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Florencio García-Santamaría

(Last updated on January 10, 2008)

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ACADEMIC FORMATION

 

November 2003:

PhD in Materials Science by the Dept. of Materials Science. Universidad Autonoma de Madrid.

September 2001:

Advanced Studies Diploma (MS degree equivalent) by Dept. of Materials Science. Universidad Autonoma de Madrid.

February 1999:

Graduated in Physics by Universidad Autonoma de Madrid.

 

  RESEARCH

 

Since 2007:

Director’s Fellow in the Softmatter Nanotechnology and Advanced Spectroscopy Team at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

2004-2007:

Research on Photonic Crystals. Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Summer 2001:

Guest researcher at National Institute of Materials Science in Tsukuba, Japan. Nano-manipulation of colloids to build photonic structures.

1998-2003:

Graduate student at the Institute of Materials Science of Madrid (ICMM-CSIC). Fabrication and characterization of structures with photonic properties.

 

 LANGUAGES

  

Spanish:

English:

French:

Mother tongue.

Fluent.

Moderately

 

GRANTS, HONORS AND AWARDS

 

·         Cover article in Nature Photonics 2 (1), 2008.

·         Awarded with the Director’s Fellowship at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

·         Cover article in Advanced Materials 19 (12), 2007.

·         Design of Advanced Functional Materials 16 (17), 2006 cover.

·         Chair of ‘Active Photonic Crystals’ symposium for Optics Materials SPIE August 2007.

·         Reviewer of manuscripts for Angewandte Chemie, Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Journal of Optics, Chemical Physics Letters and Polymers Bulletin.

·         Outstanding PhD-Dissertation Award. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (2005).

·         Cover of the year 2002 award in Advanced Materials.

·         Cover article in Advanced Materials 15 (10), 2003.

·         Cover article in Advanced Materials 14 (16), 2002.

·         “Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid” travel Grant to National Institute of Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan.

·         Research Staff Training  (FPI) fellowship from the “Comunidad Autonoma de Madrid” (2000).

·         Research Fellowship from the “Spanish Research Council (CSIC)” (1997/8).

·         Ranked first among the graduation class of 1993, Instituto Bachillerato Alameda de Osuna (1993).

 

 PUBLISHED PAPERS

 

Selected Papers:

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Rinne S. A., Garcia-Santamaria, & Braun P. V. "Embedded cavities and waveguides in three-dimensional silicon photonic crystals." Nat. Phot. 2, 1 (2008).

 

Garcia-Santamaria, F.,* Nelson, E. C. & Braun, P. V. “Optical surface resonance may render photonic crystals ineffective” Physical Review B 76, 075132 (2007).

Inverse Woodpile - cover - Advanced Materials

 

Garcia-Santamaria, F., Xu, M., Lousse, V., Fan, S., Braun, P. V., Lewis, J. A. “Germanium inverse woodpile structures” Advanced Materials 19, 1567 (2007).

 

Garcia-Santamaria, F.,* & Braun, P. V. “Artificial opals are non-close-packed fcc structures.” Applied Physics Letters 90, 241905 (2007).

 

Braun, P. V., Rinne, S. A., Garcia-Santamaria, F.* “Introducing defects in 3D photonic crystals: State of the Art”, Advanced Materials 18 (20) 2665 (2006). Invited review.

Si Inverse Woodpile

 

Gratson, G. M., García-Santamaría, F., Lousse, V., Xu, M., Fan, S.,  Lewis, J. A. & Braun P. V. "Direct-Write Assembly of 3D Photonic Crystals: Conversion of Polymer Scaffolds to Silicon Hollow-Woodpile Structures" Advanced Materials, 18, 461 (2006).

 

Garcia-Santamaria, F., Galisteo-Lopez, J.F., Braun, P.V. & Lopez, C. "Optical diffraction and high-energy features in three-dimensional photonic crystals”, Phys. Rev. B 71, 195112 (2005).

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Garcia-Santamaria, F., Ibisate, M., Rodriguez, I., Meseguer, F. & Lopez, C. "Photonic Band Engineering in Opals by growth of Si/Ge multilayer shells.”, Adv. Mater. 15, 788 (2003).

Diamond photonic crystal - cover - Advanced Materials

 

Garcia-Santamaria, F., Miyazaki, H. T., Urquia, A., Ibisate, M., Belmonte, M., Shinya, N., Meseguer, F. & Lopez, C. "Nanorobotic manipulation of microspheres for on-chip diamond architectures." Adv. Mater. 14, 1144 (2002).

 

Garcia-Santamaria, F., Salgueirino-Maceira, V., Lopez, C. & Liz-Marzan, L. M. "Synthetic opals based on silica-coated gold nanoparticles." Langmuir 18, 4519 (2002).

 

Garcia-Santamaria, F., Miguez, H., Ibisate, M., Meseguer, F. & Lopez, C. "Refractive index properties of calcined silica submicrometer spheres." Langmuir 18, 1942 (2002).

