Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv University
Prof. Boris A. Alterkop was born in Kiev, USSR, in 1938. He graduated from the Saratov State University in 1960 in theoretical physics. He received the Ph.D. degree in plasma physics in 1971 from the Moscow State University. His Ph.D. thesis was entitled " Drift waves of finite amplitude in a weakly ionized plasma". He received the Doctor of Science degree in plasma physics in 1982 from Academy of Science USSR. His D.Sc. thesis was entitled "Nonlinear dynamics of waves in a non equilibrium plasma". From 1960 to 1971 he worked in the Institute of Physics and Energetics (Obninsk Atomic Center) where he specialized in research on the stability and transport properties of low ionized low temperature plasma based on the kinetic theory of plasma. In 1971 he moved to Moscow, where he joined Institute for High Temperatures of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR to work on the theory of generation, transport and application of the high power relativistic electron beams, nonlinear plasma waves and plasma turbulence. He worked at the Electrophysics Department as Leader of the Electron Physics Group and Professor of Plasma Physics. He co-authored the book "Intensive Electron Beams" (Energoatomizdat, Moscow, 1984). His research interests include electrodynamics of plasma and charged particle flows, collective phenomena in plasma, including instabilities, nonlinear waves and plasma turbulence.
In 1992 he emigrated in Israel and presently he works in the Electrical Discharge and Plasma Laboratory at Tel Aviv University. His current research interests concern the filtered vacuum arc deposition as a new coating technology and involve the electrodynamics of the vacuum arc plasma beam in the quarter-torus magnetic duct, cathode spot formation and dynamics, and transport properties of thin conducting and semi-conducting films.
He is married, and has one daughter. His wife graduated from the Moscow Humanitarian University as a child psychologist and his daughter has an economics education.
e-mail: alterkop@post.tau.ac.il
David Arbilly was born and raised in Baghdad, Iraq, and received his B.Sc. degree in Physics from Baghdad University in 1969. We worked as a high school physics teacher there for 2 years, prior to his immigration to Israel in 1971. Arbilly continued his education at Tel Aviv University, receiving his M.Sc. degree in solid state physics in 1975. His thesis research was concerned with the measurement of strain in thin silver films using electron spin resonance. Arbilly served as a metrology officer in the Israel Defense Forces from 1975 to 1988. Currently Arbilly is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of the Faculty of Engineering. His thesis research is concerned with growing intrinsic and doped amorphous silicon thin films for solar cells and other electro-optical devices, for which he has received grants from the Gordon Center for Energy Studies, and the Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure.
Arbilly is married, and spends his spare time in the organization and running of the Faculty of Engineering Synagogue.
e-mail: arbilly@eng.tau.ac.il
Isak. I. Beilis received the Diploma of Electronics Engineering from the Moscow Institute for Steel and Alloys in 1966. His post graduate study was at the All-Union Electroteknics Institute, Moscow. He received the Ph.D. degree in 1973 from the Institute for High Temperatures of the USSR Academy of Sciences and the degree of Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences in 1990 from the Institute for High Current Electronics of the USSR Academy of Science, Tomsk. His research was concerned with the theory of near electrode processes in arc discharges.
From 1969 to 1991 he was a Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for High Temperatures of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and also held the position of Visiting Scientist in the Institute of Mechanics of Moscow Lomonosov University, where he investigated the basic physics near electrode processes in the high current discharges in vacuum interrupters, MHD-generators, and plasma accelerators. He is co-author of the book "MHD energy conversion. Physical and Technical aspects" and a contributor to the text "Handbook of Vacuum Arc Science And Technology".
Since January 1992 he has been continuing his investigations at the Faculty of Engineering at Tel Aviv University. His research is concerned with the study of fundamental mechanisms for the existence, motion, and instabilities of cathode spots in the vacuum arc, vacuum arc plasma jet expansion in magnetic field, sheath structures, dusty plasma transport in ducts, non-stationary and non-equilibrium macroparticle charging phenomena, and processes in arcs with hot electrodes. He was a visiting scientist in the Max Plank Institute of Plasma Physics in Germany in 1995, where he studied processes in the high current vacuum arc group spot.
