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Publications FY 2007

Journal Publications:

  • “Simulation of realistic retinoscopic measurement,” Y.–L. Chen, B. Tan, K. Baker, J.W. L. Lewis, and M. Wang, Optics Express, Vol. 15, Issue 5, pp. 2753-61. 2007.

  • “Simulation of Keratoconus observation in photorefraction,” Y.–L. Chen, B. Tan, K. Baker, J.W. L. Lewis, and M. Wang, Optics Express, Vol. 14, Issue 23, pp. 11477-11485, 2006.

  • “Optical Impact of Keratoconus Cone: Theoretical Investigation” K. C. Baker, Y.-L. Chen, J. W. L. Lewis and M. Wang, Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2007;48: 1840, 2007.

  • “Detection of High-Order Aberrations in Photorefraction” J. W. Lewis, Y.-L. A. Chen, K. Baker and M. Wang, Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2007;48: 1849, 2007.

  • “The C3 Puzzle: Formation of and Spontaneous Emission from the C3 Radical in Carbon Plasma,” L Nemes, A. M. Keszler, C.G. Parigger, J.O. Hornkohk, and V. Stakhursky, Internet Electronic J. of Mol. Design, 5, 150-167 (2006).

  • “Measurements of Aluminium and Hydrogen Microplasma, C.G. Parigger, J. O. Hornkohl, and L. Nemes, Appl. Opt. 46, 4026-4031 (2007).

  • “Spontaneous Emission from the C3 Radical In Carbon Plasma,” L. Nemes, A.M. Keszler, J.O. Hornkohl, C.G. Parigger, H. Michelsen, and V. Stakhursky, Appl. Opt. 46, 4032-4040 (2007).

  • “Corrosion Degradation and Prevention by Surface Modification of Biometallic Materials,” R. Singh and N.B. Dahotre, J. Materials Science: Materials in Medicine, Vol. 18, pp. 725-751, 2007.

  • “State of Residual Stress in Laser Deposited Ceramic Composite Coatings on Aluminum Alloy”, P.B.  Kadolkar, T.R. Watkins, J. Th. M. DeHosson, B.J. Kooi, and N.B. Dahotre, in Acta Materialia, Vol. 55, pp. 1203-1214, 2007.

  • “Laser Assisted Densification of Surface Porosity in Structural Alumina Ceramic”, S.P. Harimkar and N.B. Dahotre, Physica Status Solidi (a), Vol. 204, No. 4, pp.1105-1113, 2007.

  • “Laser Cleaning and Dressing of Vitrified Grinding Wheels”, M.J. Jackson, A. Khangar, X. Chen, G.M. Robinson, V.C. Venkatesh, N.B. Dahotre; Journal of Materials Processing Technology, Vol. 185, pp. 17–23. 2007.

  • “Computational prediction of grain size during rapid laser surface modification of Al-O Ceramic”, Anoop N. Samant and N.B. Dahotre, Physica Status Solidi (Rapid Research Letters), pp. 1-3, 2006.

  • “Effect of Laser Fluence on Surface Microstructure of Alumina Ceramic”, S.P. Harimkar and N.B. Dahotre, Advances in Applied Ceramis, Vol. 105, pp. 304-308, 2006.

  • “Laser Induced Hierarchical Calcium Phosphate Structures”, A. Kurella and N.B. Dahotre, Acta Biomaterialia, Vol. 2, pp. 677-688, 2006.

  • “Microgrinding Hypereutectoid Steels Using Laser Modified Corundum Abrasive Materials”, M. J. Jackson, G. M. Robinson, A. Khangar, E. A. Kenik, and N.B. Dahotre; International Journal of Machining and Machinability of Materials, Vol 1, No. 1, pp. 12-26, 2006.

  •  “Laser Dressing of Alumina Grinding Wheels”, A. Khangar, N.B. Dahotre, M. Jackson, G. Robinson, J. Materials Engineering and Performance, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 178-181(4), 2006.

  • “Phase Modulated Hierarchical Surface Structures by Interfering Laser Beams”, C. Daniel and N.B. Dahotre, Advanced Engineering Materials, Vol. 8, No. 10, pp. 925-932, 2006.

  • “Evolution of Surface Morphology in Laser dressed Alumina Grinding Material”, S. P. Harimkar, and N.B. Dahotre, Intl. J. Appl. Ceramic Technology, Vol. 3, No. 5, pp. 375-381, 2006.

  • “Prediction of Solidification Microstructures During Laser Dessing of Alumina Grinding Wheel Material”, S. P. Harimkar, A. N. Samant, A. A. Khangar, and N.B. Dahotre, J. Physics-D: Applied Physics, Vol. 39, pp. 1642-1649, 2006.

  • “Laser Synthesis of Palladium-Alumina Composite Membranes for Production of High Purity Hydrogen from Gasification”, Applied Surface Science”, B. Singh, A. Sheth, and N.B. Dahotre,  Applied Surface Science,  Vol. 253, No. 3, pp. 1247-1254 2006.

