphasis on novel fiber technologies and neural modulation methods. Selected notable publications include:

  • Single fibre enables acoustic fabrics via nanometre-scale vibrations, 2022, Nature
  • Adaptive and multifunctional hydrogel hybrid probes for long-term sensing and modulation of neural activity, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Digital electronics in fibres enable fabric-based machine-learning inference, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Multifunctional microelectronic fibers enable wireless modulation of gut and brain neural circuits, 2023, Nature Biotechnology
  • In situ electrochemical generation of nitric oxide for neuronal modulation, 2020, Nature Nanotechnology

Frequent collaborators contributing to these works include Gabriel Loke, Polina Anikeeva, Tural Khudiyev, Atharva Sahasrabudhe, and Andrés Canales, with several publications co-authored alongside these researchers.

Best Publications

  • A Dielectric Omnidirectional Reflector

    Yoel Fink;Joshua N. Winn;Shanhui Fan;Chiping Chen

  • Wavelength-scalable hollow optical fibres with large photonic bandgaps for CO 2 laser transmission

    Burak Temelkuran;Shandon D. Hart;Gilles Benoit;John D. Joannopoulos

  • Omnidirectional reflection from a one-dimensional photonic crystal.

    Joshua N. Winn;Yoel Fink;Shanhui Fan;J. D. Joannopoulos

  • Multifunctional fibers for simultaneous optical, electrical and chemical interrogation of neural circuits in vivo

    Andres Canales;Xiaoting Jia;Ulrich P Froriep;Ryan A Koppes

  • Towards multimaterial multifunctional fibres that see, hear, sense and communicate

    A. F. Abouraddy;M. Bayindir;M. Bayindir;G. Benoit;S. D. Hart

  • Perturbation theory for Maxwell's equations with shifting material boundaries

    Steven G. Johnson;M. Ibanescu;M. A. Skorobogatiy;O. Weisberg

  • Polymer‐Based Photonic Crystals

    Alexander C. Edrington;Augustine M. Urbas;Peter DeRege;Cinti X. Chen

  • Low-loss asymptotically single-mode propagation in large-core OmniGuide fibers.

    Steven G. Johnson;Mihai Ibanescu;M. Skorobogatiy;Ori Weisberg

  • Strain-programmable fiber-based artificial muscle.

    Mehmet Kanik;Sirma Orguc;Georgios Varnavides;Georgios Varnavides;Jinwoo Kim

  • An All-Dielectric Coaxial Waveguide.

    M. Ibanescu;Y. Fink;S. Fan;E. L. Thomas

  • External Reflection from Omnidirectional Dielectric Mirror Fibers

    Shandon D. Hart;Garry R. Maskaly;Burak Temelkuran;Peter H. Prideaux

  • Optimal bistable switching in non-linear photonic crystals

    Marin Soljacic;Steven G. Johnson;Mihai Ibanescu;Yoel Fink

  • Tunable Block Copolymer/Homopolymer Photonic Crystals

    A. Urbas;R. Sharp;Y. Fink;E. L. Thomas

  • Electromagnetic mode conversion in photonic crystal multimode waveguides

    Ori Weisberg;Steven G. Johnson;John D. Joannopoulos;Michael Shapiro

  • One-step optogenetics with multifunctional flexible polymer fibers

    Seongjun Park;Yuanyuan Guo;Xiaoting Jia;Han Kyoung Choe

  • Block copolymers as photonic bandgap materials

    Y. Fink;A.M. Urbas;M.G. Bawendi;J.D. Joannopoulos

  • Guiding optical light in air using an all-dielectric structure

    Y. Fink;D.J. Ripin;S. Fan;C. Chen

  • Diode fibres for fabric-based optical communications

    Michael Rein;Valentine Dominique Favrod;Valentine Dominique Favrod;Chong Hou;Tural Khudiyev

  • Metal–insulator–semiconductor optoelectronic fibres

    Mehmet Bayindir;Fabien Sorin;Ayman F. Abouraddy;Jeff Viens

  • Multimaterial piezoelectric fibres

    S. Egusa;Z. Wang;Noemie Chocat;Z. M. Ruff

  • All-dielectric coaxial waveguide

    John D. Joannopoulos;Yoel Fink;Mihai Ibanescu;Edwin L. Thomas

  • All-dielectric coaxial waveguide with annular sections

    John D. Joannopoulos;Yoel Fink;Mihai Ibanescu;Edwin Thomas

Frequent Co-Authors

Ayman F. Abouraddy
Ayman F. Abouraddy University of Central Florida
Edwin L. Thomas
Edwin L. Thomas Texas A&M University
Shanhui Fan
Shanhui Fan Stanford University
Lei Wei
Lei Wei Nanyang Technological University
Maksim Skorobogatiy
Maksim Skorobogatiy Polytechnique Montréal
Mehmet Bayindir
Mehmet Bayindir Universität Hamburg
Elefterios Lidorikis
Elefterios Lidorikis University of Ioannina

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