Curriculum Vitae

• Lauréat du concours "Bourses de voyage" (6 mois) de la Communauté Française de Belgique (1996)
• Prix de la Société Belge de Physique pour le mémoire de licence (1997)
• "Best paper award" (1997 IEEE International SOI Conference) pour "Mechanism of Silicon Exfoliation by Hydrogen Implantation and He, Li and Si Co-implantation", M.K. Weldon, V.E. Marsico, Y.J. Chabal, M. Collot, Y. Caudano, S.B. Christman, E.E. Chaban, D.C. Jacobson, W.L. Brown, J. Sapjeta, C.-M. Hsieh, C.A. Goodwin, A. Agarwal, V.C. Venezia, T.E. Haynes, and W.B. Jackson.
• Contribution "Dynamic charge transfer at the C60/metal interface studied by infrared absorption and sum-frequency generation", Y. Caudano, A. Peremans, P.A.Thiry, P. Dumas, W.-Q. Zheng, A. Le Rille et A. Tadjeddine, sélectionnée pour concourir au prix ECOSS-18 (Vienne, Autriche, 21 au 24/09 1999)

1. Aux laboratoires de laser à électrons libres :

   • FELIX, FOM Instituut, Nieuwegein, Pays-Bas : 2 semaines (durant la période 09/94 – 03/95)
   • CLIO – LURE, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France : 4 ½ mois (durant la période 09/95 – 09/96)


2. Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies (Murray Hill, NJ, USA) : 02/11/96 - 13/01/98



3. CLIO - LURE, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France : 23/03/98 - 13/04/98



4. FELIX, FOM Instituut, Nieuwegein, Pays-Bas : 04/05/98 - 09/05/98 et 07/09/98 - 11/09/98



5. Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies (Murray Hill, NJ, USA) : 13/11/98 - 17/01/99

1. Y. Caudano, A. Peremans, L.-M. Yu, and P.A. Thiry
   The physics of infrared free electron lasers and their use for some nonlinear experiments on fullerenes
   Physicalia Magazine, 18 (1996) 1 pp 3-20



2. A. Peremans, A. Tadjeddine, W.-Q. Zheng, P. Guyot-Sionnest, P. Remy, G. Ryschenkow, M. Buck, Y. Caudano, L.-M. Yu, P.A. Thiry, B. Bourguignon, H. Dubost, B. Draggnea, and S. Carrez
   Vibrational spectroscopy at interfaces by ir-vis sum-frequency generation using CLIO FEL
   Nucl. Instr. And Meth. in Phys. Res. A 375 (1996) 657-661



3. Y. Caudano, A. Peremans, P.A.Thiry, P. Dumas, and A. Tadjeddine
   Vibrational spectroscopy of C60 and K-doped C60 on Ag(111) by sum-frequency generation
   J. Phys. B : At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 29 (1996) 5023-5031



4. Y. Caudano, A. Peremans, P.A.Thiry, P. Dumas, and A. Tadjeddine
   Characterization of the C60/Ag(111) interface by sum-frequency generation
   Surf. Sci., 368 (1996) 337-341



5. Y. Caudano, A. Peremans, P.A. Thiry, P. Dumas, and A. Tadjeddine
   Vibrational investigation of chemisorbed C60 by infrared-visible sum-frequency generation spectroscopy
   Surf. Sci. 377-379 (1997) 1071-1075



6. A. Peremans, Y. Caudano, P.A.Thiry, P. Dumas, W.-Q. Zheng, A. Le Rille, and A. Tadjeddine
   Electronic tuning of dynamical charge transfer at an interface: K-doping of C60/Ag(111)
   Phys. Rev. Lett 78 (1997) 2999-3002



7. M.K. Weldon, V.E. Marsico, Y.J. Chabal, A. Agarwal, D.J. Eaglesham, J. Sapjeta, W.L. Brown, D.C. Jacobson, Y. Caudano, S.B. Christman, and E.E. Chaban
   On the mechanism of the hydrogen-induced exfoliation of silicon
   Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B 15 (1997) 1065-1073



