Alexander Demkov
- Professor
- Affiliated Faculty, Oden Institute
- Physics
Contact Information
Biography
Alex Demkov is a professor of Physics at The University of Texas at Austin. In 1997-2005, he was a principal staff scientist in Motorola's R&D organization providing theoretical support for the development of low- and high-k dielectric materials, following postdoctoral research at Arizona State Univeristy . In 2005, he joined the faculty of the Physics Department at the University of Texas at Austin. Prof. Demkov has published over 100 research papers and has been awarded seven U.S. patents. He has contributed to several books and edited one, entitled "Materials Fundamentals of Gate Dielectrics," and has also co-authored the 2005 edition of the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS). In 2002-2004, he served as Associate Editor of the Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B. He also served as Guest Editor for several issues of physica status solidi (b). He has organized numerous sessions and served on program committees of many national and international conferences. In 2009-2012 he served on the Executive Committee of the Forum of Industrial and Applied Physics of the American Physical Society (APS), and is currently serving on the APS Publication Oversight Committee.
Research
Demkov's research spans condensed matter theory, physics of electronic materials, surfaces and interfaces, thin films and devices, novel materials and quantum transport. Current research is focused on the physics of oxide heterostructures.
Research Areas
- Materials Science
Centers and Institutes
- Texas Materials Institute
Education
- Ph.D., Arizona State University
Publications
M. D. McDaniel, A. Posadas, T. Q. Ngo, A. Dhamdhere, D. J. Smith, A. A. Demkov, and J. G. Ekerdt, "Epitaxial strontium titanate films grown by atomic layer deposition on SrTiO3-buffered Si(001) substrates", J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A 31, 01A136 (2013).
A. Slepko, J. Ramdani, and A. A. Demkov, "Schottky barrier at the AlN/metal junction", J. Appl. Phys. 113, 013707 (2013).
M. Choi, A. B. Posadas, H. Seo, R. C. Hatch, and A. A. Demkov, "Charge transfer in Sr Zintl template on Si(001)," Appl. Phys. Lett. 102, 031604 (2013).
T. Q. Ngo, A. Posadas, M. D. McDaniel, D. A. Ferrer, J. Bruley, C. Breslin, A. A. Demkov, and J. G. Ekerdt, "Epitaxial growth of LaAlO3 on SrTiO3-buffered Si (001) substrates by atomic layer deposition," J. Cryst. Growth 363, 150 (2013)
P. Ponath, A. B. Posadas, R. C. Hatch and A. A. Demkov, "Preparation of a clean Ge(001) surface using oxygen plasma cleaning, " J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B 31, 031201 (2013)
J. Lee, C. Lin and A. A. Demkov, "Metal-induced charge transfer, structural distortion, and orbital order in SrTiO3 thin films," Phys. Rev. B 87, 165103 (2013)
A. Posadas, C. Mitra, C. Lin, A. Dhamdere, D. J. Smith, M. Tsoi and A. A. Demkov, "Oxygen vacancy-mediated room-temperature ferromagnetism in insulating cobalt-substituted SrTiO3 epitaxially integrated with silicon," Phys. Rev. B 87, 144422 (2013).
K. Fredrickson, A. B. Posadas, A. A. Demkov, C. Dubourdieu and J. Bruley, "Wetting at the BaTiO3 interface," J. Appl. Phys. 113 (2013).
Awards
- NSF CAREER award
- IBM Faculty Award
- Fellow of the American Physical Society.