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PhD Evgenia Petrova Valcheva, Professor

 

Department of Solid State Physics and Microelectronics,

Faculty of Physics,

Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski",

5, James Bourchier Blvd., 1164 Sofia

e-mail: epv(at)phys.uni-sofia(.)bg

phone: (+359 2) 8161 898

Curriculum vitae

 

Head of group

Electronic and Phonon Properties of Solid State Materials and Structures

Education:

Master degree in solid state physics, Faculty of Physics, Sofia University
Ph.D., Faculty of Physics, Sofia University , 1989,
Thesis : Investigation of the electro-physical properties of the interface plasma-enhanced CVD SiO 2 - InSb

 

Habilitation:

1997, Faculty of Physics, Sofia University

 

 

Employment history:

 

·      1997- Associate Professor, Dept. of Solid State Physics and Microelectronics, Faculty of Physics, Sofia Universiy

·      1990 – 1997 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Solid State Physics and Microelectronics, Faculty of Physics, Sofia University

·      1983 – 1990 Physicist , Dept. of Solid State Physics and Microelectronics, Faculty of Physics, Sofia University

Teaching experience

 

 

·      Lectures:

·      Solid Sate Physics – since 2003

·      Introductory material physics – since 2005

·      Analytical methods for characterization of materials for microelectronics – since 1989

·      Physics of Semiconductors and Semiconductor Devices – 2001/02
Ion beam, electron and photon technologies - 1997/98

·      Semiconductor devices physics (in English, TEMPUS program)- 1998/99

·      Properties of surfaces and interfaces
Laboratory Physics:

·      General Physics (Electricity and Magnetism , Optics)- since 1985

·      Experimental Solid State Physics - since 1989
Supervising graduate and doctoral students projects

 

Fields of expertise:

 

Primary research interests concern the relationship between microstructure and properties of solid state materials; electronic and phonon properties, structural properties, optical properties, semiconductors; thin films and low-dimensional systems ; surfaces and interfaces; point defects, extended defects, condensed-matter spectroscopy; interactions of radiation and particles with condensed matter; nanoelectronics, nanotechnology, epitaxy, CVD;

materials : Si, GaAs, InSb, SiC, AlN, GaN, InN , thernary compounds; experimental methods : Raman, IR spectroscopy, PL, I-V, C-V, DLTS

 

Grants, Visits, Activities

 

·             Nov.1995 - Jan.1996, Glasgow University, Dept. of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Nanoelectronics Research Center, TEMPUS Scholarship

·             Sept.1999 - Feb.2000, Visiting scientist, Linköping University , Sweden

·             Jan.- March.2001,Visiting scientist, Linköping University , Sweden

·             2001, one week, Research Grant, Research Center Juelich

·             2003, one week, Research Grant, Forschungszentrum Rossendorf - Institute of Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research

·             July- Dec.2002, Visiting scientist, Linköping University, Sweden, Project of EC FP6, DENIS G5RD-CT-2001-00566

·             AFOSR Grant , USA , one week, 2005.
Reviewer for Phys. Rev. B

International Projects:

 

·             2003, Research Project funded by Swedish foundation for international cooperation and research (STINT)

·             2006/07 DAAD Project, Institute of Ion Assisted Surface Modification, Leipzig , Germany

 

National Projects:

·             Head of 2 and p articipant in 9 scientific projects, funded by the Bulgarian National Science Fund

·             Head of 3 and participant in 3 scientific projects, funded by the Sofia University Research Fund

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