| Awards & Honors |
| 2005 |
Elected to the Board of Directors of the Laser Institute of America
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| 2002 |
TIP (UCF’s Teaching Incentive Program) Award
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| 2001 |
ICALEO’01 Student Paper Award Competition: Yonggang Li
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| 2000 |
Fellow of the Laser Institute of America
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| 2000 |
ICALEO’00 Student Paper Award Competition: Jihua Du
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| 2000 |
Fifth Annual Tibbetts Award
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| 2000 |
American Welding Society award Henry Grajon Prize: Jian Xie
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| 1999 |
First Prize Student Paper Award Competition: Jihua Du
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| 1999 |
ICALEO’99 Student Paper Award Competition: Franz Josef Kahlen
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| Key Publications and Presentations |
| Refereed Papers | | 2006 |
D. Zeng, W. P. Latham and A. Kar "Shaping of annular laser intensity profiles and their thermal effects for optical trepanning" Optical Engineering, Vol. 45, 2006, 01301 |
| 2005 |
D. Zeng, W. P. Latham and A. Kar "Temperature distribution due to annular beam heating" Journal of Laser Applications, Vol. 17, 2005, pp. 256 – 262. |
| 2005 |
D. Zeng, W. P. Latham and A. Kar "Two-dimensional model for melting and vaporization during optical trepanning" Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 97, 2005, 104912. |
| 2005 |
I.A. Salama, N. R. Quick and A. Kar "Microstructural Effects on Electrical Resistance in Laser-Treated Silicon Carbide" Journal of Materials Science, 2005 (in press) |
| 2005 |
I.A. Salama, N.R. Quick, and A. Kar "Laser Direct Writing and Doping of Diamond-like Carbon, Polycrystalline Diamond and Single Crystal Silicon Carbide" Journal of Laser Applications, Vol. 16, 2004, pp. 92-99 |
| 2005 |
Z. Tian, N. R. Quick and A. Kar "Characteristics of 6H-Silicon Carbide PIN Diodes Prototyping by Laser Doping" Journal of Electronic Materials, Vol. 34, 2005, pp. 430-438 |
| 2005 |
Z. Tian, N. R. Quick and A. Kar "Effects of Different Laser Sources and Doping Methods Used to Dope Silicon Carbide" Acta Materialia, Vol. 53, 2005, pp. 2835-2844 |
| 2004 |
A. Jocelyn, A. Kar, M. Jonik, A. Keevil, M. Ackerman, J. Way and T. Flower "Use of lasers in the process of superplastic forming and diffusion bonding" Materials Science Forum, Vols. 447-448, 2004, pp. 533-540 |
| 2004 |
Y. Chen, B. Chen, M.K.R. Patel, A. Kar and M. Bass "Calculation of Thermal Gradient Induced Stress Birefringence in Slab Lasers - II" IEEE J. Quantum Electron., Vol. 40, 2004, pp.917-927 |
| Patents | | 2005 |
N.R. Quick and A. Kar "Optical Device and Method of Making" U.S. Patent (submitted, 2005) |
| 2004 |
N.R. Quick and A. Kar "Laser-Assisted Nano-Deposition" U.S. Patent (submitted, 2004) |
| 2004 |
N.R. Quick, A. Kar and I.A. Salama "Process for Fabricating Semiconductor Component" US Patent (submitted, 2004) |
| 2004 |
N.R. Quick, A. Kar, Y. Li and R.R. McNeice "Apparatus and Method for Drawing Continuous Fiber" 2004 (US Patent No. 6,732,562) |
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| Research |
| Fabrication of long nanowires for integrated nanodevice fabrication. | | |
| Laser Drilling 170-Micron Diameter Holes | | |
| Laser-Doped Nanostructuring in SiC for Deep Green Light Emitting Diodes | | |
| Nanoscopic Optical Sensors | | |
| Novel Erosion Resistant Coating For High Temperature Composites | | |
| Ultrahigh Temperature Optical Sensing | | |
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