Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Optics
Department of Chemistry
CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics

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Toufic Jabbour (Member, IEEE) received the B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Balamand, El Koura, Lebanon in 2000 and the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Oklahoma State University in 2002. Toufic was admitted to the College of Optics, UCF in fall 2003 and joined the NPM Group in spring 2004. He serves as president of IEEE, LEOS chapter at CREOL for the academic year 2006-2007. Toufic is investigating the use of diffractive optical elements for engineering the focused intensity pattern, or "point-spread-function" (PSF), that is produced when plane waves are tightly focused using high-numerical-aperture optics. More details on this work can be found in his publication below.

Toufic Jabbour and Stephen M. Kuebler, "Axial field shaping under high-numerical-aperture focusing," Opt. Lett., 2007, 32, 527-529.

Toufic Jabbour and Stephen M. Kuebler, "Vector diffraction analysis of high numerical aperture focused beams modified by two- and three-zone annular multi-phase plates," Optics Express, 2006, 14, 1033-1043.

Marco earned both the B.S. in Industrial Engineering and the M.S. degree in Material Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy in 2005 under the mentorship of Professor Marco Sangermano. From September 2006 to August 2007 he researched in the Advanced Manufacturing and Materials Department of the Centro Ricerche Fiat S.C.p.A., Orbassano (TO) Italy, where he completed his thesis and worked as an analyst developing manufacturing processes for the optical and automotive industry. Marco was admitted to the College of Optics, UCF and joined the NPM group in Spring 2008.

Henry earned the B.S. in chemical engineering from the College of Engineering of Florida A&M University and Florida State University. He was accepted into the chemistry graduate program at UCF for study toward the Ph.D. in materials chemistry. Henry joined the NPM group in January 2006 and his research involves the discovery and development of new chemical and materials systems for multi-photon 3D microfabrication.

Rahul Hegishte earned the B.Sc. degree in chemistry from the University of Mumbai and the M.S. in Physical Chemistry at the University of Pune, both in India. He was admitted to the Chemistry Graduate Program at UCF in fall 2005, at which time he joined the NPM Group. Rahul is researching the use of folded polypeptides for templating the deposition of metals and other materials into targeted nano-scale forms.

Amir was admitted to the University of Central Florida in fall 2004 and joined the NPM Group in spring 2005. His research involved discovery and development of new photonic materials and devices. In July 2007, Amir successfully defended his Masters of Science thesis in optics entitled "Three-Dimensional Micron-Scale Metal Photonic Crystals via Multi-Photon Direct Laser Writing and Electroless Metal Deposition". Amir started a new position as an optical design engineer on 13 August 2007 with Coastal Optics in West Palm Beach, Fl. More information on his research work can be found in the publication below.

Amir Tal, Yun-Sheng Chen, Henry E. Williams, Raymond C. Rumpf, and Stephen M. Kuebler, "Fabrication and characterization of three-dimensional copper metallodielectric photonic crystals." Opt. Express, 2007, 15(26), 18283-18293.

First graduate of the NPM Group! -- M.S. in optics, spring 2006

Ozan earned the B.Sc. in Electrical & Electronics Engineering in 2001 from Yeditepe University, Turkey and the M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering in 2004 from Bogazici University, Turkey under the supervision of Dr. Ali Serpenguzel, Principal Investigator of the Microphotonics Research Laboratory, Koc University. Ozan was admitted to CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics in fall 2004 and joined the NPM Group in spring 2005. Ozan contributed in the development of the NPM Group's 3D multi-photon microfabrication system and researched a novel nano-photonic structure that can be used to efficiently guide light by total internal reflection in a low-refractive-index waveguide supported on a high-index substrate. Ozan was awarded the M.S. in optics in spring 2006 and is now pursuing the PhD in optics at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Yun-Sheng attended National Sun Yat-Sen University and earned the Master of Science from the Institute of Material Science and Engineering. He was admitted to the University of Central Florida in fall 2004 and joined the NPM Group in spring 2005. His research involved discovery and development of new photonic materials and devices and new chemical and material processes for multi-photon 3D microfabrication. More information on his work can be found in the publication below.

Y.-S. Chen, A. Tal, D. B. Torrance, S. M. Kuebler. "Fabrication and characterization of three-dimensional silver-coated polymeric microstructures." Adv. Funct. Mater., 2006, 16, 1739-1744

Ivan joined the NPM group in May 2004 and led the initial development of the NPM Group's 3D multi-photon microfabrication system. More information on this work can be found in the conference proceeding listed below.

I. B. Divliansky, G. Weaver, M. Petrovich, T. Jabbour, H. P. Seigneur, C. Parnell-Lampen, A. Thompson, K. D. Belfield, S. M. Kuebler. "CAD-integrated system for automated multi-photon three-dimensional micro- and nano-fabrication." Proc. Soc. of Photo-Opt. Instr. Eng., 2005, 5720, 196-203.

