People

Shandon D. Hart
E-mail: shandon@alum.mit.edu

Birthplace: Trumansburg, NY, USA

Undergraduate Degree: B.Sc. Ceramic Engineering, Alfred University, NY, USA.

Current position: Ph.D. Candidate in Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Research Interests:

- Inorganic glass science
- Optical fiber theory, fabrication, and applications
- Photonic crystals and photonic bandgap materials
- Thin film and vapor phase deposition
- Novel applications of photonic materials in sensing, biology, and energy

Past Experiences:

Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY
Research intern in specialty fiber optic development, summer 2000

Alfred University, Alfred, NY
Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Glass Science and for Electrical, Optical, and Magnetic Properties of Materials, 1999-2000

Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain
Six-month Exchange Study program involving engineering, language, and culture, 1999

NASA/Florida A&M University, Kennedy Space Center, FL
Space Life Sciences Training Program, research internship, summer 1998

Journal Publications:

1. G. Benoit, S. D. Hart, B. Temelkuran, J. D. Joannopoulos, and Y. Fink, “Static and dynamic properties of optical micro-cavities in photonic bandgap yarns,” Advanced Materials, in press, 2003.

2. B. Temelkuran, S. D. Hart, G. Benoit, J. D. Joannopoulos, and Y. Fink, “Wavelength-scalable hollow optical fibres with large photonic band gaps for CO2 laser transmission”, Nature, 420, 650-653 (2002).

3. S. D. Hart, G. R. Maskaly, B. Temelkuran, P. H. Prideaux, J. D. Joannopoulos, and Y. Fink, “External Reflection from Omnidirectional Dielectric Mirror Fibers,” Science, 296, 510-513 (2002).

4. S. D. Hart, P. A. Currier, and D. J. Thomas, “Denitrification by Pseudomonas aeruginosa under simulated engineered Martian conditions,” Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, 53, 357-359 (2000).


Patent Applications and Technology Disclosures:

1. “Method of forming reflecting dielectric mirrors”, US Utility Patent Application. Ser. No. 10/196,403 (licensed).

2. “Fiber for dual electron-photon conduction”, US Provisional Patent Application. Ser. No. 60/487,125.

3. “Hollow optical fiber with large photonic bandgaps for low-loss infrared laser transmission”, US Provisional Patent Application. Ser. No. 60/432,059.

4. “Fabrication of structured and tunable optical waveguides using chalcogenide/polymer optical composites”, US Provisional Patent Application. Ser. No. 60/373,532.

5. “Omnidirectional dielectric mirror fibers”, US Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 60/351,066.

6 . “Low-loss IR dielectric material system for broadband dual range omnidirectional reflectivity”, US Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 60/350,728.

Conference Papers and Presentations

1. “Materials selection criteria in cylindrical photonic bandgap fiber fabrication”, Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Dec. 2003.

2. “Cylindrical photonic bandgap fibers for high power laser transmission,” Boulder Damage Symposium XXXV – SPIE Annual Meeting on Optical Materials for High Power Lasers, Sep. 2003 (invited talk).

3. “Multilayer photonic bandgap optical fiber materials and fabrication”, Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Dec. 2002.