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Faculty of Radiophysics
The Faculty was established in June 1975 by decision of Armenian Government (USSR era) aiming to meet growing demand in radiophysicist in military, industrial, high technology and R&D sectors of the plan - economy.:
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Hayk A. Zakaryan

Lecturer | Chair of Semiconductor and Microelectronics
Title
Doctor in Philosophy in Physics (PhD), Research scientist

Main research interest
Material science, computational chemistry, semiconductor physics

Current research interest
Solid state batteries, two dimensional materials, semiconductor gas sensors, superhard materials, density functional theory, machine learning

Education
2014-2017 PhD, Yerevan State University, thesis: ”Investigation of gas adsorption on the tin dioxide surface using density functional theory”
2012-2014 Master degree, Yerevan State University, Faculty of Radiophysics
2008-2012 Bachelor degree, Yerevan State University, Faculty of Radiophysics

Work Experience
2017-present Yerevan State University, Research scientist, Center of Physics of Semiconductors and Nanotechnology
2016, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Junior Researcher, Computational materials and design
2015 – 2016, Cisco, Hardware Engineer
2009, Institute of Applied Problems of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia
Laboratory assistant
Grants: 2020-2023, Computational search for novel solid state electrolytes, 20TTSG-2F010, Science Committee RA, (PI)
2021-2022, Search and investigation for novel two dimensional materials for biochemical sensing applications, 20RF-185, Science Committee RA-RF international grant, (member)
2019 Faculty research funding, Enterprise Incubator Foundation (EIF) with support of PMI Science, (group head)
2019 European Partnership (EaPEC 2019), (PI)
2019-2021, Scientific Committee of RA grant (19YR‐2K002), (member)
2018-2020, RA-RF international grant (18RF-118), (member)
2017-2018 Russian Science Foundation project No 17-73-20038, (member)
2014 – 2017, NATO project SfP-984597, (member)

Conferences
Conference and tutorial on Physics of Defects in Solids: Quantum Mechanics Meets Topology, Trieste, Italy, July, 2018.
ALLSENSORS 2017: “The Second International Conference on Advances in Sensors, Actuators, Metering and Sensing”, France, Nice, March 19-23, 2017.
H. A. Zakaryan and V. M. Aroutiounian, “Sensitivity of graphene humidity senors,” in Proc. of SENSOR 2015 and IRS 2 2015, Nierenberg, Germany, 2015, pp. 868–872.
Conference on Frontiers of Nanoscience, ICTP (International Center for Theoretical Physics), Italy, Aug 23 – Sep1, 2015.

Language
Armenian, Russian and English

hayk.zakaryan@ysu.am