  • “Laser Surface Cladding of Fe-B-C, Fe-B-Si and Fe-BC-Si-Al-C on Plain Carbon Steel”, I. Manna, J. Majumdar, B. Ramesh Chandra, S. Nayak, and N.B. Dahotre, Surface and Coatings Technology, Vol. 201, pp. 434-440, 2006.

  • "Laser Surface Modification of Ti-6Al-4V: Wear and Corrosion Characterization in Simulated Bio-fluids”, R. Singh, A. Kurella, and N.B. Dahotre, Journal of Biomaterials Applications, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 46-72, 2006.

  • “Evolving High-Performance Evolutionary Computations for Space Vehicle Design,” G. Dozier, W. Britt, M. SanSoucie, P. Hull, M. Tinker, R.Unger, S. Bancroft, T. Moeller and D. Rooney, IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, July 16-21, CEC 2006. pp. 2201- 2207.

  • “Single-molecule detection with axial flow into a micrometer-sized capillary,” D.A. Ball, G. Shen, and L.M. Davis,  Applied Optics Vol. 46, 1157-1164 (2007).

Submitted and Accepted Publications:

  • “Temperature distribution in dental tissue after interaction with femto-second laser pulses,” P. Pike, C. Parigger,  R. Splinter, and P. Lockhart, accepted and in print: Applied Optics 2007.

  • “MACH2 Simulations of a Laser Ablation Thruster,” T. Moeller and Young Chang, accepted for publication in Aerospace Science and Technology.

  • “Laser Surface Processing of Ti6Al4V in Gaseous Nitrogen: Corrosion Performance in Physiological Solution”, R. Singh, S. Chowdhury, S. K. Tiwari and N.B. Dahotre, J. Mater. Sci: Mater. Med., August 15, 2007.

  • “Tribological Behavior of Plasma Sprayed Carbon Nanotube Reinforced Hydroxyapatite-Coating in Physiological Solution”, K. Balani, Y. Chen, S.P. Harimkar, N.B. Dahotre, A. Agarwal, Acta Biomaterialia, June 4, 2007.

  • “Influence of Laser Fluence on the Microstructure Evolution and Fractal Dimensions of Laser Surface Modified Alumina Ceramic”, S. Harimkar and N.B. Dahotre, Materials Characterization, Jun 4, 2007.

  • “Laser Surface Modifications of Advanced ceramics – A Modeling Approach”, A. Samant, S. Harimkar, and N.B. Dahotre, Journal of Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (JOM), Vol. 59, No. 8, 2007.

  • “Temporally Evolved Recoil Pressure Driven Melt Infiltration During Laser Surface Modifications of Porous Alumina Ceramic”, S. Harimkar, A. Samant, and N.B. Dahotre, J. Appl. Phys., Vol. 101, 054911-1/7, 2007.

  • “Validation of Crystallographic Correlation for Faceted Morphology in Laser Surface Engineered Alumina Ceramic”, S.P. Harimkar, C. Daniel, C. Holzapfel, P. Leibenguth, F. Mϋcklich, and N.B. Dahotre, Scripta Mater, 2007, doi:10.1016/j.scriptamat.2007.05.008

Presentations:

  • “Maximum-Likelihood Multi-Dimensional Photon-Counting Microscopy,” L.M. Davis, G. Shen, D.A. Ball, J. Aiken, Y.V. White, Z. Sikorski, W.N. Robinson and D.W. Piston, SPIE Optical Imaging 2006, Fifth Inter-Institute Workshop on Optical Diagnostic Imaging from Bench to Bedside at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda,  MD, September 25–27, 2006.

  • “Ultrasensitive multi-dimensional fluorescence spectroscopy,” L.M. Davis and G. Shen, Coherent 10th Annual Southeast Ultrafast Conference (SEUFC), Nashville, TN, January 11–12, 2007.

  • “Extension of multidimensional microscopy to ultrasensitive applications with maximum-likelihood analysis,” Lloyd M. Davis and Guoqing Shen, SPIE Photonics West, San Jose, CA, January 20–25, 2007.

  • “Engineering of illumination and collection field profiles for single-molecule orientational imaging,” Zbigniew Sikorski and Lloyd M. Davis, SPIE Photonics West, San Jose, CA, January 20–25, 2007.

  • “SPARTAN: Single Protein Actuation by Real-Time Transduction of Affinity in Nanospace: Single-Molecule Spectroscopy and Optical Control,” Lloyd M. Davis, DARPA Control of Protein Conformations, Contractors Workshop, San Francisco, CA, February 2, 2007

  • “The Physics Graduate Program and Research Opportunities at The University of Tennessee and UT Space Institute,” Lloyd M. Davis, SPS/TAAPT Annual Meeting, Murfreesboro, TN, March 31, 2007.

  • “The photoluminescence (PL) and imaging with a custom-built fluorescence microscope of porous SiC (PSC) prepared from SiC,” Ki-Hwan Lee, Ki-Seok Jeon, David A. Ball, Guoqing Shen and Lloyd M. Davis,  The 99th Annual Meeting of the Korean Chemical Society Program and Abstracts 2007, COEX, Seoul, South Korea, April 19–20, 2007.

