Laurent Pilon, Ph.D.
(Purdue University, 2002)

pilon@seas.ucla.edu
37-132, Eng IV
(310) 206-5598

Link(s):

Laurent Pilon's Research Group

Areas of Interest:

Radiation transfer, biomedical optics, Interfacial and transport phenomena, materials synthesis.

Selected Recent Publications:

S. Larmignat, D. Vanderpool, H. Lai, and L. Pilon, 2008. Rheology of Colloidal Gas Aphrons (Microfoams). Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, Vol. 322, no.1-3, pp. 199-210.

A. Navid and L. Pilon, 2008. Effect of Polarization and Morphology on the Optical Properties of Absorbing Nanoporous Thin Films, Thin Solid Films, Vol. 516 (12), pp.4159-4167.

J. Blackwell, K. M. Katika, L. Pilon, K. Dipple, A. Nouvong, S. Levin, and H. Berberoglu, 2008. In-vivo Time-Resolved Autofluorescence Measurements on Human Skin, Journal of Biomedical Optics, Vol. 13, no.1, 014004.

H. Berberoglu, J. Jay and L. Pilon, 2008. Effect of Nutrient Medium on Hydrogen Production of A. variabilis in a Flat Panel Photobioreactor. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Vol. 3, pp.1172- 1184.

H. Berberoglu, N. Barra, L. Pilon, and J. Jay, 2008. Growth, CO2 Consumption, and H2 Production of Anabaena Variabilis Under Various Light Fluxes and CO2 Concentrations, Journal of Applied Microbiology, Vol.104, pp.105-121.

H. Berberoglu and L. Pilon, 2007. Experimental Measurements of the Radiation Characteristics of Anabaena variabilis ATCC 29413-U and Rhodobacter sphaeroides ATCC 49419, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Vol. 32, pp.4772-4785.

R. Kitamura, L. Pilon, and M. Jonasz, 2007. Optical Constants of Fused Quartz From Extreme Ultraviolet to Far Infrared at Near Room Temperatures. Applied Optics, Vol. 46, No. 33, pp. 8118-8133.

H. Berberoglu, J. Yin, and L. Pilon, 2007. Simulating Light Transfer in a Bubble Sparged Photobioreactor, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Vol. 32, no.13, pp. 2273 ­ 2285.

K. M. Katika and L. Pilon, 2007. Feasibility Analysis of an Epidermal Glucose Sensor Based on Time-Resolved Fluorescence, Applied Optics, Vol. 46, No.16, pp. 3359-3368. Selected to appear in The Virtual Journal for Biomedical Optics, Vol. 2, Issue 8, 2007.

K. D. Smith, K. M. Katika and L. Pilon, 2007. Maximum Time-Resolved Hemispherical Reflectance for Estimating the Scattering and Absorption Coefficients of Turbid Media, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiation Transfer, Vol. 104, No.3, pp.384-399.

A. Garahan, L. Pilon, J. Yin, and I. Saxena, 2007. Effective Optical Properties of Absorbing Nanoporous and Nanocomposite Thin Films. Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 101, 014320.