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Awards

November 2005 Outstanding Junior Researchers - Colombia

September 1998 Best Undergraduate Thesis, Colombian National Prize Leon De-Greiff in Applied Physics

December 2019 Award of Excellence for Promoting Inclusion and Diversity
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Other Memberships/Affiliations
IEEE

Degrees:

2003
Doctorate     Physics
1995
Undergraduate     Engineering sciences
Electronic Engineering
1996
Undergraduate     Physics
1995
Undergraduate     Engineering sciences
Electrical Engineering
1996
Undergraduate     Physics
Physicist
1998
Master     Engineering sciences
MSE EE

Publications resulting from Research
Hazards. J.V.Seidel, O.A.Castañeda-Uribe, S.Arevalo, F.Muñoz, W.Proud, A. Avila. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 15 Jan 2019, 368:228-233

Comparative study of equivalent circuit models for photoconductive antennas,OA Castañeda-Uribe, CA Criollo, S Winnerl, M Helm, A Avila. Optics express. 2018, 26 (22), 29017-29031
The current state of affairs regarding CNT OELs. Michael J. Ellenbecker, Sc.D.; Su-Jung Tsai; Molly Jacobs; Michael Riediker; Thomas Peters; Saou-Hsing Liou; Alba Avila Bernal; Steffen Foss-Hansen. Journal of Nanoparticle Research (under review), 2018.

Direct Observation of the Spatial Distribution of Charges on a Prolypropylene fiber via Electrostatic Force Microscopy. R. Bonilla, A. Avila, C. Montengro and H. P. Hinestroza. Journal of Microscopy, 28 (3), 266-70, 2012

Electrical Measurement Techniques in Atomic Force Microscopy. Critical Reviews in Solid State and Materials Sciences. A. Ávila, B. Bhushan. Volume 35, Issue 1 January 2010, pages 38 – 51, 2009.

Research Directions and Challenges in Nanoelectronics. J. Nanoparticle Res. 8: 841-858 (18). R. Cavin, V. Zhirnov, D. Herr, A. Ávila, J. Hutchby, 2006

Fundamentals of Heat Transfer. SRC Research Paper, www.src.org. V. Zhirnov, A. Ávila, R. Cavin, 2005.

Antibacterial Activities of Azole Complexes Combined with Silver Nanoparticles. Nestor J. Bello-Vieda,Homero F. Pastrana,Manuel F. Garavito,Alba G. Ávila, Adriana M. Celis, Alvaro Muñoz-Castro, Silvia Restrepo and John J. Hurtado. Molecules 2018, 23(2), 361.

Impact of Adding Internet Technology on Student Performance and Perception of Autonomy in Fundamentals of Electronics Course Carlos Rosero, A. Avila, L. A Osiorio, S. L. Aguirre .J Sci Educ Technol ISSN: 1059-0145, v.27 fasc.N/A p.1 - 11, 2017.

Density and localized states' impact on amorphous carbon electron transport mechanisms. S. Caicedo, O. Lopez-Acevedo, J. Velasco Medina, A. Avila. Journal of Applied Physics 120, 214303 (2016); doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4971010

Depth sensitive Subsurface Imaging of Polymer Nanocomposites using Second Harmonica Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy. O.A. Castañeda-Uribe, R. Reigenberger, A. Raman, A. Avila. ACSnano vol 9, N3, 2938-2947, 2015

Subsurface-imaging of carbon nanotube-polymer composites using dynamic AFM methods. M. J. Cadena, R. Misiego, K. C. Smith, A. Avila, B. Pipes, R. Reifenberger y A. Raman. Nanotechnology, 24, 13, 135706, 2013