Positions

Academic Staff Head of Academic Studies in Physics

Research Interests:

Electronic and Structural Properties of Metal Oxides and High-Entropy Oxides for Photoelectrochemical Electrodes. Electronic and Photo-Transport Properties of Polycrystalline Semiconductors (e.g., Halide Perovskites) – Influence of Grain Boundaries and/or Other Defects on the Photoconduction Properties and Recombination Processes.

Representative Publications:

1. Azulay, M. Eylon, O. Eshkenazi, D. Toker, M. Balberg, N. Shimoni, O. Millo, and I.Balberg, “Electrical-Thermal Switching in Carbon-Black–Polymer Composites as a Local Effect” Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 236601 (2003).
2. Azulay, O. Millo, I. Balberg, H.W. Schock, I. Visoly-Fisher and D. Cahen, "Current routes in polycrystalline CuInSe2 and Cu(In,Ga)Se2 films" Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells 91 85 (2007).
3. Levi Aharoni, D. Azulay, O. Millo and I. Balberg, "Anomalous photovoltaic effect in nanocrystalline Si/SiO2 composites", Appl. Phys. Lett. 92, 112109 (2008).
4. Steiner, D. Azulay, A. Aharoni, A. Salant, U. Banin, and O. Millo, “Photoconductivity in aligned CdSe nanorod arrays”, Phys. Rev. B, 80, 195308 (2009).
5. D. Azulay, O. Millo, E. Savir, J. P. Conde, and I. Balberg, “Microscopic and macroscopic manifestations of percolation transitions in a semiconductor composite”, Phys. Rev. B, 80, 245312, (2009)