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Non-Crystalline Solids (Solide necristaline)

Head: Prof. Dr. Mihai Popescu, NIMP, Bucharest

 

Department of Nanomaterials (Departamentul de Nanomateriale)

Head: Prof. Dr. Mihai Popescu, NIMP, Bucharest

 

Research Directions:

a. Nanomateriale, Quantum-dots, Interactiunea Bio-QD
b. Solide amorfe, phase change memories, intermediate phases in chalcogenides

Publications:

1. Chapter 16: Boolchand Intermediate Phases: Glass formation ability and average elecronegativity
M. Popescu, A. Velea in the Book “Rigidity and Boolchand Intermediate Phases” in nanomaterials” (Editor and Contributor), INOE Publ. House , Series:Optoelectronic Materials and Devices, Vol. 6 (2009)

2. Patent: “Procedure for the synthesis of the high purity As2S3 glass for optical applications”
M. Popescu, F. Sava, A. Lorinczi, A. Velea, H. Niciu, D. Niciu, S,. Hermnine
OSIM Nr. A/00603/ 05.08.2008

3. The atomic scale modeling of nanomaterials
M. Popescu
J. Phys. Chem. Solids, 68, 687 (2007)

4. Chalcogenides: Past, Present, Future
M. Popescu
J. Non-Cryst. Solids, 352, 887 (2006)

5. Interstitial void structure in Cu-Sn alloy as revealed from RMC modeling
W. Hoyer, R. Kleinhempel, A. Lorinczi, A. Pohlers, M. Popescu, F. Sava
Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 17(5)s1-s36 (2005)

 

Department of Phase Change Materials (Departamentul de Materiale  cu Schimbare de Faza)

Head: Alin VELEA, Ph. D. St., NIMP

 

Research Directions:

Developement and design of new phase change materials for electrical and optical memory devices

 

Publications:

1. “Structure and properties of silver doped SnSe2 and Ge2Sb2Te5 thin films prepared by pulsed laser deposition”

M. Popescu, A. Velea, F. Sava, A. Lőrinczi, A. Tomescu, C. Simion, E. Matei,G. Socol, I. N. Mihailescu, A. Andonie, I. Stamatin

Physica Status Solidi A, Published online, DOI: 10.1002/pssa.200982900

2. “Tellurium based phase change materials”
A. Velea

J. Optoelectron. Adv. Mater. 11(12), pag. 1983 – 1987 (2009)

3. Phase change materials: chemical bonding and structural properties

Alin VELEA, Mihai POPESCU

PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROMANIAN ACADEMY, Series A, 10(3), pp. 230-236 (2009)

4. Chapter 16: Boolchand Intermediate Phases: Glass formation ability and average elecronegativity
M. Popescu, A. Velea
in the Book “Rigidity and Boolchand Intermediate Phases” in nanomaterials”
INOE Publ. House , Series: Optoelectronic Materials and Devices, Vol. 6,  (2009)

5. Crystalline-amorphous and amorphous-amorphous transitions in phase-change materials
M. Popescu, F. Sava, A. Velea, A. Lőrinczi
Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 355, 1820–1823, (2009)

6. Modelling of dissolution kinetics of thin amorphous chalcogenide films
M. Popescu, F. Sava, A. Lőrinczi, A. Velea, M. Vlček, H. Jain
Philosophical Magazine Letters, 89, 6, 370-376 (2009)

7. Commuton - a new concept in switching materials
M. Popescu, A. Velea, A. Lorinczi, F. Sava
Journal of Ovonic Research, Volume 5, Number 2, (2009)

8. Phase-change electrical memory elements and  devices

M. POPESCU, A. LŐrinczi, F. Sava, A. Velea, E. MaTEI, G. SOCOL, I. N. MIHĂILESCU
Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials, Vol.10 ISS.10, (2008) 

9. DC conductivity in GeSb2Te4 and (GeSb2Te4)90(SnSe2)10 phase change materials
M. Popescu, M. Kubliha, J. Kaluzny, A. Velea, A. Lőrinczi 
Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials, Vol.9 ISS.12, (2007)

 

Department of Langmuir-Blodgett layers (Departamentul de straturi Langmuir-Blodgett)

Head: Iosif-Daniel SIMANDAN, Drd., NIMP

 

Publications: 

 

Sensor of nitrogen dioxide based on single wall carbon nanotubes and manganese-porphyrin

M. Popescu, I.D. Simandan, F. Sava, A. Velea, E. Fagadar-Cozma

Digest Journal of Nanomaterials and Biostructures 6(3), 1253-1256 (2011).   

 

Preparation and properties of Barium stearate multilayers with carbon nanotubes, manganese porphyrin and silver nitrate

I. D. Simandan, M. Popescu, A. Lőrinczi, A. Velea, E. Fagadar-Cosma 

Digest Journal of Nanomaterials and Biostructures 5(4), 1029-1033, (2010).   

 

Langmuir and Langmuir-Blodgett films based on stearic acid, barium stearate and carbon nanotubes

I. D. Simandan, F. Sava, A. Velea, A. Lőrinczi, M. Popescu

Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials-Rapid Communications 4(8), 1178-1181, (2010).

 

 

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