Chemical Physics Seminar

Speaker's Bio:
Alexander A. Balandin received the B.S. and M.S. degrees (summa cum laude) in applied physics and mathematics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MFTI), Russia, in 1991 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame, USA, in 1997. He was a research engineer at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), from 1997 to 1999. In 1999, he joined the University of California, Riverside (UCR), where he is currently a professor of electrical engineering and a founding chair of materials science and engineering. In 2005, he was a visiting professor at the University of Cambridge, U.K. His research interests are in the area of electronic materials, nanostructures, and devices. He carries both experimental and theoretical research. He has authored more than 150 journal publications, 12 invited book chapters and edited four books in his field of expertise. His current research topics include graphene devices, thermal conduction in nanostructures, photovoltaics, thermoelectric and nanoscale phonon engineering. In 2008 his group discovered experimentally and explained theoretically the extremely high intrinsic thermal conductivity of graphene. Prof. Balandin gave more than 30 invited talks on graphene around the world and served on several expert panels on graphene applications. His Nano-Device Laboratory (NDL) group research is sponsored by SRC, DARPA, AFOSR, ONR, NSF and DoE. More information about his research can be found at http://ndl.ee.ucr.edu/.