Bourns College of Engineering

Degrees

M.S. Applied Physics 1991 (Summa Cum Laude)

Moscow Institute of Physics & Technology

(Summa Cum Laude)

M.S. Electrical Engineering 1995

University of Notre Dame

Ph.D. Electrical Engineering 1997

University of Notre Dame

Awards and Honors

• Fellow, AAAS, 2007
• Associate Scholar, University of Cambridge, 2005
• ONR Young Investigator Award, 2002
• National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2001
• UC Regents Faculty Award, 2000
• Merrill Lynch Innovation Award, New York, 1998
• Eta Kappa Nu Engineering Honor Society, 1994

Research Area

Professor Balandin’s research interests include electronic, optoelectronic and thermoelectric materials and devices; nanostructures and nanotechnology; photovoltaic solar cell technology; noise in electronic devices; nanoscale phonon engineering and thermal management of devices and circuits. His most recent research activities were focused on graphene and its devices applications. Together with his group members, he conducts experimental and theoretical research in the Nano-Device Laboratory (NDL), which he organized in 2000. For more information on his research visit his web-site at http://ndl.ee.ucr.edu/

Publications

Professor Balandin authored more than 100 journal publications, 10 invited book chapters and edited three books. Below is a list of some of his publications.

[1] A.A. Balandin, S. Ghosh, W. Bao, I. Calizo, D. Teweldebrhan, F. Miao and C.N. Lau, "Superior thermal conductivity of single-layer graphene," Nano Letters, 8, 902 (2008)

[2] F. Parvizi, D. Teweldebrhan, S. Ghosh, I. Calizo, A.A. Balandin, H. Zhu and R. Abbaschian, "Properties of graphene produced by the high pressure – high temperature growth process," Micro & Nano Letters, 3, 29 (2008)

[3] I. Calizo, A.A. Balandin, W. Bao, F. Miao and C.N. Lau, "Temperature dependence of the Raman spectra of graphene and graphene multi-layers," Nano Letters, 7: 2645 (2007)

[4] M. Shamsa, W.L. Liu, A. A. Balandin, C. Casiraghi, W.I. Milne, A.C. Ferrari, "Thermal conduction in diamond-like carbon thin films," Applied Physics Letters, 89, 161921 (2006)

[5] V.A. Fonoberov and A.A. Balandin, "Giant enhancement of the carrier mobility in silicon nanowires with diamond coating," Nano Letters, 6, 2442 (2006)

[6] V.A. Fonoberov, K.A. Alim, A.A. Balandin, F. Xu and J.L. Liu, "Photoluminescence investigation of the carrier recombination processes in ZnO quantm dots and nanocrystals," Physical Review B, 73, 165317 (2006)

[7] K. Alim, V.A. Fonoberov, A.A. Balandin, "Origin of optical phonon frequency shifts in ZnO quantum dots", Applied Physics Letters, 86, 053103 (2005)

For additional information, please see Professor Balandin's faculty webpage.

http://www.ee.ucr.edu/~alexb

Former Institution

Electrical Engineering Department, University of California - Los Angeles

Biography

Professor Alexander A. Balandin received his M.S. degree with Summa Cum Laude distinctions in Applied Physics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia in 1991. He received his second M.S. degree and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 1995 and 1996, respectively. Prior to joining UCR he worked as a Research Engineer in UCLA until 1999. Professor Balandin is a recipient of the ONR Young Investigator Award (2002) for his work on GaN transistors, NSF Faculty CAREER Award (2001) for the development of the concept of phonon engineering, UC Regents' Faculty Award, and Merrill Lynch Award for "commercially valuable engineering research" related to the electronic applications of semiconductor quantum dots. In 2005, he was a Visiting Professor at Cambridge University and Associate Scholar of Pembroke College, Cambridge, UK. Professor Balandin is an Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Nanoelectronics and Optoelectronics (JNO). He served as a Conference Chairman of the SPIE International Conference on Noise in Electronic Devices and Circuits, Austin, Texas; and in Program Committees for many other international conferences.

In 2000, Professor Balandin organized the Nano-Device Laboratory (NDL) at the Department of Electrical Engineering. The mission of his research group is investigation of the properties of nanostructured and low-dimensional materials and development of novel electronic and optoelectronic devices on the basis of these materials. NDL is equipped with the nanoscale characterization systems (probe station, IV, CV, Hall), state-of-the-art micro-Raman spectrometers (visible and UV), time-resolved fluorescence spectrometer and several transient thermal conductivity measurement setups operating over a wide temperature range.

Professor Balandin serves as a Chair of the interdisciplinary Materials Science and Engineering (MS&E) Program at the Bourns College of Engineering. In 2007-08 he led the College’s efforts for the development of the undergraduate MS&E major and currently works toward creation of the campus-wide graduate (MS and PhD) MS&E program.