Publications

Book:

·         Photothermal Spectroscopy Methods for Chemical Analysis Stephen E. Bialkowski, Volume 134 in Chemical Analysis, Wiley, New York, 1996

 

Patent:

·         Optically Actuated Optical Switch Apparatus and Methods, Stephen E. Bialkowski., United States Patent 4585301 1986

 

Journal Articles:

·         The Infrared Multiphoton Photochemistry of Methanol Stephen E. Bialkowski and William A. Guillory Journal of Chemical Physics 67 2061 1977

·         Interface Between a Biomation 8100 and a Remote Computer for Data Acquisition in TEA‑CO2 Laser Induced Photochemistry Stephen E. Bialkowski and William A. Guillory Review of Scientific Instruments 48 115 1977

·         Collisionless Formation and Rovibronic Relaxation of CH and OH from the IR Multiphoton Photolysis of CH3OH Stephen E. Bialkowski and William A.  Guillory Journal of Chemical Physics 68 3339 1978

·         The Infrared Photolysis of SO2 Stephen E. Bialkowski and William A. Guillory Chemical Physics Letters 60 429 1979

·         Infrared Photolysis of Methanol and Monomethylamine (Dissertation) University Microfilms Ann Arbor, MI. 1979

·         Gas Phase Laser Induced Fluorescence Spectroscopy of CFCl Stephen E. Bialkowski, David S. King, and John C. Stephenson Journal of Chemical Physics 71 4010 1979

·         The Determination of Mass Transport Coefficients and Vibrational Relaxation Rates of Species Formed in Laser Photolysis Experiments Stephen E. Bialkowski, David S. King, and John C. Stephenson Journal of Chemical Physics 72 1156 1980

·         Energy Partitioning in the IR Multiphoton Dissociation of Molecules: Energy of XCF2 and XCFCl from CF2CFCl John C. Stephenson, Stephen E. Bialkowski, and David S. King Journal of Chemical Physics 72 1161 1980

·         Simple Parallel Interface Between an Optical Multichannel Analyzer and a Microprocessor Stephen E. Bialkowski Review of Scientific Instruments 51 850 1980

·         A Quantitative Test of Unimolecular Rate Theory in the Multi‑Photon Dissociation of CF2CFCl John C. Stephenson, Stephen E. Bialkowski, David S. King, Everet Thiele, James Stone and Myron F. Goodman Journal of Chemical Physics 74 3905 1981

·         Selection Rules and Linestrength Factors for Multiphoton Transitions in Gas Phase Molecular Spectroscopy Stephen E. Bialkowski and William A. Guillory Chemical Physics 55 229 1981

·         Absolute Reaction Rate Constants of CFCl X1(A1) Reactions with Nitrogen Oxides Stephen E. Bialkowski and William A. Guillory Journal of Physical Chemistry 86 2007 1982

·         Vibronic Relaxation Dynamics of the 1Sg+ State of C3 Y. Gu, Michael L.  Lesiecki, Stephen E. Bialkowski, and William A. Guillory Chemical Physics Letters 92 443 1982

·         On the Determination of Kinetic Rate and Mass Transport Coefficients in Laser Pump‑Probe Experiments Stephen E. Bialkowski Chemical Physics Letters 83 341 1981

·         A Statistical Interpretation of the Rotational Temperature of NO Desorbed for Ru(001) Stephen E. Bialkowski Journal of Chemical Physics 78 600 1983

·         Chemical Reactions Following the IRMPD of C2F3Cl George R. Long, Linda D. Prentice and Stephen E. Bialkowski Applied Physics B 34, 97 1984

·         The Effect of Mass Diffusion in Gas Phase Thermal Lens Experiments Stephen E. Bialkowski Chemical Physics Letters 104 448 1984

·         Pulsed Infrared Laser Thermal Lens Spectrophotometric Determination of Trace Level Analytes:  Quantitation of Parts Per Billion Dichlorodifluormethane George R. Long and Stephen E. Bialkowski Analytical Chemistry 56 2806 1984

·         Saturation Effects of Gas Phase Photothermal Deflection Spectrometry George R. Long and Stephen E. Bialkowski Analytical Chemistry 57 1079 1985

·         Pulsed Infrared Laser Thermal Lens Spectrometry of Flowing Gas Samples Scott L. Nickolaisen and Stephen E. Bialkowski Analytical Chemistry 57 758 1985

·         Photothermal Lens Aberration Effects in Two Laser Thermal Lens Spectrometry Stephen E. Bialkowski Applied Optics 24 2792 1985

