Diana Carina Skigin

Associate Profesor Independent Researcher (CONICET) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Personal web page Applied Electromagnetism Group

Research area: Optics and Photonics

• Natural photonic structures
• Biomimetics
• Scattering
• Photonic Crystals
• Electromagnetic methods
• Inverse Problems
• Machine learning

Interests

Electromagnetic effects in Biological structures;
Design and optimization of biomimetic structures;
Rigorous methods for electromagnetic scattering;
Inverse problems, Neural networks;
Resonant phenomena in corrugated surfaces.

Selected publications

1. C. D’Ambrosio, G. Urquia, H. Hoelscher, M. Inchaussandague and D. Skigin, “Analysis of the optical response of reptile tissues in the visible and UV applying the KKR method”, Opt. Express 31, 40366-40379 (2023), DOI: 10.1364/OE.504777
2. G. Urquia, M. Inchaussandague and D. Skigin, “Color optimization of a core-shell nanoparticles layer using machine learning techniques”, Results in Optics 10, 100334 (2023), DOI: 10.1016/j.rio.2022.100334.
3. A. Dolinko, L. Borgmann, C. Lutz, E. Curticean, I. Wacker, M. S. Vidal, C. Szischik, Y. Donie, M. Inchaussandague, D. Skigin, H. Hoelscher, P. Tubaro, and A. Barreira, “Analysis of the optical properties of the silvery spots on the wings of the Gulf Fritillary, Dione vanillae”, Sci. Reports 11, 19341 (2021), DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-98237-9.
4. D. Muñeton Arboleda, M. Lester, M. Dalfovo, D. Skigin, M. Inchaussandague and F. Ibañez, “Theory of optical coupling effects among surfactant Au NP films,” Plasmonics (2020), DOI: 10.1007/s11468-020-01133-7
5. C. D'Ambrosio, D. Skigin, M. Inchaussandague, A. Barreira and P. Tubaro, “Structural color in the Swallow Tanager (Tersinaviridis): using the Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker method to simulate disorder in natural photonic crystals,” Phys. Rev. E 98, 032403 (2018), DOI:10.1103/PhysRevE.98.032403.
6. D. Skigin, M. Inchaussandague, D. Macías and A. Vial, “Determination of the spectral-dependent refractive index of a single layer in a natural multilayer system: comparison of different approaches,” Appl. Opt. 56, 1807-1816 (2017), DOI: 10.1364/AO.56.001807.
7. D. Skigin, J. Fowlkes, N. Roberts, L. Scaffardi, D. Schinca and M. Lester, “Control of the diffracted response of a metallic wire array with double period: experimental demonstration,” Opt. Lett. 39, 5693-5696 (2014), DOI: 10.1364/OL.39.005693.
8. M. Navarro-Cía, D. Skigin, M. Beruete, and M. Sorolla, “Experimental demonstration of phase resonances in metallic compound gratings with subwavelength slits in the millimeter wave regime”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 94, 091107 (2009), DOI: 10.1063/1.3086892
9. D. Skigin and R. Depine, “Transmission resonances of metallic compound gratings with subwavelength slits”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 21, 217402 (2005), DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.217402.
10. D. Skigin, V. Veremey and R. Mittra, “Superdirective radiation from finite gratings of rectangular grooves”, IEEE Trans. on Antennas Propag. 47 (2), 376-383 (1999), DOI: 10.1109/8.761078