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 crystals 1, 2 and 3D, surface modes and resonators.
- Scientific international papers 26 with 233 cites.
- Research projects as responsible or collaborator: 10
- Sabbatical stay supervision: 5
Recent publications:
2019
- V. Castillo-Gallardo, L. E. Puente-Díaz, H. Pérez-Aguilar, A. Mendoza-Suárez, and F. Villa-Villa. BAND STRUCTURE OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTALS THAT INCLUDE DISPERSIVE LEFT-HANDED MATERIALS WITH ROUGH SURFACES IN THEIR LATTICE. JOSAB 829-836, Vol. 36,Issue 4, pp. 829-836, (2019), https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.36.000829
2018
- C.Guillén-Gallegos, H.Alva-Medrano, H.Pérez-Aguilar, A.Mendoza-Suárez and F.Villa-Villa. PHONONIC BAND STRUCTURE OF AN ACOUSTIC WAVEGUIDE THAT BEHAVES AS A PHONONIC CRYSTAL. RESULTS IN PHYSICS, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rinp.2018.12.072
- Francisco Villa-Villa; Jorge A. Gaspar-Armenta; Bartolome Reyes-Ramírez. SENSITIVITY TO THICKNESS ERRORS IN THE DESIGN OF OPTICAL COATINGS: A METHOD BASED ON ADMITTANCE, DIAGRAM. OPTICAL ENGINEERING, https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.57.10.105103
- H.Alva-Medrano, H.Pérez-Aguilar, A.Mendoza-Suárez and F.Villa-Villa. SURFACE MODES IN PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDES COATED WITH A LAYER OF DISPERSIVE LEFT-HANDED MATERIAL. PHYSICA E: LOW-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS AND NANOSTRUCTURES, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physe.2018.09.020
2017
- F. Villa-Villa, H. Pérez-Aguilar, A. Mendoza-Suárez, The locally corrected Nystrom method applied to 3D scalar SIE in acocustic cavities using curvilinear coordinates, Eng. An. With Bound. Elem. 79 110-118 (2017).
- Guadalupe Lopez-Morales, Izcoatl Saucedo-Orozco, Rafael Espinosa-Luna, Qiwen Zhan, Francisco Villa-Villa, Polarization properties of light scattered by a metallic cylinder Rev. Mex. Fís. 63 328-332 (2017).
2016
- Guel-Tapia JA, Villa-Villa F, Mendoza-Suarez A, Perez-Aguilar H. “b Acoustic Scattering of 3D Complex Systems Having Random Rough Surfaces by Scalar Integral Equations”. ARCHIVES OF ACOUSTICS, Vol: 41 No: 3 PP: 461-472 (2016), DOI: 10.1515/aoa-2016-0045
2015
- J. A. Guel-Tapia, F. Villa-Villa, J. A. Gaspar-Armenta, F. Ramos-Mendieta, A. Mendoza-Suárez, “Coupling of Photonic Crystal–Photonic Crystal Interface and Guided Modes in Two-Dimensional Heterostructures”, Optical Review DOI 10.1007/s10043-015-0093-6
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).
