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.Research Scientists
Graduate Students
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Publications
P. Golvari, T. Morales, A. Rahmani, S. M. Kuebler and J. Touma "Rapid Deposition and Controlled Clustering of Gold Nanoparticles on Surfaces and Micro-Patterned Substrates" ACS Omega, Volume: 10, Issue: 17, Page: 17783-17793, Year: 2025 2025
A. C. Nikolaidis*, J. Beever, J. Kissel, S. M. Kuebler and L. A. Pinkert "The moral limits of professional ethics enculturation"
International Journal of Ethics Education, Volume: 10 Issue: 1 Page: 133-154 2025
A. C. Nikolaidis*, L. A. Pinkert, S. M. Kuebler and J. Beever "From education to enculturation: rethinking the development of ethical professionals in higher education" International Journal of Ethics Education, Volume: 9, Issue: 2, Page: 307-327, Year: 2024 2024
A. L. Musgrove, A. Cockerham, J. J. Pazos, S. Shahriar, M. McMahon, J. E. Touma, S. M. Kuebler "Bio-inspired photonic and plasmonic systems for gas sensing: applications, fabrication, and analytical methods" Journal of Optical Microsystems, 2024, Vol. 4(2), pp. 020902-1 - 020902-40 2024
M. Sun, D. Huang, P. Golvari, S. M. Kuebler, P. J. Delfyett and P. G. Kik "Diffractive light-trapping transparent electrodes using zero-order suppression" Nanophotonics 12(18) pp.3545-3552 2023
P. Golvari, K. Alkameh, A. Rahmani, T. Jurca and S. M. Kuebler "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
Alumni
PhD
Chun Xia, PhD, Summer 2022
Rashi Sharma, PhD, Fall 2018
Chris Grabill, PhD, Spring 2018
Jennefir Digaum, PhD, Spring 2016
Henry Williams, PhD, Fall 2013
Toufic Jabbour, PhD, Fall 2009
MS
Geng Yang, MS, Fall 2019
Marco Melino, MS, Spring 2010
Yun-Sheng Chen, MS, Spring 2008
Amir Tal, MS, Summer 2007
Yigit Yilmaz, MS, Spring 2006