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About the Institute
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FCIEMAS Building at Night
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With the creation of the Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics (FIP), formerly the Fitzpatrick Center for Photonics and Telecommunication Systems, Duke University is entering an important phase for leadership in photonics research. The Photonics for the New Era Initiative is an interdisciplinary, collaborative research and educational program that integrates FIP's strengths in photonics research and leverages the excellent resources at Duke in multidisciplinary research. The program focuses on cutting-edge research areas, such as biophotonics, nano/microsystems, nanophotonics, quantum optics & information photonics, which are uniquely suited to address the challenges and fulfill the promises of the next technology revolution at the nexus of the nano-bio-info-opto convergence.
Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering established The Fitzpatrick Center for Photonics and Communications Systems in December 2000 to help turn North Carolina into a "photon forest" where research and development in photonics would create the kind of technological advance and economic growth found in California's Silicon Valley. The Center was established at Duke University thanks to a $25,000,000 gift from Michael and Patty Fitzpatrick.
The Fitzpatrick Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and Applied Sciences (FCIEMAS) opened on schedule in August2004, more than doubling the Pratt School of Engineering's teaching and research space. The four-building 322,000-square-foot complex is more than bricks and mortar. It represents a fundamental shift from a traditional academic departmental focus by bringing together faculty from across scientific disciplines working in eight research initiatives: Biophotonics, Nano/Micro Systems, Quantum Optics & Information Photonics, Advanced Photonics Systems, Nanophotonics, Metamaterials and Plasmonics, Systems Modeling and Novel Spectroscopies.
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