 

Garcia-Santamaria, F., Lopez, C., Meseguer, F., Lopez-Tejeira, F., Sanchez-Dehesa, J. & Miyazaki, H. T. "Opal-like photonic crystal with diamond lattice." Appl. Phys. Lett. 79, 2309 (2001).

 

Holgado, M., Garcia-Santamaria, F., Blanco, A., Ibisate, M., Cintas, A., Miguez, H., Serna, C. J., Molpeceres, C., Requena, J., Mifsud, A., Meseguer, F. & Lopez, C. "Electrophoretic deposition to control artificial opal growth." Langmuir 15, 4701 (1999).

Other papers:

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Galisteo, J. F., García-Santamaría, F., Golmayo, D, Juárez, B. H., López, C. & Palacios-Lidón, E. "Self-assembly approach to optical metamaterials" J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt. 7, S244 (2005).

 

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Galisteo, J. F., García-Santamaría, F., Golmayo, D, Juárez, B. H., López, C. & Palacios-Lidón, E. "Design of photonic bands for opal-based photonic crystals" Photnics and Nanostructures - Fundamentals and Applications 2, 57 (2004).

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Rodriguez-Gonzalez, B., Salgueirino-Maceira, V., Garcia-Santamaria, F. & Liz-Marzan, L. M. "Fully accessible gold nanoparticles within ordered macroporous solids." Nano Lett. 2, 471 (2002).

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 Meseguer, F., Blanco, A., Miguez, H., Garcia-Santamaria, F., Ibisate, M. & Lopez, C. "Synthesis of inverse opals." Colloid Surf. A-Physicochem. Eng. Asp. 202, 281 (2002).

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Miguez, H., Chomski, E., Garcia-Santamaria, F., Ibisate, M., John, S., Lopez, C., Meseguer, F., Mondia, J. P., Ozin, G. A., Toader, O. & van Driel, H. M. "Photonic bandgap engineering in germanium inverse opals by chemical vapor deposition." Adv. Mater. 13, 1634 (2001).

 

 

 CONTRIBUTIONS AND ATTENDANCE TO CONFERENCES. 

1)      "A surface resonance renders opaline photonic crystals ineffective" Oral contribution to SPIE, Optics and Photonics – San Diego, CA. 27-30 August (2007).

2)      "Optical surface resonances hide the gap in photonic crystals!" Invited Oral contribution to CLEO’07 – Munich, Germany. 18-22 June (2007).

3)      "A surface resonance renders opaline photonic crystals ineffective" Invited Oral contribution to ACS-Colloids – Newark, DE. 24-27 June (2007).

4)      "A surface resonance renders opaline photonic crystals ineffective" Oral contribution to SPIE 2007 – San Diego, CA 27-30 August (2007).

5)      "Inverse woodpile structure with a large photonic band gap" Oral contribution to MRS San Francisco, CA. 9-13 April (2007).

6)      "Optical surface resonances hide the gap in photonic crystals!" Poster contribution to PECS VII – Monterey, CA. 9-11 April (2007).

7)      "Fabrication and characterization of embedded defects in silicon colloidal photonic crystals" Oral contribution to PECS VII – Monterey, CA. 9-11 April (2007).

8)      "3D Photonic Crystals in Materials Science" Faculty Candidate Seminar. Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Pittsburgh University. March 13, (2007).

9)      "3D Photonic Crystals in Materials Science" Faculty Candidate Seminar. Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University. February 13, (2007).

10)  "3D Photonic Crystals in Materials Science" Faculty Candidate Seminar. Department of Materials Science and Engineering at University of Delaware. February 5, (2007).

11)  "Photonic Materials for Light Harvesting, Generation and Modulation" Invited oral contribution to 5th Hitachi Annual Nanotechnology Seminars. Burr Ridge, November 1 (2006).

12)  "High refractive index woodpile Photonic Crystals by direct writing" Oral contribution to SPIE 2006 - Tuning the Optical Response of Photonic Bandgap Structures. San Diego 13-18 August (2006).

13)  "3D Photonic Crystals in Materials Science" Faculty Candidate Seminar. Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). March 21, (2006).

14)  "Are artificial opals close-packed fcc structures?" Oral presentation at MRS Spring San Francisco, April 14-17 (2006).

15)  "Artificial opals are non-close-packed fcc structures" Oral contribution at MRS Symposium: 3D Multifunctional Ceramic Composites Workshop – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, October 3-5 (2005).

16)  "Photonic Band Engineering with Photonic Crystals" Oral contribution to SPIE 2004 - Tuning the Optical Response of Photonic Bandgap Structures. Denver 4-5 August (2004).

17)  "Photonic Band Engineering with Photonic Crystals" Oral contribution to The Physics Congress 2003 - Structured Optical Materials. Edimburgh 23-27 March (2003).

18)    “New architectures and Structures in Photonic Crystals Based on Opals” Oral contribution to Laser Physics workshop (LPHYS’02), Bratislava, 1-5 July (2002).

 

 

 

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