He is married and has a two children.
e-mail: beilis@eng.tau.ac.il
Raymond L. Boxman received his S.B. and S.M. degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1969 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his Ph.D. from M.I.T. in 1973. He was introduced to vacuum arcs which became his career specialty as a cooperative student at the General Electric Company in Philadelphia, and the subject of triggered vacuum gaps became the topic of his S.M. thesis, while laser interferometic measurement of electron and vapor densities in a vacuum arc became the topic of his Ph.D. thesis. Boxman worked as a Senior Research Engineer at GE where he investigated the behavior of vacuum arcs in high current switches from 1973 to 1975, at which time he took up a position on the Faculty of Engineering at Tel Aviv University. Boxman is the co-founder of the Electrical Discharge and Plasma Laboratory at TAU. During the last decade Boxman has focused his research work on the application of the vacuum arc to the production of thin films. In 1984 Boxman and his colleagues were awarded the Joffee Foundation Award by the International Union of Surface Finishing for their breakthrough work on pulsed vacuum arc deposition. In 1989 Boxman was named a Fellow of the IEEE for his contribution to vacuum arc theory and applications. In 2000, he was received the Walter Dyke Award from the International Symposia on Discharges and Electrical Insulation in Vacuum, for “his outstanding body of work in the field of electrical discharges in vacuum, in particular for his contributions to the physics, technology, and applications of vacuum arc plasmas”.
Boxman served as Secretary of the Permanent International Scientific Committee of the International Symposia on Discharges and Electrical Insulation in Vacuum, and as a member of the Program Committee and Session Chairman for the Hard Coatings and PVD Symposium of the International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films. Boxman founded and was first chairman of the Israel Plasma Science and Technology Association. He serves as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science, and served as the guest editor for special issues on vacuum discharge plasmas, and on plasma deposition. He is a Member of the Editorial Board of Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing. Boxman was chief editor of a text "Handbook of Vacuum Arc Science and Technology" which involved the co-ordinated efforts of 24 authors in seven countries. In addition he has presented over 250 scientific papers at conferences or in technical journals, as well as eight patents.
Prof. Boxman is married to Edith, an economist and manager at Bank Leumi, with whom he has four children, ages 14-24. In his spare time he enjoys hiking, swimming, gardening and amateur radio.
web-page:
http://picasso.eng.tau.ac.il/~boxman/index.html
e-mail: boxman@eng.tau.ac.il
Tal David was born in Ramat-Ha’Sharon, Israel, in 1977. He is currently an undergraduate student in physics and astronomy at the Tel-Aviv University.
He is expected to complete his undergraduate studies in the summer of 2003, and start his graduate studies then. Tal has worked in the EDP lab since 2000, mainly studying ZnO, SnO2 and TiO thin films deposited on glass and polymers using filtered vacuum arc deposition.
Tal recently started working on his M.Sc. thesis, in the field of thin films produced by filtered vacuum arc deposition (FVAD). The topic of his thesis is: “Electrical, Optical and Structural Characterization of thin ZnO films doped with aluminum, produced by filtered vacuum arc deposition”.
The first part of this work will be presented by Tal in the International Conference of Metallurgical Coatings and Thin Films (ICMCTF), and also at University of Waterloo (Canada), in April 2003.
Tal is engaged to Yael, a complimentary medicine therapist.
They live in Tel Aviv with their cat, Rambo.
e-mail: davidta@post.tau.ac.il
Nir Geron was born in Holon, Israel, in 1972. He graduated his B.Sc. in physics and astronomy at the Tel-Aviv University in 2001.
