Dr. Baldassare Di Bartolo | Boston College Physics

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Dr. Baldassare Di Bartolo

Professor of Physics

617-552-3601
Higgins Hall 330D
dibartob@bc.edu
Prof. Di Bartolo's Lab Website

Education

Dott. Ing., Doctor degree in Industrial Engineering, University of Palermo, Italy
Diploma of Specialization in Telecommunications received from the "Istituto Superiore delle Telecomunicazioni" (Viale Trastevere, Rome, Italy)
Diploma of Specialization in Radar Technique received from the "Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche" (Piazzale delle Scienze, Rome, Italy)
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Areas of Research
Solid State Spectroscopy, Flash Photolysis and Molecular Spectroscopy, Photoacoustics, Femtospectroscopy.

Biography
Baldassare Di Bartolo is a Professor of Physics at Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, which he joined in September 1968. He received his first degree, Dottore Ingegnere, in Industrial Engineering, at the University of Palermo, Italy, from where he has graduated in 1950. After a year of post-graduate studies at the Istituto Superiore delle Telecomunicazioni in Rome, he was granted a Diploma of Specialization in Telecommunications. Another Diploma of Specialization in Radar Technique followed in 1953, was granted by the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche in Rome, after an additional year of post-graduate studies. From 1953 to 1956 he worked with the Microlambda Company in Naples as a design engineer in the field of microwave components and taught courses on Information Theory at the Istituto Universitario Navale in Naples.

In 1956 he received a Fulbright grant and a scholarship from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he worked as a member of the "Foreign Student Summer Project"; he returned to MIT in 1957 as a visiting fellow at the Department of Physics. In 1958 he became a staff member of the Laboratory for Insulation Research of MIT and from 1960 to 1963, while still with this laboratory, he was a graduate student in Physics. He received a Ph.D. in Physics from MIT in 1964. From 1964 to 1968, Dr. Di Bartolo directed the Spectroscopy Laboratory of MITHRAS, a division of Sanders Associates, Inc. in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Prof. Di Bartolo has spent his sabbatical year 1975-76 as a Visiting Professor of Physics in the Laboratoire de Spectroscopie et Luminescence, Université Claude Bernard, Lyon (France), his sabbatical year 1983-84 as a Visiting Professor at the Department of Chemistry of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Summer of 1988 as a fellow of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration - American Society for Engineering Education Program at the NASA - Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, and his sabbatical years 1994, 2002 and 2009 as a Visiting Scientist at the Femtosecond Spectroscopy Laboratory of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Since September 1973, Dr. Di Bartolo has been Director of the International School of Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy of the "Ettore Majorana" International Center for Scientific Culture; in this capacity he has directed the following "summer" schools:

1974 – Optical Properties of Ions in Solids
1975 – The Spectroscopy of the Excited State
1977 – Luminescence of Inorganic Solids
1979 – Radiationless Processes
1981 – Collective Excitations in Solids
1983 – Energy Transfer Processes in Condensed Matter
1985 – Spectroscopy of Solid-State Laser-Type Materials
1987 – Disordered Solids: Structures and Processes
1989 – Advances in Nonradiative Processes
1991 – Optical Properties of Excited States in Solids
1993 – Nonlinear Spectroscopy of Solids: Advances and Applications
1995 – Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Collective Excitations in Solids
1996 – Workshop on Luminescence Spectroscopy
1997 – Ultrafast Dynamics of Quantum Systems: Physical Processes and Spectroscopic Techniques
1998 – Workshop on Advances in Solid State Luminescence Spectroscopy
1999 – Advances in Energy Transfer Processes
2000 – Workshop on Advanced Topics in Luminescence Spectroscopy
2001 – Spectroscopy of Systems with Spatially Confined Structure
2002 – Workshop on the Status and Prospects of Luminescence Research
2003 – Frontiers of Optical Spectroscopy
2004 – Workshop on Advances in Luminescence Research
2005 – New Developments in Optics and Related Fields
2006 – Workshop on Advances in the Study of Luminescent Materials
2007 – Frontier Developments in Optics and Spectroscopy
2008 – Workshop on Advances in Luminescence Spectroscopy
2009 – Bio-Photonics: Spectroscopy, Imaging, Sensing, and Manipulation.

