CURRICULUM VITAE
Name: CHRISTOVA (family) KATE (given name) KIRILOVA (father's).
Born: 16.01.1950, Sofia, Bulgaria. Bulgarian citizenship.
Graduate from Sofia State University, 1971, Physics.
MS thesis on Gas-discharge plasma and its application.
Appointment: physicist in ISSP, BAS, 1973.
A PhD degree in Physics was conferred on 16.06.1994 (ISSP, BAS);
PhD Thesis: "Mechanical stress in film-silicon substrate system".
Research Fellow of 3rd rank (March 1978), 2nd rank (December 1981) and 1st rank (May 1988), ISSP-BAS.
Associate Professor: since May 2004, ISSP-BAS.
Head of Laboratory of Electron-Phonon Interactions at ISSP of BAS, May 2004.
MORE INFORMATION:
Fields of expertise: Mechanical and Thermal Properties of Condensed Matter Physics, Thin Films, Stress Behaviour, Structure Characterization, Phase Transitions, Stress-Free Phase, Photo- and Thermo-Induced Changes, Superconductivity, Nano-Size Particles Embedding.
Research
More than 45 original papers are published in representative international Journals in the field of mechanical properties of solid state such as mechanical stress in film-substrate systems. The stress is used as a tool to characterize different materials, such as films of SiO2, a-Si:H, Al, Al2O3, Si3N4, dimond-like carbon, CuInxSey, chalcogenides, and the kinetics of the process of their preparation.
Subjects of recent interest are superconductors and nano-size particles in respect to incorporation inside superconducting matrix, as well as different films structure characterising mode.
X-ray Diffraction, Transmission Electron Microscopy, X-ray Photo-electron Spectroscopy, Atomic Force Microscopy, Thermo-Gravimetrick mesurements are carried out.
The results of research activities are presented at different International Conferences
as invited papers and posters too.
MS students:
Sean Erik Foss, Trondheim University, 2000;
Kjartan Nesbakken Haugen, Trondheim University, 2000.
Some recent papers:
K. Christova, I. Boradjiev, D. Spassov, G. Beshkov, Stress in boron nitride nanofilms prepared by rapid termal annealing, JOAM, 11, No 10, 2009, 1557, 1454-4164.
R. K. Debnath, A.G. Fitzgerald,K. Christova, A. Manov "X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy of GexSb40-xS60 films" Compt.rend. Acad. bulg. sci. 57, 11, 2004.
K. Christova, A. Manov, V. Pamukchieva, A. G. Fitzgerald, L. Jiang "Mechanical stress studies of amorphous GexSb40-xS60 film" J. Non-Cryst. Solids 325, 1-3, 2003, 142
K. Christova, A. Manov, J. Nyhus, U. Thisted, O. Herstad, S. Foss, K. Haugen, K. Fossheim "Bi2Sr2CaCu2Ox bulk superconductor with MgO particles embedded" Journal Alloys and Compounds 340, 2002, 1
R. K. Debnath, A.G. Fitzgerald, K. Christova "X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy studies of Ag-doped thin amorphous GexSb40-xS60 films" Appl. Surf. Sci. 202, 2002, 261
K. Christova, A. Manov, V. Pamukchieva, A. G. Fitzgerald, L. Jiang "Stress-free phase in films of GeSbS family" XIIIth Intern. Symp. on Non-Oxide Glasses & New Optical Glasses, Sept. 9-13, 2002, Pardubice, Czech Rep., (Edts. M. Frumar at al), Univ. of Pardubice, part II, 2002, 447
International collaboration:
Head of two International projects, one of them with Norwegian Science Council at the invitation of the Physical Department of the University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, 1998-2000; sharer in 6 projects in Bulgaria.
Scientific-Organization Activities:
Help assistant of Institute of Solid State Physics scientific secretary, 1981-1994.
Permanent member of the Organising Committee of an Internationally recognised Bulgarian School in Condensed Matter Physics since 1980.
Postal address:
Associate Professor Kate Christova,
Electron-Phonon Interactions Laboratory,
Georgi Nadjakov Institute of Solid State Physics,
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences,
72 Tsarigradsko chaussee blvd.,
BG-1784 Sofia, Bulgaria.
Phone: +359 2 979 57 87
Fax: +359 2 975 36 32
E-mail: kkp@issp.bas.bg
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