Department of Chemistry 130 Beury Hall Temple University 1901 N. 13 th Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122 OLEKSANDR ISAIENKO Phone: 215-204-2368 (office) 215-204-9704 (lab) e-mail: isaienko@temple.edu Academic Appointments Graduate Student, Chemistry Department, Temple University Academic advisor: Professor Eric Borguet 2005-present Research Interests Chemistry and physics of processes at surfaces Development of ultra-broadband laser sources in the infrared optical region Non-linear optical phenomena at interfaces Coherent spectroscopy Education Ph.D. Candidate, Chemistry Department, Temple University Ultra-broadband Ultrafast Nonlinear Infrared Spectroscopy of Interfaces Advisor: Professor Eric Borguet Tentative graduation date: May 2011 2005-present M.A., College of Science and Technology, Temple University 2009 M.Sc., Chemistry Department, Taras Shevchenko University of Kiev, Kiev, Ukraine 2005 Modelling and Measurement of the Sensitive Layer Temperature of Semiconductor Gas Sensors Advisors: Dr. Nelli Maksymovych and Prof. Vitaly Yatsimirsky B.Sc., Chemistry Department, Taras Shevchenko University of Kiev, Kiev, Ukraine 2004 Professional appointments Research Assistant Development of a Broadband, Ultrashort IR Source for Surface Nonlinear Optics Chemistry Department, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA 2006-present Visiting Student October December 2009 Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Bonn, Germany Development of a High Repetition Rate Broadband, Ultrashort IR Source Advisor: Professor Peter Vöhringer Teaching Assistant Fall 2005 - Spring 2006 Chemistry Department, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA Fall 2005: 1. Physical Chemistry Lecture I (Chemistry 0231; currently listed as 3301): Thermodynamics, phase equilibria, chemical equilibria, kinetic theory of gases, chemical kinetics, and equilibrium electrochemistry (Primary instructor: Dr. Nicholas Coppa) 04/11/11 1
2. Physical Chemistry Lecture II (Chemistry 0232; currently listed as 3302): Quantum mechanics, quantum chemistry and spectroscopy (Primary instructor: Prof. Eric Borguet) Spring 2006: Physical Chemistry Lecture II (Chemistry 0232; currently listed as 3302): Quantum mechanics, quantum chemistry and spectroscopy (Primary instructor: Prof. Daniel Strongin) Chemistry teacher, 2001-2005 High-School Chemistry Olympiad instructor Ukrainian Physical and Mathematical Lyceum of the National Taras Shevchenko University of Kiev, Kiev, Ukraine Scholarship: Award from German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD; award # A/08/79504) to carry out research at the University of Bonn, Germany (Fall 2009) Awards at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA: Daniel Swern Award for Excellence in Research, Chemistry Department, Temple University (July 2010) Outstanding Graduate Research Award from the College of Science and Technology, Temple University (October 2008) Ultrafast Phenomena 2008 Graduate Student Travel Award sponsored by Coherent, Inc (June 2008) CLEO 2008 Graduate Conference Travel Award from the College of Science and Technology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA (May 2008) Graduate Conference Travel Award from the College of Science and Technology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA (May 2007) Honors and Awards at Taras Shevchenko University of Kiev, Ukraine: Theodore Ovcharenko award for excellent study at the Chemistry Department, Taras Shevchenko University of Kiev (2004, Kiev, Ukraine) 1 st place award for presentation Determination of Temperature of a SnO 2 Gas Sensor in Air- Flow Mode at the 5 th Ukrainian Meeting of Students Modern Problems of Chemistry (May 20-21, 2004, Kiev, Ukraine) 1 st place award for presentation Sensitivity of Pt- and Pd-doped SnO 2 Gas Sensors towards Methane and Ethane at the 4 th Ukrainian Meeting of Students Modern Problems of Chemistry (May 22-23, 2003, Kiev, Ukraine) 04/11/11 2
2 nd place award for presentation Sensitive Layer Temperature of a Tin-Dioxide Gas Sensor at the 3 rd Ukrainian Meeting of Students Modern Problems of Chemistry (May 16-17, 2002, Kiev, Ukraine) Awards for teaching at the Ukrainian Physical and Mathematical Lyceum (Kiev, Ukraine): Diploma of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (October 2002) for training the silver medallist of the 34 th International Chemistry Olympiad in Groningen, The Netherlands, July 5 14, 2002 Medal of the President of Ukraine For Labour and Prowess (October 2003) for training the silver and bronze medallists of the 35 th International Chemistry Olympiad in Athens, Greece, July 5-14, 2003 Refereed Papers: 1. High repetition rate near-ir non-collinear ultrabroadband optical parametric amplification in KTiOPO 4, Oleksandr Isaienko, Eric Borguet and Peter Vöhringer, Optics Letters 35(22), 3832-3834 (2010) 2. Ultra-broadband infrared pulses from a potassium-titanyl phosphate optical parametric amplifier for Vis-IR-SFG spectroscopy Isaienko O. and Borguet E., in Ultrafast Phenomena XVI, Springer Series in Chemical Physics, 2009, 92 (Part 9), pp. 777-779, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-95946-5_252 3. Pulse-front matching of ultrabroadband near-infrared non-collinear optical parametric amplified pulses, O. Isaienko and E. Borguet, Journal of the Optical Society of America B 26(5), 965-972 (2009) 4. Generation of ultra-broadband pulses in the near-ir by non-collinear optical parametric amplification in potassium titanyl phosphate, O. Isaienko and E. Borguet, Optics Express 16 (6), 3949-3954 (2008) 5. Determination of the Sensitive Layer Temperature of the Adsorption-Semiconductor Gas Sensor, O. Isaienko, N. Maksymovych and V. Yatsimirsky; Sensors and Actuators B Chemical, 108 134-142 (2005) Patent application: Methods and Devices for Generation of Broadband Pulsed Radiation, Eric Borguet and Oleksandr Isaienko; International Application No.: PCT/US2009/035434; US Patent Application 20100321767 (publication date 12/23/2010) 04/11/11 3
