Name:  Dr. Francisco Villa Villa
Position: Investigador Titular B
SNI Level: II
Email: fvilla@cio.mx
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Citations:  233

 

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Personal information:

Villa Villa Francisco, Ph. D. in Optics

1. Education

B. Sc.: Escuela de Ciencias Físico-Matemáticas, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo (1988). “Determination of Emission Polynomy of Vapor sources at high vacuum.”                  

M. Sc.:   Optics,  Centro de Investigaciones en Optica (1990). “Design of optical coatings by numerical methods of synthesis and optimization.”                      
            
Ph. D.: Optics, Instituto de Física de la UNAM, Lab. Ensenada, (May 1995). “Inhomogeneous thin films: absorption and interference filters.”

2. FIELD OF RESEARCH: Optics

- Optical coatings and its application as interference filters.

- Numerical modeling of photonic crystals 1, 2 and 3D, surface modes and  resonators.

3. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

3.1 Centro de Investigaciones en Optica:

- Associated Technician C  1991-1995. Design and manufacturing of optical coatings for the visible region of spectrum.

- Associated Researcher C 1995-2000. Research on design and manufacturing of optical coatings.

- Titular Researcher A  2000-2006. Research on surface modes on photonic crystals.

- Titular Researcher B  2006 up to date

3.2 Other institutions: technological and engineering

  • Development of a laboratory and production process for the production of antireflection thin films on CR39 and  Polycarbonate spectacles  for the company AUGEN, one of the main manufacturers of ophthalmic lenses in Mexico 1998-1999.
  • Collaboration in the development of the company Optical Coatings Mexico, (OCM) which manufactures ophthalmic lenses since 2002-2003.
  • Development of the optical coatings laboratory for OCM  by  using the ion assisted deposition technology. (2002)
  • Design and process development of superhydrphobic antireflection coatings of ophthalmic lenses (2013).

4. Teaching

23 graduated courses, 1 M. Sc, 2 Ph. D. graduated students.

Research interests:

- Optical coatings and its application as interference filters.

- Numerical modeling of photonic crystals1, 2 and 3D, surface modes and  resonators.

5. Scientific international papers

 26 with 233 cites.

6 Research projects as responsible or collaborator: 10

7. Sabbatical stay supervision: 5

Selected publication from the recent five years:

2014

  • J. A. Gaspar-Armenta, F. Villa-Villa, “Coupling of a 2D photonic cristal-metal surface wave to photonic cristal waveguide modes”, J. of Opt. 16 035501 (2014)

2013

  • J. A. Gaspar-Armenta, F. Villa-Villa, “Electromagnetic surface waves at a metal 2D photonic crystal interface”, JOSA B 30 2271-2276 (2013).

 2011

  •  A. Mendoza-Suarez, H. Perez-Aguilar, F. Villa-Villa, “Optical response of a perfect conductor waveguide that behaves as a photonic crystal,” Progress in Electromagnetics Research B, 121 433-452 (2011).

2010

  • A. Mendoza-Suarez, F. Villa-Villa, “Integral method for a capacitance microscope that is based on cylindric metallic surfaces,” Progress in Electromagnetics Research B, 21 203-218 (2010).