Dr. Maria Mitkova received her BS in Semiconductor Materials and Devices Technology and PhD in Technical Sciences from the Technological University in Sofia, Bulgaria. She was professor at the Technological University and Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and has worked in the research and development of Ovonic memory devices in the Institute for Microelectronics. Since 1997 she has worked in the USA - at the University of Cincinnati and Arizona State University. Dr. Mitkova joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Boise State University in November 2006. Her research interests are in the field of amorphous semiconductors, their characterization and application as optical and electronic memory media. She has specialized in a number of Ag-containing chalcogenide systems and their application in ionic nonvolatile programmable metallization cell memory devices, optical displays, MEMS and devices for microfluidic control. Dr. Mitkova holds six US patents; she is co-author of three books, five invited chapters in books and over 100 scientific papers in journals and conference proceedings. She is a member of the American Physics Society, Materials Research Society, American Society for Engineering Education, and fellow of the Selenium, Tellurium Developing Association - Brussels, Belgium. She was involved as a consultant with Hoechst AG, Frankfurt/Main, Germany; European Media Laboratory GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany; Micron Technology Inc., Boise/Idaho; Infineon AG, Munich, Germany; Nanochip Inc. Fremont/California; and Tower Semiconductor LTD. Tel Aviv, Israel.
Articles
Influence of Cu Diffusion Conditions on the Switching of Cu-SiO2-Based Resistive Memory Devices (with S.C. Puthen Thermadam, S. K. Bhagat, T. L. Alford, Y. Sakaguchi, and M. N. Kozicki), Thin Solid Films (2010)
This paper presents a study of Cu diffusion at various temperatures in thin SiO2 films....
Structural Details of Ge-rich and Silver-Doped Chalcogenide Glasses for Nanoionic Nonvolatile Memory (with Yoshifumi Sakaguchi, Dmitri Tenne, Shekhar Kumar Bhagat, and Terry L. Alford), Physica Status Solidi (A) (2010)
We are reporting our results of Raman and X-ray diffraction (XRD) studies on amorphous Ge46S54...
Effect of Photo-Oxidation on the Photodiffusion of Silver in Germanium Chalcogenide Glasses (with A. Kovalskiy, H. Jain, and Y. Sakaguchi), Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials (2009)
We report results on photoinduced changes in Ge-chalcogenide glasses, which occur in ultra high vacuum...
Evolution of Chemical Structure During Silver Photodiffusion Into Chalcogenide Glass Thin Films (with A. Kovalskiy and H. Jain), Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids (2009)
The change of chemical structure resulting after X–ray and photo-induced silver diffusion into chalcogenide glass...
Oxygen-Assisted Photoinduced Structural Transformation in Amorphous Ge-S Films (with Yoshifumi Sakaguchi and Dmitri A. Tenne), Physica Status Solidi B (2009)
We report our results of continuous illumination of Ge46S54 chalcogenide glass films with bandgap light...