CURRICULUM VITAE

Levon V. Asryan, Ph.D., Dr.Sci.

Personal:

Born: 1963 in Talin, Armenia

Employment:

2000-presentVisiting Senior Researcher
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
State University of New York at Stony Brook
Stony Brook, NY, USA
1999-presentSenior Researcher
Laboratory of Theoretical Bases of Microelectronics
Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute
1994-98 Researcher
Laboratory of Theoretical Bases of Microelectronics
Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute
1992-94 Researcher
Laboratory of Physical and Functional Microelectronics
Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute
1989-91, 1985Junior Researcher
Laboratory of Physics of Semiconductor Materials and Devices
Department of Radiophysics
Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia

Scientific Degrees:

2002Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences degree (Dr.Sci.)
Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia

Thesis: "Theory of threshold characteristics of semiconductor quantum dot lasers"
 
1988Ph.D. degree in Physics and Mathematics
Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia

Thesis: "Trapping and separation of non-equilibrium carriers in inhomogeneous semiconductors and in p-n junctions"
 
1985 M.Sc. degree in Radiophysics and Electronics
(Diploma With Honours)
Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia

Thesis: "Photoconductivity of inhomogeneous semiconductor solid solutions"

Education:

1985-1988 Graduate student
Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
1980-1985 Student
Department of Radiophysics, Yerevan State University

Current research interests:

Awards:

2001 State Prize of the Russian Federation in Science and Technology
(the highest Russian Scientific award)
was awarded to

Zh.I. Alferov, L.V. Asryan, D. Bimberg, P.S. Kop'ev, N.N. Ledentsov, V.A. Shchukin, R.A. Suris, and V.M. Ustinov

"For fundamental investigations of the formation processes and the properties of heterostructures with quantum dots and the development of lasers based on these structures"
 
2001 Winner of the first IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics Best Paper Award for the paper

"Gain and threshold characteristics of long wavelength lasers based on InAs/GaAs quantum dots formed by activated alloy phase separation".
IEEE J. Quantum Electron., vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 676-683, May 2001.
 
2000 Laureate of the Best-Work Prize of the Division of Solid State Electronics of the Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute for a series of papers

"Threshold and high power characteristics of InGaAsP/InP multiple quantum well lasers"
 
1998 Winner of the Best-Work Prize of the Division of Solid State Electronics of the Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute
and Laureate of the best-work prize of the Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute for a series of papers

"Theory of the threshold current of a semiconductor quantum dot laser"
 
1983-1985 Personal Stipend With Honours from the U.S.S.R. Ministry of Education

Reviewing activities:

Other professional activities:

Visiting positions:

September 2000 -
present
Visiting Senior Researcher
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Center for Advanced Sensor Technology
State University of New York
Stony Brook, New York, USA
October 1999 -
January 2000
Visiting Senior Researcher
Institut fuer Festkoerperphysik
Technische Universitaet
Berlin, Germany
August 1996 Visiting Researcher
International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Trieste, Italy

International collaborators:

1995-98 Nortel Networks
"Simulation of threshold and high power characteristics of multiple quantum well lasers"

Languages:

English, Russian, Armenian

Publications

Invited presentations


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