updated April 2010

Name:

 

AROUTIOUNIAN VLADIMIR

Title:

Doctor of Phys.-Math. Sci., Professor, Academician of National Academy of Sciences and Engineering Academy of Armenia

Telephone/Fax:

E-mail:

+374 10 555590

kisahar@ysu.am

Graduated:

 

Kiever Polytechnic Institute, Kiev, Ukraine

Semiconductors and Insulators, 1964

Post Graduate:

 

 

Institute for Radio Physics and Electronics of Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Ashtarak, Armenia

Physics of Semiconductors and Insulators, 1969

 

Candidate:

 

Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia

Physics of Semiconductors and Insulators 1970

Theoretical investigations of double and avalanche injection in semiconductors

 

Doctoral:

 

 

 

Professor:

 

National Academy of Sciences of Armenia:

 

Vilnius State University, Vilnius, Lithuania

Physics of Semiconductors and Insulators 1977

Investigations of generation-recombination phenomena and double injection in semiconductors with a complicate bandgap

in the same field - 1981 (High Certification Commission of USSR , Moscow, USSR).


Corresponding - member of National Academy of Sciences of Armenia (1990 - 1996); Academician of National Academy of Sciences of Armenia (1996 - up to now) Yerevan, Armenia

Academician of the Engineering Academy of Armenia (1999 - up to now) Yerevan, Armenia.

 

Current Research Interests:

  

Honors , Awards,

Fellowships

Membership of Professional Societies

 

 

Photoelectrochemical production of hydrogen and (thermo) photoelectric conversion of solar energy (solar cells), Physical properties of new semiconductor materials and structures; Chemical sensors, e-nose; Nanoelectronics and nanoscale effects. Microwave semi - and superconductor devices.

 Governmental award-medal "Anania Shirakaci", Prize 2007 of President of Armenia, Award of Prime-Minister in 2009. Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Member of the  Intern. Engineering Academy and Intern. Academy of  Sciences "Ararat" ( France). Editor-in-Chief of Izv . NAN Arm. Fizika /J. Contemporary Physics (NAS, Armenia / Allerton Press, USA/Springer/) and Armenian Journal of Physics, member of Sci. Council of Inter. Journal Alternative Energetics and Ecology as well as  Journal Armenian Army. He was involved in past as the member of the Editor. Board of Int. Journal "Solar Cells" (Switzerland), reviewer of INTAS program projects, Active Member of New-York Academy of Sciences. Now he is the reviewer of several International  journals. Member of Intern. Solar Energy Society, European Soc. on Quantum Solar Energy Conversion and European Materials Sci. Soc. Organizer and member of Org. Committee of many International, Republicans and All-Soviet Union Conferences in 1969-2009. Co-director of Intern. Organizing Committee of 1st and 2nd World Congresses on Alternative Energy and Ecology(2006, 2010). He was awarded by medal "For Contribution in World Science" (2006). Medal of ArmTech’09 Congress (USA, 2009).

 

Subsidiary Research Interests:


Specialization:

 

Microwave Devices, High-Temperature Superconductors. Quantum-size semiconductor structures.

 

Solar cells, Physics and Photoelectrochemistry of Solid State, Infrared and Microwave Devices, Semiconductor materials, Sensors, Optoelectronics. In Soviet time - military semiconductor infrared devices and materials, photoelectrochemical production of hydrogen and oxygen, microwave devices.

 

Career/Employment (employers, positions and dates)

 

 

 

 

Scientific visits abroad (out of the Soviet Union and NIS):

Institute for Radio physics and Electronics of Academy of Sciences of Armenia - as engineer , research worker, scientific secretary of Institute , senior research worker- 1965 - 1974 ; head of  Laboratory of Semiconductor Devices -1974-1989 .
Yerevan State University - Head of Department of Physics of Semiconductors and Microelectronics and Scientific Adviser of Research Laboratory of Physics of Semiconductor Materials and Devices -1977- up to now.


Long-term service trips:
USA (2000-32 days, 1984-6 months), France (2002-2003-47 days, 2000-6 weeks, 1997-3 months), Italy (1999-2000-75 days, 1995, 1994 and 1990-one month each), Germany (2000-5 weeks, 1996-70 days), Greece(1995-one month), Great Britain(1975-1976-3 months), Romania(1972- 3 months)
I participated in Int. scientific conferences and made scientific work in France (20 times), USA (15), Germany (6), Austria (5), Italy (4), Spain (3), Czech Republic (3), Hungary (3), Sweden (2), Belgium (2), Iran (2), Greece, Norway, New Zeeland, Denmark, Poland, Japan, Malaysia, Portugal and Switzerland. I published more than 50 joint papers with foreign Scientists and got 4 joint patents. 

 

Publications: (available upon request. See also department's list of recent publications)

Number of papers in referred journals: 400

Number of books: 14

Number of reports and Abstracts on scientific meetings:  235   

Number of patents: 42

 

 

To 60th birthday of Prof. V.M. Aroutiounian in: