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Scott Kirkpatrick is an Assistant Professor of Physics and Optical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He teaches physics, semiconductor processes, and micro electrical and mechanical systems (MEMS). His research interests include heat engines, magnetron sputtering, and nanomaterial self-assembly. His masters thesis work at the University of Nebraska Lincoln focused on reactive sputtering process control. His doctoral dissertation at the University of Nebraska Lincoln investigated High Power Impulse Magnetron Sputtering.

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Richard W. Liptak received his B.S. in Engineering Physics from John Carroll University in 2004. After graduation he joined the group of Prof. Steve Campbell and Prof. Uwe Kortshagen were he focused his work on the development of novel gas phase surface passivation techniques to synthesize air-stable full-visible spectrum emitting SiNCs. While at Minnesota he was awarded a NSF IGERT Fellowship. He received his M.S (2006) and PhD (2009) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota. Following graduation he spent a year as a postdoctoral research associate working for Prof. Mark Rodwell in the UCSB Molecular-Beam Epitaxy Lab where he focused his research on investigating the ALD process on III-V semiconductors and the epitaxial growth of ohmic contacts on III-V materials. He returned to the University of Minnesota in 2010 as a research scientist investigating techniques to tailor the surface chemistry of SiNCs for use in light emitting diodes and solar cell applications. More recent work has focused on the growth and integration of CIGS and CIAGS homojunction and heterojunction solar cells. In the fall of 2013, he joined the Department of Physics and Optical Engineering at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology as an Assistant Professor. Current research efforts are focused on the development of plastic electronics, atomic layer deposition and supercapacitors.

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Renat R. Letfullin is associate professor of physics and optical engineering department at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He has made outstanding contributions to the fields of wave and quantum optics, lasers, aerosol physics, nanoscience including nanooptics and nanobiotechnology. He is an outstanding theoretician and experimentalist in the fields of optics and kinetics of chemical pulsed lasers, and during the past decade has branched out into biophotonics and nanomedicine. He has discovered new phenomena and scientific effects in these fields, where examples include: effect of diffractive multifocal focusing of plane and spherical waves, effect of giant laser energy gain, the autowave of a new type – self-supporting photon-branched chain reaction, and effect of focusing of de Broglie matter-waves. He has carried out an extensive array of studies in aerosol optical physics, including laser heating and evaporation of aerosol particles and optical properties of nanoparticles. He has developed and designed new self-contained laser systems with multimega joule output energy per pulse, optical reactor for efficient laser processing of dispersed materials, phase technique for optical diagnostics of small particles, and new diffractive atom lens. His latest achievements are in the field of nanophotonics and nanomedicine, including discoveries of a plasmon explosion of nanoparticles, new dynamics modes in selective nanophototherapy, RF and X-ray optics of nanoparticles.

A well-respected international researcher, Letfullin has authored 150 articles and conference proceedings, including 12 book chapters in 10 different books. His work has garnered many grants and awards including 4 patents in laser technology and optical engineering. He has led the development of several new research laboratories for research on biophotonics and nanomedicine, created innovative teaching tools including online video courses and webinars, and supervised numerous masters and doctoral students.

For his achievements in optics, photonics, laser physics, nanophotonics, biophotonics, and nanomedicine Dr. Letfullin has been elected to the Fellow of SPIE and a Senior member of SPIE. He is also a member of the Optical Society of America and American Society for Engineering Education.

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