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  • 2006 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For contributions to the development of the materials theory of oxides and their interfaces, as applied to CMOS technology development

Overview

Alexander A. Demkov is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science, Engineering, and Physics and Astronomy.

The scientist's work focuses on several key subfields including Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, and Biomedical Engineering. Within these areas, their main topics of study cover Photonic and Optical Devices, Photorefractive and Nonlinear Optics, Semiconductor materials and devices, Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials, Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides, ZnO doping and properties, and Magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials.

Alexander A. Demkov has contributed to multiple high-impact publication venues. Notably, they have published extensively in:

  • Journal of Applied Physics (14 publications)
  • Physical Review Materials (9 publications)
  • Physical Review B (5 publications)
  • Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A Vacuum Surfaces and Films (4 publications)
  • Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B Nanotechnology and Microelectronics Materials Processing Measurement and Phenomena (2 publications)

Their recent papers include:

  • "Design rules for strong electro-optic materials" (2020) published in npj Computational Materials
  • "Thick BaTiO3 Epitaxial Films Integrated on Si by RF Sputtering for Electro-Optic Modulators in Si Photonics" (2021) in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
  • "Epitaxial integration of BaTiO3 on Si for electro-optic applications" (2021) in Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A Vacuum Surfaces and Films
  • "Materials for emergent silicon-integrated optical computing" (2021) in Journal of Applied Physics
  • "β-Ga2O3 on Si (001) grown by plasma-assisted MBE with γ-Al2O3 (111) buffer layer: Structural characterization" (2021) in AIP Advances

The researcher frequently collaborates with other scientists including Agham Posadas, Marc Reynaud, Wente Li, John G. Ekerdt, and Sunah Kwon.

Alexander A. Demkov has also been involved in authoring books published by World Scientific. Among these is the repeated publication titled "Handbook of Molecular Beam Epitaxy of Oxide Materials" from the year 2024.

The scientist was awarded the status of Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2006, with a citation for contributions to the development of the materials theory of oxides and their interfaces, particularly in relation to CMOS technology development.

Best Publications

  • Large Pockels effect in micro- and nanostructured barium titanate integrated on silicon

    Stefan Abel;Felix Eltes;J. Elliott Ortmann;Andreas Messner

  • Electronic structure approach for complex silicas.

    Alexander A. Demkov;José Ortega;Otto F. Sankey;Matthew P. Grumbach

  • A silicon-based photocathode for water reduction with an epitaxial SrTiO3 protection layer and a nanostructured catalyst

    Li Ji;Martin D. Mcdaniel;Shijun Wang;Agham-Bayan S Posadas

  • Wide-band-gap Si in open fourfold-coordinated clathrate structures.

    Gary B. Adams;Michael Okeeffe;Alexander A Demkov;Otto F. Sankey

  • Switching of ferroelectric polarization in epitaxial BaTiO3 films on silicon without a conducting bottom electrode

    Catherine Dubourdieu;John Bruley;Thomas M. Arruda;Agham Posadas

  • Further developments in the local-orbital density-functional-theory tight-binding method

    James P. Lewis;Kurt R. Glaesemann;Gregory A. Voth;Jürgen Fritsch

  • Charge origin and localization at the n -type SrTiO 3 / LaAlO 3 interface

    Jaekwang Lee;Alexander A. Demkov

  • Advances and applications in the FIREBALL ab initio tight-binding molecular-dynamics formalism

    James P. Lewis;Pavel Jelínek;José Ortega;Alexander A. Demkov

  • Fermi level pinning by defects in HfO2-metal gate stacks

    J. Robertson;O. Sharia;Alexander A Demkov

  • Crystallization in hafnia- and zirconia-based systems

    S. V. Ushakov;A. Navrotsky;Y. Yang;S. Stemmer

  • Electronic structure of oxygen vacancies in SrTiO 3 and LaAlO 3

    C. Mitra;C. Lin;J. Robertson;Alexander A. Demkov

  • Theoretical investigation of random Si-C alloys.

    Alexander A. Demkov;Otto F. Sankey

  • Two-dimensional growth of high-quality strontium titanate thin films on Si

    H. Li;X. Hu;Y. Wei;Z. Yu

  • Atomic and electronic structure of the Si/SrTiO3 interface

    X. Zhang;Alexander A Demkov;Hao Li;X. Hu

  • Highly controllable and stable quantized conductance and resistive switching mechanism in single-crystal TiO2 resistive memory on silicon.

    Chengqing Hu;Martin D. McDaniel;Agham-Bayan S Posadas;Alexander A Demkov

  • Investigating Alternative Gate Dielectrics: A Theoretical Approach

    Alexander A Demkov

  • Optical properties of bulk and thin-film SrTiO3 on Si and Pt

    Stefan Zollner;Alexander A Demkov;R. Liu;P. L. Fejes

  • Mechanism of cleaning Si(100) surface using Sr or SrO for the growth of crystalline SrTiO3 films

    Yi Wei;Xiaoming Hu;Yong Liang;D. C. Jordan

  • Materials Fundamentals of Gate Dielectrics

    Alexander A. Demkov;Alexandra Navrotsky

  • Monoclinic to tetragonal transformations in hafnia and zirconia: A combined calorimetric and density functional study

    Xuhui Luo;Wei Zhou;Sergey V. Ushakov;Alexandra Navrotsky

  • Growth Study and Theoretical Investigation of the Ultrathin Oxide SiO 2 − Si Heterojunction

    Alexander A. Demkov;Otto F. Sankey

Frequent Co-Authors

John G. Ekerdt
John G. Ekerdt The University of Texas at Austin
Otto F. Sankey
Otto F. Sankey Arizona State University
Martha R. McCartney
Martha R. McCartney Arizona State University
Moon J. Kim
Moon J. Kim The University of Texas at Dallas
Edward T. Yu
Edward T. Yu The University of Texas at Austin
Gennadi Bersuker
Gennadi Bersuker The Aerospace Corporation
Daniele Caimi
Daniele Caimi IBM (United States)
Qian He
Qian He National University of Singapore
Albina Y. Borisevich
Albina Y. Borisevich Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Bich-Yen Nguyen
Bich-Yen Nguyen Soitec (France)

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