8. M.K. Weldon, V.E. Marsico, Y.J. Chabal, A. Agarwal, D.J. Eaglesham, J. Sapjeta, W.L. Brown, D.C. Jacobson, Y. Caudano, S.B. Christman, and E.E. Chaban
   Mechanistic studies of silicon wafer bonding and layer exfoliation
   Proc. Fourth Int. Symp. On Semiconductor Wafer Bonding : Science, Technology and Applications, vol 97-36 (Electrochemical Society, Pennington, NJ, 1998) p. 229



9. Y. Caudano, M.K. Weldon, Y.J. Chabal, B.B. Stefanov, K. Raghavachari, D.C. Jacobson, S.B. Christman, and E.E. Chaban
   Spectroscopic and theoretical investigations of hydrogen-induced exfoliation of silicon : Si-H bending modes
   Proc. Fourth Int. Symp. On Semiconductor Wafer Bonding : Science, Technology and Applications, vol 97-36 (Electrochemical Society, Pennington, NJ, 1998) p. 365



10. A. Peremans, Y. Caudano, P. Dumas, W.-Q. Zheng, A. Le Rille, P.A.Thiry, and A. Tadjeddine
    Sum-frequency generation spectroscopy in the mid-infrared : K-doped C60/Ag(111) interface
    SPIE Proceedings Series 3272 (1998) 35-41



11. Y. Caudano, A. Peremans, P.A.Thiry, P. Dumas, W.-Q. Zheng, A. Le Rille, and A. Tadjeddine
    Dynamic charge transfer at the C60/metal interface studied by infrared absorption and sum-frequency generation
    Physicalia Magazine 20 (1998) 31-45



12. C. Silien, Y. Caudano, J.-L. Longueville, S. Bouzidi, F. Wiame, A. Peremans, and P.A. Thiry
    HREELS, IR and SFG investigation of undoped and doped adsorbed fullerenes
    Surface Science 427-428 (1999) 79-84



13. C. Humbert, Y. Caudano, Ph. Hollander, A. Mani, P.A. Thiry, and A. Peremans
    Spectroscopie de génération de fréquence-somme de l'auto-assemblage de molécules de thiols sur l'or
    Prom Optica News, 35 (1998) 22-24



14. Y.J. Chabal, M.K. Weldon, Y. Caudano, B.B. Stefanov, and K. Raghavachari
    Spectroscopic studies of H-decorated interstitials and vacancies in thin-film silicon exfoliation
    Physica B : Condensed Matter 273-274 (1999) 152-163



15. C. Silien, Y. Caudano, A. Peremans, and P.A. Thiry
    Changes in the dipolar vibrational fingerprint of C60 upon adsoption and K intercalation
    Applied Surface Science, 162-163 (2000) 445-451



16. Y. Caudano
    Contribution à l’étude d’interfaces par spectroscopies vibrationnelles linéaires et non linéaires. Synthèse théorique et analyse expérimentale des interfaces et défauts ponctuels hydrogénés du silicium ainsi que des couplages électron-phonon à l’interface K/C60/Ag.
    Thèse de doctorat (2000)



17. A.A. Mani, L. Dreesen, Ph. Hollander, C. Humbert, Y. Caudano, P.A. Thiry, and A. Peremans
    Pumping picosecond optical parametric oscillators by a pulsed Nd:YAG laser mode locked using a nonlinear mirror
    Appl. Phys. Lett., 79 (2001) 1945-1947



18. Y. Caudano, P.A. Thiry, and Y.J. Chabal
    Investigation of the bending vibrations of vicinal H/Si(111) surfaces by infrared spectroscopy
    Surf. Sci., 502-503 (2002) 91-95



19. C. Humbert, L. Dreesen, A.A. Mani, Y. Caudano, J.-J. Lemaire, P.A. Thiry, and A. Peremans
    Ir–visible sum-frequency vibrational spectroscopy of Biphenyl-3 methylene thiol monolayer on gold and silver: effect of the visible wavelength on the SFG spectrum
    Surf. Sci., 502-503 (2002) 203-207



