Orlando Auciello
Professor, Distinguished Chair in Engineering
orlando.auciello@utdallas.edu
Phone: 972-883-4731
Office: RL 3.706
800 West Campbell Rd.
Mailstop: RL10
Richardson, TX 75080-3021
Education
PhD, Physics, National University of Cuyo, Argentina, 1976
MSc, Physics, National University of Cuyo, Argentina, 1973
Electronic Engineering, National University of Cordoba, Argentina, 1964-1970
Awards
- Seven R&D 100 Awards for various innovative technologies
- American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow
- Materials Research Society (MRS) Fellow
- President of the MRS in 2013
- University of Chicago Distinguished Performance Award
- Associate Editor of Applied Physics Letters
Recent Journal Publications
- Journal of Materials Science, 1-60: Review on advances in microcrystalline, nanocrystalline and ultrananocrystalline diamond films-based micro/nano-electromechanical systems technologies 10.1007/s10853-020-05699-9
Overview
Dr. Orlando Auciello was a researcher at the University of Toronto-Canada (1979-1984), associate professor at North Carolina State University (1985-1988) and senior research scientist at the Microelectronics Center of North Carolina (1988-1996). He was a senior scientist at Argonne National Laboratory (1996-2005) and then a Distinguished Argonne Fellow (2005-2012). He is an adjunct professor at University of Colorado Colorado Springs and Michigan State University.
Auciello has edited 20 books on various topics, published more than 500 articles and holds 20 patents. He has also organized, chaired and lectured at numerous national and international conferences. He is associate editor of Applied Physics Letters and Integrated Ferroelectrics and an editor of two Academic Press book series on thin films and applications to devices. He was a member of the Materials Research Society (MRS) board of directors (2000-2003), co-chair of the MRS International Relations Committee, and president of the MRS in 2013.
He has won numerous awards, including seven R&D 100 awards, the 2003 Hispanic Engineering National Achievement Award, the 2006 Federation of National Laboratories Award, the 2008 University of Chicago Distinguished Performance Award, and he is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the MRS.
Research Interests
Auciello is directing basic and applied research programs on different fields involving multi-component oxide thin films and application to systems and devices including:
- resistive change memories.
- nanoscale complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) devices, photovoltaic energy generation and storage devices.
- high-frequency devices
- piezoelectric thin films for micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS)/nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) sensors and actuators.
- nanocarbon thin films including ultrananocrystalline diamond (UNCD) and graphene films.
- applications to industrial electronics (MEMS/NEMS and implantable medical devices).
The UNCD film technology is now commercialized for industrial components and systems by Advanced Diamond Technologies (ADT), a company founded by Auciello and Carlisle, spun off from Argonne in 2003 and by Original Biomedical Implants (OBI), a company founded by Auciello and Dr. Gurman in 2013, for commercializing a new generation of UNCD-coated implantable medical devices.