Fedor G. Pikus

Mentor Graphics, Inc.,
8405 SWBoeckman Rd.,
Wilsonville, OR 97070
Phone: (503) 685-4857 (office)
Phone: (503) 620-3436 (home)
FAX: (503) 685-1302
E-mail: pikus@speakeasy.net


[Research Highlights] [Computer Expertise] [Device Applications]
[Education] [Research Experience] [Computer Skills] [Awards] [Memberships] [Presentations] [Publications]

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Research Highlights:

Computer Experise:

Device Applications:


Education:

Research Experience:

Department of Physics, State University of New York, Stony Brook, Ney York.
Research scientist, July 1996 - December 1997.
Department of Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California.
Postdoctoral research associate, September 1994 - July 1996.
Scientific adviser - Prof. W. Kohn.
Department of Physics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.
Postdoctoral research associate, September 1991 - September 1994.
Scientific adviser - Prof. A. Efros.
A. F. Ioffe Institute, Leningrad, Russia.
Staff scientist, March 1990 - September 1991.
Leningrad PolyTechnical Institute, Leningrad, Russia.
Student, September 1984 - February 1990.

Computer skills:

Hardware:
IBM PC, Macintosh, IBM 360/370, IBM 3090, RISC workstations, Cray C90 and T3D, PDP-11, VAX, Intel Paragon, MEIKO.
Operational Systems:
MS DOS, IBM OS/2 for PC, Apple System 7, OS/360, VM with CMS, UNIX, Cray Unicos, RTS, VMS, Paragon OS.
Programming languages:
Proficient in FORTRAN, Pascal, C, PL/1, IBM 370 Assembler.
Parallel Programming:
MPI, PVM, NX.
Software Packages:
Mathematica, NCAR Graphics, DISSPLA Graphics, IMSL, NAG, Quadpack, Slatec, BLAS, Eispack, Lapack, LASO, Lanczos, ODRPack, ODEPack.
Areas of expertise:
Programming on vector supercomputers (Cray and IBM 3090), parallel programming under MPI, PVM (workstation clusters, Meiko, Paragon) and on Paragon native message-passing system, realization of Monte-Carlo methods on vector and parallel supercomputers and workstations, variational computations, numerical solution of integral and integro-differential equations, linear algebra.
Strong knowledge of numerical methods:
Monte-Carlo, molecular dynamics, optimization, integration/differentiation, differential, integral and integro-differential equations, interpolation, linear algebra etc.
Word Processing:
TeX and LaTex, Microsoft Word, Ami Pro, Describe.
System programming:
MS DOS and CMS.

Awards:

1991 - Award of the Division of Solid State Electronics of A.F. Ioffe Institute of Academy of Sciences of USSR for scientific research.

Membership:

Member of the American Physical Society since 1992.

Presentations:

  1. "Long-range potential fluctuations in plane impurity layers", A. L. Efros and F. G. Pikus, 3rd Seminar on Physics of Low-Dimensional Systems, February 1989, Novosibirsk, Russia.
  2. "Density of States of a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas in the Regime of Non-linear Screening", F. G. Pikus, A. L. Efros, and V. G. Burnett, APS March Meeting, March 1992, Indianapolis.
  3. "Classical Approach to the Gap in the tunneling density of States of Two-Dimensional Electron Liquid in a Strong Magnetic Field", F. G. Pikus and A. L. Efros, APS March Meeting, March 1993, Seattle.
  4. "Electrostatics of quantum liquids", A. L. Efros, F. G. Pikus, and V. G. Burnett, APS March Meeting, March 1993, Seattle (presented by A. L. Efros).
  5. "Coulomb Gap in the Tunneling Density of States of Two-Dimensional Electron Liquid in a Strong Magnetic Field", A. L. Efros and F. G. Pikus, 5th International Conference on Hopping and Related Phenomena, August - September 1993, Glasgow, Scotland, U.K. (presented by A. L. Efros).
  6. "Polarized Exciton Magnetoluminescence under Resonant Excitation of GaAs/AlAs Type II Superlattices", F. G. Pikus and G. E. Pikus, 3rd International Conference on Optics of Excitons in Confined Systems, August - September 1993, Montpellier, France.
  7. "Study of the mechanism of the heavy- and light-hole mixing in GaAs/AlAs Superlattices by the exciton magnetoluminescence.", G. E. Pikus and F. G. Pikus, conference on Quantum Well and Superlattice Physics V, SPIE, 22-29 January 1994, Los Angeles, California.
  8. "Parallel algorithm for Monte-Carlo simulation of Coulomb gap", F. G. Pikus, Mardi Gras '94 conference on "Toward Teraflop Computing and New Grand Challenge Applications", February 10-12, 1994, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
  9. "The Coulomb gap in tunneling from metal into two-dimensional electron gas", F. G. Pikus and A. L. Efros, APS March Meeting, March 1994, Pittsburgh.
  10. "Coulomb Gap: The crossover from zero to strong disorder", A. L. Efros and F. G. Pikus, APS March Meeting, March 1994, Pittsburgh (presented by A. L. Efros).
  11. "The mechanism of heavy and light hole mixing in GaAs/AlAs superlattices", F. G. Pikus and G. E. Pikus, APS March Meeting, March 1994, Pittsburgh.
  12. "New Monte-Carlo method for strongly interacting systems", F. G. Pikus, Mardi Gras '95 conference on "Toward Teraflop Computing and New Grand Challenge Applications", February 19-23, 1995, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
  13. "Monte-Carlo method for systems of strongly interacting particles", F. G. Pikus, Mardi Gras '96 conference on "Experimental and Simulation Challenges in Nanostructured Materials ", February 15-17, 1996, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
  14. "New critical behavior in the Coulomb gap regime", A. L. Efros and F. G. Pikus, APS March Meeting, March 1995, San Jose (presented by A. L. Efros).
  15. "New Monte-Carlo method for strongly interacting systems", F. G. Pikus and A. L. Efros, APS March Meeting, March 1995, San Jose.
  16. "The mechanism of heavy and light hole mixing in GaAs/AlAs superlattices", G. E. Pikus and F. G. Pikus, Workshop on properties of surfaces and interfaces, Minneapolis, MN, May 1995 (invited).
  17. "Conduction Band Spin Splitting and Negative Magnetoresistance in A3B5 Heterostructures", G. E. Pikus and F. G. Pikus, Conference on Electronic Properties of Two-Dimensional Systems, August 1995, UK. (Presented by G. E. Pikus)
  18. "Localization in disordered 2D system of spinless fermions with strong Coulomb interaction", F. G. Pikus and A. L. Efros, APS March Meeting, March 1996, St. Louis.
  19. "Weak Antilocalization and Spin Precession in Quantum Wells", F. G. Pikus and G. E. Pikus, APS March Meeting, March 1996, St. Louis.
  20. "Mesoscopic Capacitance Fluctuations and Metal-Insulator Transition ", B. I. Shklovskii, A. Koulakov, and F. G. Pikus, APS March Meeting, March 1996, St. Louis. (Presented by B. I. Shklovskii)
  21. "Quantum melting on a 2-d lattice and a delocalization transition ", A. L. Efros, E. V. Tsiper, and F. G. Pikus, APS March Meeting, March 1996, St. Louis. (Presented by A. L. Efros)
  22. "Paired States in the Even Integer Quantum Hall Effect ", A. Tikofsky and F. G. Pikus, APS March Meeting, March 1996, St. Louis. (Presented by A. Tikofsky)
  23. "Weak Antilocalization and Spin Precession in Quantum Wells", W. Knap, C. Skierbiszewski, A. Zduniak, E. Litwin-Staszewska, D.Bertho, F. Kobbi, J. L. Robert, G. E. Pikus, F. G. Pikus, Yu. B. Lyanda-Geller, S. V. Iordanskii, V. Mosser, and K. Zekentes, 23rd International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors, Berlin, August 1996.
  24. "Modeling of Nano-Scale Ballistic Field-Effect Transistors", F. G. Pikus and K. K. Likharev, International Workshop on Computational Electronics (IWCE-5), Notre Dame, IN, May 1997.

Publications:

If the title of the paper looks like this, the abstract is available by clicking on the title. Preprints of some of the papers in PostScript format can be accessed from the abstract pages. Some of the links actually lead to the LANL E-print Archive.