20. A.A. Mani, L. Dreesen, C. Humbert, Ph. Hollander, Y. Caudano, P.A. Thiry, and A. Peremans
    Development of a two-color picosecond optical parametric oscillator, pumped by a Nd:YAG laser mode locked using a nonlinear mirror, for doubly-resonant sum frequency generation spectroscopy
    Surf. Sci., 502-503 (2002) 261-267



21. H. Fukidome, O. Pluchery, K.T. Queeney, Y. Caudano, K. Raghavachari, M.K. Weldon, E.E. Chaban, S.B. Christman, H. Kobayashi, and Y.J. Chabal
    In-Situ Vibrational Study of SiO2/liquid Interface
    Surf. Sci., 502-503 (2002) 498-502



22. C. Silien, P.A. Thiry, and Y. Caudano
    Intra- and extramolecular vibrations of fulleride surfaces
    Phys. Rev. B, 67 (2003) 075412 (1-6)
    Also published in the March 10, 2003 issue of the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology (http://www.vjnano.org)



23. Y. Caudano, C. Silien, C. Humbert, L. Dreesen, A.A. Mani, A. Peremans, and P.A. Thiry
    Electron-phonon couplings at C60 interfaces: a case study by two-color, infrared-visible sum-frequency generation spectroscopy
    Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena, 129 (2003) 139-147

• Belgian Physical Society and FNRS Contact Group Meeting on Synchrotron Radiation (Antwerpen, Belgium, 05/05/95) [*]
  Oral communication presented by P.A. Thiry : Non-linear vibrational excitation of fullerenes
  Y. Caudano, L.-M. Yu, P.A. Thiry, and A. Peremans



• Symposium on "Non-destructive characterization of surfaces or thin layers using electromagnetic radiation" (IMEC, Leuven, 19/10/95)
  Poster presentation : Vibrational spectroscopy at interfaces by infrared-visible sum-frequency generation using CLIO FEL
  A. Peremans, A. Tadjeddine, W.-Q. Zheng, P. Guyot-Sionnest, P. Remy, G. Ryschenkow, M. Buck, Y. Caudano, L.-M. Yu, P.A. Thiry, B. Bourguignon, H. Dubost, B. Draggnea, and S. Carrez



• Belgian Physical Society and FNRS Contact Group Meeting on Surface Science (Bruxelles, Belgium, 06/06/96)
  Oral communication : Vibrational spectroscopy of C60 and K-doped C60 on Ag(111) by sum-frequency generation
  Y. Caudano, A. Peremans, P.A. Thiry, P. Dumas, and A. Tadjeddine



• French research association "GDR" (Aussois, France 11-14 June 1996) [*]
  Oral Communication presented by A. Peremans : Dynamique vibrationnelle à l'interface fullerène-métal
  Y. Caudano, A. Peremans, P.A. Thiry, P. Dumas, and A. Tadjeddine



• 8th International Conference on Vibrations at Surfaces (Birmingham, United-Kingdom 23-27 June 1996)
  Poster presentation : Vibrational spectroscopy of C60 and K-doped C60 monolayers on Ag(111) by infrared absorption and sum-frequency generation spectroscopies
  Y. Caudano, A. Peremans, P.A. Thiry, P. Dumas, and A. Tadjeddine.



• Seminar at the LISE (Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Spectroscopie Electronique, Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur, 15/07/96)
  Spectroscopie vibrationnelle des interfaces C60/Ag(111) et K/C60/Ag(111) par génération de fréquence-somme



• ECOSS-16 (Genova, Italy, 9-13 September 1996) [*]
  Oral communication presented by P.A. Thiry : Vibrational investigation of chemisorbed C60 by infrared-visible sum-frequency generation spectroscopy
  Y. Caudano, A. Peremans, P.A. Thiry, P. Dumas, and A. Tadjeddine



• Belgian Physical Society and FNRS Contact Group Meeting on Surface Science (Limburgs Universitaire Centrum, Belgium, 29/05/97) [*]
  Poster presentation by Ph. Hollander : Infrared-visible sum-frequency generation spectroscopy : A surface sensitive vibrational technique
  Ph. Hollander, A. Peremans, Y. Caudano, D. Lambot, D. Barba, and P.A. Thiry