·         Pulsed Laser Thermal Lens Spectrophotometry of Flowing Samples Scott L. Nickolaisen and Stephen E. Bialkowski IEEE Technical Digest CH21741 110 1985

·         Pulsed Infrared-Laser Photothermal Spectrometry In Gas-Phase Chemical-Analysis Stephen E. Bialkowski, George R. Long, and Scott L. Nickolaisen Journal of the Optical Society Of America A-Optics Image Science And Vision 2 P107 1985

·         Pulsed Laser Thermal Lens Spectrometry for Flowing Liquid Detection Scott L. Nickolaisen and Stephen E. Bialkowski Analytical Chemistry 58 215 1986

·         Error Reduction in Pulsed Infrared Laser Photothermal Deflection Spectrometry George R. Long and Stephen E. Bialkowski Analytical Chemistry 58 80 1986

·         A Least Squares Digital Filter for Repetitive Data Acquisition Scott L. Nickolaisen and Stephen E. Bialkowski Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Science 26 57 1986

·         Pulsed Laser Thermal Lens Spectrophotometry of Liquid Samples Using an Optical Fiber Beam Guide with Interference Orthogonal Signal Processing Stephen E. Bialkowski Analytical Chemistry 58 1706 1986

·         Binary Code Decimal to Binary Program Modification of a Popular Digital Delay Module Stephen E. Bialkowski Review of Scientific Instruments 57 1431 1986

·         Species Selective Detection in Gas Chromatography Through Photothermal Deflection Spectroscopy Scott L. Nickolaisen and Stephen E. Bialkowski Journal of Chromatography 366 127 1986

·         A Scheme for Species Discrimination and Quantitative Estimation Using Incoherent Linear Optical Signal Processing Stephen E. Bialkowski Analytical Chemistry 58 2561 1986

·         Pulsed Infrared Laser Photothermal Spectroscopy in Gas Phase Chemical Analysis Stephen E. Bialkowski IEEE Technical Digest 86CH2274‑9 72 1986

·         Pulsed‑Laser Photothermal Spectroscopy Stephen E. Bialkowski Spectroscopy 1 26 1986

·         Optimal Estimation of Impulse‑Response Signals Through Digital Innovations and Matched Filter Smoothing Stephen E. Bialkowski Review of Scientific Instruments 58 687 1987

·         Quantitative Discrimination of Gas Phase Species Based On Single‑Wavelength Non‑Linear Intensity Dependent Pulsed Infrared Laser Excited Photothermal Deflection Signals Stephen E. Bialkowski and George R. Long Analytical Chemistry 59 873 1987

·         Simple Scheme for Variable High Power Laser Beam Attenuation Stephen E. Bialkowski Review of Scientific Instruments 58 2338 1987

·         Pulsed Laser Photothermal Spectroscopy Stephen E. Bialkowski Advances in Laser Science, AIP Proceedings 172 738 1988

·         Real Time Digital Filters: Finite Impulse-Response Filters Stephen E. Bialkowski Analytical Chemistry 60 355A 1988

·         Real Time Digital Filters: Infinite Impulse-Response Filters Stephen E. Bialkowski Analytical Chemistry 60 403A 1988

·         Optical Processing of Time Varying Pulsed Laser Excited Photothermal Spectroscopy Signals with Matched Filter Smoothing Stephen E. Bialkowski and Salvador Herrera Analytical Chemistry 60 1586 1988

·         Optimized Spectroscopic Signal Estimates Using Integration and Matched Filters Stephen E. Bialkowski Applied Spectroscopy 42 807 1988

·         Ultrasensitive Photothermal Deflection Spectrometry Using an Analyzer Etalon Stephen E. Bialkowski and Zhi-Fang He Analytical Chemistry 60 2674 1988

·         Theoretical Accounting for the Acoustic Energy Produced by Pulsed Laser Excitation of Optically Thin Samples Stephen E. Bialkowski Chemical Physics Letters 151 88 1988

·         Generalized Digital Smoothing Filters Made Easy by Matrix Calculations Stephen E. Bialkowski Analytical Chemistry 61 1308 1989

·         Data Analysis in the Shot Noise Limit Part I:  Single Parameter Estimation with Poisson and Normal Probability Density Functions Stephen E. Bialkowski Analytical Chemistry 61 2479 1989

·         Data Analysis in the Shot Noise Limit Part II:  Methods for Data Regression Stephen E. Bialkowski Analytical Chemistry 61 2483 1989

