Curriculum Vitae
Dr. BERBECARU CICERON
Professor's Assistant, Faculty of Physics,
Department of Solid State Physics, Bucharest University
E-mail: horia@alpha1.infim.ro
EDUCATION
Higher Education: Faculty of Physics, Bucharest
University
Specialisation: Material Science & Crystal
growth
Languages: English, French, Romanian (native
language)
Doctor Degree: PhD in Physics, 2000 - Faculty
of Physics, Bucharest University.
Thesis: "Mechanism and properties of ferroelectrics
crystals ".
Courses (in Romanian)
"Crystals growth techniques"
4-th year students - (1 semester)
Research activities
Set up and endowment of Laboratory for Crystal
Growth from Solutions.
Growth and kinetic measurements of non-linear
KDP, ADP type crystals.
Pure and doped ferroelectric TGS crystals
growth and characterisation.
Growth of Li I O3 non-linear crystal,
Rochelle salt, Potassium alum, etc..
Second order ferroelectric transition in saturated
solutions of Rochelle salt.
Dual action of impurities in crystal growth
from solutions. Estimation of thermodynamic parameters and activation energies
of growth.
PUBLICATIONS 60 publications
and scientific communications.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
[1] ALEXANDRU H.V., BERBECARU
C., IONILA M., CAPLANUS I., NEMOIU POPA D., CONSTANTIN C.,"Growth
and Kinetic Meausurements of TGS Crystals",Anal. Univ. Buc.-ser.fizica,XLII(42), p.77-81,(1993).
[2] BERBECARU C.,
TAMASAN CLAUDIA, ALEXANDRU H.V.,"Dielectric and Piezoelectric Properties
of Rochelle Salt Crystals", Anal. Univ. Buc.-ser.fizica,XLIII(43),p. 44-58,(1994).
[3] BERBECARU C.,
ALEXANDRU H.V., TAMASAN CLAUDIA,"Peculiar Properties of Rochelle
Salt Near the Melting Point",Anal. Univ. Buc.-ser.fizica,XLIV(44),p.41-50,(1995).
[4] ALEXANDRU H.V., BERBECARU
C., IONILA M., GRANCEA AL., B. LOGOFATU,"Equipment
for Growth Kinetic Measurements of Isometric Crystals from Solutions",ANAL.UNIV.BUC.-fizica,XLIV(44),p.31-40,(1995).
[5] ALEXANDRU H.V., BERBECARU
C.,"Growth and Kinetic Measurements of Tryglycine Sulphate Crystals",Cryst.
Res. Technol.,30,3,p. 307-315,(1995).
[6] Alexandru
H.V., Berbecaru C., Popescu AURELIA, "Peculiar Aspects of Ferroelectric Transition
in TGS","Anal.Univ.Buc.",45,73-79,(1996).
[7] ALEXANDRU H.V., BERBECARU
C., GRANCEA AL., IOV V.,"KDP prismatic faces: kinetics and
the mechanism of their growth from solutions",J. Cryst. Growth,166,p.162-166,(1996).
[8] BERBECARU
C., ALEXANDRU H.V.,
GRIGORE MONICA, BARNA E., LOGOFATU B.,"Growth and feroelectric
parameters of TGS doped crystals",Romanian Conference on Advanced Materials
(RoCAM�97), 24-26 Nov.,Buc.,ANAL.UNIV.BUC.-fizica,XLVI(46),p.327-330,(1997).
[9] ALEXANDRU H.V., BERBECARU
C., PASENCU ANGELA,�Impurity segregation in crystal purification
by recrystallisation",RoCAM�97,24-26 Nov.,Buc.,ANAL.UNIV.BUC.-fizica,XLVI(46),p.
37-41,(1997).
[10] ALEXANDRU H.V.,
BERBECARU C.,"Ferroelectric properties of pure and
doped Triglycine Sulphate crystal",Ferroelectrics,202,p173-182,(1997).
[11] ALEXANDRU H.V., BERBECARU
C., LOGOFATU B. "Pure and doped TGS crystals growth and
characterization",14-th International Symposium on Industrial Crystallization,Robinson
College,Cambridge Univ.,England,12-16 sept.,abs. p. 99,Proc. 282 (2),(1999).
[12] ALEXANDRU H.V., BERBECARU
C.,"Dislocation mechanism of KDP growth from solutions",14-th
International Symposium on Industrial Crystallization,Robinson College,Cambridge
Univ.,England,12-16 sept., abs. p. 99,Proc. 282 (3),(1999).
[13] Alexandru H.V., Berbecaru
C.,B.Logofatu,
A.Stanculescu, F.Stanculescu, "Growth and
characterization of pure and alanina doped TGS crystals", J. of
Optoelectronic and Advanced Materials,1,(4) 57 (1999).
[14] Costache M., Matei I., Pintilie L., Alexandru
H.V.,
Berbecaru C., "Investigations of pyroelectric
properties of pure and
alanine doped TGS crystals"J. of OPTOELECTRONIC
and ADVANCED
MATERIALS 3,nr.1,(2000).