Professional Experience at Boston College

Years at Boston College: 40
Courses taught to nonscience majors, science majors, undergraduates and graduate students.
Several new courses introduced at undergraduate and graduate levels: for several years, a new graduate course on a different topic.
Number of Ph. D. theses directed: 27; M.S. theses: 3; B.S. theses: 1.
Number of books written: 6; number of books edited: 18; number of articles in scientific journals: 112; number of presentations in scientific meetings: 95.
Director of the "International School of Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy" of the International Center for Scientific Culture "Ettore Majorana".
25 Summer Schools in Spectroscopy-related subjects already directed in Italy, with such sponsors as NATO, NASA, and National Science Foundation.
Contract with NASA, including graduate student support.
Collaboration with Lincoln Laboratory, NASA, University of Paris, University of Lyon, Harvard University.
University of Palermo, Wheaton College, "Centro de Investigaciones en Optica" of Mexico, Istanbul Technical University, Ege University of Turkey, etc.

Books

AUTHORED BOOKS

Optical Interactions in Solids, by B. Di Bartolo, 2nd Edition, revised, World Scientific, New Jersey, London, Singapore, Hong Kong (2009), to appear.
Classical Theory of Electromagnetism, by B. Di Bartolo, 2nd Edition, World Scientific, New Jersey, London, Singapore, Hong Kong (2004).
L’Anarchico ed Altre Novelle di Sicilia, by B. Di Bartolo, Il Valico Edizioni, Firenze, Italy (2000).
Note di Vita Militare, by B. Di Bartolo, (Notes of Military Life), Coppola Publisher, Trapani (Italy) (1993).
Classical Theory of Electromagnetism, by B. Di Bartolo, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J. (1991).
Phonons and Resonances in Solids, by B. Di Bartolo and R.C. Powell, John Wiley and Sons, New York (1976).
Optical Interactions in Solids, by B. Di Bartolo, John Wiley and Sons, Publishers, New York (1968).

EDITED BOOKS

Frontiers Developments in Optics and Spectroscopy, by B. Di Bartolo and O.Forte, editors. Book is available for free on this site and shortly on Google. September 2007. [Book Download: 12.7 MB (.pdf) zip]
Advances in Energy Transfer Processes, by B. Di Bartolo and X. Chen, editors. World Scientific, New Jersey, London, Singapore, Hong Kong (2001).
Luminescence and Luminescent Materials, by P. C. Schmidt, K. Mishra, J. McKittrick, B. Di Bartolo and A. M. Srivastava, editors. Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, Volume 560, Warrendale, Pennsylvania (2001) (Symposium was held in April 17 - 19, 2001, at San Francisco, California).
Luminescent Materials, by J. McKittrick, B. Di Bartolo and K. Mishra, editors. Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings, Volume 560, Warrendale, Pennsylvania (1999). (Symposium was held in April 5-8, 1999, at San Francisco, California).
Disordered Solids: Structures and Processes, by B. Di Bartolo, editor, published by Plenum Press, New York (1989).
Physics and Chemistry of Luminescent Materials, (7th International Symposium), by C. W. Struck, K. C. Mishra, and B. Di Bartolo, editors. Boston (MA) Meeting of the Electrochemical Society Proceedings, Fall 1998.
Luminescence Science and Technology, by C.W. Struck, B. Di Bartolo, and W.M. Yen, editors. Chicago Meeting of the Electrochemical Society Proceedings, October 1988, published by The Electrochemical Society, Inc., Pennington, N.J.
Spectroscopy of Solid-State Laser-Type Materials, by B. Di Bartolo, editor, published by Plenum Press, New York (1987).
Luminescence of Inorganic Solids, by B. Di Bartolo, editor, published by Plenum Press, New York (1978).