·         Application of the BaTiO3 Beam Fanning Limiter as an Adaptive Spatial Filter for Signal Enhancement in Pulsed Laser Excited Photothermal Spectroscopy Stephen E. Bialkowski Optics Letters 14 1020 1989

·         Survey of Properties of Volume Holographic Materials Richard D. Rallison and Stephen E. Bialkowski in Practical Holography III SPIE Proceedings 1051 68 1989

·         Data Analysis in the Shot Noise Limit Part III:  An Adaptive Method for Data Smoothing Stephen E. Bialkowski Journal of Chemometrics 4 271 1990

·         Exchange of Comments on Data Analysis in the Shot Noise Limit Part I:  Single Parameter Estimation with Poisson and Normal Probability Density Functions Stephen E. Bialkowski Analytical Chemistry 62 2141 1990

·         Expectation-Maximization Algorithm for Regression, Deconvolution, and Smoothing of Shot-Noise-Limit Data Stephen E. Bialkowski Journal of Chemometrics 5 211 1991

·         Using Optical Novelty Filters in Analytical Spectroscopy Stephen E. Bialkowski Proceeding of the Society for Optical and Quantum Electronics 1991 780 1991

·         Diffractive Properties of Gelatin as an Aerogel Richard D. Rallison and Stephen E. Bialkowski Diffractive Optics: Design, Fabrication, and Applications Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C.) 9 111-113 1992

·         Transition Saturation in Ethylene Observed with Infrared Photothermal Spectrometry Stephen E. Bialkowski and Zhi-Fang He Environmental and Process Monitoring Technologies Tuan Vo-Dinh, Editor SPIE Proceedings 1637 134 1992

·         Comparison of BaTiO3 Optical Novelty Configuration and Photothermal Lensing Configuration in Photothermal Experiments Shashi D. Kalaskar and Stephen E. Bialkowski Analytical Chemistry 64 1824 1992

·         Pulsed-Laser Excited Differential Photothermal Deflection Spectrometry Stephen E. Bialkowski, Xu Gu, Pete E. Poston, and Linda S. Powers Applied Spectroscopy 46 1335 1992

·         Analysis of 1st-Order Rate Constant Spectra With Regularized Least-Squares and Expectation Maximization:  1. Theory and Numerical Characterization Brett T. Stanley, Stephen E. Bialkowski, and David B. Marshall Analytical Chemistry 65 259 1993

·         A Comparison of Three Multi-Platform Message-Passing Interfaces on an Expectation Maximization Algorithm Csaba. Gyulai, Stephen E. Bialkowski, Gardner S. Stiles, and Linda S. Powers in Transputer Applications and Systems '93, Vol. 1 Proceedings of the 1993 World Transputer Congress R. Grebe, J. Hektor, S. C. Hilton, M. R. Jane, and P. H. Welch, Eds. IOS Press, Amsterdam, pp. 451-464 1993

·         Accounting for Saturation Effects in Pulsed Infrared Laser Excited Photothermal Spectroscopy Stephen E. Bialkowski Applied Optics 32 3177 1993

·         Optical Bleaching Kinetics of Ethylene Observed with Pulsed Infrared Laser Excited Photothermal Lens Spectrometry Stephen E. Bialkowski and Z. F. He Longer Wavelength Lasers and Applications  Gabor Patonay, Ed. SPIE Proceedings 2138 140 1994

·         Obtaining Accurate Measurements of Organic Dye Solutions using Pulsed Laser Photothermal Deflection Spectroscopy Agnès Chartier and Stephen E. Bialkowski Analytical Chemistry 67 2672 1995

·         Laser Excited Fluorescence of Dityrosine Sahar F. Mahmoud and Stephen E. Bialkowski Applied Spectroscopy 49 1669 1995

·         Detection of Dityrosine in Apoferritin Sahar F. Mahmoud and Stephen E. Bialkowski Applied Spectroscopy 49 1677 1995

·         Sub‑Shot‑Noise Light Sources: A Quiet Revolution in Light Control Stephen E. Bialkowski Critical Reviews in Analytical Chemistry 26 101 1996

·         Diffraction Effects in Single- and Two-Laser Photothermal Lens Spectroscopy Stephen E. Bialkowski and Agnès Chartier Applied Optics 36 6711 1997

