Physics of Quantum Rings / NanoScience and Technology (PDF)

Professor Vladimir M. Fomin develops theory of strain-induced nano-architectures, in particular, physical properties of self-assembled nano- and microstructures (quantum rings, rolled-up semiconductor and superconductor membranes, superlattices of quantum dots) at the Institute for Integrative Nanosciences (IIN), Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research (IFW), Dresden, Germany (since 2009). He made his doctoral studies in Kishinev at the Department of Theoretical Physics of the State University of Moldova and received the Ph.D.degree in theoretical physics in 1978. Since then he worked in the Laboratory "Physics of Multi-Layer Structures" at the State University of Moldova. His research interests embraced non-linear optical properties and transport due to the charge-vibration interaction in semiconductors and in multi-layer structures, including derivation of the phonon spectra and the electron-phonon interaction; classification of polaritons and phonons; platonic, bipolaronic and excitonic effects in arbitrary multi-layer structures. He won a State Prize of Moldova in 1987. He received the degree of Dr. habilitat in physical and mathematical sciences from the Academy of Sciences of Moldova in 1991. He is a University Professor in Theoretical Physics (State University of Moldova, since 1995). As a Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation he worked at the Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg (1993-1994). He was associated with the Laboratory Theoretical Solid State Physics (TFVS) (University of Antwerp, 1995-2008) and with the Group Photonics and Semiconductor Nanophysics and COBRA Inter-University Research Institute (Eindhoven University of Technology, 1998-1999, 2003-2007), Division Quantum and Physical Chemistry (Catholic University of Leuven, 2008) and Faculty of Physics and Center for Nanointegration (CeNIDE) (University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, 2009-2009). He received a Diploma of a Scientific Discovery of the