  • “Consolidation of nanoencapuslated powder sheets with photons,” William Hofmeister, Lino Costa, Zbigniew Sikorski, Adrian Sabau, Dean Baker, PowderMet 2007, May 14-16, 2007, Denver, Colorado.

  • “SPARTAN: Single Protein Actuation by Real-Time Transduction of Affinity in Nanospace,” J. Wikswo, R. Mernaugh, D. Markov, P. Samson, D. Li, L. Davis, W. Hofmeister, Z. Sikorsky, X. Li, Y. White, G. Shen, W. Robinson, A. Ellington, G. Georgiou, B. Iverson, D. Makarov, G. Marriott, C. Petchprayoon, R. Perrins, C. Daniel, V. Chellaboina and Bill Hamel, Defense Nanomaterials Conference 2007, San Diego, CA  April 23-26, 2007

  • “Modeling of Electron Beam Freeform Fabrication (ebf3) for Zero Gravity,” W. Hofmeister, L. Costa, Z. Sikorski, J. Steinhoff, K. Taminger, R. Hafley, 18th Advanced Materials and Processes Conference, AeroMat 2007, June 25-28, 2007 Baltimore, MD.

  • “Coupled Electromagnetic/Fluid Dynamic Simulation of Fields Through Plasma and Vacuum,” D. Li, C. Merkle, D. Keefer, T. Moeller, R. Rhodes, and W.M. Scott, 34th IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science and the 16th IEEE International Pulsed Power Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, June 17-22, 2007.

  • “Demonstration Of High Power Plasma Propulsion Test Capabilities At Arnold Engineering Development Center,” K.A. Polzin, T. Moeller, J. Szabo, L. Byrne, A. Dawbarn, K.E. Tatum, D. Crider, M. Brown, Y. Raitses, and I.D. Boyd, presented at the 54th Joint Army-Navy-NASA-Air Force (JANNAF) Propulsion Meeting (JPM), Denver, Colorado, May 14-17, 2007.

  • “Ophthalmic simulation for medical training (oral)” J.  W.  L.  Lewis, Ying-Ling Chen, Bo Tan, and Ming Wang, 2007 annual conference, American Telemedicine Association.

  • “Development of Automatic Analysis for Mobile Ocular Screening (poster)” Ying-Ling Chen, Bo Tan, J. W. L. Lewis, and Ming Wang, 2007 annual conference, American Telemedicine Association.

  • “Joining Evaluations of "Low-Cost", Armstrong Ti-6Al-4V Plate” N.B. Dahotre, in Session on Armstrong Powder Technologies: An Update, during AEROMAT 2007, Thursday, June 28, 2007, Baltimore, MD.

Invited Presentations:

  • Invited presentation, “Laser Surface Engineering of Alumina Ceramic”, Narendra B. Dahotre at the Center for Laser Processing of Materials, International Advanced Research Center for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials, Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, Hyderabad, India, December, 12, 2006.

  • Invited presentation, “Novel Photonic Processing – from Biomimetic Micro-structures to Large Area Treatments”, C. Daniel, N. B. Dahotre, R. Ott,German Engineering Society (Verband Deutscher Ingenieure), St. Ingbert/Saar, Germany, November 2, 2006

  • “Single-Molecule Spectroscopy, Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy, Bioscience Applications,” L.M. Davis, University of Tennessee Memphis, June 29, 2007.

Proceedings:

  • “Measurements of Laser-Induced Plasma and Optical Breakdown Spectra of Aluminium,” C. G. Parigger in Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Spectral Line Shapes, E. Oks and M. Pindzola, eds., AIP Conference Proceedings 874,  101–111 (2006).

  • "Cast Carbide-Metal Composite Components Via Laser Based Solid Freeform Fabrication." W. Hofmeister, L. Costa, D. Rajput, and K. Lansford,  Proceedings of 26th International Congress on Applications of Lasers and Electro-Optics, Orlando, Florida, USA, (2007).

  • “Extension of multidimensional microscopy to ultrasensitive applications with maximum-likelihood analysis,”  Lloyd M. Davis and Guoqing Shen, in Three-Dimensional and Multidimensional Microscopy: Image Acquisition and Processing XIV, edited by Jose-Angel Conchello, Carol J. Cogswell, Tony Wilson, Proc. of SPIE Vol. 6443, 64430N, (2007).

  • “Engineering of illumination and collection field profiles for single-molecule orientational imaging,” Zbigniew Sikorski and Lloyd M. Davis, in Complex Light and Optical Forces, edited by David L. Andrews, Enrique J. Galvez, Gerard Nienhuis, Proc. of SPIE Vol. 6483, 64830K, (2007).

Reviewer:

  • Lewis/Chen:  Scientific Reviewer of AIAA, Applied Optics, JOSA A, Optics Express, Optics Letter, Ophthalmology
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