·         Photothermal Lens Spectrometry of Homogeneous Fluids with Incoherent White‑Light Excitation Using a Cylindrical Sample Cell Agnès Chartier and Stephen E. Bialkowski Optical Engineering 36 303 1997

·         Temperature-Dependent Electron Capture Detector Response to Common Alternative Fluorocarbons Sonia R. Sousa and Stephen E. Bialkowski Analytical Chemistry 69 3871 1997

·         Molecular Interactions at Octadecylated Chromatographic Surfaces James W. Burns, Stephen E. Bialkowski, and David B. Marshall Analytical Chemistry 69 3861 1997

·         Overcoming the Multiplex-Disadvantage using Maximum-Likelihood Inversion Stephen E. Bialkowski Applied Spectroscopy 52 591 1998

·         Progress Toward a Better Understanding of Signal Generation Processes in the Laser-Excited Photothermal Spectroscopy of Homogeneous Samples Stephen E. Bialkowski Trends in Analytical Chemistry 17 520-532 1998

·         Laser-Excited Photothermal Lens Spectrometry in a Low-Volume Cylindrical Sample Cell Stephen E. Bialkowski Israel Journal of Chemistry 38 159-167 1998

·         Methods for Modeling and Diagnosis of Nonlinear Absorption in Photothermal and Photoacoustic Spectrometry of Homogeneous Fluids Stephen E. Bialkowski and Agnès Chartier Photoacoustic and Photothermal Phenomena, F. Scudieri and M. Bertolotti, Ed., AIP Conference Proceedings 463  46-49 1999

·         Using Slow Measurement Systems to Measure Fast Excited-State Kinetics with Nonlinear Rate-Competitive Optical Bleaching Stephen E. Bialkowski and Agnès Chartier Photoacoustic and Photothermal Phenomena, F. Scudieri and M. Bertolotti, Ed. AIP Conference Proceedings 463  14-17 1999

·         Using an Optical Novelty Filter to Enhance Contrast in Photothermal Refraction Spectrometry Stephen E. Bialkowski Photoacoustic and Photothermal Phenomena, F. Scudieri and M. Bertolotti, Ed., AIP Conference Proceedings 463  67-71 1999

·         Using Sub-Microliter Cylindrical Sample Cells for Photothermal Lens Spectrometry of Stable and Photo-Labile Species Stephen E. Bialkowski and Agnès Chartier, Photoacoustic and Photothermal Phenomena, F. Scudieri and M. Bertolotti, Ed., AIP Conference Proceedings 463  226-228 1999

·         Low frequency behavior of colloidal suspensions. Modeling Maxwell-Wagner and diffuse double layer polarization in low frequency impedance spectra of clay suspensions Lynn M. Dudley, Dani Or, Stephen E. Bialkowski, and Chad Junkermeier , in: A. Kraszewski and K.C. Lawrence (ed.) Third Workshop on Electromagnetic Wave Interactions with Moist Substances U. S. Dept. of Ag., Ag. Res. Service, Athens, GA. 1999

·         Fractured Zone Plates for Spatial Separation of Frequencies, Richard D. Rallison and Stephen E. Bialkowski Proc. SPIE-Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. 3633 92-102 2000

·         Thermal Lens Calorimetry: A Novel Approach to the Study of Thermodynamics George R. Long and Stephen E. Bialkowski Chemical Educator 5, 145-148 2000

·         Optical Bleaching in Continuous Laser Excited Photothermal Lens Spectrometry Agnès Chartier and Stephen E. Bialkowski Applied Spectroscopy 55, 84-91 2001

·         Comparison of Detection Limits and Relative Responses for Alternative Fluorocarbons by GC-ECD, GC-AED, and GC-MS Sonia R. Sousa and Stephen E. Bialkowski Analytica Chimica Acta 433 (2), 181-186 2001

·         Modeling Maxwell-Wagner and diffuse double layer polarization in low frequency impedance spectra of clay suspensions Stephen E. Bialkowski, Lynn M. Dudley, and Dani Or in: K. Kupfer (ed.) Fourth Workshop on Electromagnetic Wave Interactions with Moist Substances MFPA, Wiemar, Germany. 2001

·         Using expectation maximization to obtain dielectric relaxation time spectra of aqueous montmorillonite clay suspensions Stephen E. Bialkowski, Lynn M. Dudley, and Dani Or in: K. Kupfer (ed.) Fourth Workshop on Electromagnetic Wave Interactions with Moist Substances MFPA, Wiemar, Germany. 2001

