updated April 2010 Name:	Zaven AdamYan
		Title:	Candidate of Phys-Math. Sci. (PhD), Senior Scientist
		Telephone/Fax:	+37410 267436
		E-mail:	zad@ysu.am
Graduated:	Dept. of Radioelectronics, Kiev Polytechnic Institute, Kiev, Ukraine, 1967, Electron techniques engineer on semiconductors and dielectrics
Highest Degree and Titles:	1975 Degree of Candidate of Phys-Math Sciences (Ph. D), Yerevan State University, Physics of semiconductors and dielectrics, Yerevan, Armenia, 1975 PhD thesis theme: Experimental and Theoretical Investigations of the Electrophysical Properties of Light-sensitive S-Diodes Based on Silicon Compensated with Zinc 1982 - Title of Senior Scientist, Academy of Sciences USSR
Awards and Prizes	2007 - Armenian President Prize for technical sciences and information technologies
Main Research Interests:	Physics and processing technique of different semiconductor devices, thin films, silicon infrared detectors and solar cells, metal-oxides and silicon nanostructures, thin-film nanostructured chemical and gas sensors.
Subsidiary Research Interests:	IR radiometers, development of methods for semiconductor performance measurement, magnetodiodes, temperature, and electrons beam sensors, noise in semiconductors.
Research Experience:	Grants of Ministry of Science and Education of Armenia, 041030 Semiconductor Nanoelectronics" State Target Scientific Program, ISTC grants A-322, and A-1232, CRDF-IPP ARE2-10838-YE-05 project, CRDF-IPP AEO-10829-YE-03 project.
Main Publications (overall number of publications 145 out of which more than 80 - in peer reviewed international scientific journals and proceedings of the international conferences; 2 books, 4 USSR, 3 Armenian and 1 US Patents): 1. A.Z. Adamyan, Z.N. Adamian, V.M. Aroutiounian, A.H. Arakelyan, J. Turner, K. Touryan, Sol-Gel Derived Thin-film Semiconductor Hydrogen Gas Sensor, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, v.32, N16, pp. 4101-4108, 2007. 2. A.Z. Adamyan, Z.N. Adamyan, V.M. Aroutiounian, Capacitance method for determination of porous silicon parameters, Physica Status Solidi (C) 4, No 6, 1976-1980, 2007. 3. A.Z. Adamian, Z.N. Adamyan, V.M. Aroutiounian, Smoke sensor with overcoming of humidity cross sensitivity, Sensors and Actuators B 93 pp. 416-421 (2003). 4. A.Z. Adamyan, Z.N. Adamian, V.M. Aroutiounian, Preparation of SnO2 films with thermally stable nanoparticles, Sensors, 3, pp. 438-442 (2003). 5. Z.N. Adamian, A.P. Hakhoyan, V.M. Aroutiounian, R.S. Barseghian, K. Touryan, Investigations of Solar Cells with Porous Silicon as Antireflection Layer, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells 64, pp.347-351 (2000). 6. V.M. Aroutiounian, A.P. Hakhoyan, Z.N. Adamian, R.S. Barseghian, Laser-stimulated doping of silicon with magnesium, Modern Physics Letters B, 13, N14, pp. 479-484 (1999). 7. Yu.A. Abrahamyan, Z.N. Adamian, V.M. Aroutiounian, F.V. Gasparyan, S.G. Martirossian, An IR-Radiometer with Internal Signal Modulation, Int. J. Infrared and Millimeter Waves 19, 6, pp. 827-833 (1998). 8. Z.N. Adamian, V.M. Aroutiounian, H.V. Abovian, Smoke sensor on the base of Bi2O3 sesquioxide, Sensors and Actuators B 35-36, pp. 241-243 (1996). 9. F.V. Gasparian, V.M. Aroutiounian, Z.N. Adamian, Silicon Photodetectors, YSU, Yerevan, 1989, p. 362 (in Russian).
