Education

 

1988-1992       General Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia,

Ph.D. in Physics

 

1982-1988       Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudnyi, Russia, Diploma in Physics.

 

 

Experience

 

Feb. 2010 - current    Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

 

2009 (Sept.-Nov.)       Visiting Researcher, University of Heidelberg.

 

2009 (June-August)    Visiting Scientist, M.I.T.

 

2009 (Feb.-May)       Visiting Researcher, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

 

2008 (Apr.-Jul.)          Invited Professor, Universite du Maine, Le Mans, France.

 

2008 (Feb.-Mar.)       Visiting Researcher, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.

 

1999-2007                   Senior Scientist (Scientist 1999-2001), Philips Analytical / Philips Advanced Metrology Systems/ Advanced Metrology Systems, Natick, MA, USA.

 

1995-1998                   Research Associate (Postdoctoral Associate 1995-1997), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.

 

1993-1995                   Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

 

1992-1995                   Scientist (Junior Scientist 1992-1993), General Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia.

 

 

Awards and Fellowships

 

• International Photoacoustic and Photothermal Association Jr. Scientist Prize, 2004.
• Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship, 1993.
• Moscow Physical Society, First Prize for research work by a young scientist, 1992.

 

 

Selected Results and Publications (>70 publications total)

 

• First experimental observation of surface phonon focusing.

-         Al.A.Kolomenskii and A.A.Maznev,  Phys. Rev. B 48, 14502 (1993).

 

• First experimental observation of cusps in the wave front of surface acoustic waves.     

-         A.A.Maznev, Al.A.Kolomenskii and P.Hess, Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 3332 (1995).

 

• New visualization method for surface acoustic waves.

-         Al.A.Kolomenskii and A.A.Maznev,  J. Appl. Phys. 77, 6052 (1995).

 

• Theory of elastodynamic surface response to line and point sources.

-   A.A.Maznev and A.G.Every,   Int. J. Engng. Sci. 35, 321-327 (1997).

-  A.G. Every, A.A. Maznev and G.A.D. Briggs, Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 2478 (1997).

 

• Optical heterodyne detection of laser-induced gratings.

      -   A.A. Maznev, J.A. Rogers and K.A. Nelson, Opt. Lett. 23, 1319-21 (1998).

 

• How to make crossed femtosecond pulses overlap.

-         A.A. Maznev, T.F. Crimmins and K.A. Nelson,  Opt. Lett. 23, 1378-80 (1998).

 

• Laser-based surface acoustic wave spectrometer for industrial applications: used for metal film metrology by companies such as AMD.

-         A.A. Maznev, A. Mazurenko, L. Zhuoyun, and M. Gostein, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 74, 667 (2003).

 

• Surface acoustic waves in periodically patterned thin film structures.

-         A.A. Maznev, Phys. Rev. B. 78, 155323 (2008).

-         A.A. Maznev and O.B. Wright, J. Appl. Phys. 105, 123530 (2009).

-         A.A. Maznev and A.G. Every, J. Appl. Phys. 106, 113531 (2009).

 

 

Patents

 

• 6 US patents
• 5 pending patent applications