·         Photothermal Spectrometry in Small Liquid Channels Agnes B. Chartier and Stephen E. Bialkowski Analytical Science (Japan) 17, i99-i101 2002

·         Using an Expectation-Maximization Algorithm to Obtain Dielectric Relaxation Time Spectra of Aqueous Montmorillonite Clay Suspensions Stephen E. Bialkowski, Lynn Dudley, and Dani Or Applied Spectroscopy 56 1470-1474 2002

·         Low Frequency Impedance Behavior of Montmorillonite Suspensions: Polarization Mechanisms in the Low Frequency Domain Lynn M. Dudley, Stephen E. Bialkowski, Dani Or, and Chad Junkermeier, Soil Science Society of America Journal 67 518-526 2003

·         Steady-State Absorption Rate Models for Use in Relaxation Rate Studies with Continuous Laser Excited Photothermal Lens Spectrometry Stephen E. Bialkowski Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences 2 779-787 2003

·         Infrared Spectroscopy: Photothermal Stephen E Bialkowski, In Encyclopedia of Analytical Science, 2nd Edition, pages 426-430, Elsevier, Oxford UK 2004

·         Quantities, Terminology, and Symbols in Photothermal and Related Spectroscopies Masahide Terazima, Noboru Hirota, Silvia E. Braslavsky, Andreas Mandelis, Stephen E. Bialkowski, Gerald J. Diebold, R. J. D. Miller, Danièle Fournier, Richard A. Palmer, and Andy Tam Pure and Applied Chemistry 76 1083-1118 2004

·         Continuous Laser-Excited Photothermal Spectrometry of CdSxSe1-x Doped Glasses Oluwatosin Dada, Matthew R. Jorgensen, Stephen E. Bialkowski Applied Spectroscopy 61 1373-1378 2007

·         Finite Element Analysis Modeling of Pulse-Laser Excited Photothermal Deflection (Mirage Effect) from Aerosols Oluwatosin O. Dada and Stephen E. Bialkowski Applied Spectroscopy 62 102 2008

·         Development of Infrared Photothermal Deflection Spectroscopy (Mirage Effect) for Analysis of Condensed-phase Aerosols Collected in a Micro-Orifice Uniform Deposit Impactor Oluwatosin O. Dada and Stephen E. Bialkowski Applied Spectroscopy 62 112 2008

·         Pulsed-Laser Excited Photothermal Study of Cadmium Sulfoselenium Nanoparticle Doped Glasses Prakash R. Joshi, Oluwatosin O. Dada  and Stephen E. Bialkowski Applied Spectroscopy 63 815 2009

·         Pulsed Laser Excited Photothermal Lens Spectrometry of Cadmium Sulfoselenide Doped Silica Glasses Prakash R. Joshi, Oluwatosin O. Dada  and Stephen E. Bialkowski Journal of Physics: Conference Series 214 012117 2010

·         Analytical Solution for Mode-Mismatched Thermal Lens Spectroscopy with Sample-Fluid Heat Coupling Luis C. Malacarne, Nelson G. C. Astrath, Paulo R. B. Pedreira, Renio S. Mendes, Mauro L. Baesso, Prakash R. Joshi and Stephen E. Bialkowski Journal of Applied Physics 107 053104 2010

·         Pulsed-Laser Excited Thermal Lens Spectroscopy With Sample-Fluid Heat Coupling Nelson G. C. Astrath, Luis C. Malacarne, Paulo R. B. Pedreira, Marcos P. Belancon, Mauro L. Baesso, Prakash R. Joshi and Stephen E. Bialkowski Journal of Applied Physics 107 083512 2010

·         Time-Resolved Thermal Lens and Thermal Mirror Spectroscopies with Sample-Fluid Heat Coupling: A Complete Model for Material Characterization Luis C. Malacarne, Nelson G. C. Astrath, Gustavo V. B. Lukasievicz, Ervin K. Lenzi, Mauro L. Baesso and Stephen E. Bialkowski Applied Spectroscopy 65 99 2011

·         A Compact Pulsed Infrared Laser Excited Photothermal Deflection Spectrometer Oluwatosin O. Dada and Stephen E. Bialkowski Applied Spectroscopy 65 201 2011

·         A 3-dimensional time-resolved photothermal deflection “Mirage” method N. G. C. Astrath, L. C. Malacarne, G. V. B. Lukasievicz,  H. S. Bernabe, J. H. Rohling, M. L. Baesso, J. Shen and S. E. Bialkowski Applied Physics Letters 100 091908 2012