Biography

Prof. Volkmar Dierolf

Lehigh University, USA


Email: [email protected]


Qualifications

1992 Ph.D., Habilitation, Universität Paderborn, Germany

1987 Physics, Diploma (with distinction), University of Utah, USA

1987 Physics, Diploma (with distinction), Universität Stuttgart, Germany


Publications(Selected)


  1. Thapa, R., Jain, H., Dierolf, V., et al. (2026). Atomistic understanding of interdependence of crystal growth of two seeds embedded in glass. Acta Materialia, 316, 122453.
  2. Thapa, R., Mckenzie, M. E., Musterman, E., et al. (2024). Machine learning based insights of seeded congruent crystal growth of LiNbO 3 in glass. Acta Materialia, 276, 120115.
  3. Thapa, R., Mustermann, E. J., Jain, H., et al. (2026). Rotation of Crystal Seed During Early Stages of Growth Reveals the Anisotropy of Glass Matrix. Advanced Science, 13(29).
  4. Au-Yeung, C., Savytskii, D., Veenhuizen, K., et al. (2021). Polarization and Surface Effects on the Seed Orientation of Laser-Induced Sb2S3 Crystals on Sb-S-I Glass. Crystal Growth & Design, 21(8), 4276–4284.
  5. Au-Yeung, C., Savytskii, D., Veenhuizen, K., et al. (2021). Effect of Laser Beam Profile on Rotating Lattice Single Crystal Growth in Sb2S3 Model Glass. Crystals, 11(1), 36.
  6. Au-Yeung, C., Stan, C., Tamura, N., et al. (2020). In situ study of rotating lattice single-crystal formation in Sb2S3 glass by Laue μXRD. Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 103(7), 3954–3961.
  7. Barker, C., Jain, H., & Dierolf, V. (2024). Engineering order in the lattice of LiNbO 3 crystal written in glass by femtosecond laser. Optical Materials, 152, 115514.
  8. Barker, C., Knorr, B., Michálková, M., et al. (2025). Femtosecond laser crystallization of YAG in yttrium aluminosilicate glasses. International Journal of Applied Glass Science, 16(4).
  9. Isotta, E., Wynnychenko, R., Mukherjee, B., et al. (2026). Local Thermal Conductivity Patterning in Rotating Lattice Crystals of Anisotropic Sb2S3. Advanced Functional Materials, 36(16).
  10. Jain, H., Savytskii, D., & Dierolf, V. (2019). Single Crystal Growth via Solid → Solid Transformation of Glass. Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals, 72(8), 1971–1979.
  11. McAnany, S. D., Veenhuizen, K. J., Kiss, A. M., et al. (2021). Evolution of glass structure during femtosecond laser assisted crystallization of LaBGeO5 in glass. Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 551, 120396.
  12. Mitchell, B., Austin, H., Timmerman, D., et al. (2021). Temporally modulated energy shuffling in highly interconnected nanosystems. Nanophotonics, 10(2), 851–876.
  13. Musterman, E. J., Dierolf, V., & Jain, H. (2022). Electron beam heating as a tool for fabricating lattice engineered crystals in glass [Invited]. Optical Materials Express, 12(8), 3248–3261.
  14. Musterman, E. J., Dierolf, V., & Jain, H. (2022). Curved lattices of crystals formed in glass. International Journal of Applied Glass Science, 13(3), 402–419.
  15. Musterman, E. J., Dierolf, V., & Jain, H. (2025). Dislocation-Driven Formation of Oriented Macroperiodic Metastructures of Curved Single Crystal Lattices in Glass. Advanced Science, 12(12), 2412833.
  16. Musterman, E. J., Savytskii, D., Dierolf, V., et al. (2021). The source of lattice rotation in rotating lattice single (RLS) crystals. Scripta Materialia, 193, 22–26.
  17. Savytskii, D., Musterman, E., Dierolf, V., et al. (2019). Influence of the Laser Scanning Rate on the Structure of Rotating Lattice Single Crystal Lines. Crystal Growth & Design, 19(11), 6324–6330.
  18. Sun, W., Dierolf, V., & Jain, H. (2021). Molecular dynamics simulation of the effect of cooling rate on the structure and properties of lithium disilicate glass. Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 569, 120991.
  19. Sun, W., Dierolf, V., & Jain, H. (2021). Effects of Surface Orientation and Termination Plane on Glass-to-Crystal Transformation of Lithium Disilicate by Molecular Dynamics Simulations. Physica Status Solidi B-Basic Solid State Physics, 258(9), 2000427.
  20. Sun, W., Veenhuizen, K., Marsh, J., et al. (2022). Determination of the structure of lithium niobosilicate glasses by molecular dynamics simulation with a new Nb-O potential. Computational Materials Science, 207, 111307.
  21. Veenhuizen, K., Barker, C., Franklin, J., et al. (2022). The role of glass composition in the 3D laser fabrication of lithium niobate single crystal in lithium niobosilicate glass. Optical Materials, 128, 112380.


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