NATO SERIES ON SPECTROSCOPY

Advances in Spectroscopy for Lasers and Sensing, by B. Di Bartolo and O.Forte, editors; Springer (2006).
Frontiers of Optical Spectroscopy, by B. Di Bartolo and O. Forte, editors; published in the NATO Science Series, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Boston, London (2005).
Spectroscopy of Systems with Spatially Confined Structures, by B. Di Bartolo, editor; published in the NATO Science Series, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Boston, London (2002).
Ultrafast Dynamics of Quantum Systems: Physical Processes and Spectroscopic Techniques, by B. Di Bartolo, editor, published in the NATO Advanced Studies Series, Plenum Press, New York (1998).
Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Collective Excitations in Solids, by B. Di Bartolo, editor, published in the NATO Advanced Studies Series, Plenum Press, New York (1996).
Nonlinear Spectroscopy of Solids: Advances and Applications, by B. Di Bartolo, editor, published in the NATO Advanced Studies Series, Plenum Press, New York (1994).
Optical Properties of Excited States in Solids, by B. Di Bartolo, editor, published in the NATO Advanced Studies Series, Plenum Press, New York (1992).
Advances in Nonradiative Processes in Solids, by B. Di Bartolo, editor, published in the NATO Advanced Study Institute Series, Plenum Press, New York (1990).
Energy Transfer Processes in Condensed Matter, by B. Di Bartolo, editor, published in the NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series, Plenum Press, New York (1984).
Collective Excitations in Solids, by B. Di Bartolo, editor, published in the NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series, Plenum Press, New York (1983).
Radiationless Processes, by B. Di Bartolo, editor, published in the NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series, by Plenum Press, New York (1980).
The Spectroscopy of the Excited State, by B. Di Bartolo, editor, published in the NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series, by Plenum Press, New York (1976).
Optical Properties of Ions in Solids, by B. Di Bartolo, editor, published in the NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series, by Plenum Press, New York (1975).

