Florencio García-Santamaría

Professional Career

• 2007 - present, Director's Postdoctoral Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• 2004-2007, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Materials Science and Engineering
• 1999-2004, Graduate Student, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid

Education

• November, 2003 - Ph.D. in Physics, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Awards

• 2008    Cover article in Nature Photonics 2 (1), 2008
• 2007    Director's Fellowship at Los Alamos National Laboratory
• 2007    Cover article in Advanced Materials 19 (12), 2007
• 2007    Chair of Active Photonic Crystals symposium for Optics Materials SPIE August 2007.
• 2007    Cover for Advanced Functional Materials 16 (17), 2006.
• 2003    Outstanding PhD-dissertation award. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain).
• 2003    Cover of the year 2002. Advanced Materials.
• 2003    Cover article in Advanced Materials 15 (10), 2003.
• 2002    Cover article in Advanced Materials 14 (16), 2002.
• 2001    Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid Brief Stay Grant: National Institute of Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan.
• 2000    Research Fellowship (FPI) from the Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid
• 1997    Research Fellowship from the Spanish Research Council (CSIC)

Contact Information MS-J567, C-PCS Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, NM 87545 phone: e-mail: floren@lanl.gov

Current Research:

Currently my research is focused on optical studies of semiconductor nanocrystal quantum dots.

Previous Research:

My previous research during my PhD and postdoc was on 3D photonic crystal fabrication, optical characterization and the introduction of controlled defects.

Selected Publications

• S.A. Rinne SA, F. Garcia-Santamaria, and P.V. Braun, Embedded cavities and waveguides in three-dimensional silicon photonic crystals, Nature Photonics 2, 52 (2008).
• F. Garcia-Santamaria, J.F. Galisteo-Lopez, P.V. Braun, et al. Optical diffraction and high-energy features in three-dimensional photonic crystals, Physical Review B 71, 195112 (2005).
• F. Garcia-Santamaria, M. Ibisate, I. Rodriguez, et al. Photonic band engineering in opals by growth of Si/Ge multilayer shells, Advanced Materials 15, 788 (2003).