Amanda is a Forensic Science major at UCF. She joined the group in May 2007 and began research funded under a Student Mentor Academic Research Team (SMART) fellowship. Amanda is investigating methods for electroless metallization and studying how the material processing conditions affect the nanoscale morphology of the deposited metal. She is presently funded under the UCF RAMP Program.

Julien was a CREOL International-REU student in summer 2005 coming from the Ecole Supérieure d’Optique / Institut d’Optique, Université de Paris-Sud, Orsay, France. While in the NPM Group, Julien researched methods for experimentally characterizing the point-spread-function of tightly focused laser beams. Click here to learn more about his project.

Meaghan was a CREOL-REU student at UCF in summer 2005. She researched methods for characterizing thin polymer films that are photo-crosslinked under single- and multi-photon irradiation. Click here to learn more about her project.

Hiram was a Nano-REU student at UCF in summer 2005 and researched the use of multi-photon 3D microfabrication for creating micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS).

Caleb was a CREOL-REU student at UCF in summer 2004 and contributed in the development of LabView software used to automate the NPM-Group multi-photon 3D microfabrication system. Click here to learn more about his project. More information on Caleb's work with the Kuebler Group can be found in the publication listed below.

I. B. Divliansky, G. Weaver, M. Petrovich, T. Jabbour, H. P. Seigneur, C. Parnell-Lampen, A. Thompson, K. D. Belfield, S. M. Kuebler. "CAD-integrated system for automated multi-photon three-dimensional micro- and nano-fabrication." Proc. Soc. of Photo-Opt. Instr. Eng., 2005, 5720, 196-203.

Janneth was an NIH-BRIDGE summer research student in 2005 from Daytona Beach Community College who researched the application of Raman spectroscopy for characterizing the extent of cross-linking in polymerized acrylate composites.

Michael is completing the bachelors degree in computer science. He helped develop software for our multi-photon 3D microfabrication system. He also contributed significantly in an analysis of the application of the Method of Generlized Projections for designing diffractive optical elements that axially super-resolve a laser beam focused under high-NA conditions. The work led to the peer-reviewed publication below.

T. Jabbour, M. Petrovich, and S. M. Kuebler. "Design of axially super-resolving phase filters using the method of generalized projections." Opt. Commun. 2008, 281, 2002-2011.

Hubert worked with Michael Petrovich and Greg Weaver in 2004 to develop CAD software that we designed especially for multi-photon 3D microfabrication. More information on this work can be found in the conference proceeding listed below.

I. B. Divliansky, G. Weaver, M. Petrovich, T. Jabbour, H. P. Seigneur, C. Parnell-Lampen, A. Thompson, K. D. Belfield, S. M. Kuebler. "CAD-integrated system for automated multi-photon three-dimensional micro- and nano-fabrication." Proc. Soc. of Photo-Opt. Instr. Eng., 2005, 5720, 196-203.

Amy was a CREOL-REU student at UCF in summer 2004 and contributed in the development of LabView software used to automate the NPM-Group 3D multi-photon microfabrication system. Click here to learn more about her project. Amy is presently researching toward the PhD in optics at CREOL with the Nanophotonics Device Group directed by Prof. Winston Schoenfeld. More information on Amy's work with the Kuebler Group can be found in the publication listed below.

I. B. Divliansky, G. Weaver, M. Petrovich, T. Jabbour, H. P. Seigneur, C. Parnell-Lampen, A. Thompson, K. D. Belfield, S. M. Kuebler. "CAD-integrated system for automated multi-photon three-dimensional micro- and nano-fabrication." Proc. Soc. of Photo-Opt. Instr. Eng., 2005, 5720, 196-203.

Undergraduate researcher, 2003-2005

Britt contributed toward the development of a chemical process for conformally depositing silver onto cross-linked acrylate films and microstructures prepared by multi-photon 3D microfabrication. Britt is currently pursuing the PhD in physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. More information on his research with the Kuebler Group can be found in the publication below. More information on his work can be found in the publication below.

Y.-S. Chen, A. Tal, D. B. Torrance, S. M. Kuebler. "Fabrication and characterization of three-dimensional silver-coated polymeric microstructures." Adv. Funct. Mater., 2006, 16, 1739-1744

Greg is a computer science major at UCF who worked with Michael Petrovich and Hubert Seigneur in 2004 to develop CAD software that we designed especially for multi-photon 3D microfabrication. More information on this work can be found in the conference proceeding listed below.

I. B. Divliansky, G. Weaver, M. Petrovich, T. Jabbour, H. P. Seigneur, C. Parnell-Lampen, A. Thompson, K. D. Belfield, S. M. Kuebler. "CAD-integrated system for automated multi-photon three-dimensional micro- and nano-fabrication." Proc. Soc. of Photo-Opt. Instr. Eng., 2005, 5720, 196-203.