Thomas Michels

Thomas Michels is a Graduate Student Researcher in the Nanofabrication Research Group, and a doctoral candidate in Physics at the Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany.  He received a B.S. from University of Gelsenkirchen, Germany and a M.S. from the Ilmenau University of Technology.  His doctoral research is focused on fabricating self-actuated cantilevers for atomic force microscopy with microcavity optical readout.  Thomas is working with Vladimir Aksyuk designing and modeling cantilevers that integrate optical detection with electrostatic and thermal actuation.