Prof. Pavlos Savvidis, CV


 

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About me:
Education
Ph.D. in Physics, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK 10/99-09/01
Dissertation title: Polariton Dynamics in Semiconductor Microcavities
Dissertation advisor: Prof. Jeremy J. Baumberg

B.S. in Physics, University of Athens, Athens, Greece 9/94 - 6/98

Positions, Training

Assistant Professor, Material Science and Technology Department 09/04-present
University of Crete, Greece
Affiliated with Microelectronics Research Group, IESL/FORTH
Research activity in non-linear optical properties of semiconductor nanostructures

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK 03-06/2004
Nonlinear Properties of Organic Microcavities

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA 01/02-11/03
Development of Far Infrared Solid State Terahertz Oscillator

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK 09-12/2001
Nonlinear Properties of Photonic Microcavities Filled with Liquid Crystal


Publicity

1.News and Views article, “Solid-state physics: Polaritronics in view”, Nature 453, 297 (2008).
2.Physics World, “'Polaritonics' forges ahead” , May 19 (2008)
3.Chemical & Engineering News, “Exotic Lighting”, Vol. 86, May (2008)
4.News and Views article, “Half-Matter, half-light amplifier”, Nature 405, 629 (2000).
5.“Amplifier from Half-Breed Particles”, Phys. Rev. Focus 5, story 6, 10 February (2000), available online at http://focus.aps.org/v5/st6.html
6.“Mongrel Particles Act like Bosons”, Photonics Spectra May p. 24 (2000). “Thin films trap hybrid particles”, Vacuum Solutions March/April p. 5 (2000). “Polariton Amplifier”, Physics-Uspekhi 43 (3) p. 313 (2000).