  1. "Shift photogalvanic effect in semiconductors with superlattice without inversion center", F.G. Pikus, Sov. Phys. Semiconductors 22 (1988), 594 - 594.
  2. "Electronic spectra of romboedrical modifications of silicon", G.B. Dubrovskii, F.G. Pikus, Sov. Phys. Solid State 31, (1989), 1012.
  3. "Large scale potential fluctuations in plane layers with impurities", F.G. Pikus, A.L. Efros, Sov. Phys. JETP 96 (1989), 558 - 563.
  4. "Maximum low-temperature mobility of two-dimensional electrons in heterostructures with thick spacer layer", A.L. Efros, F.G. Pikus, G.G. Samsonidze, Phys. Rev. B 41 (1990), 8295 - 8301.
  5. "Maximum low-temperature mobility of two-dimensional electrons in heterostructures with thick spacer layer", F.G. Pikus, G.G. Samsonidze, A.L. Efros, Sov. Phys. Solid State 32 (1990), 703 - 707.
  6. "Increase in the low-temperature mobility of 2D electrons by constant exposure to light", F.G. Pikus, JETP Letters 52 (1990), 555 - 558.
  7. "Maximum low-temperature mobility in a 2-dimensional electron-gas in heterostructures with a thick spacer layer. Computer modeling", F.G. Pikus, Sov. Phys. Semiconductors 25 (1991), 439 - 442.
  8. "Temperature dependence of the mobility in a two-dimensional electron gas limited by impurity scattering in a heterostructures with a wide spacer layer. Computer simulation", F.G. Pikus, G.V. Golant, Sov. Phys. Semiconductors 26 (1992), 3437.
  9. "Excitons in quantum wells with a two-dimensional electron gas", F.G. Pikus, Sov. Phys. Semiconductors 26 (1992), 2633.
  10. "Photoluminescence of compensated SiC-6H", V.V. Evstropov, I.Yu. Lin'kov, Ya.V. Morozenko, F.G. Pikus, Sov. Phys. Semiconductors 26 (1992), 543 - 547.
  11. "Spectral variations of the mobility of photoexcited carriers in pure GaAs", V.V. Belkov, F.G. Pikus. JETP Letters 54 (1992), 458 - 461.
  12. "Effective size of scattering centers in a two-dimensional electron gas", T. Deruelle, K. Ensslin, P.M. Petroff, A.L. Efros, F.G. Pikus, Phys. Rev. B 45 (1992), 9082 - 9090.
  13. "Thermodynamic density of states of two-dimensional electron gas in a strong magnetic field", A.L. Efros, F.G. Pikus, V.G. Burnett, Solid State Commun. 84 (1992), 9194.
  14. "Numerical calculations of the current-voltage dependence in the quantum Hall effect regime", M.I. Dyakonov, F.G. Pikus, Solid State Commun. 83 (1992), 413 - 416.
  15. "Density of states of a 2D electron gas in a long-range random potential", A.L. Efros, F.G. Pikus, V.G. Burnett, Phys. Rev. B 47 (1993), 2233 - 2243.
  16. "Polarized Luminescence of the Excitons under Resonance Excitation of GaAs/AlAs Type II Superlattices in a Normal Magnetic Field", G.E. Pikus, F.G. Pikus, Journal of Luminescence 54 (1993), 279 - 284.
  17. "Distribution of electron density and magnetocapacitance in the regime of fractional quantum Hall effect", F.G. Pikus, A.L. Efros, Phys. Rev. B 47 (1993), 16395 - 16403.
  18. "Classical approach to the gap in the tunneling density of states of two-dimensional electron liquid in a strong magnetic field", A.L. Efros, F.G. Pikus, Phys. Rev. B, 48 (1993), 14694.
  19. "Magnetotransport through antidot and dot lattices in two-dimensional structure", V.G. Burnett, A.L. Efros, F.G. Pikus, Phys. Rev. B, 48 (1993), 14365.
  20. "Polarized exciton magnetoluminescence under resonance excitation of GaAs/AlAs type II superlattices", G. E. Pikus and F. G. Pikus, J. de Physique IV, 5 (1993), 187
  21. "Anomalous length dependence of the conductance of a 2D channel near the threshold", M.E. Raikh, F.G. Pikus, Modern Physics Letters B, 8 (1994), 445.
