CURRICULUM VITAE

  First name: Gabriel

  Surname (Family name) Moagar-Poladian

  Date and place of birth: September 23, 1965, Bucharest, ROMANIA

  Education:

Institution:	Faculty of Physics, Bucharest University (1985- 1990)
Degree or Diploma:	MSc in solid-state physics and devices and nonlinear optics – 1990 Title of diploma: The study of the Pockels and optical rectification effects. Mark obtained: 10 (highest)   PhD in solid-state physics/optoelectronics - 1992 – 1999 Title of PhD thesis: The MOS Transistor with Optically Controlled Gate. Distinction obtained: The highest + "Cum Laudae"

  Professional experience (competence and domain)

Solid state physics, optoelectronics (components for optical computing and for optical communications), microsensors and microsystems (for optical detection and light manipulation), nonlinear optics (electro-optic effects, optical rectification).

  Career:

  Stages abroad (country, institution, period):

  Present position: Senior researcher

  Research interests:

  Optoelectronics: high speed electro-optic modulators in bulk silicon (and other semiconductors) for the radiation corresponding to intrinsic absorption band; arrays of MOS transistors with photoelectret controlled gate; optical neural nets; optical and optoelectronic memories; optical computers; optical chip interconnects.
  Optical communications: a new method and infrastructure for ultra broadband optical communications.
  Optical materials: a new method for obtaining thin films with very low reflectivities.
  Microsystems: optical sensors for microsystem applications; adaptive optics for microscopy; novel photonic techniques for use in the field of microsystems.
  Solid-state physics: electrical and optical properties of novel materials for electronics/optoelectronics and sensor applications.

  Past and current projects (the most representative examples, indicating title/subject, source of founding, time interval, main results obtained/expected, role played in the project): 

  Main scientific publications:

  G. Moagar-Poladian – Optical Random Access Memory Based on Tunnel Diodes, accepted at IQEC/LAT 2002 Conference, 22-28 June 2002, Moscow, Russia.
  G. Moagar-Poladian, M. Bulinski – "Reconfigurable Optical Neuron Based on the Transverse Pockels Effect", Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials vol.4, no.4 p. 929 – 936 (2002).
  G. Moagar-Poladian – The Theory of the Basic Optoelectronic Behaviour of the Tunnel Diode, Applied Optics volume 40 no. 33, p. 6086 – 6097 (2001).
  V. Moagar-Poladian, G. Moagar-Poladian – Finite Element Simulation of a New Type of All-metal Infrared Detector, Proceedings of the SENSOR 2001 Conference (May 8 – 10 2001, Nuremberg, Germany), vol.1, p. 275 – 280 (2001).
  G. Moagar-Poladian – Image Amplifier based on a photoelectret-electrooptic medium sandwich-type structure, Journal of Optics Part A: Pure and Applied vol. 2 no.6, p. 569 – 575 (2000).
  G. Moagar-Poladian – A Novel Type of Thresholding Element for Optoelectronic Neurons, Romanian Journal of Information Science and Technology vol.3, no.4, p. 353 – 364 (2000).
  G. Moagar-Poladian - Reconfigurable Optical Neuron Based on Photoelectretic Materials, Applied Optics vol.39 no.5, p.782-787 (2000). ^{(See note below)}
  G. Moagar-Poladian - All-optical Analog-to Digital and Digital-to-Analog Converters, accepted at III^rd Euro-American Workshop on Optoelectronic Information Proccessing, Colmar, France, May 1999.
  G. Moagar-Poladian - The Applications of Photoelectret-Electrooptic Crystal Structure to Optical Imaging, accepted at ISE 10: 10^th International Symposium on Electrets, Delfi, Greece, September 1999.
  G. Moagar-Poladian, V. Moagar-Poladian - Giant Piezorezistivity in GMR-like Structures, accepted at LDSD’99: Low Dimensional Systems and Devices ’99, Antalya, Turkeey, September 1999.
  G. Moagar-Poladian - "MOS Transistor with Photoelectret Controlled Gate", International Journal of Optoelectronics, vol.12 no.1, p. 1-7 (1998).
  G. Moagar-Poladian, V. Moagar-Poladian - Stress Determination in Dielectric Thin Films Using the Piezorezistive Effect, Proceedings of the MME’98 Conference (MicroMechanics Europe), Ulvik i Hardanger, Norway, p. 307 – 310, (1998).
  G. Moagar-Poladian - " An MOS Transistor with Optical Rectification Controlled Gate", Semiconductor Science and Technology, vol. 12, p. 210-216 (1997).
  G. Moagar-Poladian - "The Parallel Photoelectromagnetic Effect", Proceedings Supplement of Balkan Physics Letters, vol. 5, part 2, p.1079-1082, (1997).
  G. Moagar-Poladian, C. Savaniu, T. Serban, N. Nastase - Cerium Doped Silica Glass Prepared by Sol-Gel Method, RoCAM’97 Conference (Romanian Conference on Advanced Materials), Romanian Academy, Bucuresti, November 1997
  E. Gheorghiu, G. Moagar-Poladian, T.G. Paunescu. Determination of living cell concentration by on-line dielectroscopic measurements, Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium "Biotechnologies Now and Tomorrow", Bucharest, Romania (June 24-25, 1993), p. 219-226.
  G. Moagar-Poladian - A Method of Emissivity Determination, The 27^th European Seminar on Quantitative Infrared Thermography QIRT’92, Paris, France, July 1992.
  G. Moagar-Poladian - The Determination of Optical Indicatrix Axes in Uniaxial Nonlinear Crystals, National Conference of Physics CNF’90, Cluj, Romania, October 1990.
  G. Moagar-Poladian – Optical Logical Gates Based on Saturable Absorbers. Working Principles. National Conference on Electronics, Communications, Automation and Computers CNETAC’88, Bucuresti, Romania, December 1988.

Paper [7] was mentioned as being state-of-the-art, presenting interest for the field of optical computers based on neural networks, in the John Wiley & Sons INSIDE R&D publication (see http://www.wiley.com/technical_insights/ ), as indicated below:

H.Goldstein – "New Structure Proposed For All-Optical Neurons" , Inside R&D vol.29 no.13 p. 2, March 29, 2000

The same paper [7] was also requested by the editors of New Scientist Magazine from England for presentation in their magazine.

  Member of professional associations:

  Romanian Physical Society
  European Physical Society
  European Optical Society
  Romanian Society of Crystal Growth and Materials Science
  American Optical Society

  Additional information (expertise, prizes, etc.):

Programming skills:

  Operating systems: MS-DOS, Windows 95-98, Windows NT
  Programming languages: Qbasic, C
  Editing software: MS Office
  Mathematical software: Maple

The Silver Medal at the 51^th World Exhibition of Innovation, Research and New Technology, Bruxelles, Belgium, November 2002. Title of the paper: Antireflective Structure for Electromagnetic Radiation. Author: Gabriel Moagar-Poladian.

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  Contact information (e-mail, tel., fax. mailing address):

National Institute for Research and Development in Microtechnology, Str. Erou Iancu Nicolae 32B, 72996, Bucharest, Romania

Tel: +4021-490.84.12; E-mail: gabim@imt.ro