Faculty:
Materials Science and Engineering
Main energy field:
Materials and devices for energy-efficient technologies
About:
2011 – PhD – University of Cambridge, UK, Nanoscience
2006 – MSc – Weizmann Institute of Science, Physics
2004 – BSc – Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Physics & Chemistry
Member of the Technion’s Solid State Institute,
Zuckerman STEM Fellow,
Horeve Fellow ‘Leaders in Science and Technology’ (supported by the Taub foundation
Research Interests:
Low-power computing and memory:
Non-volatile memory devices, Ferroelectric-based nanostructures and nano devices
Efficient switching devices, Ferroelectric-based nanostructures and nano devices
Quantum devices, Superconducting nanostructures and nano devices
Materials for Energy Harvesting and Conversion:
Piezoelectricity, Nano piezoelectrics
Selected Publications:
Towards Resolving Landauer’s Paradox Through Direct Observation of Multiscale FE-Ferroelectric Interplay, Durkan, A. Hershkovitz, DP Chu, J. F. Scott, Y. Ivry; arXiv:1608.03890 (2016)
Universal scaling of the critical temperature for thin films near the SCg-to-insulating transition, Ivry, CS Kim , A. E. Dane , D. De Fazio , A. McCaughan , K. A. Sunter , Q. Zhao and K. K. Berggren; Physical Review B 90 214515 (2014)
Nano-Domain Pinning in Ferroelastic-FE by Extended Structural Defects, Ivry, C. Durkan , DP. Chu and J.F. Scott; Advanced Functional Materials 24 5567 (2014)
Unexpected Controllable Pair-Structure in FE Nanodomains, Ivry, DP. Chu , J. F. Scott , E. K. H. Ekhard and C. Durkan; Nano Letters 11 4619 (2011)
Flux Closure Vortexlike Domain Structures in FE Thin Films, Ivry, DP. Chu , J. F. Scott , and C. Durkan; Physical Review Letters 10, 207602 (2010)