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Dr. Baldassare Di Bartolo

Professor of Physics

617-552-3601
Higgins Hall 330D
dibartob@bc.edu
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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 and 2002 as a Visiting Scientist at the Femtosecond Spectroscopy Laboratory of the Division of Applied Sciences of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Since September 1973, Dr. Di Bartolo has been a 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

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.

Professional Experience at Boston College

Years at Boston College: 38
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".
23 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.

Recent Books

Advances in Energy Transfer Processes, B. Di Bartolo and X. Chen editors and contributors, World Scientific, New Jersey, London, Singapore, Hong Kong, 2001.
Luminescence and Luminescent Materials, 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 held April 17 - 19- 2001, San Francisco, California).
Spectroscopy of Systems with Spatially Confined Structures, B. Di Bartolo editor and contributor, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Boston, London, 2002.
Classical Theory of Electromagnetism, 2nd Edition, World Scientific, New Jersey, London, Singapore, Hong Kong, 2004.
Frontiers of Optical Spectroscopy, B. Di Bartolo and O. Forte editors, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Boston, London, 2005.
Advances in Spectroscopy for Lasers and Sensing, B. Di Bartolo and O.Forte editors, Springer 2006.

Recent Articles

X. Chen, T. Nguyen, Q. Luu, and B. Di Bartolo, "Green and Red Luminescence of YSGG: Er under Upconversion and Regular Excitation at Different Erbium Concentrations," J. of Luminescence, 83-84, 471-475 (1999).
G. Özen and B. Di Bartolo "Thermal Dependence of the Cr-to-Nd Energy Transfer in Lanthanum Lutetium Gallium Garnet," Applied Spectroscopy 53, 191 (1999).
X. Chen, B. Di Bartolo, B. M. Walsh N. P. Barnes, G de la Paliza, and K. Harling, "Temperature Effects on Luminescence Spectra of Nd3+-Doped YGG and SFAP," Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Laser, Scintillator and Nonlinear Optical Materials, Photonic Materials in the 21st Century ( Lyon, May 28-31, 2000).
X. Chen, T. Nguyen, Q. Luu, and B. Di Bartolo, "Concentration Dependence of Visible Upconversion Luminescence in the Laser Crystal Gd3Ga5O12 Doped with Erbium," in A festschrift to honor Professor Michael D. Sturge on the Occasion of His Retirement - J. of Luminescence, 85, 295 (2000).
B.M. Walsh, N.P. Barnes, B. Di Bartolo, "The Temperature Dependence of Energy Transfer between the Tm 3F4 and Ho 5I7 Manifolds of Tm Sensitized Ho Luminescence in YAG and YLF," J. of Luminescence, 90, 39- 48 (2000).
G. Özen and B. Di Bartolo "Energy Transfer and Thermalization in LiYF4: Tm, Ho," Applied Physics B 70, 189 (2000).
C Yang and B. Di Bartolo "Abnormal Spectral Behavior of Trivalent Neodymium Ions in Potassium Yttrium Fluoride Crystals," in Luminescence and Luminescent Materials, Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings Volume 560, Warrendale, Pennsylvania, 1999 (Symposium held April 17 - 19- 2001, San Francisco, California).
B. Di Bartolo and X.Chen, "Temperature Effects on the Spectral Characteristics of Laser Solids," in Proceedings of Phoenix Meeting of the Electrochemical Society, The Electrochemical Society, Inc. Pennington NJ. (2001).
B. E. Bowlby and B. Di Bartolo, "Applications of the Judd-Ofelt Theory to the Praseodymium Ion in Laser Solids," special issue dedicated to the memory of Professor Shigeo Shionoya, J. of Luminescence 100, 131 (2002).
B. E. Bowlby and B. Di Bartolo, "Spectroscopy of Trivalent Praseodymium in Barium Yttrium Fluoride," in a special volume dedicated to Professor Christian Jorgensen, Springer-Verlag, 2004
X. Chen, B. Di Bartolo, N. Barnes and B. Walsh, “Thermal Tuning and Broadening of the Spectral lLnes of Trivalent Neodymium in Laser Crystals,” Physica Status Solidi(b)Vol. 241, No.8, pp.1957-1976, 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. Vol 782, A5. 57. 1 (2004)
G. Ozen, 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 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 2004 MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, 2004.
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,” G. Özen, O. Forte, B. Di Bartolo and J. M. Collins, Proceedings 2004 MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, 2004.
G. Ozen, O. Forte and B. Di Bartolo, “Upconversion dynamics in Pr-doped YAlO3 and Y3Al5O12 laser crystals,” Optical Materials 27,1664 (2005)
G. Ozen, O. Forte and B. Di Bartolo, “Downconversion and upconversion in Pr-doped Y3Al5O12 crystals,” J. Appl. Physics 97, 013519 (2005)
B. Di Bartolo, G Özen, J Collins, and O. Forte, « Up-conversion at different sites in Pr-doped Y3Al5O12,” to appear in the J. of Luminescence (2006).
J. M. Collins, B. Di Bartolo and G. Ozen, “Vibronic Studies of Optical Centers in YAG,” Proceedings of the 208th Meeting of the Electrochemical Society, Los Angeles, October 16-21, 2005.
G. Ozen, O. Forte, B. Di Bartolo and J. Collins, “Dynamics of the Excitation and Up-convesrson Processes in doped YAlO3:Pr Single Crystals,” to appear in Special Issue of Journal of Luminescence dedicated to Prof. Kaplianskii in the occasion of his retirement (2006).
B. Di Bartolo, G Özen, J Collins, and O. Forte, ”Up-conversion at different sites in Pr-doped Y3Al5O12,” to appear in the J. of Luminescence (2006).
G. Ozen, 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. Proc. Vol. 848.
G, Ozen, 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. Proc. Vol. 851.
B. Di Bartolo, “Luminescence Spectroscopy of Solids: Delocalized Systems,” in Advances in Spectroscopy for Lasers and Sensing, Springer 2006, p.207.
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 and J. M. Collins, “Luminescence Spectroscopy of Solids,” a chapter in Handbook on Applied Solid State Spectroscopy, edited by D.R. Vij, Springer, 2006.

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