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Ayrton Bernussi is a Professor and Co-Director of the Nano-Tech Center at Texas Tech University's Whitacre College of Engineering, serving as Associate Chair for Graduate Studies. He holds a PhD in Physics (1990) from the State University of Campinas, Brazil, with earlier degrees in Physics (MS 1984, BS 1981) from the same institution.
His research focuses on advanced photonics, nanotechnology, and optical materials, including propagation losses in waveguides, high-power laser diodes, plasmon-related systems, and semiconductor luminescence. Key projects involve silicon-on-silica nanodevices and tunable mid-infrared optical systems.
Dr. Bernussi leads the Nano-Tech Center, advancing nanophotonics and metamaterials. Recent work emphasizes vanadium dioxide-based devices for infrared modulation, subwavelength grating waveguides, and functional nanocomposites. His research spans optics, materials science, and biomedical applications like drug delivery systems using pseudoboehmite nanomaterials.
Publications highlight innovations in tunable optical resonators, plasmonic crystals, and Fourier ptychographic microscopy. He has pioneered hemispherical digital condensers for high-resolution microscopy and explored VO2 phase transitions for terahertz applications.
No awards are listed, but his work has received National Science Foundation CAREER funding. He advises graduate studies and collaborates on interdisciplinary projects in battery technology, biomedical engineering, and advanced material fabrication.
