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Alexander Khitun 

Assistant Research Engineer 
Device Research Laboratory 
Electrical Engineering Department                             
University of California Los Angeles                              
Los Angeles, CA 90066 USA                                                                                           
Phone: (310) 206-7987                
Fax:     (310) 206-8495
Email: ahit@ee.ucla.edu      

   Dr. Khitun focuses his efforts on the demonstration of logic devices with Spin Wave Bus. It is a novel approach to the low-power, high functional nanoscale logic circuits based on the spin wave phenomena. The main targets of Dr. Khitun’s investigations has encompassed the following:

(i)  Spintronics (logic devices with Spin Wave Bus); 
(ii) Nanotechnology in application to novel logic devices and novel computational paradigms (Cellular Nonlinear Networks, Cellular Automata);
(iii) Phonon engineering (artificial control of heat transport in low-dimensional semiconductor structures including quantum wells, quantum wires, quantum dot superlattices). 


EDUCATION

June 1995     Ph.D. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), Russia
June 1991      M.S.  Applied Physics and Mathematics, MIPT, Russia
June 1989      B.S.  Applied Physics and Mathematics, MIPT, Russia


AWARDS & HONORS

Inventor Recognition Award from Microelectronics Advanced Research  
       Corporation (MARCO, Los Angeles, 2006)
Research Highlighted by UCLA News Release “UCLA Engineers Announce Breakthrough in Semiconductor Research: Three Highly Interconnected Nanoscale Architectures Using Spin-Wave Technology”(May 4, 2006)
Program Committee member for 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Defect and Fault Tolerant Nanoscale Architectures (NANOARCH 2006)
Best Paper Award (SCI, Florida, 2003)
Nominated to Chancellor’s Award for Postdoctoral Research (University of California Los Angeles, 2001)
Best Young Scientist Theoretical Work  (FORC, Moscow 1996)
Journal Reviewer: Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices



PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Feb 2005 - present        Assistant Research Engineer      
Jan 1999 -  Feb 2005     Postdoctoral  Researcher          
                                        Electrical Engineering Department, 
                                        University of California Los Angeles
Experimental study and theoretical analysis of spin-wave based logic circuits
Computer modeling of nano-scale computational architectures (Cellular Nonlinear Network, Magnetic Cellular Automata)
Theoretical study of thermal transport in semiconductor nano-scale structures                         
Theoretical study of semiconductor devices performance enhancement by the tools of phonon engineering

 
 Nov 1991 - Jan 1999      Research Fellow, Fiber Optics Research Center,
                                    General Physics Institute of the Russian 
                                    Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Theoretical study and computer modeling of phase transitions in moving melts
Experimental work on obtaining hermetically coated optical fibers



SELECTED PUBLICATIONS 


1.Khitun A. and Wang K.L., Nano scale computational architectures with Spin Wave Bus, Superlattices and Microstructures, vol.38, pp. 184-200, (2005).
2.Khitun A. and K.L. Wang, Cellular Nonlinear Network Based on Semiconductor Tunneling  Nanostructure, IEEE Transactions On Electron Devices, vol.52,(2), pp. 183-89, (2005).
3.Liu J., Khitun A., Wang KL.  ”Quantum Dots: Phonons in Self-Assembled Multiple Germanium Structures” in Dekker Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, pp.3203-11, (2004). 
4.Khitun A., Ostroumov R. and Wang K.L., Spin-wave utilization in a quantum computer, Physical Review A, vol.64, (no.6), pp.062304/1-5, (2001). 

ahit@ee.ucla.edu