Invited talk: OLEKSANDR ISAIENKO Development of Novel Ultra-Broadband IR Laser Sources December 2009 Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF), Amsterdam, The Netherlands Conference presentations: 1. Poster Ultra-broadband sum-frequency generation spectroscopy of silica water interfaces, Oleksandr Isaienko and Eric Borguet; 2010 Gordon Research Conference on Vibrational Spectroscopy, August 1-6, 2010, University of New England, Biddeford, Maine, USA 2. Poster Non-Collinear Optical Parametric Amplification of Near-IR pulses in KTiOPO 4 at a High Repetition Rate, Oleksandr Isaienko, Eric Borguet and Peter Vöhringer; 17 th International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena (UP), July 18-23, 2010, Snowmass Village, Colorado, USA 3. Talk Near-Infrared Pulse-Front Matched Non-collinear Optical Parametric Amplification in Bulk KTP, Oleksandr Isaienko and Eric Borguet, 2009 Conference on Lasers and Electro- Optics (CLEO-2009), May 31 June 5, 2009, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 4. Talk Ultra-Broadband Near-IR Non-collinear Optical Parametric Amplification in Potassium Niobate and Lithium Niobate, Oleksandr Isaienko and Eric Borguet, 2009 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO-2009), May 31 June 5, 2009, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 5. Talk Ultra-Broadband Vibrational Sum-Frequency Spectroscopy of Hydroxyl Overtones at Mineral/Aqueous Interfaces, Oleksandr Isaienko and Eric Borguet, 237th ACS National Meeting, March 22-26, 2009, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA 6. Poster Ultra-Broadband Infrared Pulses from a Potassium-Titanyl Phosphate Optical Parametric Amplifier for VIS-IR-SFG Spectroscopy, Oleksandr Isaienko and Eric Borguet, XVI International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena (UP 2008), June 9-13, 2008, Stresa (Lago Maggiore), Italy 7. Talk Near-Infrared Non-Collinear Optical Parametric Amplification in Bulk Potassium- Titanyl Phosphate with >2500 cm -1 Bandwidth, Oleksandr Isaienko and Eric Borguet, 2008 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO-2008), May 4-9, 2008, San Jose, California, USA 8. Poster Production of Infrared Pulses for Ultra-broadband Sum-Frequency Generation Spectroscopy of Interfaces, O. Isaienko, S. Nihonyanagi, E. Borguet; 8 th Annual Graduate Student Poster Session, The Philadelphia Section of the American Chemical Society; January 24, 2008, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 9. Talk Broadband Optical Parametric Amplifiers: Tool for Ultrafast Non-Linear Optical Studies, O. Isaienko, E. Borguet; 2 nd Annual Chautauqua on Nonlinear Optics, May 28-31, 2007, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA 04/11/11 4
10. Poster Determination of the Sensitive Layer Temperature of the Adsorption-Semiconductor Gas Sensor, O. Isaienko, N. Maksymovych, V. Yatsimirsky; 10 th International Meeting on Chemical Sensors, July 11-14, 2004, Tsukuba, Japan 11. Talk Application of Finite Difference Method Towards Determination of the Sensor Temperature in the Working Mode, O. Isaienko; 5 th Ukrainian Meeting of Students Modern Problems of Science, May 20-21, 2004, Kiev 12. Talk Influence of the Pd- and Pt-dopants on the Sensitivity of the Semiconductor Sensors to Hydrocarbons, O. Isaienko, O. Telegeeva; 4 th Ukrainian Meeting of Students Modern Problems of Science, May 22-23, 2003, Kiev 13. Talk Measurements of the Adsorption-Semiconductor Sensor Temperature, O. Isaienko, N. Maksymovich, V. Yatsimirsky; 3 rd Ukrainian Meeting of Students Modern Problems of Science, May 16-17, 2002, Kiev Papers in Conference Digests and Proceedings: 1. "Near-Infrared Pulse-Front Matched Non-Collinear Optical Parametric Amplification in Bulk KTP" O. Isaienko and E. Borguet, in Conference on Lasers and Electro- Optics/International Quantum Electronics Conference, OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optical Society of America, 2009), paper CFC3. 2. "Ultra-Broadband near-ir Non-Collinear Optical Parametric Amplification in Potassium Niobate and Lithium Niobate" O. Isaienko and E. Borguet, in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/International Quantum Electronics Conference, OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optical Society of America, 2009), paper CFC7. 3. Near-Infrared Non-Collinear Optical Parametric Amplification in Bulk Potassium-Titanyl Phosphate with >2500 cm -1 Bandwidth, Oleksandr Isaienko and Eric Borguet, Proceedings of the 2008 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (May 4-9, 2008, San Jose, California, USA), paper CTuEE3 4. Determination of the Sensitive Layer Temperature of the Adsorption-Semiconductor Gas Sensor, O. Isaienko, N. Maksymovych, V. Yatsimirsky, Technical Digest of the 10 th International Meeting on Chemical Sensors (2004, Tsukuba, Japan), 418-419 5. Contributions in the Proceedings of 3 rd (May 2002), 4 th (May 2003) and 5 th (May 2004) Ukrainian Meetings of Students Modern Problems of Science, Kiev (in Ukrainian) 04/11/11 5