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.
