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Sylwester Porowski

Sylwester Porowski

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Materials Science
Poland
2025

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Materials Science

D-Index
64
Citations
14556
World Ranking
5901
National Ranking
11

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Materials Science in Poland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Poland Leader Award
  • 2013 - Prize of the Foundation for Polish Science - Nagroda Fundacji na rzecz Nauki Polskiej for developing a high-pressure method for producing gallium nitride monocrystals

Overview

Sylwester Porowski is affiliated with the Polish Academy of Sciences in Poland. Their research spans several fields including Materials Science, Physics and Astronomy, and Engineering, with notable contributions to subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Condensed Matter Physics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Geophysics, and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

The main topics of their research focus on semiconductor and advanced materials, particularly:

  • GaN-based semiconductor devices and materials
  • ZnO doping and properties
  • Semiconductor materials and devices
  • High-pressure geophysics and materials
  • Thermal properties of materials
  • Ga2O3 and related materials
  • Intermetallics and Advanced Alloy Properties

Several frequently published venues for their work include:

  • Solid State Communications
  • Physical Review B
  • Chemistry of Materials
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Materials

Recent notable papers authored or coauthored by Sylwester Porowski include:

  • "Experimental and theoretical evidence of the temperature-induced wurtzite to rocksalt phase transition in GaN under high pressure," 2020, Physical Review B
  • "Melting versus Decomposition of GaN: Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Study and Comparison to Experimental Data," 2023, Chemistry of Materials
  • "Nitrogen Dissolution in Liquid Ga and Fe: Comprehensive Ab Initio Analysis, Relevance for Crystallization of GaN," 2021, Materials
  • "Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Insight to Structural Phase Transition and Thermal Decomposition of InN," 2024, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • "Influence of Pressure on Phonon Properties of Indium Antimonide," 2024, physica status solidi (RRL) - Rapid Research Letters

Frequent collaborators include:

  • I. Grzegory
  • B. Sadovyi
  • Stanisław Krukowski
  • Jacek Piechota
  • Petro Sadovyi

Sylwester Porowski was awarded the Prize of the Foundation for Polish Science (Nagroda Fundacji na rzecz Nauki Polskiej) in 2013 for developing a high-pressure method for producing gallium nitride monocrystals.

Best Publications

  • Observation Of Native Ga Vacancies In Gan By Positron Annihilation

    K. Saarinen;T. Laine;S. Kuisma;J. Nissilä

  • Lattice parameters of gallium nitride

    M. Leszczynski;H. Teisseyre;T. Suski;I. Grzegory

  • Towards the identification of the dominant donor in GaN.

    P Perlin;T Suski;H Teisseyre;M Leszczynski

  • Equilibrium pressure of N2 over GaN and high pressure solution growth of GaN

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  • Photoluminescence and reflectance spectroscopy of excitonic transitions in high-quality homoepitaxial GaN films

    K. Kornitzer;T. Ebner;K. Thonke;R. Sauer

  • Thermal expansion of gallium nitride

    M. Leszczynski;T. Suski;H. Teisseyre;P. Perlin

  • Investigation of longitudinal‐optical phonon‐plasmon coupled modes in highly conducting bulk GaN

    P. Perlin;J. Camassel;W. Knap;T. Taliercio

  • Chemical polishing of bulk and epitaxial GaN

    J.L. Weyher;S. Müller;I. Grzegory;S. Porowski

  • Mechanism of yellow luminescence in GaN

    T. Suski;P. Perlin;H. Teisseyre;M. Leszczyński

  • Thermodynamical properties of III–V nitrides and crystal growth of GaN at high N2 pressure

    S. Porowski;I. Grzegory

  • Bulk GaN crystal growth by the high-pressure ammonothermal method

    M.P. D’Evelyn;H.C. Hong;D.-S. Park;H. Lu

  • Temperature dependence of the energy gap in GaN bulk single crystals and epitaxial layer

    H. Teisseyre;P. Perlin;T. Suski;I. Grzegory

  • High pressure growth of GaN — new prospects for blue lasers

    S. Porowski

  • Polarity determination for GaN films grown on (0001) sapphire and high-pressure-grown GaN single crystals

    J. L. Rouviere;J. L. Weyher;M. Seelmann-Eggebert;S. Porowski

  • Elastic and plastic properties of GaN determined by nano-indentation of bulk crystal

    R. Nowak;M. Pessa;M. Suganuma;M. Leszczynski

  • Determination of the effective mass of GaN from infrared reflectivity and Hall effect

    P. Perlin;E. Litwin‐Staszewska;B. Suchanek;W. Knap

  • III V Nitrides—thermodynamics and crystal growth at high N2 pressure

    I. Grzegory;J. Jun;M. Boćkowski;St. Krukowski

  • Exciton region reflectance of homoepitaxial GaN layers

    K. P. Korona;A. Wysmol;ek;K. Pakul

  • Negative differential resistance in dislocation-free GaN/AlGaN double-barrier diodes grown on bulk GaN

    S. Golka;C. Pflügl;W. Schrenk;G. Strasser

  • Luminescence and reflectivity in the exciton region of homoepitaxial GaN layers grown on GaN substrates

    K. Pakuła;A. Wysmołek;K.P. Korona;J.M. Baranowski;J.M. Baranowski

  • High Electron Mobility in AlGaN/GaN Heterostructures Grown on Bulk GaN Substrates

    E. Frayssinet;W. Knap;P. Lorenzini;N. Grandjean

Frequent Co-Authors

Izabella Grzegory
Izabella Grzegory Polish Academy of Sciences
Tadeusz Suski
Tadeusz Suski Polish Academy of Sciences
Michal Bockowski
Michal Bockowski Polish Academy of Sciences
Z. R. Wasilewski
Z. R. Wasilewski University of Waterloo
Zuzanna Liliental-Weber
Zuzanna Liliental-Weber Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Bo Monemar
Bo Monemar Linköping University
Kimmo Saarinen
Kimmo Saarinen Aalto University
Nicolas Grandjean
Nicolas Grandjean École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Wojciech Knap
Wojciech Knap Warsaw University of Technology
Bernard Beaumont
Bernard Beaumont Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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