He is expected to complete his M.Sc. studies in the winter of 2003. Nir works in the EDP lab since 1999, and mainly studies the nature of thin films deposited on glass using filtered vacuum arc deposition. Most of the research is with TiO2, on which his master thesis is about.
Dr. Evgeny Gidalevich was born in Sympheropol, the Crimea, in 1939, and graduated from Kharkov University (M.Sc.) in 1963 (physics, astrophysics). He received a postgraduate studentship at the Astrophysical Institute of Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences, Alma-Ata (1963-1966), and received his Ph.D. degree from Moscow University in 1967. During this period of time he studied interstellar gas dynamic processes including shock waves, magneto hydrodynamics, ultraviolet radiation influence on the gas state, and the growth and destruction of the interstellar grains.
He worked in the Geophysical Institute of the Urals Science Center, Sverdlovsk, now Yekaterinburg, (1969-1979), where he investigated the solar wind plasma and cosmic ray diffusion. After 1979 he stuelectrical arc plasma in the open atmosphere and delivered lectures on mathematical physics and analysis at the Urals Polytechnical Institute. His current research interests are in two fields : vacuum arc plasma and plasma of an arc discharge under the high pressure. In the first case a speciality is: hydrodynamical description of vacuum arc plasma jet, shock waves appearance in a plasma chamber and influence of the shock waves on the ion implantation process. In the second case a speciality is: spectrum of arc radiation, radiation transfer in the arc body and discharge modeling with the radiative heat transfer.
His wife Tamara is a computer programmer at Tel HaShomer Hospital and his son is a senior lecturer in University of Leeds, UK. Dr. Gidalevich's hobbies include classical music and trips to places of historical interest.
e-mail: gidal@eng.tau.ac.il
Prof. Samuel Goldsmith received his M.Sc. in Physics in 1964, and his Ph.D. in 1968, both from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He began his career working in the field of plasma spectroscopy - studying spectroscopically the positive column instability in strong magnetic fields. From 1968 to 1969 he was a senior research associate at the Laboratory for Extreme UV Spectroscopy at the Hebrew University, studying the spectra of highly ionized atoms produced by intense vacuum sparks.
From 1969 to the present Prof. Goldsmith has been a member of the academic staff of Tel Aviv University. From 1970 to 1973 he was involved in the establishment of The Wise Astronomical Observatory, and worked in Israel and in the US on spectra emitted by quasars and black objects. After the 1973 war, when he was drafted for 9 months, he was on sabbatical leave in the US, at the University of California at Berkeley, constructing and operating a high current vacuum arc source for high-Z ion spectroscopy. In 1975 Goldsmith together with Prof. R.L. Boxman established the Electrical Discharges and Plasma Laboratory (EDPL) at Tel Aviv University. The research of Prof. Goldsmith at EDPL centered on the physics of low current arcs (below 2000 A) and their industrial application. From 1976 to 1979, following a request from the commander of the Israeli Air Force, he was on a leave of absence from Tel Aviv University, working at the Israeli Air Force on research and development programs.
From 1983 to the present the main activity of EDPL has been the development of efficient plasma sources for metal and ceramic coatings on a large variety of substrates. A new vacuum arc deposition system was developed which includes a magnetic filter for removing macroparticles. The coatings studied include TiN, SnO2, SnO2:Sb, coating of metals on polymers, amorphous Si (intrinsic, p-type, and, n-type). In 1984 Boxman, Goldsmith and their colleagues were awarded the Joffe Foundation Award by the International Union of Surface Finishing for their break-through work on pulsed vacuum arc deposition.