Selected Publications

B. Di Bartolo, J. Collins, and H. Orucu, “Vibrationally-Assisted Transitions and Phonon Spectra in Crystalline Solids,” to appear in J. Lumin.
H. Orucu, G. Özen, J. Collins, and B. Di Bartolo, “Temperature Dependence of the Luminescence Spectra of Garnet Crystals Doped with Chromium Ions,” Opt. Mater., in press.
G. Özen, O. Forte, B. Di Bartolo, and J. M. Collins, “Dynamics of the Excitation and Upconversion Processes in YAlO3: Pr Single Crystals,” submitted for publication.
G. Özen, O. Forte and B. Di Bartolo, “Downconvesrion and Upconversion Dynamics in Pr-Doped Y3Al5O12 Crystals,” to appear in J. Appl. Phys.
G. Özen, O. Forte and B. Di Bartolo, “Upconversion Dynamics in Pr-Doped YAlO3 and Y3Al5O12 Laser Crystals,” to appear in Opt. Mater.
J. Collins, S. Shimizu, J. Tao, J. Grassetti, J. McKittrick, J.B. Talbot, M. Tauber, K. Mishra, D. Hamby, and B. Di Bartolo, “Structural and Optical Properties of ZnO-based Alloys,” ECS Trans. (2008).
B. Di Bartolo, G Özen, J. Collins, and O. Forte, "Up-Conversion at Different Sites in Pr-doped Y3Al5O12," to appear in J. Lumin.
“Wde-Band Luminescent Emitters,” in Frontier Developments in Optics and Spectroscopy, edited by B. Di Bartolo, and O. Forte, available on-line at http://www.physics.bc.edu/spectroscopy .
G. Özen, J. M. Collins, O. Forte, and B. Di Bartolo, “Up-Conversion as a Discriminating Tool in the Site-Selective Spectroscopy of the Praseodymium Ion in Yttrium Aluminum Garnet,” J. Appl. Phys. 102, 1 (2007).
B. Di Bartolo, G. Özen, J. Collins, and O. Forte, "Up-Conversion at Different Sites in Pr-doped Y3Al5O12," J. Lumin. 122-123, 447 (2007).
G. Özen, O. Forte, B. Di Bartolo, and J. Collins, “Dynamics of the Excitation and Up-Conversion Processes in Doped YAlO3:Pr Single Crystals,” Special Issue of J. Lumin., dedicated to Prof. A. A. Kaplianskii on the occasion of his retirement, 125, 223 (2007).
B. Di Bartolo, and J. M. Collins, “Luminescence Spectroscopy of Solids.” A chapter in Handbook on Applied Solid State Spectroscopy, edited by D.R. Vij, Springer (2006).
J. M. Collins, B. Di Bartolo, and J. Tolson, “Spectroscopy and Kinetic Studies of Pr-Doped Yttrium Silicate,” Proceedings of the 210th Meeting of the Electrochemical Society, Cancun, Mexico, October 29- November 3 (2006).
B. Di Bartolo, “Luminescence Spectroscopy of Solids: Delocalized Systems,” in Advances in Spectroscopy for Lasers and Sensing, Springer, p.207 (2006).
G. Özen, J. M. Collins, O. Forte, M. Meylman, R. Yu. Abdulsabirov, and B. Di Bartolo, “Luminescence and Up-Conversion Dynamics of Praseodymium in LiLuF4 Laser Crystals,” Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proceedings, Vol. 851.
G. Özen, I. Kabalci, J. M. Collins, X. Chen, O. Forte, and B. Di Bartolo, “Effect of the Glass Composition on the Spontaneous Emission Probability of Tm³⁺ in TeO2-ZnO Glass,” Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proceedings, Vol. 848.
J. M. Collins, B. Di Bartolo, and G. Özen, “Vibronic Studies of Optical Centers in YAG,” Proceedings of the 208th Meeting of the Electrochemical Society, Los Angeles, October 16-21 (2005).
G. Özen, O. Forte and B. Di Bartolo, “Downconversion and Upconversion in Pr-doped Y3Al5O12 Crystals,” J. Appl. Phys. 97, 013519 (2005).
G. Özen, O. Forte and B. Di Bartolo, “Upconversion Dynamics in Pr-doped YAlO3 and Y3Al5O12 Laser Crystals,” Opt. Mater. 27,1664 (2005).
X. Chen, K. Li, Y. Wang, K. Zou, H. Jiang, G. Ozen, and B. Di Bartolo, “Optical and Upconversion Studies on New Electro-Optic Ceramic Laser Materials,” Proceedings of 2004 MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA (2004).
G. Özen, O. Forte, B. Di Bartolo, and J. M. Collins. Proceedings of 2004 MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA (2004).
G. Özen, J. M. Collins, O. Forte, R. Yu. Abdulsabirov, and B. Di Bartolo, “Effect of Temperature on the Luminescence and Upconversion Dynamics of Praseodymium in LiLuF4 Laser Crystals,” Proceedings of 2004 MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA (2004).
G. Özen, I. Kabalchi, J. M. Collins, X. Chen, O. Forte, and B. Di Bartolo, “Effect of The Local Structure on The Spontaneous and Stimulated Emission Probabilities of Tm³⁺ in TeO2-ZnO Glass," Proceedings of 2004 MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA (2004).
X. Chen, K. Li, K. Zhou, R. Zhang, H. Jiang, G. Ozen, and B. Di Bartolo, “Novel Electro-Optic Ceramic Materials for Microchip and High Power Lasers,” in Micro and Nano Systems, Mat. Res. Soc. 782, A5. 57. 1 (2004).
X. Chen, B. Di Bartolo, N. Barnes, and B. Walsh, “Thermal Tuning and Broadening of the Spectral Lines of Trivalent Neodymium in Laser Crystals,” Phys. Status Solidi B 241(8), 1957 (2004).
B. E. Bowlby, and B. Di Bartolo, “Spectroscopy of Trivalent Praseodymium in Barium Yttrium Fluoride,” in Optical Spectra and Chemical Bonding in Inorganic Compounds, a special volume dedicated to Professor Christian Jorgensen, ed. T. Schönherr, Springer-Verlag, Structure and Bonding 106, 193 (2004).

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