Alberto Salleo

Department of Materials Science

and

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Tel: (925) 424-3811

salleo@uclink4.berkeley.edu


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Education University of California, Berkeley:

PhD: expected, May 2001
Research topic: High-intensity laser damage of fused silica.
Research supported by the National Ignition Facility (LLNL).
 
 

M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering (1998)
Thesis title: "Ultra-violet laser damage in fused silica".
 
 

Ecole Polytechnique (France):

Diplôme d’Auditeur in Applied Physics with highest honors (1994)
Thesis title: "Role of external stresses on the oxidation of polycrystalline Nickel".
 
 

Università di Roma La Sapienza :

Laurea in Physical Chemistry Summa cum Laude (1994)
Thesis title: "Oxidation of carbides at low oxygen fugacity".

 
 
Awards 1997 Scholarship awarded by the Italian University Council to outstanding Italian students abroad.   1996 John Tyssowski Memorial Fellowship awarded by the Department of Materials Science and Mineral Engineering (UC Berkeley).   1995 Fulbright Scholarship.   1994 Award from the Solid State Physics Division at the Ecole Polytechnique for outstanding research paper of the academic year.   1994 Full stipend visiting scholarship awarded by the Ecole Polytechnique.    1989-1991 Scholarship awarded by the Italian Social Security.   1989-1994 Partial university fee remission due to academic merit.  
 
 
Experience
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Skills 

 

 1997-present Graduate Student Research Assistant at the National Ignition Facility (LLNL). Advisors: Dr. François Génin and Prof. Tim Sands.   Fall 1996 Graduate Student Instructor of E115 (Engineering Thermodynamics), College of Engineering, UC Berkeley.   Spring 1996 Reader for E45 (Properties of Materials), College of Engineering, UC Berkeley.   Spring 1994 Research Assistant at the Laboratoire de Métallurgie Structurale (Université Paris-Sud, Orsay). Advisor: Dr. Gérard Moulin.   1993-1994 Undergraduate Research Assistant at the Università di Roma La Sapienza. Advisor: Prof. Daniele Gozzi.
 
 
 
 

Pulsed laser operation (IR, Vis. and UV, ns and ps), AFM, optical and Nomarski microscopy, interferometric microscopy, image processing, XPS, FE analysis (COSMOS/M package), working knowledge of ellipsometric characterization and IR reflectance microscopy, competent in the use of Labview, Matlab and Mathematica.
 
 

 
Publications  F. Y. Génin, M. D. Feit, M. R. Kozlowski, A. M. Rubenchik, A. Salleo, J. Yoshiyama, "Rear surface laser damage on 355 nm silica optics due to Fresnel diffraction at front surface contamination particles", Applied Optics, 39(21), 3654-63 (2000).
 
 

W.S. Wong, A.B. Wengrow, Y. Cho, A. Salleo, N.J. Quitoriano, N.W. Cheung,and T. Sands, "Integration of GaN Thin Films with Dissimilar Substrate Materials by Pd-In Metal Bonding and Laser Liftoff", Journal of Electronic Materials, 28(12), 1409-13 (1999).
 
 

A. Salleo, F. Y. Génin, and T. Sands, "Machining of transparent materials using IR and UV nanosecond pulsed laser", Applied Physics A, 71(6), 601-608 (2000).
 
 

M. D. Feit, A. M. Rubenchik, A. Salleo, and D. Eimerl, "Pulse-shape and pulse-length scaling of ns pulse laser damage threshold due to rate limiting by thermal conduction.", Laser-Induced Damage in Optical Materials, SPIE 3244, 5-10 (1998).
 
 

A. Salleo, R. Chinsio, and F. Y. Génin, "Crack propagation in fused silica during UV and IR ns-laser illumination", Laser-Induced Damage in Optical Materials, SPIE 3578, 456-471 (1999).
 
 

J. Yoshiyama, F. Y. Génin, A. Salleo, I. Thomas, M. R. Kozlowski, L. M. Sheehan, I. D. Hutcheon, and D. W. Camp, "Effects of polishing, etching, cleaving, and water leaching on the UV laser damage of fused silica.", Laser-Induced Damage in Optical Materials, SPIE 3244, 331-340 (1998).
 
 

A. Salleo, F. Y. Génin, J. Yoshiyama, C. J. Stolz, and M. R. Kozlowski, "Laser-induced damage of fused silica at 355 nm initiated at scratches.", Laser-Induced Damage in Optical Materials, SPIE 3244, 341-347 (1998).
 
 

M. D. Feit, J. Campbell, D. Faux, F. Y. Génin, M. R. Kozlowski, A. M. Rubenchik, R. Riddle, A. Salleo, and J. Yoshiyama, "Modeling of laser-induced surface cracks in silica at 355 nm", Laser-Induced Damage in Optical Materials, SPIE 3244, 350-355 (1998).
 
 

C. J. Stolz, J. M. Yoshiyama, A. Salleo, Z. L. Wu, J. Green, R. Krupka, "Characterization of nodular and thermal defects in hafnia/silica multilayer coatings using optical, photothermal, and atomic force microscopy.", Laser-Induced Damage in Optical Materials, SPIE 3244, 475-483 (1998).
 
 

G. Moulin, P. Arevalo, and A. Salleo, "Influence of external mechanical loadings (creep, fatigue) on oxygen diffusion during nickel oxidation.", Oxidation of Metals 45(1-2), 153-181 (1996).
 
 

D. Gozzi, G. Guzzardi, and A. Salleo, "High temperature reactivity of different forms of carbon at low oxygen fugacity.", Solid State Ionics, Diffusions & Reactions 83(3-4), 177-189 (1996).
 
 

 

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