Biography
Dr. Stephen M. Kuebler received the D.Phil. degree in chemistry from the University of Oxford and the B.S. degree in chemistry and B.A. in German from Tulane University. Dr. Kuebler joined the faculties of CREOL and the Department of Chemistry in August 2003 and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in May 2008. His research interests include materials and processes for 3D nano- and microfabrication, use of these techniques for creating nanophotonic structures and devices, nonlinear optical materials and photochemistry.
Awards & Honors
- 2014 College of Science Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) Award
- 2009 Promotion and Tenure Approved
- 2009 2008/2009 Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) Award
- 2008 NSF CAREER Award
- 2008 Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, UCF College of Sciences
- 2005 Outstanding Four Year College Teacher Award for 2005
- 1993 NSF Graduate Fellow
- 1991 Marshall Scholar
- 1989 Barry Goldwater Scholar
Research Group
Design, preparation, and characterization of nano-photonic devices and materials; theory, fabrication, and characterization of optics for laser beam shaping.Graduate Students
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Harun Al-Ansari
UG Research Assistant
Austin Naugle
UG Research Assistant
Publications
Musgrove, AL ; Cockerham, A ; Pazos, JJ; Shahriar, S ; McMahon, M ; Touma, JE ; Kuebler, SM "Bio-inspired photonic and plasmonic systems for gas sensing: applications, fabrication, and analytical methods" Journal of Optical Microsystems 4(2) (2024)
Sun, MD (Sun, Mengdi) [1] ; Huang, D (Huang, Di) [2] ; Golvari, P (Golvari, Pooria) [4] ; Kuebler, SM (Kuebler, Stephen M. M.) [2] , [4] , [5] ; Delfyett, PJ (Delfyett, Peter J. J.) [2] , [6] ; Kik, PG (Kik, Pieter G. G.) [2] , [3] "Diffractive light-trapping transparent electrodes using zero-order suppression" Nanophotonics 12(18) pp.3545-3552 (2023)
Golvari, P (Golvari, Pooria) [1] ; Alkameh, K (Alkameh, Khaled) [1] ; Rahmani, A (Rahmani, Azina) [1] ; Jurca, T (Jurca, Titel) [1] , [2] , [3] ; Kuebler, SM (Kuebler, Stephen M.) [1] , [4] , [5] "Pt-Coated Silicon Nanoparticles: An Investigation into the Hydrosilylation on Hydrogen-Terminated Silicon Surfaces Using Pt(dvs)" Langmuir (2023)
Sun, MD; Golvari, P; Kuebler, SM; Kik, PG "Experimental Demonstration of Light-Trapping Transparent Electrode Geometries" ACS Photonics, 10(3) pp.595-600 (2023)
Mingman Sun, He Cheng, Pooria Golvari, Stephen M. Kuebler, Xiaoming Yu, Meng Zhang "Modeling of two-photon polymerization in the strong-pulse regime" Additive Manufacturing, 60, Part A, 103241 (2022)
Xia, C (Xia, Chun) [1] ; Kuebler, SM (Kuebler, Stephen M.) [1] , [2] , [3] ; Martinez, NP (Martinez, Noel P.) [1] ; Martinez, M (Martinez, Manuel) [4] ; Rumpf, RC (Rumpf, Raymond C.) [4] , [5] ; Touma, J (Touma, Jimmy) [6] "Wide-Band Self-Collimation in Low Refractive Index Hexagonal Lattice" Proceedings of SPIE, Photonic and Phononic Properties of Engineered Nanostructures XII, 12010 (2022)
C. Xia, E. Bustamante, S.M. Kuebler, N.P. Martinez, R.C. Rumpf, and J.E. Touma "Binary-lens-embedded photonic crystals" Optics Letters, 47(12), pp. 2943-2946 (2022)
P. Golvari, K. Alkameh, and S.M. Kuebler "Si-H Surface Groups Inhibit Methacrylic Polymerization: Thermal Hydrosilylation of Allyl Methacrylate with Silicon Nanoparticles" Langmuir 38 (27), 8366–8373 (2022)
C. Xia, J.J. Gutierrez, S.M. Kuebler, R.C. Rumpf and J. Touma "Cylindrical-lens-embedded photonic crystal based on self-collimation" Optics Express, 30(6), pp. 9165-9180 (2022)
H. Cheng, P. Golvari, C. Xia, M.M. Sun, M. Zhang, S.M. Kuebler and X.M. Yu "High-throughput microfabrication of axially tunable helices" Photonics Research, 10(2), pp. 303 (2022)
P. Golvari and S.M. Kuebler "Fabrication of Functional Microdevices in SU-8 by Multi-Photon Lithography " Micromachines, 12(5), A. 472 (2021)
C. Xia, S.M. Kuebler, N.P. Martinez, M. Martinez, R.C. Rumpf and J. Touma "Wide-band self-collimation in a low-refractive-index hexagonal lattice" Optics Letters, 46(9), pp. 2228-2231 (2021)
R. Sharma, J.L. Digaum, H. West, C.M. Schwarz and S.M. Kuebler "Gentle method for removing metal and restoring function after scanning electron microscopy" Journal of Micro-Nanopatterning Materials and Metrology - JM3, 20(2), A. 023601 (2021)
J. Beever, S.M. Kuebler and J. Collins "Where ethics is taught: an institutional epidemiology" International Journal of Ethics Education (2021)
H. Cheng, C. Xia, S.M. Kuebler, P. Golvari, M.M. Sun, M. Zhang and X.M. Yu "Generation of Bessel-beam arrays for parallel fabrication in two-photon polymerization" Journal of Laser Applications, 33(1), A. 012040 (2021)
C.M. Schwarz, S.M. Kuebler, C. Rivero-Baleine, B. Triplett, M. Kang, Q. Altemose, C. Blanco, K.A. Richardson, Q.Y. Du, S. Deckoff-Jones, J.J. Hu, Y. Zhang, Y. Pan and C. Ríos "Structurally and morphologically engineered chalcogenide materials for optical and photonic devices" Journal of Optical Microsystems, 1(1), A. 013502 (2021)
H. Cheng, C. Xia, S.M. Kuebler and X. Yu "Aberration correction for SLM-generated Bessel beams propagating through tilted interfaces" Optics Communications, 475, A. 126213 (2020)
H. Cheng, C. Xia, M.M. Sun, M. Zhang, S.M. Kuebler and X. Yu "Micro- and nanofabrication using Bessel-beam activated photopolymerization" Journal of Laser Applications, 32(2) (2020)
C.M. Schwarz, M. Kang, Q. Altemose, K. Raichle, B. Schnable, C. Grabill, J. Rice, M. Truman, C. Pantano, I. Mingareev, L. Sisken, C. Rivero-Baleine, K.A. Richardson and S.M. Kuebler "Processing and properties of novel ZnO–Bi2O3–B2O3 glass-ceramic nanocomposites" Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 820, A. 153173 (2020) PDF
H. Cheng, C. Xia, M. Zhang, S.M. Kuebler, and X. Yu "Fabrication of high-aspect-ratio structures using Bessel-beam-activated photopolymerization" Applied Optics, 58(13), pp. D91-D97 (2019)
Alumni
PhD
Chun Xia, Optics Ph.D., Summer 2022Rashi Sharma, Chemistry Ph.D., Fall 2018
Chris Grabill, Chemistry Ph.D., Spring 2018
Jennefir Digaum, Optics Ph.D., Spring 2016
Henry Williams, Chemistry Ph.D., Fall 2013
Toufic Jabbour, Optics Ph.D., Fall 2009