1.S.I. Tsintzos, P.G. Savvidis, G. Deligeorgis, Z. Hatzopoulos, N.T. Pelekanos, “Room temperature GaAs polariton LED”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 94, 071109 (2009)
2.M. Trixas, M. Kayabaki, E. Iliopoulos, N.T. Pelekanos, P.G. Savvidis “Resonantly enhanced selective photochemical etching of GaN” accepted to APL (2009)
3.P.G. Savvidis, J.Renard, B.Gayral, Z. Hatzopoulos, N.T. Pelekanos, “Negative biexciton binding energy in (211)B InAs/GaAs piezoelectric quantum dots”, In prep for APL (2009)
4.P. Tsotsis, N.T. Pelekanos, Z. Hatzopoulos, P.G. Savvidis “Parametric polariton amplification at 200K in GaAs microcavities” In prep. for APL (2009)
5.S.I. Tsintzos, N.T. Pelekanos, G. Konstantinidis, Z. Hatzopoulos, P.G. Savvidis, “A GaAs polariton light-emitting diode operating near room temperature”, Nature 453, 372 (2008)
6.Dialynas, G.E. Xenogianni, C, Tsintzos, S, Trichas, E, Savvidis, P.G, Constantinidis, G, Renard, J., Gayral, B., Hatzopoulos, Z., Pelekanos, N.T, “Anti-binding of biexcitons in (211)B InAs/GaAs piezoelectric quantum dots” Physica E, 40, 2113 (2008)
7.Dialynas, G.E., Chatzidimitriou, N., Kalliakos, S., Tsintzos, S., Savvidis, P.G., Hatzopoulos, Z., Pelekanos, N.T. “Single dot spectroscopy on InAs/GaAs piezoelectric quantum dots” Phys Status Solidi (a) 205, 2566 (2008)
8.G. E. Dialynas, A. Pantazis, M. Androulidaki, K. Tsagaraki,G. Constantinidis, Z. Hatzopoulos, C. Xenogianni, E. Trichas, S. Tsintzos, P. G. Savvidis, N. T. Pelekanos “InAs nanostructures on polar GaAs surfaces” International Journal of Nanotechnology 6, 124 (2009)
9.M. Trixas, M. Kayabaki, E. Iliopoulos, N.T. Pelekanos, P.G. Savvidis “Selective photochemical etching of GaN films following laser lift-off.” Phys Status Solidi (a) 205, 2509 (2008)
10.S. Tsintzos, P.G. Savvidis, G. Konstantinidis, Z. Hatzopoulos, N.T. Pelekanos “Development of electrically-pumped microcavity lasers” Phys Status Solidi (c) 5, 3594 (2008)
11.P.G. Savvidis, L. G. Connolly, M. S. Skolnick, D. G. Lidzey and J. J. Baumberg, “Ultrafast polariton dynamics in strongly coupled zinc porphyrin microcavities at room temperature”, Phys. Rev. B, 74, 113312 (2006)
12.M. Zervos, C. Xenogianni, G. Deligeorgis, M. Androulidaki, P.G. Savvidis, Z. Hatzopoulos and N.T. Pelekanos, InAs quantum dots grown by molecular beam epitaxy on GaAs (211)B polar substrates Physica Status Solidi (c) 3, 3988 (2006)
13.P. Robrish, Jing Xu, Shigeki Kobayashi, P.G. Savvidis, Borys Kolasa, Greg Lee, Dan Mars and SJ Allen, Loss and Gain in Bloch Oscillating Super-Superlattices: THz Stark Ladder Spectroscopy, PHYSICA E 32, 325 (2006)
14.SJ Allen, P.G. Savvidis, Borys Kolasa, Shigeki Kobayashi, Peter Robrish, Greg Lee, Dan Mars Dynamical Conductivity In Bloch Oscillating Semiconductor Super-Superlattices, Mater. Res. Soc. 891, EE4.3 (2005)
15.P.G. Savvidis, B. Kolasa, G. Lee and S.J. Allen, “Resonant Crossover of Terahertz Loss to the Gain of a Bloch Oscillating InAs/AlSb Superlattice”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 196802 (2004). Cited 44 times
16.J. Xu, G.J. Ramian, J.F. Galan, P.G. Savvidis, A.M. Scopatz, R.R. Birge, S.J. Allen, K.W. Plaxco, “Terahertz Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy: a potential approach to unbiased, in situ life detection”, Astrobiology 3 489 (2003)
17.P.G. Savvidis, P.G. Lagoudakis, “Teaching polaritons new tricks”, accepted in Semiconductor Science & Technology (2003)
18.P.G. Savvidis, J.J. Baumberg, D. Porras, D.M. Whittaker, M.S. Skolnick, J.S. Roberts “Ring emission and exciton-pair scattering in semiconductor microcavities”, Phys. Rev. B 64 073309 (2002)
19.P.G. Lagoudakis, P.G. Savvidis, J.J. Baumberg, P. Littlewood, D.M. Whittaker, M.S. Skolnick, J.S. Roberts “Stimulated spin dynamics of polaritons in semiconductor microcavities”, Phys. Rev. B 65 R161310 (2002)
20.R. Butte, M. Emam-Ismail, A. Lemaitre, R.M. Stevenson, M.S. Skolnick, D.M. Whittaker, A.I. Tartakovskii, J.J. Baumberg, P.G. Savvidis, J.S. Roberts, “Pump angle and laser energy dependence of stimulated scattering in microcavities”, Physica Status Solidi (a) 190, pp. 333 (2002)
21.J.J. Baumberg, P.G. Savvidis, P.G. Lagoudakis, M.D. Martin, D.M. Whittaker, R. Butte, M.S. Skolnick, J.S. Roberts, “Polariton Traps in Semiconductor Microcavities”, Physica E 13, pp. 385 (2002)
22.\M. S. Skolnick, R. M. Stevenson, A. I. Tartakovskii, R. Butté, M. Emam-Ismail, D. M. Whittaker, P. G. Savvidis, J. J. Baumberg, A. Lemaître, V. N. Astratov and J. S. Roberts, “Polariton¯polariton interactions and stimulated scattering in semiconductor microcavities”, Materials Science and Engineering C, 19, pp. 407 (2002)
23.P.G. Savvidis, C. Ciuti, J.J. Baumberg, M.S. Skolnick, D.M. Whittaker and J.S. Roberts “Off-branch polaritons and multiple scattering in semiconductor microcavities”, Phys. Rev. B 64 075311 (2001). Cited 58 times.
24.P.G. Savvidis, J.J. Baumberg, R.M. Stevenson, M.S. Skolnick, D.M. Whittaker and J.S. Roberts, “Angle-resonant stimulated polariton amplifier”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, p. 1547 (2000). Cited 360 times.
25.R.M. Stevenson, V.N. Astratov, M.S. Skolnick, D.M. Whittaker, M. Emam-Ismail, A.I. Tartakovkii, P.G. Savvidis, J.J. Baumberg and J.S. Roberts, “Continuous Wave Observation of Massive Polariton Redistribution by Stimulated Scattering in Semiconductor Microcavities”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, p. 3680 (2000). Cited 210 times.
26.P.G. Savvidis, J.J. Baumberg, R.M. Stevenson, M.S. Skolnick, D.M. Whittaker and J.S. Roberts, “Asymmetric angular emission in semiconductor microcavities”, Phys. Rev. B 62 p. R13278 (2000). Cited 61 times.
27.J.J. Baumberg, P.G. Savvidis, R.M. Stevenson, A.I. Tartakovskii, M.S. Skolnick, D.M. Whittaker and J.S. Roberts, “Parametric oscillation in a vertical microcavity: A polariton condensate or micro-optical parametric oscillation”, Phys. Rev. B 62 p. R16247 (2000). Cited 114 times.
28.P.G. Savvidis, J.J. Baumberg, R.M. Stevenson, M.S. Skolnick, J.S. Roberts and D.M. Whittaker, “Angular-Assymmetric Nonlinear Polariton Dynamics in Semiconductor Microcavities”, Physica Status Solidi (b) 221, pp. 77 (2000).
29.G.K. Savvidy, K.G. Savvidy and P.G. Savvidy, “Dual statistical systems and geometrical string”, Physics Letters A, 221, 0p. 233 (1996).

Previous jobs:
Post-doc: University of California Santa Barbara 
Education:
Univ. Of Athens, University of Southampton 
 

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