Research Fields - Physical Electronics
The development of new electronic devices is at the front of technological and scientific research and involves materials science, physics, chemistry, and engineering. The requirement for smaller devices leads to the edge of physical limitations in a given technology and drives the research of new architectures and new materials for the same purpose. Another need of the Electronics industry is to produce low power devices which consume less energy and produce less heat. In addition to the Electronics Industry, which is a major consumer of new devices, energy and Renewable Energies are also fields where a cutting edge research is performed – new solar cells and new ways for energy storage such as batteries, fuel-cells and super capacitors. Another application which requires new devices is the development of new sensors, for example gas sensors with applications to health and security. This field requires diverse capabilities and inter-disciplinary research ability: - The synthesis of new materials and of devices which are based on such materials. - The physical and chemical characterization of materials and devices with a wide range of measurement methods. - Performing of classical and quantum simulations at different levels – from the atomic level to a whole device. - Creativity in finding new ideas for devices implementation. For example – a transistor can be
implemented in various ways, some of them are yet to be discovered. Students that will join research in this field will learn a variety of methods at the cutting edge of technology and will be part of research works that help the development of green energy and of a more efficient and divers electronic industry.
Researcher | Website/ Laboratory Site |
Research Topics |
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Prof. Tal Ellenbogen | Website Laboratory site |
Nanoscale light-matter interaction, optical metasurfaces, metamaterials, nonlinear optics, nanoscale electro-optics, plasmonics, liquid crystals |
Prof. Eli Jerby | Website | Localized microwave-heating (LMH) theory and phenomena, thermal-runaway instabilities; plasma ejection by LMH, fireballs and plasmoids, dusty plasma and nano-powder production; 3D-printing of metal parts by LMH; drilling and cutting by LMH (the “microwave drill”); LMH of basalt (lava and ball-lightning ejection by “miniature volcanoes”); metal-powder combustion by LMH, thermite interactions in air and underwater (the bubble-marble effect); microwave generation (by solid-state and vacuum electronics). |
Prof. Joseph Appelbaum (Emeritus) | Website | Solar Energy, photovoltaic systems, electrical machines and drives, electromagnetic devices |
Prof. Arie Braunstein (Emeritus) | Website | Power systems, lightning strikes, solar energy |
Prof. Pavel Ginzburg | Website | Biophotonics, Metamaterials, Optical Forces, Fluorescent Materials, Nanolasers Radiophysics, Automotive radars, Drone monitoring, Radar deception, Antennas, RFID, IoT |
Website | Power converters for distributed electricity generators, synchronverters, energy from water waves and wind turbines, the control of energy storage units on the utility grid, voltage smoothing using relatively small capacitors | |
Dr. Yakir Hadad | Website | Electrodynamics and wave theory, analytical methods, artificial materials with applications in RF and optics, hybrid-physics waves in complex structures, nonlinear dynamics, plasmonics and nanophotonics |
Prof. Sigmond Singer (Emeritus) | Website | Power circuits electronics, small energy sources, power processing, lossless control, solar energy, gaseous laser control |
Prof. Amir Natan | Website | Quantum theory based modeling of novel materials and devices. Multi-scale theories for photovoltaics and energy storage. Interaction of light with matter. Modern band theory of solids. Dielectric behavior at interfaces |
Dr. Doron Shmilovitz | Website | Solar energy systems optimization, high efficiency dc/dc and dc/ac converters, energy harvesting and wireless energy transfer, transducers, sensors and piezoelectric micro-generators. |
Prof. Yael Hanein | Website | Neuroprosthetic devices, micro and nano fabrication methods, nano-systems, nanotube technology, cell patterning methods, skin electronics |
Prof. Menachem Nathan (emeritus) | Website | 3D thin film batteries, snapshot spectral imaging, solid state THz sources, photonic crystals, MOEMS, MEMS, spectral Imaging |
Prof. Yossi Rosenwaks | Website | Nanoscale electrical measurements, nanoscale gas sensors, multiple state transistors, nanowire transistors, 2D transistors and materials |
Prof. Yosi Shacham | Semiconductor devices, VLSI & ULSI Interconnects, nano-bio interfacing and biosensors | |
Prof. Jacob Scheuer | Website | Dynamic Metamaterials & Metasurfaces, plasmonics, nano-photonics, integrated optics, bio-chemical & rotation sensors, semiconductor lasers, slow and fast light, non-linear optics, polymer optics |
Prof. Yoram Shapira | Website | Semiconductor surfaces and interfaces, Micro- and nano- electronics, Solar energy |
Dr. Yuval Beck | smart grids, Power flow Calculations and optimization, Non-Intrusive load monitoring techniques , Power systems and Photovoltaic Energy systems |
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Prof. Avraham Gover | Website | Quantum Electronics, Electron interaction with light and matter, Free electron lasers (FEL), THz Radiation, Electron Beam Physics, Electromagnetism |
Dr. Gideon Segev | Website |
Photovoltaic cells, Photoelectrochemical water splitting, electronic devices for water decontamination and desalination, ion pumps, electronic ratchets, ionic ratchets, selective ion separation. |
Dr. Ofer Kfir | Website |
Quantum sensing, electron-photon entanglement, ultrafast electron microscopy, ultrafast physics (optics, magnetism, materials). |