• The 1997 Joint International Meeting of the Electrochemical Society and of the International Society of Electrochemistry (Paris, France, 31/08/97 - 05/09/97)
  Poster presentation : The role of hydrogen in silicon wafer bonding and exfoliation studied by infrared spectroscopy
  Y. Caudano, M.K. Weldon, Y.J. Chabal, B.B. Stefanov, K. Raghavachari, D.C. Jacobson, S.B. Christman, and E.E. Chaban



• Seminar of the Physics Department (Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur, 11/09/1997)
  The role of hydrogen in silicon wafer bonding and exfoliation studied by IR spectroscopy
  Y. Caudano, M.K. Weldon, Y.J. Chabal, B.B. Stefanov, K. Raghavachari, D.C. Jacobson, S.B. Christman, and E.E. Chaban.



• FRFC meeting "Etude de la propagation, de l'absorption, de l'émission lumineuse dans les matériaux structurés à réponse linéaire et non-linéaire. Etude de l'influence du confinement des sources" - project number 9.4637.97 (Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium, 12/05/98)
  Oral communication : The role of hydrogen in silicon wafer bonding and exfoliation studied by IR spectroscopy
  Y. Caudano, M.K. Weldon, Y.J. Chabal, B.B. Stefanov, K. Raghavachari, D.C. Jacobson, S.B. Christman, and E.E. Chaban.



• Belgian Physical Society and FNRS Contact Group Meeting on Surface Science (Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium, 20/05/98)
  Poster presentation : The role of hydrogen in Si wafer bonding and exfoliation studied by IR spectroscopy
  Y. Caudano, M.K. Weldon, Y.J. Chabal, B.B. Stefanov, K. Raghavachari, D.C. Jacobson, S.B. Christman, and E.E. Chaban.



• Belgian Physical Society and FNRS Contact Group Meeting on Surface Science (Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium, 20/05/98)
  Oral communication presented by C. Silien : Vibrational investigation of the C60/Ag interface by HREELS, IRS and SFG
  C. Silien, Y. Caudano, J.-L. Longueville, S. Bouzidi, A. Peremans, P.A. Thiry, P. Dumas, A. Le rille, W.-Q. Zheng, and A. Tadjeddine



• French research association "GDR" - Groupement de Recherche "Interaction des Surfaces avec les Ions, les Atomes et les Molécules", (Bombannes, France 25-29 May 1998)
  Oral Communication : Etude par spectroscopie d'absorption infrarouge du rôle de l'hydrogène dans l'exfoliation du silicium
  Y. Caudano, M.K. Weldon, Y.J. Chabal, B.B. Stefanov, K. Raghavachari, D.C. Jacobson, S.B. Christman, and E.E. Chaban.



• The 14th International Vacuum Congress (Birmingham, United-Kingdom, August 31st - September 4th 1998)
  Poster presentation : Study of the exfoliation of hydrogen-implanted silicon by infrared-absorption spectroscopy
  Y. Caudano, M.K. Weldon, Y.J. Chabal, B.B. Stefanov, K. Raghavachari, D.C. Jacobson, S.B. Christman, and E.E. Chaban



• The 9th International Conference on Vibrations at Surfaces (Shonan, Japan, 12-16 Octobre 1998) [*]
  Oral communication presented by P.A. Thiry : Vibrational investigation of C60 adsorption and doping
  P.A. Thiry, Ch. Silien, Y. Caudano, J.-L. Longueville, S. Bouzidi, and A. Peremans



• Photonics West 98 (San Jose, United States, 24-30 January 1998) [*]
  Oral communication presented by A. Peremans : Sum-frequency generation spectroscopy in the mid-infrared : K-doped C60/Ag(111) interface
  A. Peremans, Y. Caudano, P. Dumas, W.-Q. Zheng, A. Le Rille P.A.Thiry, and A. Tadjeddine



