Assistant Mechanical Engineering

YURI L.

ZUEV, Ph.D.

Research Associate and Adjunct Professor Tel.

212-***-**** (work) City University of New York

Tel.865-***-**** (mobile)

City College, Department of Physics

Fax 212-***-**** New York, NY, 10031

******@*****.***

Qualifications:

Physics PhD with practical mindset, hands-on attitude, six years of major

government research lab experience. Proficient in broad spectrum of R&D

skills and activities. Hands-on problem solver. Data analysis (Mathematica,

Excel, Origin, LabVIEW). Engineering graphics (CAD, ProEngineer)

Automation and control Vacuum systems

Cryogenics

Test and measurement Lithography and Etching

Materials Science

Employment History and Achievements:

November 2011-present: City University of New York, Research Associate and

Adjunct Professor

DC and RF characterization of practical superconductors and devices.

Designed and built apparatus for vortex pinning studies at microwave

frequencies, in wide temperature range.

Research in Quantum Spin Hall insulators - material synthesis, magnetic and

transport measurements.

Refined photolithographic process to eliminate bubbles and particulates in

photoresist and to prevent formation of edge bead.

July 2009 - September 2011: University of Tennessee, Research Assistant

Professor, Department of Physics. Position located at Oak Ridge National

Lab.

Research in applied and basic superconductivity.

Developed new high-frequency (30 MHz) experimental technique for pinning

studies.

Designed and built attendant hardware.

Combined measurements with computations using Mathematica to understand the

observed behavior.

Member of R&D100 award winning team - two years in a row:

2009 - superconducting coatings on sapphire fibers.

2010 - development of the second generation coated conductors.

January 2006 - June 2009: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Postdoctoral

fellow, Research in applications of superconductivity to electric power

industry, Supervisor - David K. Christen.

Worked in cross-functional team of engineers and scientists to characterize

and improve superconducting wire for US DOE Coated Conductors program.

Performed electrical and magnetic characterization of Coated Conductors and

thin films with nano-scale defects.

Upgraded critical current measurement apparatus to achieve higher currents

(100 A), higher magnetic fields (9 T), sample rotation in field, lower

noise (2 nV/Hz1/2)

Discovered a crossover from correlated to random vortex pinning in coated

conductors.

September 2000 - August 2005: Ohio State University, Graduate Research

Assistant, Adviser - Prof. T. R. Lemberger.

Research in high-temperature superconductivity and the pseudogap.

Successfully assembled (from individual components), operated and

maintained a $300K Pulsed Laser Deposition system

Produced heavily underdoped and highly uniform films of YBCO for studies of

pseudogap physics by designing new deposition protocol.

September 1999-May 2000: Ohio State University, Graduate Teaching Assistant

Taught introductory physics labs. Graded homeworks for senior level course

in statistical mechanics.

Education:

2005: PhD in Chemical Physics, Ohio State University. Dissertation title:

"Studies of thermal phase fluctuations in severely underdoped YBCO films".

1998: Specialist degree in Physics, Tomsk State University, Russia

1996 - 1997: Russian Presidential Scholarship for studying abroad. Visiting

Scholar, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, Department of

Mechanical Engineering.

Selected Publications:

Transition from columnar to point pinning in coated conductors: critical

currents, that are independent of magnetic field direction

Y. L. Zuev, S. H. Wee and D. K. Christen, Supercond. Sci. Technol.,

25, 075009, (2012)

Anisotropy of the irreversibility field for Zr-doped (Y, Gd)Ba2Cu3O7-x thin

films up to 45 T

C.Tarantini, J. Jaroszynski, F. Kametani, Y. L. Zuev, A. Gurevich, Y.

Chen, V. Selvamanickam, D. C. Larbalestier and D. K. Christen, Phys.

Rev. B 84, 224514, (2011)

Aligned crystallite powder of NdFeAsO0.86F0.14:magnetic hysteresis and

penetration depth

Y. L. Zuev, E. D. Specht, C. Cantoni, D. K. Christen, J. R. Thompson,

R. Jin, A. S. Sefat, D. G. Mandrus, M.A. McGuire, B.C.Sales, Phys. Rev.

B 79, 224523, (2009)

Enhanced flux pinning by BaZrO3 and (Gd,Y)2O3 nanostructures in metal

organic chemical vapor deposited GdYBCO high temperature superconducting

tapes

Y. Chen, V. Selvamanickam, Y. Zhang, Y. L. Zuev, C. Cantoni, E. D.

Specht, M. P. Paranthaman, T. Aytug, A. Goyal, and D. Lee, Applied

Physics Letters, 94, 062513, (2009)

Magnetic field orientation dependence of flux pinning in (Gd, Y)Ba2Cu3O7-x

coated conductor with tilted lattice and nanostructures

Y. Zhang, E. D. Specht, C. Cantoni, D. K. Christen, J. R. Thompson,

J. W. Sinclair, A. Goyal, Y. L. Zuev, T. Aytug, M. P. Paranthaman, Y.

Chen, V. Selvamanickam, Physica C 469, 2044, (2009)

Properties of YBCO on LaMnO3-capped IBAD MgO templates without

homoepitaxial MgO layer

O. Polat, T. Aytug, M.P.Paranthaman, K.H.Kim, Y.Zhang, C.Cantoni,

Y.L.Zuev, A.Goyal, J.R.Thompson, D.K.Christen, X.Xiong, V.Selvamanickam,

IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond. 19, 3315, (2009)

Tuning flux pinning in epitaxial NdBaCuO films via engineered hybrid

nanoscale defect structures

S. H. Wee, A. Goyal, Y. L. Zuev and C. Cantoni, Appl. Phys. Express,

1, 111702, (2008)

Near isotropic performance of intrinsically anisotropic high temperature

superconducting tapes due to self assembled nanostructures

Y. L. Zuev, D. K. Christen, S. H. Wee, A. Goyal, S. W. Cook, Appl.

Phys. Lett. 93, 172512 (2008)

Electrical properties of semiconducting tapes used in HTS power cables

E.Tuncer, Y. L. Zuev, I. Sauers, D. R. James and A. Ellis, IEEE

Trans. Appl. Supercond. 17, 1497, (2008)

Strong enhancement of flux pinning in thick NdBaCuO films grown on ion-beam

assisted deposition MgO templates via 3D self assembled stacks of BaZrO3

nanodots

S. H. Wee, A. Goyal, J. Li, Y. L. Zuev, and S. Cook, Journ. Appl.

Phys. 102, 063906 (2007)

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