  22. "The mechanism of heavy and light hole mixing in GaAs/AlAs superlattices", G. E. Pikus and F. G. Pikus, Solid State Communications, 89 (1994), 319.
  23. "Indirect exchange interaction for zero-gap semiconductors in Kane model", S. V. Iordanskii, F. G. Pikus, and G. E. Pikus, J. Appl. Phys., 76 (1994), 424.
  24. "Coulomb Gap in a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas with a Close Metallic Electrode", F. G. Pikus and A. L. Efros, Phys. Rev. B., 51 (1995), 16871.
  25. "Critical behavior of density of states in disordered system with localized electrons", F. G. Pikus and A. L. Efros, Phys. Rev. Lett., 73 (1994), 3014.
  26. "Simulation of the Coulomb gap on a parallel computer", F. G. Pikus, Newsletter of Utah Supercomputer Institute, 5 (1994), 1.
  27. "Coulomb Gap in the Tunneling Density of States of Two-Dimensional Electron Liquid in a Strong Magnetic Field", A. L. Efros and F. G. Pikus, Int. J. Mod. Phys. B, 8 (1994), 913.
  28. "New Quantum Monte-Carlo Method for Strongly Correlated Systems. Quantum Melting", F. G. Pikus and A. L. Efros, Solid State Commun., 92 (1994), 485.
  29. "Theory of exciton spectra of incompressible quantum liquids", V.M. Apalkov, E.I. Rashba, and F. G. Pikus, Phys. Rev. B., 52 (1995), 6111.
  30. "Conduction band spin splitting and negative magnetoresistance in A3B5 heterostructures", F. G. Pikus and G. E. Pikus, Phys. Rev. B., 51 (1995), 16928.
  31. "Non-Fermi-Liquid Behavior in Two-Dimensional Electron Gas with Disorder", A. L. Efros and F. G. Pikus, Solid State Commun., 96 (1995), 183.
  32. "Weak Antilocalization and Spin Precession in Quantum Wells", W. Knap, C. Skierbiszewski, A. Zduniak, E. Litwin-Staszewska, D.Bertho, F. Kobbi, J. L. Robert, G. E. Pikus, F. G. Pikus, Yu. B. Lyanda-Geller, S. V. Iordanskii, V. Mosser, and K. Zekentes, Phys. Rev. B. 53 , 3912 (1996.
  33. "Conduction Band Spin Splitting and Negative Magnetoresistance in A3B5 Heterostructures", G. E. Pikus and F. G. Pikus, Accepted to Semiconductors Science and Technology.
  34. "Quantum Melting on a Lattice and a Delocalization Transition", E. V. Tsiper, F. G. Pikus, and A. L. Efros, Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett.
  35. "Exciton luminescence of compensated SiC-6H ", V.V. Evstropov, I.Yu. Linkov, Ya.V. Morozenko, and F. G. Pikus, Physica B, 185 (1993), 313.
  36. "Properties of Paired Quantum Hall States at \nu=2", F. G. Pikus and A. M. Tikofsky, submitted to PRL.
  37. "Weak Localization and Negative Magnetoresistance in Wurtzite-type Crystals", F. G. Pikus and G. E. Pikus, Solid State Commun., 100 (1996), 95.
  38. "Single-Electron Charging and Coulomb Interaction in InAs Self-Assembled Quantum Dot Arrays", G. Medeiros-Ribeiro, F. G. Pikus, P. M. Petroff, and A. L. Efros, Phys. Rev. B. 100 (1997), 1568.
  39. "Spin Splitting and Weak Localization in (110) GaAs/AlGaAs Quantum Wells ", T. Hassenkam, S. Pedersen, K. Baklanov, A. Kristensen, C. B. Sorensen, P. E. Lindelof, F. G. Pikus, and G. E. Pikus, Phys. Rev. B. 55 (1997), 9298.
  40. "Statistics of the charging spectrum of a two-dimensional Coulomb-glass island", A. A. Koulakov, F. G. Pikus, and B.I. Shklovskii, Phys. Rev. B. 55 (1997), 9233.
  41. "Nanoscale Field-Effect Transistors: An Ultimate Size Analysis", F. G. Pikus and K. K. Likharev, accepted to Applied Physics Letters.
  42. " Weak Localization in Semiconductor Multi-Quantum Well Structures ", F. G. Pikus and G. E. Pikus, submitted to Phys. Rev. B.

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