Since 1983 Prof. Goldsmith collaborates with Prof. H.R. Griem of Maryland University on the study of laser produced plasmas. They have studied heat transfer in the dense plasmas produced by the 2000 J Omega laser at the University of Rochester Laser Lab, and spectral line shift and broadening in extremely dense plasmas. Goldsmith was also a consultant for the Propulsion Physics Laboratory at the Soreq Research Center. Goldsmith serves as the Israel's delegate to the Plasma Committee of the International Union of Vacuum Sciences.
e-mail: gold@halo.tau.ac.il
Dr. Nahum Parkansky was born in Kishinev, Moldova, in 1948, and studied Electrical Machines and Apparatus at theS. Laso Kishinev Polytechnical Institute, receiving his M.Sc. degree in 1971. His doctoral studies were conducted at the Institute of Applied Physics of Academy of Sciences of the Moldavian SSR, Kishinev, and the Institute of Material Research of the Academy of Sciences of Ukrainian SSR, Kiev, in Technology and Equipment for Electrophysical Machining. He received the Ph.D. degree in 1978 with the thesis "Study of Electric Spark Coating by Powder Materials in an Electrical Field".
During 1981 -1989 he worked at the Institute of Applied Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the MSSR where he headed research and development of new electrical spark coating methods for metallic surfaces, and the characterization of the phase composition, structure and properties of the obtained coatings. In 1987 he was conferred the title of Senior Research Fellow in the field of "Mechanical and physicomechanical processes of machining, machines and tools" by the Higher Accreditation Commission of the Counsel of Ministers of USSR on the authority of the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Science. Since 1990 he has been a Senior Researcher, in the Electrical Discharge and Plasma Lab, Tel Aviv University, where he researches the influence of transverse current during thin film deposition and arc electrode erosion, aninvestigates the development and application of pulsed air arc deposition (PAAD). He also lectures a graduate course on "Electrophysical and electrochemical material processing" in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, of the Faculty of Engineering. Dr. Parkansky has published 77 printed works, including 27 patents and one book.
Dr. Parkansky is married to Anna, a French teacher. Nahum and Anna have two children, Fanny who is a university student, and Eddi who is a pupil in elementary school.
Andrey Nemirovsky was born in 1970 in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. He received the M.Sc. degree from the Vologda Polytechnic Institute in the Russia in power supply for electrical engineering in 1992. He is currently conducting his M.Sc. studies at the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of the Faculty of Engineering at Tel Aviv University. Andrey works in the EDP lab since 2001, and mainly studies hot regime of anode balk in the arc discharge named as hot refractory anode vacuum arc (HRAVA). Andrey expects to submit his thesis in the autumn of 2003. He is married and has two children.
e-mail:
nemirov@post.tau.ac.il
Alexey Shashurin was born in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, in 1975. He received his B.Sc. (1996) and M.Sc. (1998) in Physics from the Nizhny Novgorod State University. During the years 1996-2001 he worked in the Institute of Applied Physics of Russian Academy of Science. Since October 2001 he has been working in the Electrical Discharge and Plasma Laboratory of Tel-Aviv University as a Ph.D. student. Currently, Alexey is engaged in researching for a new method of thin films deposition using Plasma Vacuum Arc deposition called Hot Refractory Anode Vacuum Arc deposition. His research field includes: plasma diagnostic technique, vacuum discharges, plasma creation, high-temperature thermocouple measurements and thin films deposition.
Gil received his B.S in physics in 2000 and is currently working on his master degree in physics. His research focuses upon the behavior of thin films of undoped zinc oxide (approx. 150nm) under the influence of annealing in air and TCI (transverse current injection).
Eyal Shuryan was born in Holon, Israel, in 1978. He is currently an undergraduate student of computer and software engineering at the Tel-Aviv University.
He is expected to complete his undergraduate studies in the summer of 2004. Eyal works in the EDP lab since 2000, and mainly studies the nature of thin films deposited on glass and polymers using filtered vacuum arc deposition. Common materials used in the research are SnO2, ZnO, ZnO:Ga, and TiO2.
e-mail:
shuryane@post.tau.ac.il
Yohanan Sivan was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1975. He is expected to complete his B.Sc. studies in physics and mathematics at the end of 2002. Yohanan works in the Electrical Discharge & Plasma Laboratory since 2001, and mainly studies the nature of thin films deposited on glass using filtered vacuum arc deposition.
