Malka
Itamar
(My
Curriculum Vita) |
- Ph.D. Physics,
Electro-Optics, Department of
Physics, Ben-Gurion University, Israel. 2011.
Research Field:
"Development of compact Raman spectrometer utilizing Raman scattering
and Coherent Anti-Stock Raman scattering"
(Research proposal for Ph.D.
thesis)
Advisor:
Prof. Ilana Bar
- M.Sc Physics,
Electro-Optics, Department of Physics,
Ben-Gurion University, Israel. 2008-2010.
Thesis Title:
"Spectral
Signatures of Flexible Biomolecules"
The structure of biomolecules plays an important role in determining
their selectivity and functionality. Molecular shapes and conformations
of gas phase biomolecules are mostly investigated by coupling infrared
(IR) excitation of fundamental vibrational modes with resonant two
photon ionization (R2PI) in the ultraviolet (UV). However, due to the
lack of tunable laser sources in the entire IR region, spectral
features can be monitored only in a limited range. Therefore, we
develop and employ, for the first time, a method combining Stimulated
Raman Excitation (SRE) with ion dip spectroscopy (IDS) to investigate
and map conformations of small biomolecules. Our results show the great
potential of the ILSRS technique, for obtaining the spectral
signatures of biomolecules, while using available laser sources.
(M.Sc. thesis, Hebrew)
Advisor:
Prof. Ilana Bar
- B.A Natural Science,
Department of Natural Sciences,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel. (2003-2007).
Talks
- "Detection of Explosives and Latent Fingerprint
Residues Utilizing
Laser Pointer Based Raman Spectroscopy", I. Malka, A. Petrushansky, S.
Rosenwaks, and I. Bar,
Laser Science XXVIII—the American Physical Society Division of Laser
Science’s Annual Meeting—collocated with the Optical Society’s (OSA)
Annual Meeting, Frontier in Optics (FiO), Rochester, N.Y. 2012,
LTh3I.3. Selected by OSA and advertised in:
http://www.osa.org/en-us/about_osa/newsroom/newsreleases/2012/from_lectures_to_explosives_detection_green_laser/
- “Detection of explosives and latent fingerprint
residues utilizing
laser pointer–based Raman spectroscopy” I. Malka, A. Petrushansky, S.
Rosenwaks, and I. Bar, the Israel Physics Society Annual Meeting, The
Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel.
Publications
- I. Malka, S. Rosenwaks, and I. Bar, Photo-guided
sampling for rapid detection and imaging of traces of explosives by a
compact Raman spectrometer, Appl. Phys. Lett. 104, 221103 (2014).
- I. Malka, S. Rosenwaks, and I. Bar, Laser-Based
Detection of Explosives and Related Compounds, Springer
Science+Business Media Dordrecht “Detection of Chemical, Biological,
Radiological and Nuclear Agents for the Prevention of Terrorism”, Ch.
12, (2014).
- I. Malka, A. Petrushansky, S. Rosenwaks and I. Bar,
Detection of Explosives and Latent Fingerprint Residues Utilizing Laser
Pointer Based Raman Spectroscopy, Appl. Phys. B 113, 511 (2013).
- N. Mayorkas, I. Malka and I. Bar, Ionization-loss
stimulated Raman spectroscopy for conformational probing of flexible
molecules, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys, 13, 6808 (2011).
Collaborated Publications
- U. Stoin, A. Shames, I. Malka, I. Bar and Y. Sasson,
In situ Generation of Superoxide Anion Radical in Aqueous Medium under
Ambient Conditions, ChemPhysChem, 14,18, 4158 (2013).
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