• Belgian Physical Society and FNRS Contact Group Meeting on Surface Science (VUB, Brussels, Belgium, 20/05/99)
  Oral communication : Spectroscopic and theoretical investigations of hydrogen-induced exfoliation of silicon : Si-H vibrations of point defects and internal surfaces
  Y. Caudano, B.B. Stefanov, Y.J. Chabal, M.K. Weldon, K. Raghavachari, D.C. Jacobson, S.B. Christman, and E.E. Chaban



• Seminar at the LISE (Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Spectroscopie Electronique, Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur, 9/06/99)
  Infrared-absorption study of the hydrogen-induced exfoliation of silicon : point defects, platelets and void surfaces



• ECOSS-18 (Vienna, Austria, September 21-24 1999)
  Poster presentation : Changes in the dipolar vibrational fingerprint of C60 upon adsoption and K intercalation
  C. Silien, Y. Caudano, A. Peremans, and P.A. Thiry



• ECOSS-18 (Vienna, Austria, September 21-24 1999)
  Oral communication : Dynamic charge transfer at the C60/metal interface studied by infrared absorption and sum-frequency generation
  Y. Caudano, A. Peremans, P.A.Thiry, P. Dumas, W.-Q. Zheng, A. Le Rille, and A. Tadjeddine
  
  (communication sélectionnée avec 5 autres pour concourir au prix ECOSS)



• FNRS Contact Group Meeting on Atoms, Molecules and Radiation (UMH, Mons, Belgium, 07/04/00)
  Oral communication : Characterization of the hydrogen-induced silicon exfoliation by infrared spectroscopy
  Y. Caudano, B.B. Stefanov, Y.J. Chabal, M.K. Weldon, K. Raghavachari, S.B. Christman, and E.E. Chaban



• LASMOS - LPS multidisciplinary scientific meeting (Malay, France, May 08-12 2000)
  Oral communication : Modélisation de l'absorption de films minces enfouis à faible profondeur dans le silicium : application à la caractérisation des surfaces hydrogénées du silicium par spectroscopie d'absorption infrarouge
  Y. Caudano and Y.J. Chabal



• Belgian Physical Society and FNRS Contact Group Meeting on Surface Science (UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, May 25-26 2000)
  Poster presentation : Infrared spectroscopy of hydrogenated silicon surfaces and buried interfaces
  Y. Caudano and Y.J. Chabal



• International School of Solid State Physics, NATO ASI (Erice, Italy, July 19-31) [*]
  Poster presentation by C. Silien : Vibrational analysis of C60 surfaces : adsorption on metal and K doping (HREELS, IRRAS and SFG)
  C. Silien, Y. Caudano, A. Peremans, and P.A. Thiry



• PAI meeting (Namur, Belgium, September 2000)
  Poster presentation : Changes in the dipolar vibrational fingerprint of C60 upon adsoption and K intercalation
  C. Silien, Y. Caudano, A. Peremans, and P.A. Thiry



• Belgian Physical Society and FNRS Contact Group Meeting on Surface Science (UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 25-26/05/00)
  Poster presentation : Infrared spectroscopy of hydrogenated silicon surfaces and buried interfaces
  Y. Caudano and Y.J. Chabal



• International School of Solid State Physics, NATO ASI (Erice, Italy, July 19-31) [*]
  Poster presentation by C. Silien : Vibrational analysis of C60 surfaces : adsorption on metal and K doping (HREELS, IRRAS and SFG)
  C. Silien, Y. Caudano, A. Peremans, and P.A. Thiry



• PAI meeting (Namur, Belgium, September 2000)
  Poster presentation : Changes in the dipolar vibrational fingerprint of C60 upon adsoption and K intercalation
  C. Silien, Y. Caudano, A. Peremans, and P.A. Thiry



• Belgian Physical Society, General Scientific Meeting (KUL, Leuven, Belgium, May 16th–17th 2001)
  



• 10th Conference on Vibrations at Surfaces (Saint-Malo, France, June 17th–21st 2001)
  Poster presentation : Investigation of the bending vibrations of hydrogenated silicon surfaces by infrared spectroscopy
  Y. Caudano, P.A. Thiry, and Y.J. Chabal



