Scientific interests
- Theory of I order phase transitions
- Entropy of evaporation of solids - microscopic theory
- Entropy of melting of solids
- Adsorption and dissolution of diamolecular gases on liquid metal surfaces
- N2 - group III metals: Aluminum, Gallium and Indium
- O2 - group III metals: Aluminum, Gallium and Indium
- N2 - Lithium
- Adsorption, surface diffusion and ordering - O/W(110) and other surfaces
- Adsorption, diffusion: new model of the twin site - O/W(110)
- Hexagonal lattice - collective diffusion, domain dynamics
- Square lattice - diffusion close to dislocation line
- Properties of semiconductor surfaces: adsorption
- Foundations of modeling and the methods
- Determination of surface Stark effect
- Discovery of intrasurface electron transfer contribution to adsoprtion energy
- Growth of nitrides in ammonia rich environment
- High pressure growth of GaN and other nitrides
- p-T phase diagrams of GaN, AlN and InN
- x-T phase diagrams of GaN, AlN and InN
- Transport in high pressure growth
- Determination of the physical properties of group III nitrides
- Determination of physical properties of InN: p-T diagram,Debye temperature, lattice parameters, thermal expansion and Gruneisen parameter
- Spontaneous polarization, elastic and piezoeletric constants
- Determination of the physical properties of quantum structures and devices
- Nitride multiquantum well structures (MQWs)
- Nitride devices LEDs & LDs
- Determination of physical properties on nitrogen under high pressure
- N2 - N2 interaction potential
- Equation of state of nitrogen at pressures up to 30 GPa
- Viscosity of nitrogen at pressures up to 5 GPa
- Specific heat of nitrogen at pressures up to 30 GPa
- Thermal conductivity of nitrogen at pressures up to 5 GPa
- Shape selection in equilibrium, and during growth, close and far from the equilibrium
- Equilibrium od 2-d Kossel crystal - capillary waves
- Growth far from equilibrium - fractal to crystal transition
- Ballistic vs diffusive regime - nucleus size and mean free path relation
- Dendrite sidebranching - microscopic mechanism
- Growth very close to equilibrium - shape selection of 2-d Kossel crystal
- Step meandering and bunching
- Determination of presure-temperature phase diagrams of II-VI compounds
- DTA - peak area method of identification of triple point
- Phase diagrams of II-VI compounds
- Growth of spherically symmetric nucleus in supersaturated medium