Orlando Auciello

Principal Investigator

Materials Science Divsion; Bldg. 212
Argonne National Laboratory
9700 S. Cass Ave.
Argonne IL 60439

phone: 630-252-1685
fax: 630-252-4289
email: auciello@anl.gov

Orlando Auciello is a Senior Scientist in the Division of Materials Science at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), and an Adjunct Professor at North Carolina State University (NCSU), the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, and the University of Illinois-Chicago. He earned his MS and PhD degrees in Physics from the Institute "Dr. Balseiro" (National University of Cuyo and Atomic Energy Commission, Argentina) with a thesis on basic physics of ion interaction with solids. After graduation, he held various academic and industrial positions in Canada and the USA before coming to Argonne. Auciello has contributed extensively to the science and technology of plasma, ion beam and laser interaction with solids, multicomponent oxide thin films (high temperature superconductors, ferroelectrics, and electro-optics materials), wide bandgap thin films (GaN, AlN), and nanocrystalline diamond films and carbon nanotubes, and low work function coatings for field emission devices. On the field of complex oxide thin films, he helped develop material integration strategies that are currently being introduced into non-volatile memories and other ferroelectric film-based devices. On the field of nanocarbons, he is developing a new generation of MEMS/NEMS, biomedical and biosensor devices based on ultrananocrystalline diamond (UNCD) films (developed and patented at Argonne). He has contributed extensively to, and is currently working on the development and/or application of a variety of in situ characterization techniques to study film growth and device-related processes, including time-of-flight ion scattering and recoil spectroscopy, spectroscopic ellipsometry, synchrotron x-ray scattering, and atomic force microscopy and transmission electron microscopy for imaging ferroelectric domains. Auciello is a member of several scientific societies, an author or co-author in about 450 publications, and a co-author in six patents on different subjects, from electrodes for non-volatile ferroelectric memories (NVFRAMs) to field emission cathodes for flat panel displays and other devices. He is an editor of nine books on the science and technology of ion, plasma, and laser interaction with solids and the science and technology of thin films. He is co-editor of the book series Multifunctional Thin Films published by Springer. He has been a guest scientist in several institutions worldwide. He is the recipient of the 2003 Hispanic Engineering Award, for outstanding technical accomplishments in the general field of science and technology of thin films, and a co-recipient of an R&D 100 Award for the UNCD/IPLAS technology as one of the 100 most innovative ideas of the year.