• 10th Conference on Vibrations at Surfaces (Saint-Malo, France, June 17th–21st 2001)
  Oral presentation by C. Humbert : IR-Visible sum-frequency vibrational spectroscopy of self assembled monolayers on gold and silver: effects of the visible wavelength tuning
  C. Humbert, L. Dreesen , A.A. Mani, Y. Caudano, J.-J. Lemaire, P.A. Thiry, and A. Peremans



• 10th Conference on Vibrations at Surfaces (Saint-Malo, France, June 17th–21st 2001)
  Poster presentation by H. Fukidome : In-Situ FTIR Studies of SiO2/Liquid Interfaces
  H. Fukidome, O. Pluchery, K.T. Queeney, Y. Caudano, K. Raghavachari, M.K. Weldon, E.E. Chaban, S.B. Christman, H. Kobayashi, and Y.J. Chabal



• 10th Conference on Vibrations at Surfaces (Saint-Malo, France, June 17th–21st 2001)
  Poster presentation by A. Peremans : Development of a two-color picosecond OPO, pumped by a Nd:Yag laser mode-locked using a nonlinear mirror, for doubly-resonant SFG spectroscopy
  A.A. Mani, L. Dreesen , C. Humbert, P. Hollander, Y. Caudano, P.A. Thiry, and A. Peremans



• 2nd Belgian Crystallography Symposium BCS-2 (Brussels, Belgium, October 24th 2001)
  Poster presentation : Probing the structure of vicinal H/Si(111) surfaces by infrared spectroscopy: bending mode couplings
  Y. Caudano, P.A. Thiry, and Y.J. Chabal



• Collisions, An International Conference on Collisions in the Universe (FUNDP, Namur, Belgium, November 21st–22nd 2001
  



• Belgian Physical Society, General Scientific Meeting (Liège, June 5th-6th 2002)
  Poster presentation by C. Humbert : Two-colour infrared-visible sum-frequency generation spectroscopy to probe electron-phonon coupling phenomenon in C60 layers on silver (111)
  C. Humbert, L. Dreesen , C. Silien, Y. Caudano, A.A. Mani, P.A. Thiry, and A. Peremans



• International Conference on Solid Films and Surfaces '11 (Marseille, July 15th-19th 2002) [*]
  Poster presentation by C. Humbert : Probing elecron-phonon coupling phenomenon in C60 layers on silver (111) by two-colour infrared-visible sum-frequency generation spectroscopy
  C. Humbert, L. Dreesen , Y. Caudano, C. Silien, A.A. Mani, P.A. Thiry, and A. Peremans



• 203rd Meeting of the Electrochemical Society (Paris, April 27th to May 2nd 2003)
  Oral presentation in the symposium “Fullerene, Nanotube, and carbon nanoclusters: Solid State Physics” (R8) : Electron-phonon couplings at C60 interfaces studied by doubly resonant infrared-visible sum-frequency generation spectroscopy
  Y. Caudano, C. Silien, C. Humbert, L. Dreesen, A.A. Mani, A. Peremans, and P.A. Thiry



• Belgian Physical Society, General Scientific Meeting (Ghent, May 27th-28th 2003)
  Poster presentation : K-related extramolecular vibrations in doped C60 monolayers
  C. Silien, P.A. Thiry, and Y. Caudano



• Belgian Physical Society, General Scientific Meeting (Ghent, May 27th-28th 2003)
  Oral presentation by C. Humbert : Doubly resonant sum-frequency generation spectroscopy: a new probe for the study of the coupling between vibrational and electronic properties at thin film interfaces
  C. Humbert, L. Dreesen, A.A. Mani, Y. Caudano, Y. Sartenaer, J.-J. Lemaire, P.A. Thiry, and A. Peremans



• Belgian Physical Society, General Scientific Meeting (Ghent, May 27th-28th 2003)
  Poster presentation by A.A. Mani : Extension of SFG measurements up to 20 µm using a tabletop picosecond tunable laser
  A.A. Mani, Z.D. Schultz, B. Champagne, C. Humbert, L. Dreesen, Y. Caudano, A.A. Gewirth, J.O. White, P.A. Thiry, and A. Peremans

[*] Contribution au travail présenté, mais non présent à la conférence