User:E. V. Shun'ko

Evgeny V. Shun’ko (russ. Евгений В. Шунько) (Short Autobiography)

July 16, 2013

Biography
I was born in Omsk city, Russia, at June 2, 1937.

After completing a high school in Omsk, I enrolled in the Department of Physics at the Ural Polytechnic Institute in Sverdlovsk (presently Ekaterinburg) in 1954, and later transferred to the Novosibirsk State University in Akademgorodok where I received Master’s Degree in Physics and Mathematics. At that time, the Novosibirsk State University was just founded by Academician Professor Mikhail Lavrentyev and attracted some of most renowned Russian scientists.

In 1974, I received Ph.D. Degree in Physics and Mathematics from the Novosibirsk State University after completing a doctoral thesis entitled “High Power CO2 Laser with Plasma in E x B Fields”.

I had done my post-doctoral training at the Institute of Nuclear Physics in Academgorodok at the Laboratory of Professor Gersh Budker, director of Institute of Nuclear Physics, with whom I worked closely on a thermonuclear fusion problem and co-authored several papers. Later, I continued to work on plasma confinement for the thermonuclear fusion as a senior scientist at the Institute of Nuclear Physics (currently Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics).

In 1991, I moved with my family to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, where I held a professor assistant position at the High Energy Department of the University of Pittsburgh.

In 1994, I moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan, to join Guardian Industries Corp. as a Senior Scientist.

In 1999, I accepted position a Chief Scientist at the Wintek Electro - Optics corp.

In 2015 until the present time, I am a Chief Scientist at AMPRES, Inc.. I have 44 technical articles in plasma physics (and around) including a monograph: “Langmuir Probe in Theory and Practice'', Universal Publishers, Boca Raton, Florida, USA, 2009 [39].

Areas of Expertise
a. Langmuir probe. Theory, Experiments, Applications. Most Advanced Results: Applications of Cylindrical Langmuir probe for measurements of parameters of electron flows in plasma [15,39].

b. Dielectric barrier discharge (DBD). Theory, Experiments, Applications. Most Advanced Results: Method for calculations of DBD parameters from IV characteristic of discharge. Applications of DBD for production and transport of excited  atomic oxygen in mixtures of Ar + ~2%O2 [37] and N2 + ~2×10-3 %O2 [42].

c. Applications of excited atomic oxygen for cleaning surfaces, improving their adhesion [42], and for crystallization of amorphous Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) on substrate surface [43]. Most Advanced Results: Crystallization of amorphous Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) on substrate surface [43]. Development of “point”-type [37] and linear [42] DBD devices for industrial cleaning of glass boards on conveyor lines in Flat Display production  (Wintek).

d. RF plasmas, Theory, Experiments, Applications. Most Advanced Results: Development of plasmas with electron populations of ~100 eV energy [44] by solution of Hamilton-Jacobi equation for plasma electrons in axial electromagnetic fields of solenoidal type radio frequency inductively coupled plasma sources. Application of plasmas with electron populations of ~100 eV energy for direct deposition of crystalline forms of materials from plasma on a glass substrate.