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Dr. Aravinda Kar

Dr. Aravinda Kar

Professor of Optics, MMAE, ECE and Physics
Laser-Advanced Manufacturing, Materials and Micro-Processing

Email

akar@creol.ucf.edu (Work)

Phone

407-823-6921 (Office)
407-658-6880 (Fax)

Locations

CREOL 284 (Office)

Biography

Aravinda Kar received his PhD degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is an Associate Professor of Optics, MMAE (Mechanical, Materials and Aerospace Engineering) and Physics at UCF. His research interest is Laser Advanced Materials Processing such as (1) Materials processing, synthesis and modeling, (2) Device structure fabrication and prototyping, (3) Laser-assisted manufacturing and micromachining and (4) Advanced manufacturing thermal science (Thermofluids analysis of manufacturing technology.

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Awards & Honors

Fellow of the Laser Institute of America
LIA Fellow
2005 Elected to the Board of Directors of the Laser Institute of America
2002 TIP (UCF’s Teaching Incentive Program) Award
2001 ICALEO’01 Student Paper Award Competition: Yonggang Li
2000 ICALEO’00 Student Paper Award Competition: Jihua Du
2000 Fifth Annual Tibbetts Award
2000 American Welding Society award Henry Grajon Prize: Jian Xie
1999 First Prize Student Paper Award Competition: Jihua Du
1999 ICALEO’99 Student Paper Award Competition: Franz Josef Kahlen

Recent Publications

2012
Komerath, Narayanan M.; Pant, Rajkumar; Kar, Aravinda
"An Architecture Using Lighter-Than-Air Platforms for Retail Power Beaming and Communications"
Journal of Low Power Electronics, Volume 8, Number 3, June 2012 , pp. 261-269(9)
2012
G. Lim, T. Manzur, and A. Kar
"Improved optical properties and detectivity of an uncooled silicon carbide mid-wave infrared optical detector with increased dopant concentration"
Journal Of Optics 14(10)
2012
N. Komerath, and A. Kar
"Retail Beamed Power Using Millimeter Waves: Survey"
Acm Journal On Emerging Technologies In Computing Systems 8(3)
2011
G. Lim and A. Kar
"Effects of laser scans on the diffusion depth and diffusivity of gallium in n-type 4H-SiC during laser doping"
Materials Science and Engineering B - Advanced Functional Solid-State Materials 176(8), pp. 660-668
2011
G. Lim, T. Manzur, and A. Kar
"Optical response of laser-doped silicon carbide for an uncooled midwave infrared detector"
Applied Optics 50(17), pp. 2640-2653
2010
A. Jocelyn, A. Kar, A. Fanourakis, T. Flower, M. Ackerman, A. Keevil, and J. Way
"Indirect Versus Direct Heating of Sheet Materials: Superplastic Forming and Diffusion Bonding Using Lasers"
Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance 19(4), pp. 527-532
2010
G. Lim, U.P. DeSilva, N.R. Quick, A. Kar
"Laser Optical Gas Sensor by Photoexcitation Effect on Refractive Index"
Applied Optics 49(9), pp. 1563-1573
2009
C. Zhang, N. R. Quick and A. Kar
"Diffractive Optical Elements for Pitchfork Beam Shaping"
Optical Engineering, Vol. 48, 2009, pp. 078001
2009
A. Jocelyn, A. Kar, A. Fanourakis, T. Flower, M. Ackerman, A. Keevil, and J. Way
"From technology push, to industrial pull: superplastic forming and diffusion bonding using lasers"
Materialwissenschaft und Werkstofftechnik, vol. 40, no. 8, pp. 601-605
2009
G. Lim, U. P. DeSilva, N. R. Quick and A. Kar
"Laser Optical Gas Sensor by Photoexcitation Effect on Refractive Index"
Applied Optics
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Research

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Lasers
Solid State Lasers
Ceramic Lasers
Semiconductor Lasers
EUV & X-ray Lasers
High Power Lasers
Ultrafast Lasers
Semiconductor & Integrated Photonics
LEDs & Laser Diodes
Photovoltaics
Imaging, Sensing & Display
Infrared Sensors & Systems
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Laser Fabrication & Lithography
Optical Sensing & Imaging
Laser Material Processing
Lasers in Medicine
Integrated-Optic Sensing
Optical, EUV & X-ray Lithography
Fiber Optic Sensing
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