Prof. Issai Shlimak

Present Position:

Professor of Physics

Head of Semiconductor Laboratory

Jack and Pearl Resnick Institute of Advanced Technology,

Incumbent of the Erick and Sheila Samson Chair of Semiconductor Technology

Education:

1979 D.Sc. (Habilitation) A. F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute Russian Academy of Sciences, St.-Petersburg (Leningrad), Russia

1969 Ph.D. A. F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute Russian Academy of Sciences, St.-Petersburg, Russia

1964 M.Sc. Baku State University

Employment experience:

1990– present Bar-Ilan University, Professor of Physics

1981 – 1990 A.F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, Leningrad, USSR, Leading Researcher

1967 – 1981 A.F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute Researcher, Senior Researcher

Area of scientific activity:

Physics and technology of semiconductors.

Isotopically engineered semiconductors, neutron-transmutation doping.

Electron transport phenomena in doped semiconductors, amorphous films, conducting polymers.

Hopping conductivity, electron-electron interaction, metal-insulator transition.

Teaching activity:

Courses for students:

• Physics and technology of semiconductors

• Non-crystalline semiconductors and conducting polymers

• Physics of semiconductor devices

• Solid state electronics and optoelectronics.

Honors and awards:

• Council of Ministers of the USSR Prize with a Medal and Diploma, 1983.

• Barecha Fellowship for outstanding immigrant scientists, the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 1990-1995.