Recent Publications: 1. Study of sensitivity and response kinetics changes for SnO2 thin-film hydrogen sensors, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, v. 34, N19, 8438-8443, 2009 A.Z. Adamyan, Z.N. Adamyan, V.M. Aroutiounian 2. Improvement and stabilization of thin-film hydrogen sensors parameters Armenian Journal of Physics v. 2, N 3, 200-212, 2009 A.Z. Adamyan, Z.N. Adamyan, V.M. Aroutiounian, K.D. Schierbaum, S-D. Han 3. Development of program-controlled titania nanotube array formation technique Proc. of the Seventh Int. Conf. on Semiconductor Micro- and Nanoelectronics, Tsakhcadzor, Armenia, July 3-5, 2009, pp. 168-171 V.M. Aroutiounian, A.Z. Adamyan, E.A. Khachaturyan, K.M. Gambaryan, Z.N. Adamyan. V.M. Arakelyan 4. Tin dioxide thin film hydrogen nanosensor Proc. of SPIE Conference v.6943: Sensors, and Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence (C3I) Technologies for Homeland Security and Homeland Defense VII, 6943OJ-1-12, 2008 A.Z. Adamyan, Z.N. Adamyan, V.M. Aroutiounian, A.H. Arakelyan 5. Capacitance method for determination of porous silicon parameters Physica E: Low-Dimensional Systems & Nanostructures, 38, N1-2 (2007) 164-167; A.Z. Adamyan, Z.N. Adamyan, V.M. Aroutiounian 6. Sol-Gel Derived Thin-film Semiconductor Hydrogen Gas Sensor International Journal of Hydrogen Energy v.32, N16 (2007) pp. 4101-4108 A.Z. Adamyan, Z.N. Adamyan, V.M. Aroutiounian, A.H. Arakelyan, J. Turner, K. Touryan 7. Determination of basic parameters of porous silicon J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys., 39 (2006) 3543-3546 A.Z. Adamyan, Z.N. Adamyan and V.M. Aroutiounian 8. Sol-gel technologies for hydrogen sensitive thin film preparation International Scientific Journal for Alternative Energy and Ecology (ISJAEE), N6, (2006) 24-25, and N8(40) (2006) 24-30 A.Z. Adamyan, Z.N. Adamyan and V.M. Aroutiounian 9. Low-temperature high sensitive thin-film hydrogen sensor International Scientific Journal for Alternative Energy and Ecology (ISJAEE), N6, (2006) 26-27, and N9(41), (2006) 11-16 A.Z. Adamyan, Z.N. Adamyan and V.M. Aroutiounian, A.H. Arakelyan 10. Hydrogen and carbon monoxide gas sensing properties of sol-gel derived tin oxide thin films Proc. of the 18 Int. Meeting on Chemical Sensors, Brescia, Italy, 2006, AP132M (CD) A.Z. Adamyan, Z.N. Adamyan, V.M. Aroutiounian, A.H. Arakelyan 11. Metal-oxide hydrogen sensor for fuel-cell applications Proceeding of the WHEC 16 / 13-16 June 2006 - Lyon France CD N183, pp. 1/5-5/5 A.Z. Adamyan, Z.N. Adamian and V.M. Aroutiounian, A.H. Arakelyan, A.S. Stepanyan 12. Semiconductor H2 Leakage Sensor Theses of the Second Renewable Energy Conf. Energy for Future", Yerevan, June 27-28, 2005, Armenia, (2005) 26 A.Z. Adamyan, Z.N. Adamyan, V.M. Aroutiounian, A.H. Arakelyan, K.J. Touryan, J.A. Turner 13. Stability of the photoluminescence decay kinetics and performance of porous silicon based photoelectric structures International Scientific Journal for Alternative Energy and Ecology (ISJAEE), N12(32) (2005) 76-79 B.O. Semerjian, Z.N. Adamyan, Kh.S. Martirosyan 14. MgF2/Porous Silicon Double-Layer Antireflection Coating For Silicon Solar Cells Proc. of the Fifth Int. Conf. Semiconductor Micro- and Nanoelectronics, Agveran, September 16-18, 2005, Armenia, (2005) 223-226 A.Z. Adamyan, A.P. Hakhoyan, Z.N. Adamian, V.M. Aroutiounian 15. On design of low power electronic nose control system Proc. of Engineering Academy of Armenia 2, N1 (2005) 141-145 A.S. Stepanyan, V.M. Aroutiounian, Z.N. Adamian, A.Z. Adamyan