Dr. Vladimir Zhitomirsky was born in Lvov, Ukraine, in 1952. He received M.Sci. in Electronic Materials Engineering from the Moscow Steel and Alloys Institute, and Ph.D. degree in Materials Science from the G.V. Karpenko Institute of Physics and Mechanics of the Ukrainian Acad. Sci. (Lvov, Ukraine). In 1974-1977 he worked at Electronic Device Plant in Lvov as a process engineer. In 1977-1991 he worked at G.V. Karpenko Institute of Physics and Mechanics (IPM) of the Ukrainian Acad. Sci. (Lvov, Ukraine). During his employment at IPM, his research interests and activities included the following scientific problems: hydrogen embrittlement of steel; high-strength materials, especially high temperature stainless steels and nickel-base alloys; coatings for wear and corrosion resistance of metallic materials. In 1981, he was one of founders of Laboratory of wear resistant coatings in IPM, and further - the above laboratory head. The research projects performed in the above laboratory concerned with development of vacuum arc coating deposition process, multi-component and multi-layer coatings for wear and corrosion resistance of metallic materials, coatings for cutting tools, coating surface investigations, testing of cutting tools with wear-resistant coatings, fatigue testing of coated materials, friction and wear testing.
In 1991 he emigrated to Israel, and since 1992 he has been associated with the Electrical Discharge and Plasma Laboratory at Tel-Aviv University (TAU). Currently, he is a Principal research associate (since 2000). His research interests include PVD coating process, vacuum arc deposition, super-hard coatings of nitrides, carbides, oxides of refractory metals, multi-component, multi-layer and graded coatings, DLC coatings, the mechanical properties of materials and thin films, and surface science. He carried out experimental studies of plasma diagnostics in vacuum arc deposition apparatus, cathode spot behavior in the external magnetic field, plasma transport and distribution in a straight and curvilinear plasma duct, to which and external magnetic field is imposed, superposition of plasma beams produced by different plasma sources in a multi-cathode vacuum arc plasma gun. He is the author of about 50 publications.
e-mail: zhitom@eng.tau.ac.il
Oren Zarchin was born in Tel-Aviv, Israel, in 1976. He received his B.Sc. degree of Physics and Computer Science from Tel-Aviv University in 2001. Since 1999 he has been working in the Electrical Discharge and Plasma Laboratory of Tel-Aviv University. His research activities include: plasma diagnostics; shock front formation by supersonic plasma jets; ion current measurements and ion current interaction with magnetic field and neutral ambient gas; and vacuum arc deposition techniques including filtered vacuum arc deposition. Oren's M.Sc. thesis research is applying plasma diagnostics near the substrate in a vacuum arc deposition set-up. The thesis is expected to be completed by the summer of 2002. In addition to his research activities, Oren designed various real-time computer programs for controlling vacuum arc deposition experiments in the laboratory.
Web Page: http://www.tau.ac.il/~orenzar/
Erez Halahmi was born in Tel-Aviv, Israel, 1969, and received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Tel Aviv University in 1994. His professional experience includes 4 years of leading a team at COMDA Ltd. which developed communication software between IBM main frame computers and various computers running UNIX/VMS operating systems. Since 1994 he is employed as a team leader in the DSP group of Efrat Future Technology Ltd. The team is developing digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms for data communications. He is currently an M.Sc. student in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, of the Faculty of Engineering. His M.Sc. thesis is concentrated on corona discharge applications. The thesis is expected to be completed by summer 1996. In addition to his professional activities, Erez enjoys field trips and sporting activities, especially wind-surfing, rowing, swimming, tennis & basketball.
e-mail: erez@eng.tau.ac.il
Larissa Kaplan was born in USSR in 1954 and received her M.Sc. degree in Metal Physics from the Moscow Steel and Alloys Institute (Faculty of Physics and Chemistry) in 1977. Her thesis was entitle "An Investigation of Fe-Alloy Dislocation Structures Using X-rays Diffraction Line Shapes". She also worked at the Moscow Metallurgy Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in the field of heat treatments of heat-resistant materials, mechanisms of their oxidation, and development of high-temperature corrosion-proof coatings. She developed expertise in the following analytical methods: Auger-spectroscopy (AES), Electron microscopy (TEM, SEM), Electron diffraction analysis (REED, LEED), Xray diffraction analysis, X-ray microprobe, and Differential thermoanalysis (DTA).
