The University of Texas at Austin
College of Engineering

Adela Ben-Yakar

Dr. Ben-Yakar specializes on advanced applications of femtosecond lasers in life sciences, nonlinear microscopy, plasmonic nanoengineering, and nanotechnology. She investigates the fundamentals of femtosecond laser interaction with biological tissues and nanomaterials to develop novel techniques such as laser nanosurgery and 3-D micro-/nano-fabrication techniques. Dr. Ben-Yakar is a faculty member of the Thermal/Fluid Systems program of the Mechanical Engineering Department. She has served on the College of Engineering faculty since 2004. She is a regular member of the Graduate Studies Committee of the Biomedical Engineering Department. She is also a fellow of the Institute for Neuroscience and Center for Nano and Molecular Science and Technology at the Texas Materials Institute and Microelectronics Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Ben-Yakar received two research grants from National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2004 and 2005 and a recent grant from the Advanced Research Program of Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board for her work on Femtosecond Laser Nano-Surgery and Two Photon Imaging.

Most Significant Journal Articles

  1. Guo, X.S., Bourgeois, F., Chokshi, T., Durr, N.J., Hilliard, M., Chronis, N., and Ben-Yakar, A., "Femtosecond laser nanoaxotomy lab-on-a-chip for in-vivo nerve regeneration studies", Nature Methods, Vol. 5, (2008), 6, pp. 531-533
  2. Yanik, F., Cinar, H., Cinar, N., Chisholm, A., Jin, Y., and Ben-Yakar, A., "Neurosurgery: Functional regeneration after laser axotomy.", Nature, Vol. 432, (December 2004), pp. 882
  3. Hoy, C.L., Durr, N.J., Chen, P., Piyawattanametha, W., Ra, H., Solgaard, O., and Ben-Yakar, A., "Miniaturized probe for femtosecond laser microsurgery and two-photon imaging", Optics Express, Vol. 16, (2008), 13, pp. 9996-10005
  4. Durr, N.J., Smith, D., Larson, T., Korgel, B.A., Sokolov, K., and Ben-Yakar, A., "Two-Photon Luminescence Imaging of Cancer Cells using Molecular Targeted Gold Nanorods", Nano Letters, Vol. 7, (2007), 4, pp. 941-945
  5. Eversole, D., Luk’yanchuk, B., and Ben-Yakar, A., "Plasmonic Laser Nanoablation of Silicon by the Scattering of Ultrafast Pulses near Gold Nanospheres", Applied Physics A, Vol. 89, pp. 283-291