Ernest Arushanov

Ernest Arushanov (; born February 4, 1941) is a Soviet and Moldovan experimental physicist, academician of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova.

Biography He was born and raised in Baku, where he graduated from high school in 1958. Immediately after graduating from high school arrived in Chișinău, where he entered Kishinev State University (Moldova State University now), Physics and Mathematics department. In 1963 after successful graduation from the university he entered the post-graduate department of the same university, resulted in the PhD thesis in the field of semiconductor compounds (1969). In the period from 1967 to 1986, he worked as a researcher at the Institute of Applied Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Moldavian SSR, in the laboratory of Sergei Ivanovich Radautsan. Then in 1984, defended his doctor-habilitat dissertation. From 1986 to 1988 – he was head of the laboratory he created - Laboratory of the narrow-gap materials. In 1988 he was appointed the deputy director of the Institute of Applied Physics. In 1989 Arushanov became professor, and in 1992 he was elected a Corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova. The first course in semiconductor physics, he lectured at the Kishinev Polytechnic Institute, named after Sergey Lazo in the period from 1970 to 1972. Later in the same place, Arushanov lectured on Materials and Semiconductor Physics (1986–1988).

The collapse of the Soviet Union gave Soviet professors and researchers the opportunity to work in the West; Arushanov took advantage of it. In 1993–1994, he held seminars on physics at the University of Konstanz, Germany. This was followed by an invitation to France, where Arushanov was offered to lecture physics, first in 1995 and 1996 at the Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse, and then in 2002 at the University of Paris. Also Ernest Arushanov in different periods lectured as an invited professor at specialized Institutes and Universities of Austria, England, Holland, Spain, Canada, Poland, Singapore, and Switzerland.

Since 1974, Arushanov prepared 15 PhDs, and continues to pass his knowledge to present graduate students.

Research Collaborators of Laboratory of Semiconductor compounds (from left to right: Ernest Arushanov, Vladimir Pruglo, Liudmila Lukianova, Alexandr Nateprov, Serghei Radautsan (head of the laboratory), Dmitrii Samusi). E. Arushanov's scientific interests are extremely diverse, but still the bases of his works are works on the theory of transport phenomena in various semiconductor compounds. This is evidenced by his dissertations, PhD and doctorate.

Ernest Arushanov during the work with intense magnetic fields.

During his research EK Arushanov obtained 12 patents, has published three monographs, three reviews and more than 300 scientific articles in various national and international journals, on crystal growth, electrical, optical and magnetic properties of materials for solar energy, thermoelectricity, optoelectronics, spintronics and superconductors.

At the present time, the main scientific interest of Ernest Konstantinovich is finding new absorbing materials for solar cells, which he does successfully in the Laboratory of Materials and Structures for Solar Energy Conversion. However, being a famous scientist in the field of semiconductor compounds properties investigation, Ernest Arushanov is a frequent guest in the laboratories of various countries (including Germany, Spain, France and many others), where he is engaged in completely diverse studies.

Awards State Prize of Moldavian SSR in the Field of Science and Technique for work on Material Science and Physics of Semiconductors (1983). State Prize of Republic of Moldova in the Field of Science and Technique for work on Ternary and Multinary compounds (1998). In 2001, Ernest Arushanov became «Om Emerit» for achievements in the development of Moldovan science.