MEHMET BAYINDIR

Assistant Professor, Department of Physics
Assistant Director, UNAM-Institute of Materials Science and Nanotechnology

Mailing Address: UNAM, Bilkent University, Bilkent, Ankara 06800 
E-mail: mb(at)bilkent.edu.tr
Phone: +90 (312) 290 3500, Fax: +90 (312) 266 4365

Education:
Research Scientist: Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT, 2005-2006
Postdoctoral Associate: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002-2005
Ph.D.: Bilkent University, 2002
M.S.: Bilkent University, 1997
B.S.: Bilkent University, 1995

Teaching: 2011 Spring Semester
PHYS 101: General Physics I [ course webpage ]
PHYS 200: Physics for Poets [ course webpage ]

Teaching: 2011 Fall Semester
PHYS 101: General Physics I [ course webpage ]
PHYS 371: Numerical Methods for Physics [ course webpage ]

Teaching: 2010 Spring Semester
PHYS 102: General Physics II [ course webpage ]
PHYS 200: Physics for Poets [ course webpage ]
MSN 532: Selected Topics in Materials Science and Nanotechnology [ course webpage ]

Awards:
The Young Scientists Award of Turkish Academy of Sciences (TUBA), 2007
Young Scientist Prize of The Scientific & Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), 2006
Optical Society of America (OSA) New Focus Student Award, 2001

Research Focus: Nanophotonics, Photonic Band Gap Fibers, Metamaterials, Functional Surfaces, Sensors, Infrared Materials & Devices

Representative Publications [ full list ]:

• Arrays of indefinitely-long, uniform nanowires and nanotubes
  M. Yaman, T. Khudiyev, E. Ozgur, M. Kanik, O. Aktas, E. O. Ozgur, H. Deniz, E. Korkut, Mehmet Bayindir
  Nature Materials, volume 10, page 494 (2011)
  Documents: [ Cover Picture: Nanowires without end ] [ Manuscript ] [ Supplementary Information ]
  Stories: [ New Frontiers in Nanofabrication ] [ A New Top-to-Bottom Nanofabrication Scheme ]
  [ Producing Kilometer-long Nanostructures ] [ Interview with Researchers ]
  ERC 2010 Interview Presentation: [ In-Fibre Nanowires ]
  News: [ Science News: New Technique Spins Superlong Nanowires ] [ Nanowerk: A new top-down nanofabrication scheme ] [ Nano Times: Nanowires and Nanotubes ] [ Nano Today: Nanowire growth stretches to extraordinary lengths ]
  Google search: [ nanowire nature materials bayindir ] [ nanowire nature materials yaman ] [ nanowire nature materials bilkent ]
• Bio-inspired optoelectronic nose with nanostructured wavelength scalable hollow-core infrared fibers
  A. Yildirim, M. Vural, M. Yaman, and Mehmet Bayindir
  Advanced Materials, volume 23, page 1262 (2011)
  Selected as Frontispiece [ image ]
• Template free preparation of nanoporous organically modified silica thin films on flexible substrates
  A. Yildirim, H. Budunoglu, M. Yaman, M. O. Guler and Mehmet Bayindir
  Journal of Materials Chemistry, DOI: 10.1039/C1JM12188J (2011)
  
• Template-free synthesis of organically modified silica mesoporous thin films for TNT sensing
  A. Yildirim, H. Budunoglu, H. Deniz, M. O. Guler, and Mehmet Bayindir
  ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, volume 2, page 2892 (2010)
• Thermal sensing fiber devices
  M. Bayindir, F. Sorin, A. F. Abouraddy, O. Shapira, J. Arnold, Y. Fink, and J. D. Joannopoulos
  U.S. Patent No: 7567740, Issued: Jul. 28, 2009.
• Microfluidics for reconfigurable electromagnetic metamaterials, T. S. Kasirga, Y. N. Ertas, and Mehmet Bayindir, Appl. Phys. Lett. 95, 214102 (2009)
• Ultralow threshold laser action from toroidal polymer microcavity, A. Tulek, D. Akbulut, and Mehmet Bayindir, Appl. Phys. Lett. 94, 203302 (2009)
• Towards multimaterial multifunctional fibres that see, hear, sense and communicate, A. F. Abouraddy, Mehmet Bayindir et. al., Nature Mat. 6, 336 (2007)
• Thermal-sensing fiber devices by multimaterial codrawing, Mehmet Bayindir, A. F. Abouraddy, J. Arnold, J. D. Joannopoulos, Y. Fink, Adv. Mat. 18, 845 (2006)
• Metal insulator semiconductor optoelectronic fibres, Mehmet Bayindir, F. Sorin, A. F. Abouraddy, J. Viens, S. D. Hart, J. D. Joannopoulos, and Y. Fink, Nature 431, 826 (2004)
• Tight-binding description of the coupled defect modes in three-dimensional photonic crystals, Mehmet Bayindir, B. Temelkuran, and E. Ozbay, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2140 (2000)