Kaplan left Moscow for Israel in 1989. In 1990-1991 she worked in Tel-Aviv University, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, in the field of physics of amorphous metals, glassification temperature calculations and electron microscopy (electron diffraction pattern interpretation and electron microscopes maintenance). Since 1991 she is a Ph.D. student at Tel-Aviv University, in the Faculty of Engineering, Department of Physical Electronics. Her thesis research is entitled "Transparent Conductive Oxides and TCO/GaAs junctions", in which she studies Tin Oxide deposited by Filtered Vacuum Arc Deposition and Indium Tin Oxide deposited by sputtering. Here studies include observations of the cathode spot behavior in the vacuum arc, plasma diagnostics using probes and characterization of the films produced. She expects to submit her thesis in December 1995.
Larissa is married, and the mother of a teenage daughter. Her husband is mathematician and programmer. Her favored vacation activity is travel, in every possible form, including by car, train, and boat, as well as canoeing and hiking. She enjoys spending time with her many friends, and especially enjoys fine arts, music, movies and theater.
e-mail: kaplanl@ashur.cc.biu.ac.il
Michael Keidar was a. student in lab 1991-1996, and receiving his Ph.D. in Engineering in 1997. He was a Fulbright and Welch Postdoctoral Fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA and Research Associate at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Currently he is a Research Fellow at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
His current research concerns the plasma flow in a magnetic field, electrical discharges in vacuum interrupters and plasma thrusters, plasma-wall transition phenomena, dusty plasmas, and plasma thruster plumes. He has authored about 40 journal articles. He is the Senior Member of IEEE and Member of APS and AIAA. He is married and has 2 sons (5 year and 3 days) and 3 daughters (13, 8 and 4 years).
Current address:
Dr. Michael Keidar
Department of Aerospace Engineering
University of Michigan
2049 Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Building
1320 Beal Avenue
Ann Arbor MI 48109-2140
tel: (734) 764 7479
(office)
(248) 968 4840 (home)
(248) 882 2054 (cell)
fax: (734) 763 0578
e-mail:
keidar@engin.umich.edu
Research Group website: http://hpcc.engin.umich.edu/CFD/research/NGPD
Hanan Rosenthal was born in Beer-Sheva, Israel, 1958, and received his M.Sc. degree in solid-state physics from Tel-Aviv University in 1989. His thesis was entitle "Imitation of the critical behavior of the magneto-transport coefficients of a metal-insulator mixture at the percolation threshold in a regular fractal model". His theoretical research was concentrated in the investigation of the universal critical exponents that characterize the critical behavior of a 2D and 3D metal-nonmetal mixture at the percolation threshold, using various 2D and 3D fractal geometries.
Rosenthal received his Ph.D. from Tel-Aviv University in 1996. His thesis was entitled "Investigation of the development of a hot anode vacuum arc". The thesis concentrated on a new kind of a vacuum arc discharge, in which the anode attains modest temperatures. His studies included spectroscopic observation of the inter-electrode plasma, plasma diagnostics, temperature measurements and a non-linear heat flux analysis.
Dr. Hanan Rosenthal is currently the DSP team leader at Ectel Ltd., a company in the telecom business (http://www.ectel.com/).
Hanan is married to Rachel, a physicist and lecturer of mathematics, with whom he has two children. In his spare time he enjoys reading books and sport activities.
e-mail: HananR@ectel.com
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November 18 17:45:31 2002