Alexander Shluger
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- Development and application of theoretical methodologies
for calculations on defects in solids and on surfaces.
- Modeling of the structure and properties of point
defects in insulators and semiconductors,
and the mechanisms of electronic and ionic
processes in ionic crystals.
- Studies of the mechanisms of photo-induced
processes and exciton and polaron self-trapping in
solids and at surfaces.
- Ultrafast processes induced by electronic excitation
and radiation effects.
- Adsorption and chemical reactions at ionic crystal surfaces.
- Theory of atomic force microscopy, friction
and tribocharging.
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Contact details:
Office: Room 4C6
Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 1312
Ext: 31312
Fax: +44 (0)20 7679 0595
Email: a.shluger ucl.ac.uk |
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Research interest
My main research interests broadly concern the mechanisms of defect processes in the bulk and at surfaces of insulators. I developed theoretical methods for predictive modelling of point defects, self-trapped excitons and polarons in insulating materials; created new models of self-trapped excitons and point defects and predicted their properties in a broad range of insulators; pioneered theoretical modelling of Scanning Force Microscopy imaging of insulating surfaces and developed the mechanisms of chemical resolution in Scanning Force Microscopy; developed the mechanisms of photo-induced desorption of insulating surfaces, made pioneering predictions and directed the experimental research in selective photo-induced modification of insulating surfaces; developed new theoretical models of defects in amorphous silica and in new gate oxides for micro-electronics applications.
Other activities
- Leader of the Condensed Matter and Materials Physics group
- Fellow of the Institute of Physics
- Fellow of the Canon Foundation in
- Member of International Advisory Committee of the International conference on Noncontact Atomic Force Microscopy;
- Member of the Steering Committee of NATRIBO ESF Scientific Programme;
- Member of the Management Committee and UK representative in the COST D41 Action on Oxide Surfaces, and the leader of the Scanning Probe methods workgroup in this Action.
Teaching duties at the Physics and Astronomy Department: 1228 Thermal Physics Course
Recent Publications
W. A. Hofer, A. S. Foster, and A. L. Shluger, Theories of Scanning Probe Microscopes at the Atomic Scale, - Rev. Mod. Phys. 2003, v. 75, No 4, pp. 1287 - 1331.
W. P. Hess, A. G. Joly, K. M. Beck, M. Henyk, P. V. Sushko, P. E. Trevisanutto, and A. L. Shluger. “Laser control of desorption through selective surface excitation”, - J. Phys. Chem. B feature article – 2005, v. 109, No 43, pp. 19563-19578.
P. V. Sushko, S. Mukhopadhyay, A. S. Mysovsky, V. B. Sulimov, A. Taga, and A. L. Shluger, Structure and properties of defects in amorphous silica: new insights from embedded cluster calculations, - J. Phys.: Condensed Matter, 2005, v. 17(21), pp. S2115-S2140.
Biography
- Dipl. Physics, Latvia State University, Riga, 1976.
- Cand. of Science (Ph.D.), L. Karpov Physics and Chemistry Research Institute, Moscow, 1981 (Chemical Physics).
- Doctor of Science, L. Karpov Physics and Chemistry Research Institute, Moscow, 1988 (Chemical Physics).
- Doctor Habil. Latvia University, Riga, 1992
- 1976 - 1988 Junior Research Associate, Senior Research Associate, Leading Research Associate, Chemical Faculty, Latvia State University
- 1988 - 1994 Head of Department, Department of Chemical Physics of Condensed Matter, University of Latvia, Riga.
- 1994 - 1997 Professor, Director
- Institute of Chemical Physics, University of Latvia, Riga
- 1991 - 1995 Visiting Research Fellow of the Royal Society and the Canon Foundation in Europe, the Royal Institution, London, UK.
- 11.1995 – Senior Research Fellow, Principal Research Fellow, Reader, Professor of Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, London, UK
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