PhD  Dmitry N. Dirin

e-mail: ddirin@gmail.com
phone: +7(495)939-54-71

Research activities:
Cadmium chalcogenide colloidal quantum dots (semiconductor nanocrystals). Electronic and optical properties of quantum dots.
Nucleation and growth of colloidal quantum dots. Growth kinetics of colloidal quantum dots.
Nanometer-size semiconductor tetrapods.
Semiconductor nanoheterostructures. Quantum dots with spatially separated charge carriers. Optical properties of type II semiconductor nanocrystals. Quantum dots with long lifetime of the photoinduced electron-hole pair.

Internship:
2007, January-June: Department of Luminescence, Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow
2009 October-2010 March: Quantum Dot Research Center, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan

Personal awards:

• Grant UMNIK-2008 "Development of prototype of the solar cell photosensitive element based on CdTe/CdSe colloidal quantum dots".
• A.V.Novoselova Prize (2009)
• Student Travel Award (Nano Today 2009)

Recent publications:

2011

• Extinction coefficients and luminescence of CdSe/CdTe, CdTe/CdSe and CdTe/CdS nanocrystal heterostructures based on colloidal CdSe and CdTe nanocrystals.
  D.N. Dirin, M.S. Sokolikova, R.B. Vasiliev, A.M. Gaskov.
  Journal of Optical Technology, in press.
• Synthesis, morphology, and optical properties of colloidal CdTe/CdSe and CdTe/CdS nanoheterostructures based on CdTe tetrapods.
  D. N. Dirin, R. B. Vasiliev, M. S. Sokolikova and A. M. Gaskov.
  Inorganic Materials, 2011, 47(1), p.23-28.

2009

• Effect of branching of tetrapod-shaped CdTe/CdSe nanocrystal heterostructures on their luminescence.
  A.G. Vitukhnovsky, A.S. Shul'ga, S.A. Ambrozevich, E.M. Khokhlov, R.B. Vasiliev, D.N. Dirin, V.I. Yudson.
  Physics Letters A, 2009, 373, p.2287-2290.
• Growth of near-IR luminescent colloidal CdTe/CdS nanoheterostructures based on CdTe tetrapods.
  R.B. Vasiliev, D.N. Dirin, M.S. Sokolikova, S.G. Dorofeev, A.G. Vitukhnovsky, A.M. Gaskov.
  Mendeleev Comm., 2009, 19(3), p.128-130.
• Temperature effect on the growth of colloidal CdTe nanotetrapods.
  R.B.Vasiliev, D.N.Dirin, A.M.Gaskov.
  Mendeleev Comm., 2009, 19(3), p.126-127.

2008

• Hole mobility and trapping in PVK films doped with CdSe/CdS and CdSe quantum dots.
  S.Ambrozevich, M. van der Auweraer, D. Dirin, M.Parshin, R.Vasil'ev, A.Vitukhnovsky.
  Journal of Russian Laser Research, 2008, 29(6), p.526-537.

2007

• Photoresponse of colloidal quantum dots - conducting SnO₂ matrix composite.
  R.B.Vasiliev, D.N.Dirin, A.V.Babynina, S.G.Dorofeev, M.N.Rumyantseva, A.M.Gaskov.
  Proceedings of the International Conference MEC-2007 (Molecular and Nanoscale Systems for Energy Conversion), Moscow, Russia, 2007, October 01-03, p.91-94.
• Blinking as a tool of quantum dot OLEDs studies.
  P. Argyrakis, V. Lidsky, R. Vasiliev, D. Dirin, V. Zalunin, A. Vitukhnovsky.
  Proceedings of the International Conference EURODISPLAY'07 (European series of International Display Research Conferences and Exhibitions), Moscow, Russia, 17-20.09.2007, p.151-154.

2006

• Imaging of QDs-labeled tumors in small animals by fluorescence diffuse tomography.
  I.V.Turchin, I.V.Balalaeva, R.B.Vasil'ev, V.P.Zlomanov, V.I.Plehanov, A.G.Orlova, E.V.Zagaynova, V.A.Kamensky, M.S.Kleshnin, M.V.Shirmanova, S.G.Dorofeev, and D.N.Dirin.
  Laser Physics Letters, 2006, 3(4), p.208-212.